40 Awesome Book Recommendations

There were so many incredible books recommended in Tim Ferriss' tome, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires. These recommendations are powerful as they come from many of the most accomplished leaders in the world. Although I have read many of the books recommended in the pages, there were exponentially more books that I have not yet experienced. Isn’t that exciting!

The reading list below is my ‘to-do list’ and I am excited to dive into these. Several of these books have been on my ‘list’ for a long time, and some were brand new to me. 

For countless other great books, check out Tools of Titans for yourself. The list below is but a small sampling of the books recommended within the pages of Tools of Titans. I hope you will find a gem or two in this list - Enjoy:) 

(*books are essentially listed in order of appearance in the text - not a rank order system*)

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, by Steve Martin

Awaken the Giant Within, by Tony Robbins

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert

The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker

Words That Work, by Frank Luntz

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl 

As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen 

Purple Cow, by Seth Godin

Goals: Setting and Achieving Them on Schedule, by Zig Ziglar

How to Stay Motivated, by Zig Ziglar

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Iacocca: An Autobiography, by Lee Iacocca and William Novak

The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande

Getting Everything You Want Out of All You’ve Got, by Jay Abraham

Blue Ocean Strategy, by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Invisible Selling Machine, by Ryan Deiss

Ego Is The Enemy, by Ryan Holiday 

The Obstacle Is The Way, by Ryan Holiday

The Power of Persuasion, by Robert Levine

The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin

How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

Levels of the Game, by John McPhee

Start With Why, by Simon Sinek

No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail, by Doug Tatum

Venture Deals, by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

High Output Management, by Andy Grove

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, by Andy Grove

Winners Never Cheat, by Jon Huntsman

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone

Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers, by James Humes 

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles In Business, by Douglas Hubbard

Mastery, by Robert Greene

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values, by Fred Kofman

The Ultimate Sales Machine, by Chet Holmes

Million Dollar Consulting, by Alan Weiss 

The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

The Art of the Start 2.0, by Guy Kawasaki

It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be, by Paul Arden

Poor Charlie’s Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, by Charles T. Munger