Reading list

Three wins book list

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The books we re-read are few. And the books we gift are even fewer. Therefore, a list of gifted books is the purest signal of something remarkable.

TIME

Books that reframe how we spend or understand time:

The Circadian Code – Dr. Satchin Panda

A Geography of Time – Robert V. Levine

Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman

The Art of Possibility – Rosamund & Benjamin Zander (audio version)

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Thousand Years – Donald Miller

Harvard Business Review: Getting the Right Work Done

Momo – Michael Ende

Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work for You - At Work and in Life - Spencer Johnson

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life - David Brooks

Money

Books that shift our understanding of wealth, value, and poverty:

Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart

The Wealthy Barber – David Chilton

Motley Fool Investment Guide – Tom & David Gardner

Profit First – Mike Michalowicz

Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki

The Algebra of Wealth – Scott Galloway

How To Get Rich – Felix Dennis

Never Enough – Andrew Wilkinson

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness - Eric Jorgenson

The 50th Law – Robert Greene & 50 Cent

The Great Mental Models – Shane Parrish

The Practice – Seth Godin

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Gordon Livingston

Do Less – Kate Northrup

A Technique for Producing Ideas – James Webb Young

MOJO

Books that spark creativity, meaning, mindset, and connection:

What You Are Looking For is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama

White Holes – Carlo Rovelli

I May Be Wrong – Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

Falling Upward – Richard Rohr

Dark Side of the Light Chasers – Debbie Ford

Black Box Thinking – Matthew Syed

Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach

The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

Breath – James Nestor

Being Mortal – Atul Gawande

Pebbles of Perception – Laurence Endersen

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

The Four Noble Truths – Ajahn Sumedho

The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday

Letters From a Stoic – Seneca

The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy

Desiderata – Max Ehrmann

The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran

Becoming Wise – Krista Tippett

Belonging – Owen Eastwood

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Feck Perfuction – James Victore

Every Tool’s a Hammer – Adam Savage

What Adults Don’t Know About Art – The School of Life / Alain de Botton

Creativity – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

From What Is to What If – Rob Hopkins

The Art of Noticing – Rob Walker

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Attached – Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages – Bill Watterson

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten– Robert Fulghum

Do Nourish – Sarah Bayliss

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