Reading list

Three wins book list

Education
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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Thank you for making it all the way to the bottom of the list. It is a behemoth with lots of gold. Our aim is to share insightful and inspiring books that will help you on your journey to get you from where you are to from here, to where you want to be.

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