Here’s Every Book Ever Recommended on My Podcast 2.0

Early last year, we curated all of the books ever recommended on my podcast. It got a tremendous response, so now it’s time to share the updated list! If ‘read more’ is one of your goals this year or you are looking for a book on a particular topic, this list is a great resource. They are organized by seven topics and every book has been personally recommended by a guest on the show. Happy reading!

Leadership

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene & Joost Elffers
Above the Line by Urban Meyer
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Deep Work by Cal Newport**
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Grit by Angela Duckworth* **
How To Lead When You’re Not In Charge by Clay Scroggins
Lead for God’s Sake by Todd Gongwer
Loonshots by Safi Bachall
Management by Peter Drucker
Mindset by Carol Dweck
The One Minute Managerby Ken Blanchard
Powerful by Patty McCord*
Quiet by Susan Cain * ** (Her episode will air early 2020!)  
When by Daniel Pink*

Personal and Professional Development

The Big Life by Ann Shoket
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport**
Essentialism by Greg McKeown* **
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis
The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
Getting Things Done by David Allen**
Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think by Paul Dolan
How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajay
Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life by Tasha Eurich
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley
Popular by Mitch Prinstein
Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacyby Donald Miller *
Social Animal by David Brooks
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Sales & Marketing

Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller *
Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus
Ready, Fire Aim: From Zero to 100 Million by by Michael Masterson and Sean Pratt

Teams & Culture

Built to Last by Jim Collins
The Culture Codeby Daniel Coyle* **
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni * **
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Great by Choice by Jim Collins
Great At Work by Morten Hansen
Hire Tough So You Can Manage Easy by Mel Kleiman
The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
Leading Teams by Richard Hackman
Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler
Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal

Psychology and Spirituality

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Becoming Human by Jean Vanier
The Divided Self by D. Laing
Ego Psychology by Gertrude Rubin Blanck
Love and Will by Rollo May
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius **
No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton
On The Shortness of Life by Seneca
PostSecret by Frank Warren
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
The Reinvention of Work by Matthew Fox
The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
The Soul’s Code by James Hillman
This Tremendous Lover by Eugene Boylan

 Biographies, Memoirs & Non-Fiction

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story by Donald Miller *
Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones
The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
Boys on the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Buffettology by Mary Buffett
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou
The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
Driven to Distraction by Edward Hollowell & John Ratey
Expert Political Judgment by Philip Tetlock
John Adams by David McCullough
Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie Davis
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White
My Early Life: Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
Not That Kind Of Girl by Lena Dunham
Open by Andre Agassi
Overwhelming Odds by Susan & Dennis O’Leary
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari by Yuval Noah Harari
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Upstream Doctors by Rishi Manchanda
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Work Hard Be Nice by Jay Mathews
The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier

 Fiction / Novels

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
How To Love A Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Story Collector by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger

* Author is also a guest on  Game Changers with Molly Fletcher

** Multiple asterisks indicated book was recommended by multiple guests

BONUS! Game Changers Book Club– Books authored by guests who have joined me on my podcast:

Shawn Askinosie: Meaningful Work
Chris Barez Brown: Wake Up!
Marcus Buckingham: Nine Lies About Work ; First Break All the Rules
Ron Clark: The Essential 55; Move Your Bus
Henry Cloud: The Power of the Other; Boundaries
Beth Comstock: Imagine it Forward
Daniel Coyle: The Culture Code; The Talent Code
Ian Morgan Cron: The Road Back to You
Rorke Denver: Damn Few: Making The Modern Seal Warrior
Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit ; Smarter, Faster, Better
Herm Edwards: You Play To Win The Game
David Epstein: The Sports Gene ; Range
Emily Giffin: All We Ever Wanted; The One & Only; Something Borrowed
Seth Godin: This Is Marketing; Permission Marketing; Tribes; Purple Cow
Bob Goff: Love Does; Everybody, Always
Jon Gordon: The Coffee Bean; The Power of Positive Leadership; The Seed; The Energy Bus; The Carpenter; Training Camp
Adam Grant: Give and Take ; Originals; Option B; Power Moves (Audiobook)
Verne Harnish: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; Scaling Up; The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time
Celeste Headlee: We Need To Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter
Chip Heath and Dan Heath: The Power of Moments; Made to Stick; Switch
Ryan Holiday: Stillness Is The Key; The Obstacle Is The Way; Ego Is The Enemy; Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Michael Hyatt: Free to Focus ; Platform ; Your Best Year Ever
Leila Janah: Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job At A Time
Daymond John: Rise & Grind; The Power of Broke
Inky Johnson: Inky: An Amazing Story of Faith & Perserverance
Chipper Jones: Ballplayer
Patrick Lencioni: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team; The Ideal Team Player; Death by Meeting; Getting Naked
Carli Lloyd: When Nobody Was Watching
Jim Loehr: The Power of Full Engagement
Patty McCord: Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Kelly McGonigal: The Joy of Movement ; The Upside of Stress
Greg McKeown: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Joshua Medcalf: Chop Wood Carry Water; Pound The Stone; Burn Your Goals; Hustle; Transformational Leadership 
Shannon Miles: The Third Option
Donald Miller: Building a StoryBrand
John O’Leary On Fire
Daniel Pink: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing; Drive; To Sell Is Human
Marc Randolph: That Will Never Work
Kim Scott: Radical Candor
Andy Stanley: Next Generation Leaders
Amy Trask: You Negotiate Like A Girl
Laura Vanderkam: Off The Clock; What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
Sam Walker: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams
Suzy Welch: The Real Life MBA; 10-10-10
Jen Welter: Play Big

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