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