Here’s Every Book Ever Recommended on My Podcast — Updated!

One of my most popular blogs to date is “Every Book Ever Recommended on My Podcast,” and we have updated the blog to refresh the list. The books are organized by seven topics: Leadership; Personal and Professional Development; Sales & Marketing; Teams & Culture; Psychology & Spirituality; Biographies, Memoirs & Non-Fiction; and Fiction & Novels. Every book has been personally recommended by a guest on the show. Happy Reading!

Leadership

• Loonshots by Safi Bachall
• The One Minute Managerby Ken Blanchard
• Quiet by Susan Cain * **
• Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids  by Susan Cain*
• Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• Management by Peter Drucker
• Grit by Angela Duckworth* **
• Mindset by Carol Dweck**
• Fearless At Work by Molly Fletcher
• The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Lead for God’s Sake by Todd Gongwer
• Give and Take by Adam Grant* **
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene & Joost Elffers
• Waking Up by Sam Harris
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Powerful by Patty McCord*
• Above the Line by Urban Meyer
• Deep Work by Cal Newport* **
• The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
• When by Daniel Pink*
• How To Lead When You’re Not In Charge by Clay Scroggins
• Do What You Are by Paul Tieger
• The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Personal and Professional Development

• I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajay
• Getting Things Done by David Allen**
• Social Animal by David Brooks
• Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
• Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think by Paul Dolan
• Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley
• 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
• Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis
• How to Style Your Brand by Fiona Humberstone
• How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
• The One Thing by Gary Keller
• Transform Your Life by Dr. Barbara King
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown* **
• Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy by Donald Miller *
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport**
• The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders
• Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
• Popular by Mitch Prinstein

• The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• Womenomics by Claire Shipman

• The Big Life by Ann Shoket
• Nudge by Richard Thaler
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
• The Okinawa Program  by Bradly Wilcox

Sales & Marketing

• Influence by Robert Cialdini*
• The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
• Ready, Fire Aim: From Zero to 100 Million by Michael Masterson and Sean Pratt
• Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller *
• Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus

Teams & Culture

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

Psychology and Spirituality

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

Biographies, Memoirs & Non-Fiction

• Open by Andre Agassi
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom**
• White Rage by Carol Anderson
• The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou
• The TB12 Method by Tom Brady
• Boys on the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Buffettology by Mary Buffett
• The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
• My Early Life: Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
• Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie Davis
• Not That Kind Of Girl by Lena Dunham
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari by Yuval Noah Harari
• Driven to Distraction by Edward Hollowell & John Ratey
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight**
• Sacred Hoops by Phil Knight
• Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
• You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
• The Essential Vince Lombardi by Vince Lombardi
• Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
• The Upstream Doctors by Rishi Manchanda
• Work Hard Be Nice by Jay Mathews
• John Adams by David McCullough
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story by Donald Miller *
• The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
• The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
• The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen
• Overwhelming Odds by Susan & Dennis O’Leary
• Success Is A Choice by Rick Pitino
• Don’t Shoot The Dog by Karen Pryor
• The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
• Churchill by Andrew Roberts
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• Expert Political Judgment by Philip Tetlock
• Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White

Fiction / Novels

• How To Love A Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
• Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Centennial by James Michener
• Once An Eagle by James Michener
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
• Percy Jackson and The Olympians by Rick Riordan
• Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Swamplandia by Karen Russell
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• The Story Collector by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
• When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe**

 

* 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:

• Sam Acho: Let the World See You
• Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage; Big Potential; Before Happiness
• Shawn Askinosie: Meaningful Work
• Chris Barez Brown: Wake Up!
• Ellen Bennett: Dream First, Details Later
• Jay Bilas: Toughness
• Arthur Blank: Good Company
• Marcus Buckingham: Nine Lies About Work; First Break All the Rules
• Robert Cialdini: Pre-suasion
• 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
• Glennon Doyle: Untamed; Love Warrior; Carry On Warrior
• Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit; Smarter, Faster, Better
• Herm Edwards: You Play To Win The Game
• David Epstein: The Sports Gene; Range
• Nir Eyal: Indistractable, Hooked
• BJ Fogg: Tiny Habits
• 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
• Lori Gottlieb: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
• Adam Grant: Originals; Option B; Power Moves (Audiobook); Think Again
• Heidi Grant: Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You; Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
• Verne Harnish: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; Scaling Up; The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time
• Carla Harris: Expect to Win; Strategize to Win by Carla Harris
• Ryan Hawk: Welcome to Management
• 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
• Kirk Herbstreit: Out of the Pocket
• 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
• Ernie Johnson Jr.: Unscripted
• Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Unfinished
• Luvvie Ajayi Jones: Professional Troublemaker: The Fear Fighter Manual; I’m Judging You
• Chipper Jones: Ballplayer
• Guy Kawasaki: Wise Guy; The Art of The Start 2.0; The Art of Social Media
• Katty Kay: The Confidence Code; The Confidence Code for Girls; The Confidence Code for Girls: Journal
• Scott Kelly: Endurance: My Year In Space, A Lifetime of Discovery; Infinite Wonder; Goodnight Astronaut
• Steven Kotler: The Rise of Superman; Abundance; Bold; The Future is Faster Than You Think
• Patrick Lencioni: The Ideal Team Player; Death by Meeting; Getting Naked
• Jamie Kern Lima: Believe IT!
• Carli Lloyd: When Nobody Was Watching
• Jim Loehr: The Power of Full Engagement
• John Mackey: Conscious Leadership; Conscious Capitalism
• Stan McChrystal: Risk
• Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights

• Patty McCord: Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

• Kelly McGonigal: The Joy of Movement; The Upside of Stress
• Jim McKelvey: The Innovation Stack
• 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
• Katy Milkman: How to Change 
• Donald Miller: Building a StoryBrand
• John O’Leary On Fire
• Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering
• Daniel Pink: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing; Drive; To Sell Is Human
• Marc Randolph: That Will Never Work
• Guy Raz: How I Built This
• Robert Refkin: No One Succeeds Alone
• Reshma Saujani: Brave Not Perfect
• Simon Sinek: Start with Why; The Infinite Game; Leaders Eat Last
• 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
• Cleo Wade: Heart Talk; Where To Begin; Heart Talk: The Journal; What The Road Said
• 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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