These are the 44 books I read in 2017. I read more books that year than ever before. If you’d like to see the list you can view it below.
I’ve grouped the books in three primary categories; Christian Faith, Business and Self Improvement. There are some sub-categories as well to further clarify the topics.
Books on Christian Faith
Books on Marriage
- Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
- Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage
Books on the Christian Lifestyle
- Destined to Win: How to Embrace Your God-Given Identity and Realize Your Kingdom Purpose
- The Master Plan of Evangelism
- Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
- Every Body Matters: Strengthening Your Body to Strengthen Your Soul
- God @ Work
- God @ Work: Developing Ministers in the Marketplace, Vol. 2
Books on Business
Books on Sales
- The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
- How To Get A Meeting With Anyone: The Untapped Selling Power of Contact Marketing
- The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
- Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide for Starting Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, E-Mail, and Cold Calling
- Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
- SPIN Selling: The Best-Validated Sales Method Available Today.The
- Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million
- No B.S. Sales Success in The New Economy
- No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Sell Anything with Webinars, Online Media, Speeches, and Seminars
Books on Marketing
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
- Permission Marketing
- Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
- The Ultimate Marketing Plan: Target Your Audience! Get Out Your Message! Build Your Brand!
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: VIolate Them at Your Own Risk!
- My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
- No B.S. Direct Marketing: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Direct Marketing for Non-Direct Marketing Businesses
Books on Ecommerce
- ECommerce Marketing: How to Drive Traffic That Buys to Your Website
- B2B eCommerce MasterPlan: How to Make eCommerce a Key Part of Your Business to Business Sales Growth
Books on Entrepreneurship
- Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
- Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
- No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity
- No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
Books on Self Improvement
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
- Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance