In 2018 I read 54 books and set a new record for the number of books I’ve read in one year. If you’d like to see the list you’ll find it below.
I’ve tried to group all of the books under three primary categories; Christianity, Business and Self Improvement. Where applicable I’ve also added sub categories to help break up the longer sections.
Books on Christianity
Books on Christian Lifestyle
- The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
- The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
- Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
- Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
- Poverty, Riches and Wealth: Moving from a Life of Lack into True Kingdom Abundance
Books on Marriage
- Love That Lasts: When Marriage Meets Grace
- A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God’s Gift of Sexual Intimacy
Books on Bible Study and Devotion
- Romans for You 1-7: For reading, for feeding, for leading
- Romans for You 8-16: For reading, for feeding, for leading
- Secrets of the Secret Place: Keys to Igniting Your Personal Time with God
- Leading Like Jesus: 40 Leadership Lessons From the Upside-Down Kingdom
Books on Business
Books on Management and Leadership
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
- Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback
- It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work
- Remote: Office Not Required
- How I Lost 170 Million Dollars: My Time as #30 at Facebook
Books on Marketing
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
- This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See
- Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Businesses and Influence and How You Can, Too
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
- Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice
- SEO 2018: Learn search engine optimization with smart internet marketing strategies
- YouTube Secrets: The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Following and Making Money as a Video Influencer
Books on Sales
- If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition
- Agile Selling: Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today’s Ever-Changing Sales World
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
- Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers, Boost Your Sales
Books on Entrepreneurship
- Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job
- Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters
- Called to Create: A Biblical Invitation to Create, Innovate, and Risk
- The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.
- The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
- Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Books on Company Stories
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Books on Self Improvement
Books on General Self Improvement
- Principles: Life and Work
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
- The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
- Smarter, Better, Faster: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
- Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
- Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)
Books on Personal Finance
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not!
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- The Millionaire Booklet: How to Get Super Rich
- The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich