Master Reading List

In Progress

I am reading way too many books at once. Goal is to cut this list down and read only 1 book at a time.

  • Infinite Jest

Books I have Read

These are books that I have read from cover to cover. (Checkmarks are to help me keep track of Physically Owned Books)

Health and Fitness

  • The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight
  • The Little Book of Quitting Caffeine: Freedom From Addiction
  • Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names
  • Caffeine Blues: Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America’s #1 Drug
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams and Building a Strong Foundation for Enhancing Performance
  • Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World
  • Mega Brain Power: Transform Your Life With Mind Machines and Brain Nutrients
  • Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally
  • 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System for Raw Strength
  • Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
  • The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!
  • The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief]
  • Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
  • How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
  • Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
  • Improve the Quality of Your Life - Why Live in Pain?

Money

  • Who Owns the Ice House? : Eight Life Lessons From an Unlikely Entrepreneur
  • How To Make More Money Serving: Your Step by Step Guide for Increasing Tips
  • How to Become an Excellent Server: Earn a Tip Above 20% Every Time
  • Service That Sells!: The Art of Profitable Hospitality
  • The Renegade Server: Uncommon Strategies for Making more Money in 21st Century Food Service
  • Earn More Tips On Your Very Next Shift…Even If You’re a Bad Waiter
  • Server Sales Training: Grow your restaurant’s profits with minimal effort. Restaurants; Secrets to Success Book 1
  • What Rich People Know & Desperately Want to Keep Secret
  • The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!
  • The Richest Man in Babylon
  • The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy
  • The Million Dollar Weekend
  • Anything You Want
  • The Blog Startup
  • The Psychology of Money
  • How to Get Rich
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich
  • The Four Hour Workweek

Dating and Relationships

  • Online dating for guys
  • Saving a Low Sex Marriage: A Man’s Guide to Dread, Seduction and the Long Game
  • What Women Want When They Test Men: How to Decode Female Behavior, Pass a Woman’s Tests, and Attract Women Through Authenticity
  • The Married Man Sex Life Primer 2011
  • Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships
  • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
  • She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
  • The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
  • Discovering Sexuality That Will Satisfy You Both: When Couples Want Differing Amounts and Different Kinds of Sex
  • Mystery Method
  • Rules of the Game
  • The Natural: How to Effortlessly Attract the Women You Want
  • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Do It Once and Do It Right
  • The Sex God Method
  • The Truth
  • The Relationship Handbook
  • Models Attract Women Through Honesty

Fiction

  • Infinity War
  • Infinity Gauntlet
  • Harry Potter 1
  • Harry Potter 2
  • Harry Potter 3
  • Harry Potter 4
  • Harry Potter 5
  • Harry Potter 6
  • Harry Potter 7
  • Wabi
  • Where the Red Fern Grows
  • MAUS
  • The Hobbit

Martial Arts

  • Jiu-Jitsu on the Brain
  • Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu Jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition
  • The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
  • Rousey

Writing

  • The War of Art
  • Why You Should Write for Medium.com: The Best Way to Get Readers and Make Money Blogging
  • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
  • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
  • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
  • Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
  • So You Think You Can Write? The Definitive Guide to Successful Online Writing
  • Content Writing 101: Win High Paying Online Content Writing Jobs And Build Financial Freedom With SEO Marketing
  • How to Launch a Freelance Copywriting Business: Creative Writing for a Living (Method Writing)
  • Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone
  • The Boron Letters
  • Scientific Advertising

Personal Development

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  • The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
  • The Magic of Thinking Big
  • The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  • The Mindful Attraction Plan: Your Practical Roadmap to Creating the Life, Love and Success You Want
  • Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
  • Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking
  • Smash Your Comfort Zone with Cold Showers: How to Boost Your Energy, Defeat Your Anxiety, and Overcome Unwanted Habits
  • No More Mr. Nice Guy
  • The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills and Leave a Positive Impression!
  • The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
  • Goal!: Your 30-Day Game Plan for Business and Career Success
  • Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
  • The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
  • Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  • Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
  • Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
  • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
  • The Alchemist
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  • 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
  • Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
  • The Prophet
  • DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near Death and Mystical Experiences
  • The 12 week Year
  • Bliss of the Celibate
  • Dopamine Nation
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • The Tipping Point

Dog Training

  • The Power of Positive Dog Training
  • Chase

Tech

  • CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Tenth Edition (Exams 220-1001 & 220-1002)
  • The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker
  • CCNA Certification Study Guide, Volume 2: Exam 200-301
  • Understanding Cisco Networking Technologies, Volume 1: Exam 200-301 (CCNA Certification)
  • CCNA OCG
  • RHCSA 9 Training and Exam Preparation Guide

History

  • Unit 731: Testimony
  • Night
  • MAUS
  • American Sniper

Parenting

  • It’s Never Too Late to Sleep Train: The Low-Stress Way to High-Quality Sleep for Babies, Kids, and Parents
  • 1-2-3 Magic: Gentle 3-Step Child & Toddler Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting (Positive Parenting Guide for Raising Happy Kids)
  • Mikey and the Dragons
  • First Time Dad: The Stuff You Really Need to Know
  • The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be
  • I Wonder
  • She’s Having a Baby - and I’m Having a Breakdown
  • 150 Tips and Tricks for New Dads: From the First Feeding to Diaper-Changing Disasters - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Father
  • Be Prepared
  • Dude, You’re Gonna Be a Dad!: How to Get (Both of You) Through the Next 9 Months
  • Playful Parenting
  • Good Inside

Philosophy & Religion

  • Letter to a Christian Nation
  • The Enchiridion of Epictetus
  • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
  • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
  • Lying
  • The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
  • Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue]
  • Free Will
  • A guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
  • Meditations

Audio Books

  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
  • Marc’s Mission: Way of the Warrior Kid, Book 2]
  • You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
  • Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
  • Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way
  • Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

TBR (To be Read)

  • The Pathless Path
  • The Distraction Addiction
  • Rest
  • The Surrender Experiment
  • The Minimalist Entrepreneur
  • Boys Adrift
  • Lessons in Stoicism
  • The Denial of Death
  • 1984
  • This is How They Tell Me the World Ends
  • Die With Zero
  • Your Money or Your Life
  • The Practice of Shipping Creative Work
  • Make Time
  • Sapiens
  • You Can Negotiate Anything
  • Godel, Escher, Bach
  • Four Thousand Weeks
  • Finite and Infinite Games
  • Blood Meridian
  • 1Q84
  • Gravity’s Rainbow
  • Kafka on the Shore
  • The Self Driven Child
  • Hold on to Your Kids
  • Siblings Without Rivalry
  • Raising Good Humans
  • No-Drama Discipline
  • Unconditional Parenting
  • How to Stop Losing Your Shit With Your Kids
  • Living With Kids and Dogs
  • Digital Minimalism
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You
  • Deep Work
  • Scarcity Brain
  • Why Privacy Matters
  • The Slight Edge
  • HyperFocus
  • The 48 Laws of Power
  • Free Software Free Society
  • American Caesar
  • Straw Dogs
  • Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World
  • The Comfort Crisis
  • Europe Central
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Hiroshima Diary
  • The Shallows, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
  • The Attention Merchants
  • Island
  • Brave New World
  • Feel Good Productivity
  • Building a Second Brain
  • How to Take Smart Notes
  • The Surrendered Wife
  • The Empowered Wife
  • How to Read a Book
  • Girls on the Edge
  • The Color Purple
  • Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating
  • The secret of staying in love
  • Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family
  • How to Get Your Kid to Eat_ But Not Too Much
  • The Linux Command Line
  • Simulacra and Simulation
  • The Complete Works_ Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments by Epictetus
  • When I Say No, I Feel Guilty
  • Dying Every Day by James Romm
  • A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
  • This Is Marketing by Seth Godin
  • The Sensory-Sensitive Child
  • French Kids Eat Everything
  • The Gardener and the Carpenter
  • Sleep by Nick Littlehales
  • Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
  • Letters From a Stoic by Seneca
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  • Lord of The Rings
  • The Brain That Changes Itself
  • The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
  • Built from Broken
  • Feisty Fido_ Help for the Leash-Reactive Dog by Patricia B. McConnell
  • The Cautious Canine by Patricia B. McConnell
  • Mine! A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs by Jean Donaldson
  • The ONE Thing
  • Podman In Action
  • UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook
  • How Linux Works, 3rd Edition by Brian Ward
  • The Art and Business of Online Writing
  • Wheat Belly
  • Why you should NEVER masturbate
  • Taoist Secrets of Love_ Cultivating the Male Sexual Energy
  • Pure, White, and Deadly_ How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It by John Yudkin
  • Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspe
  • The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
  • The Courage to Be Disliked
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Tiny Habits
  • Children and Play in the Holocaust
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, Joanna Kilmartin
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Alcohol Explained by William Porter
  • This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by by Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz
  • The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life by Sahil Bloom
  • Handbook of Resilience in Children by Sam Goldstein, Robert E. Brooks
  • Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: Adhd, Bipolar, Ocd, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders (2nd Edition) by James T. Webb, Edward R. Amend
  • Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove
  • The Anxious Generation by Haidt Jonathan
  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
  • Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
  • Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition by Paul Millerd
  • The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money by Ron Lieber
  • Go! More Than a Game: Revised Edition by Peter Shotwell
  • Total Recall: Perfect Response Training for Puppies and Adult Dogs by Pippa Mattinson
  • The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth
  • Calculus ( “Calculus, 4th edition” by Michael Spivak) by Michael Spivak
  • The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook by Michael Kerrisk
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
  • C Programming Language, 2nd Edition by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
  • Raising a Sensory Smart Child by Lindsey Biel, Nancy Peske
  • Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
  • How To Raise Successful People by Esther Wojcicki
  • Reset Your Child’s Brain by Victoria L. Dunckley MD
  • Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves
  • Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras
  • The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine N. Aron Ph.D
  • The Intellectual Life by OP A. G. Sertillanges, Mary Ryan
  • Montaigne (Pushkin Collection) by Stefan Zweig, Will Stone
  • Fight!: A Practical Guide to the Treatment of Dog-Dog Aggression by Jean Donaldson
  • Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life by Matthew Dicks, Matthew Shepard
  • We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter
  • The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom by L.S. Dugdale
  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
  • The Bhagavad Gita, 2nd Edition (Easwaran’s Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 1) by Eknath Easwaran
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
  • Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
  • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
  • Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  • The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
  • Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
  • Built to Move by Kelly Starrett
  • Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius, Robin Waterfield
  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
  • The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
  • Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded by Maxwell Maltz
  • King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette
  • Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
  • Gift of Injury by Stuart McGill; Brian Carroll
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
  • Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
  • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
  • The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music by W. A. Mathieu
  • Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance-Sixth Edition by Stuart (Author) McGill
  • The Win Machine: The Road to Hell is Paved With Intervention by Ryan McBeth
  • Genki Textbook Volume 1, 3rd edition (Genki (1)) (Multilingual Edition) (Japanese Edition) by Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda
  • Rebuilding Milo by Aaron Horschig, Kevin Sonthana
  • Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm (Positively Sexual) by Steve Bodansky
  • Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy by Nik Douglas, Penny Slinger
  • Money for Couples by Ramit Sethi
  • Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston, Elizabeth Edwards
  • The DOSE Effect by Tj Power
  • Antifragile
  • The Cheater’s Guide to Writing Erotic Romance
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
  • The E-Myth Revisited
  • NLP: The New Technology of Achievement
  • The Selfish Gene
  • Awaken the Giant Within
  • Blood Meridian
  • About Face
  • The Karezza Method
  • Coaching Questions
  • The Coiled Serpent
  • The Oxygen Advantage
  • The Other End of the Leash
  • Tribes by Seth Godin
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  • The Paradox of Choice
  • The Brain that Changes Itself
  • The New Naked by Harry Fisch
  • The Sailor WHo Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
  • Confessions of a Mask - - Yukio Mishima