You may know that I read ~100 books a year (mostly via listening to audiobooks), and attribute a lot of my success to doing so.

To help you identify what books / resources you should call upon, I’ve compiled the best of everything I have read over the last few years below. I hope you find it useful.

Strategy

• Innovator’s Solution, Revised and Expanded: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
  – Clayton M Christensen
• Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
  – Simon Sinek
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
  – Richard Rumelt
• The Startup Way: How Entrepreneurial Management Transforms Culture and Drives Growth 
  – Eric Ries

Leading and managing the business

• TRACTION: Get a grip on your business
  – Gino Wickman
• Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 million in no time flat
  – Michael Masterson
• The eMyth Revisited: Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it
  – Michael E. Gerber
• Great by choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck – Why some thrive despite them all
  – Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen
• Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t
  – Verne Harnish

Goal-setting

• Think and Grow Rich
  – Napoleon Hill
• The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
  – Grant Cardone
• Live It!: Achieve Success by Living with Purpose
  – Jairek Robbins
• Vision to Reality: How Short Term Massive Action Equals Long Term Maximum Results
  – Honoree Corder

Taking action

• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
  – Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
• Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done – Today!
  – Brian Tracy
• The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) (The Miracle Morning Book Series 1)
  – Hal Elrod

Finances

• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
  – MJ DeMarco
• Rich Dad Poor Dad
  – Robert Kiyosaki
• The Ultimate Blueprint for an Insanely Successful Business
  – Keith Cunningham
• Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
  – Mike Michalowicz

Marketing

• Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea
  – Seth Godin
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
  – Seth Godin
• The Thank You Economy
  – Gary Vaynerchuk
• Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You
  – Daniel Priestley
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
  – Gary Vaynerchuk
• The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing
  – Al Ries & Jack Trout
• DigitalMarketer.com/blog – Ryan Deiss
• Moz.com/blog – Rand Fishkin

Sales

• Be a Sales Superstar: 21 Great Ways to Sell More, Faster, Easier in Tough Markets
  – Brian Tracy
• To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others
  – Dan Pink
• The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
  – Chet Holmes
• If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition
  – Grant Cardone
• Jeffrey Gitomer’s Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource: Including The 10.5 Commandments of Sales Success
  – Jeffrey Gitomer
• Go-Givers Sell More
  – Bob Burg and John David Mann
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  – Robert Cialdini

Product Design & Development

• The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses
  – Eric Ries
• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
  – Steve Krug
• Scrum guide – Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber

People & Hiring etc

• How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don’t Have a Recruiting Department
  – Eric Herrenkohl
• Team Code of Honor: The Secrets of Champions in Business and in Life (Rich Dad’s Advisors) – Blair Singer
• Topgrading, 3rd Edition: The Proven Hiring and Promoting Method That Turbocharges Company Performance
  – Brad and Geoff Smart
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (25th Anniversary Edition)
  – Dale Carnegie
• The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
  – Bob Burg and John David Mann
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  – Daniel Pink

Presenting & Pitching

• Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
  – Oren Klaff
• Steal the Show
  – Michael Port

Sanity & work-life balance

• How Will You Measure Your Life?
  – Clayton M Chistensen et al
• The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness
  – Professor Steve Peters
• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
  – Tim Ferris

Parenting & Relationships

• The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Classic Edition)
  – Dr M. Scott Peck

All of the above

• Groovehq.com/blog – Alex Turnbull
• Read to Lead Podcast –  Jeff Brown
• Tim Ferris Podcast – Tim Ferriss

Note: Some of the above are affiliate links. This means I receive a small commission (~5%) provided in the form of an Amazon gift card when you buy through my links. This helps me buy and read more books, allowing me to share more of the most useful via this list. Thank you for your support.