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My favorite book recs
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items From business and productivity, to self help, as well as some fiction and non-fiction, these are some of my favorite books from all the reading I've done.
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Business, productivity, and self help books
Scifi books
Nonfiction
Business, productivity, and self help books
Books I've read that have helped me in life and business
I love the simple efficiency of how it helps me organize and track my life and progress
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
Reading this book have helped me navigate so many situations in management roles, handling employees, or dealing with customers. Definitely recommended this one.
Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
This really helped me understand how to build systems in my life that saved me time and headache. I have applied these principles in life and business and have definitely seen results. When people ask me how, with 4 hours a week, I managed 2 hotels ...
Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek
Learn from the best about the habits that make them successful
Tools Of Titans: Guide To High-Performance
Really reveals habits and tools for excellence at work or at life
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A great way to discover your strengths and double down on them to really find success.
StrengthsFinder 2.0
I work a customer facing role and this book has been an invaluable source of help over the years.
Perfect Phrases for Customer Service, 2nd Ed
Timeless life financial advice put into a simple life story
The Richest Man in Babylon: Clason, George S.
Optimize your life through developing and changing habits & routines.
Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices
The author, a master of martial arts and chess, examines his own journey to understand the process of how he learns and potentially give insight that may help others.
The Art of Learning: Inner Journey to Performance
An excellent book for understanding the basic principles of managing people if you never went to business school and it's put in an easily understandable story. I didn't have to go to college to learn how to run a business and be a manager, but I rea...
The New One Minute Manager
This book really showed me how small transformative actions could really turn around a toxic workplace. Having implemented these at various jobs, it really helped me to help employees enjoy thier jobs and even reduced turnover. Even years later there...
Fish!: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Scifi books
Some really great scifi favorites that I highly recommend
Honestly, my favorite zombie book. I love how the story covers the entire world and history of the war.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
A classic favorite of mine that I read every year. Probably not what you expect if you only watched the movies.
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley: 0800759282111
This book drew me in. I couldn't put it down. I think I read the whole thing in a couple of days. The world building is great and so is the character development.
The Hunger Games (Book One) 9780439023481
A really good follow up to the first book, so good and such a well written story
Catching Fire | Hunger Games | Collins
Well written, you really connect with the characters and feel the workd building. The ending was great!
Mockingjay: 9780545663267: Collins, Suzanne: Books
A little known book that does a great job of mixing scifi and fantasy. One of my favorites
Books - World Enough, and Time: James Kahn
An incredible story of survival on Mars and how one man, stranded and left for dead, won't give up the fight to get home
The Martian: Weir, Andy
A story of survival and holding on to and passing on hope in a post apocalyptic world
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) - Cormac McCarthy
Nonfiction
True stories that inspire me
An incredible story of survival and perseverance against impossible odds, but figuring it out anyway
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A detailed investigative journey into one of the strangest incidents in history.
Dead Mountain: Untold Dyatlov Pass Story
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It really reveals the stories of the highly observant and questioning minds that developed the foundations for our modern approach to science, math, and physics. The way it builds the story adds layer upon layer and co...
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World|Paperback
This book was a really great read on understanding mythology of cultures around the world and throughout time.
The Power of Myth
This was a great read on understanding the common hero journey types among different cultures throughout time
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
