Recommended Books

This is a list of books that we have enjoyed over the years. This is definitely not meant to be all-encompassing, but just some of our favorites broken up by genre. Use this list to try and branch out into new subjects or areas of expertise. Take the opportunity to challenge yourself.

Self Help

Start with Why - Simon Sinek
Grit - Angela Duckworth
Can’t Hurt Me (audiobook version specifically) - David Goggins
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Range - David Epstein
Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
Peak - Anders Ericsson
12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson

Literature

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Odyssey - Homer
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry - Dylan Thomas, John Keats, Allen Ginsberg, W. B. Yeats to name a few

Military

Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Once an Eagle - Anton Myrer
With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge
Ghost Soldiers - Hampton Sides
This Kind of War - T. R. Fehrenbach
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
War - Sebastian Junger
Tribe - Sebastian Junger
Violence of Action - Marty Skovlund Jr.
Relentless Strike - Sean Naylor
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

Philosophy

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics - Stephen J. Dubner
Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande

History

A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

Fitness

Never Let Go - Dan John
Supertraining - Mel C. Siff and Yuri Verkhoshansky
Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe

Science Fiction

The Expanse series - James S. A. Corey
Hyperion series - Dan Simmons
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Old Man’s War series - John Scalzi