I read/listen a ton, and while I have Goodreads, a general list of my favorites is a great way for me to keep track of my suggested books in different categories. I’ll update this list as a top book gets consumed.
LEADERSHIP
Management, entrepreneurship, and teamwork
- The Payoff
- Predictably irrational
- Who
- High Output Management, Andy Grove
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, Peter Drucker
- Cracking the Sales Management Code
- The Accidental Sales Manager – Chris Lytle
- Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance, Jason Selk
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
- Who: The A Method for Hiring, Geoff Smart, Randy Street
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
Sales
- From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue, Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin
- The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales, Trish Bertuzzi
- The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon
- The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need
- New Sales. Simplified.
- The Sales Acceleration Formula, Mark Roberge
- Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com, Aaron Ross
- Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball, Dave Kurlan
- The Little Red Book of Sales
- Who
- Major Account Sales Strategy
- SPIN Selling
- To Sell is Human
- Consultative Closing
Business / Tech Market
Stuff you gotta understand if you’re in modern business
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey Moore
- The Jolt Effect
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services People Want, Alexander Osterwalder
- Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton Christenson
- ReWork, Jason Fried, David Hansson
- How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smil
Personal / Professional Improvement
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
- The Ride of a Lifetime – Robert Iger
- Resilience
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK – Mark Manson
- Powerhouse
- Sway
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
- To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, Daniel Pink
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Patterson
- Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, David Allen
- 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, Tim Ferriss
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Fiction
- Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen
- The Son – Phillip Meyer
- The Great Gatsby
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- The Stand – Stephen King
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
- Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
- East of Eden – Steinbeck
- Christodora – Tim Murphy
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
- Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- Babel – RF Kuang
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
- The Overstory – Richard Powers
- The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
- Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
- To Paradise – Hanya Yanagihara
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
- The Three-Body Problem