2020 Books: Counting to 52 books per year
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21 **Good Profit, How creating value for others built one of the world's most successful companies
Charles G. Koch
20 **Teach your kids to code, a parent friendly guide to Python coding
Bryson Payne
19 *End this Depression Now,
Winner of the Nobel prize in Economics Paul Krugman
18 *The 1% Solution
Tom Connellan
17 **The Taboos of Leadership,
Anthony F Smith
16 ***Turn Around, How Carlos Ghosn rescued Nissan by David Magee
Certainly more interesting than the satire book I read recently, however the real story is about Carlos' escape from Japan last year amid allegations of financial wrongdoing- this book was written in 2003.
15 The Art of Demotivation by E. L. Kersten
Is this humor or just satire, either way it was the most contrarian and odd book I've read in some time.
14 ***Protecting What's Yours- How to safeguard your assets and maintain your personal wealth
Andrew D. Westhem and Donald Jay Korn.
13 *Real Estate Loop-Holes, Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing
Diane Kennedy, Garrett Sutton
12 ***The Behavior Gap- Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things w/Money
Carl Richards
11 ***Talking to Strangers
Malcom Gladwell
10 ***Emotional Intelligence,
Harvard Business Review
9 ***Reset, The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to be Happy Dave Sawyer
8 **Endgame- The end of the supercycle and how it changes everything
John Mauldin, Jonathon Tepper
7 Think Like Zuck
Five business secrets of Facebook's improbably brilliant CEO
6 The Energy Bus,
Jon Gordon
5 *Get Rich Slowly,
Napolean Hill
4 *Outwitting the Devil (edited by Sharon Lechter (from Rich Dad Poor Dad))
Napolean Hill
3 **Grit
Angela Duckworth
2 *The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
1 **Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves
2019 Books: Completed 52 books
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FINANCE, INVESTING & ECONOMICS:
***-Bogle on Mutual Funds
John C. Bogle
***-Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens
Robert Kiyosaki
***-Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
***-The New Coffeehouse Investor
Bill Schultheis
***-The Snowball, Warren Buffet and Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
***-The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
-Freakonomics
Levitt & Dubner
-Undercover Economist
-Tim Harford
-Strategy for Personal Finance
Larry Lang
-Rule #1 (Investing)
Phil Town
Understanding Investments (Course Guidebook)
Connel Fullenkamp
-Think, Act and Invest like Warren Buffet
Larry E. Swedroe
-The Automatic Millionaire
David Bach
-Where Are the Customer's Yachts
Fred Schwed Jr.
-Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
T. Harv Eker
-The Smartest 401k Book You'll Ever Read
Daniel R. Solin
-The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read
Daniel R. Solin
-Rescue your money
Ric Edelman
-The Little Book that Makes You Rich
Louis Navellier
-The Little Book that Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
-The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar
Addison Wiggin
-Millionaire by Thirty
Douglas Andrew
-The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
-The Education of a Value Investor
Guy Spier
-The Falcon Method
David Solyomi
-Wealth without Risk
Charles Givens
-I Will Teach You to be Rich
Ramit Sethi
55, Underemployed and Faking Normal
Elizabeth White
-The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, why some are so rich and some so poor,
David S. Landes
REAL ESTATE:
-First Time Landlord, Guide to Renting out a Single Family Home
Jane Portman
CORPORATE / CAREER:
-The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
-How to become a CEO
Jeffrey J. Fox
-Wise Guy
Guy Kawasaki
-The first 90 days
Michael Watkins
-The Silicon Boys
David A. Kaplan
-Insanely Great
Steven Levy
-Apple Confidential
Owen W. Linzmayer
-The Third Wave
Steve Case
-Breaking Windows, How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
David Bank
-The Big Leap
Gay Hendricks
-Living the 80/20 Way
Richard Koch
-The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
Win Bigly
Scott Adams
-Outliers
Malcom Gladwell
-David and Goliath
Malcom Gladwell
-The Addictive Organization
why we overwork, cover up, pick up the pieces, please the boss & perpetuate sick organizations
Anne Wilson Schaef, Diane Fassel
OTHER BOOKS & ARTICLES
-Fast food nation
Eric Schlosser
-Savage Inequalities, children in America's schools
Jonathon Kozol
-All over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg
-Dancing Naked in the Mindfield
Kary Mullis
-Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
-Destiny of the Republic
Candace Millard
Article- The Atlantic- my secret shame
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/
Link- Vanguard Portfolio Allocation Models
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/saving-investing/model-portfolio-allocations
The majority of these books listed above were purchased at my local library for a fraction of the original cost. See my 1, 2, and 3 * (start) ratings:
Where do I buy my books?
One cost effective method for me to buy books is by checking the "Friends of the Library" section of the local library. This is where volunteers collect books from the public and sell them for usually 50 cents to $1 dollar. Note that higher income areas will typically have a backlog of business and investing books that were purchased new by their patrons on Amazon or a physical bookstore, and then donated to the library.
Beyond the occasional must reads that I end up purchasing from a bookstore, I have grown to appreciate the ease of listening to a Blinkist summary for many of the new books I hear about.
Blinkist Tool:
I recently discovered a new phone app that plays a audio summary of non-fiction books. The app is called Blinkist, you can also read through a brief set of summary pages. I prefer the audio summary option which is a perfect way to spend my hour of stop and go traffic to work each day.
I signed up for a one week Blinkist trial, but then downloaded the app after just one day- some tools are just that good and effective. Try the trial version and left me know what you think. Below is the blinkist link if you are interested:
https://www.blinkist.com/en/nc/login?last_page_before_login=%2Fen%2Fnc%2Freferral
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