My favorite books of all time

Fiction:

• Red Rising series: Pierce Brown
  • My favorite is Lightbringer & Morning Star
• The Passenger: Cormac McCarthy
• Less Than Zero: Bret Easton Ellis
• Stoner: John Williams
• The Time Traveler’s Wife: Audrey Niffenegger
• Licanius Trilogy: James Islington
• The Stranger: Albert Camus
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
• Any Human Heart: William Boyd
• East of Eden: John Steinbeck
• This Is How You Lose the Time War: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Hierarchy books: James Islington again (The Will of the Many, The Strength of the Few)
• The Burning series: Evan Winter (The Rage of Dragons, The Fires of Vengeance)

Biography:

• The Kid Stays in the Picture: Robert Evans
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
• Steve Jobs: Walter Isaacson
• Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
• When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
• Chronicles: Volume One: Bob Dylan
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: Eric Jorgenson
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: Donald Miller
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: Charlie Munger

Sales:

• The Challenger Sale: Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
• The JOLT Effect: Matthew Dixon and Ted McKenna (Dixon twice, the man owns your shelf)
• Gap Selling: Keenan, who legally goes by one name like a Brazilian footballer
• MEDDICC: The Ultimate Guide to Staying One Step Ahead in the Complex Sale: Andy Whyte
• Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig
• Socratic Selling: How to Ask the Questions That Get the Sale: Kevin Daley
• The BowTied Sales Guy Course
• Force Management – Command of the Message
• Never Split the Difference
• Briana Lamanna Discovery Course

Spirituality:

• A Guide to the Good Life: William B. Irvine
• The Enlightenment Trilogy: Jed McKenna (Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, Spiritual Warfare)
• Jed Talks trilogy: Jed McKenna again
• Atmamun: Kapil Gupta
• A Master’s Secret Whispers: Kapil Gupta
• There Is No HOW: Kapil Gupta
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself: Michael Singer

Non-fiction:

• The Right Stuff: Tom Wolfe
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson
• Antifragile: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Endurance: Alfred Lansing (assuming you mean the Shackleton one, which you should; if you mean the astronaut memoir, that’s Scott Kelly)
• Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli

My Top 5 Ranked:

5. Jed Mckenna Books – I think they are essential if you can tolerate them

4. The Passenger – A book that genuinely haunted me and never left

3. The Red Rising Series – The best action series of all time

2. Steve Jobs / Bob Dylan – I think it’s fair to conflate these. Both are people who beat to their own drum and one idolized the other

1. The Kid Stays in The Picture – Only book I’ve read three times