What Are You Reading? Best Books for Entrepreneurs

So, what are you reading?  I will admit it. I have been slacking in my entrepreneurial / business-building reading lately. But a couple weeks ago, I stopped into Mr. K’s and picked up a couple of books, including Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw, and All Business is Local by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. It felt good to just sit and read. Then I downloaded Ask by Ryan Levesque and then Jab Jab Jab Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk. There is something about reading. It gets your creative juices flowing, it changes what you think about and how you think.

I highly encourage you to read more.

If you are wondering what to read, here’s a list of 50 books (in no particular order) that have proven to be valuable to other entrepreneurs. I’ve read about half of them, but my goal is to read them all by the end of the year.

1. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
2. Start by Jon Acuff
3. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
4. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
5. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
6. The 100 Dollar Start Up by Chris Guillebeau
7. Produced by Faith by Devon Franklinh
8. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave LeBon
9. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
10. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
11. The Day That Turns Your Life Around by Jim Rohn
12. Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Business From Scratch Naturally by Miko Branch
13. Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest In, That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not Do! by Robert Kiyosaki
14. The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
15. The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
16. Rework by David Heinemeier and Jason Fried
17. Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
18. Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk
19. Stay Hungry by Rashmi Bansal
20. The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman
21. Good to Great by Jim Collinsi
22. Entrepreneur Revolution by Daniel Priestley
23. Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco
24. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
25. The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
26. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
27. The Amazing Race to Entrepreneurial Freedom by Georgina Terry
28. The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg
29. The E Myth by Michael E. Gerber
30. Do You by Russell Simmons
31. The Alchemist by Paolo Cohelo
32. The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
33. You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor
34. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
35. What the Rich Know and Desperately Want to Keep Secret by Brian Sher
36. Business at the Speed of Thought by Bill Gates
37. How to License Your Million Dollar Idea by Harvey Reeser
38. Start With Why by Simon Sinek
39. Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand In the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
40. Choose Yourself by James Altucher
41. The Opportunity Analysis Canvas by Dr. James V. Green
42. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
43. Three Feet From Gold by Sharon Lechter and Craig Reid
44. The Obstacle is the Way – the Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
45. The Everything Store by Brad Stone
46. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
47. The One Thing by Gary Keller
48. The Bible (especially Proverbs)
49. The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
50. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T.Harv Eker

​​​​​​​How many are YOU going to read? Tell me in the comments YOUR favorite that I’ve missed so I can add it to my to-do list.