2020 Reading List
- James Duvall
- Dec 30, 2020
- 4 min read
Updated: May 15
Here is my complete list of books read for 2020. A few less than last year, but over all feel good about my progress. I have added links to each book and bolded my favorite reads.
PHYSICAL BOOKS:
– Let Justice Roll Down — John Perkins– To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World – Jefferson Bethke– Coach Wooden: The 7 Principles That Shaped His Life and Will Change Yours — Pat WilliamsFalling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life — Richard Rohr– Cherish — Gary Thomas — Making Your Leadership Come Alive: 7 Actions to Increase Your Influence- Jeremie Kubicek — Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World — Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall –The Infinite Game — Simon Sinek — Welcome to Management: How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader – Ryan Hawk – Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business – Kevin Kruse – The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities – Patrick Lencioni – Life’s Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World – Tom Rath – Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success- Adam Grant – Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World – Adam Grant – Learning to Lead Like Jesus: 11 Principles to Help You Serve, Inspire, and Equip Others – Boyd Bailey – Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker – Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know – Malcom Gladwell– No Greatness without Goodness: How a Father’s Love Changed a Company and Sparked a Movement – Randy Lewis– Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts – Annie Duke– The Sequence to Success: Three O’s That Will Take You Anywhere in Life — Samuel Chand – Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership – John Maxwell – Confident Leader!: Become One, Stay One – Dan Reiland – Co-Active Coaching, Fourth Edition: The proven framework for transformative conversations at work and in life – Henry House – It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life – Trevor Moawad– The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (30th Anniversary Addition) — Stephen R. Covey – Amplified Leadership: 5 Practices to Establish Influence, Build People, and Impact Others for a Lifetime – Dan Reiland – The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever – Michael Stanier – Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done – Laura Vanderkam– Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad – Austin Klein– Personality Isn’t Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story – Benjamin Hardy– Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact – Phil M. Jones– Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling — Edgar Schein– The 8-Minute Mastermind: How to Travel Anywhere for Free, Solve any Problem, and Add $100k+ to Your Business in 5–10 Hours a Month — Brad Hart– Plato’s Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something Great — Tom Morris– The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results — Tom Morris– Art of Achievement: Mastering the 7 C’s of Success in Business and Life — Tom Morris– Win In The Dark: Some think you shine under the bright lights, the bright lights only reveal your work in the dark — Joshua Medcalf– The Oasis Within: A Journey of Preparation — Tom Morris– Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life — Tom Morris– The New Young Christian Field Guide: Practical Advice for the Modern Disciple -Alan Pastian — Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age — Bruce Feiler — Lead Like a Coach: How to Get the Most Success Out of ANY Team — Dr. Karen Morley — Leading Change — John Kotter — The Resilient Leader: Life Changing Strategies to Overcome Today’s Turmoil and Tomorrow’s Uncertainty — Christine Perakis — The Senior: My Amazing Year as a 59-Year-Old College Football Linebacker — Mike Flynt — The War On Sleep: How it started. How we lost. How you can recover — Michael Voss – The Warrior Challenge: 8 Quests for Boys to Grow Up with Kindness, Courage, and Grit — John Beede — Facing Fear: Step Out in Faith and Rise Above What’s Holding You Back — Nik Wallenda — Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life- Jim Kwik — Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork — Dan Sullivan with Benjamin Hardy — Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything — Stephen M.R. Covey — BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess. Dare to Be the Leader You Can Be — Noa Ronen — Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions — Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
AUDIBLE BOOKS:
– My Glorious Brothers — Howard Fast — Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church — NT Wright — Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio — Next Generation Leadership: How to Ensure Young Talent Will Thrive with Your Organization — Adam Kingl — The Riflemen — Oliver North — Apollo 13 — Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger — The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat — Stephan Guyenet — Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others — Cheryl Bachelder — Simply Christian — N.T. Wright — Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Environment — Danny Silk — Remote: Office Not Required — Jason Fried, David Hansson — Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen — Dan Heath — Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life — Ozan Varol — Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World — A.J. Swoboda — The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) — Gretchen Rubin – The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life — Robin Sharma — The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company — Robert Iger — The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders — Elena Botelho — H3 Leadership: Stay Hungry. Be Humble. Always Hustle — Brad Lomenick — Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell — and Live — the Best Stories Will Rule the Future — Jonah Sachs — Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career — Scott Young — CEO Tools 2.0: A System to Think, Manage, and Lead Like a CEO — Jim Canfield, Kraig Kramers– My Noisy Cancer Comeback: Running at the Mouth, While Running for My Life – Fitz Koehler– Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It — Bob Goff


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