Books

I do not read to relax, I read to learn. To learn things that can make my life or the lives of those I deal with better. I do not read made up stuff, all of my books are real life and when I finish them I ask myself what I think I have learnt from them.

Here I am sharing with you the books I read and listen to. I hope you find some use in them.

(As a side note, I hated reading at school, I got far more enjoyment out of throwing erasers at my class mates to try and get them in trouble when we were supposed to be reading. One hack here was subscribing to Audible on the US and UK platform I now get 1 book from each a month which if all goes well gets me 24 books a year! My teachers would be so proud!
Update March 2022: In May 2021 I bought a kindle and it changed the game. I now have 2-3 books on the go at once which are all very different and I will dip in and our based on my mood, previously if I was not feeling the book I would just not read, now I will just read a different book, there is also less clutter (books) in the house, winning on all levels!)

2024:

1. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture: Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
2. Finding Flow: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (reread)
3. The Secret Cyclist: The Secret Cyclist
4. Slow Productivity: Cal Newport
5. In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency: Ian Gardiner
6. A Voyage For Madmen: Peter Nichols
7. Exponential: James Hewitt, Aki Hintsa, Mari Huhtanen, Jyri Öhman
8. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On: Wes Streeting
9. Tales From The Bedside: True Stories From A Night-Shift ICU Nurse: Stephanie Klipple
10. Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia): Rick Ridgeway
11. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress: Gabor Maté
12. Everything All at Once: Stephanie Catudal (reread)
13. Humanize: Thomas Heatherwick
14. The how of happiness: Sonja Lyubomirsky
15. Flourish: Martin Seligman
16. Magic Pill: Johann Hari
17. Dopamine Nation: Anna Lembke
18. Scattered minds: Gabor Mate
19. The InnerGame of Tennis: Timothy Gallwey (reread)
20. Man’s Search for meaning: Viktor Frankl (reread)
21. The wild edge of sorrow: Francis Weller
22. Heat: Ranulph Fiennes
23. Be Useful: Arnold Schwarzenegger

2023:

1. Transcend: Scott Barry Kaufman
2. No Rules Rules: Red Hastings
3. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey (reread)
4. Showing Up: Nedd Brockmann
5. Running with the Kenyans: Adharanand Finn (reread)
6. Run for the love of life: Erica Terblanche
7. Kiss or Kill: Mark Twight (reread)
8. Everything all at once: Steph Catudal
9. Chasing daylight:Eugene O’Kelly
10. Bad Science: Ben Goldacre
11. The art of winning: Dan Carter
12. The golfing Buddah: David Kearney
13. Discipline is destiny: Ryan Holiday
14. The Inner Game of Tennis: W. Timothy Gallwey
15. One way ticket: nine lives on two wheels. Jonathan Vaughters
16. The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
17. Transcend: Scott Barry Kaufman
18. Never finished: David Goggins
19. Better: Atul Gawande
20. Who will cry when you die? Robin Sharma
21. The choice: Edith Eger

1. Four thousand weeks: Oliver Burkeman
2. Start at the end: Dan Bingham
3. Everybody lies: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
4. Be water, my friend: Shannon Lee
5. The Expectation Effect: David Robson
6. The Beekeeper of Aleppo: Christy Lefteri
7. Many lives, Many masters: Brian Weiss
8. Do hard things: Steve Magness
9. Start your engines: Sam Briggs
10. Being mortal: Atul Gawande
11. Endure: Cameron Hanes
12. Out of thin air: Michael Crawley
13. Today we die a little: Emil Zatopek
14. The Road Less Travelled: Scott Peck
15. Think again: Adam Grant
16. Cured: Jeff Rediger
17. Leadership: Eddie Jones
18. The gift: Edith Eger
19. Chasing the scream: Johan Hari
20. Love Stories: Trent Dalton
21. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey(re-read)
22. No such thing as failure: David Hempleman-Adams
23. Ikigai: The secret to a long and happy life: Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
24. The Comfort Crisis: Michael Easter
25. The body keeps the score: Bessel Van Der Kolk
26. The book of Joy: Dala Lama & Desmond Tutu
27. Preparing for the Perimenopause and Menopause: Dr Louise Newson
    
28. The Rise of Superman: Steven Kotler(re-read)
29. Ignore Everybody: Hugh McLeod
30. 10 Rules for Resilience: Joe De Sena
31. Stolen Focus: Johan Hari
32. Sovereignty: Ryan Michler

1. Beyond Possible: Nimsdai Purja**
2. Above the clouds: Kilian Journet**
3. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey**
4. The lost art of running: Shane Benzie**
5. Good leaders ask great questions: John Maxwell**
6. Collaborating with the Enemy: Adam Kahane**
7. Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom (re read)
8. The Art of Resilience: Ross Edgely
9. The Art of Living: Thich Nhat Hanh**
10. The power of vulnerability: Brene Brown**
11. The Captain Class: Sam Walker**
12. Four Seasons: The Story of a business philosophy: Isadore Sharpe
13. The Ultimate Gift: Jim Stovall
14. The Infinite Game: Simon Sinek**
15. Atomic Habits: James Clear**
16. If I could tell you just one thing: Richard Reed**
17. Excellence Wins: Horst Schulze**
18. Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell
19. Reborn on the run: Allyson Reed**

1. Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom
2. The Minimalist Way: Erica Layne**
3. Little Black Stretchy Pants: Chip Wilson**
4. Stillness is the Key: Ryan Holiday**
5. Mind of a Survivor: Megan Hine**
6. The Eagle and the Dragon: Chris Duffin**
7. The Rise of Ultra Runners: Adharanand Finn**
8. Finding my voice: Mike Reily**
9. Digital Minimalism: Cal Newport**
10. Minimalism: Ryan Nocodemus & Joshua Fields**
11. Game Changers: Dave Asprey**
12. Everything is f**ked: Mark Manson
13. Up: My life Journey to the Top of Everest: Ben Fogle**
14. Life is a marathon: Matt Fitzgerald**Becoming Supernatural: Dr Joe Dispenza**
15. Man’s Search For Meaning: Viktor Frankl**
16. Power Moves: Adam Grant**
17. Nudge: Richard Thaler**
18. The long Run: Matthew Long**
19. Eat and Run: Scott Jurek**
20. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: John Maxwell**

1. The way of the Iceman: Wim Hoff**
2. The Longest Race: Ed Ayres**
3. Can’t Hurt Me” David Goggins**
4. Sleep: Nick Littlehales**
5. The power of Habit: Charles Duhigg**
6. Wild: Cheryl Strayed**
7. Why we sleep: Matt Walker
8. In the Zone: Cylde Brolin
9. Running Man: Charlie Engle**
10. First Man in: Ant Middleton**
11. Unf*ck yourself: Gary John Bishop**
12. The Fitness mindset: Brain Keane**
13. 50:50 Den Karnazes**
14. Letting go: David Hawkins**
15. The Winning Mindset: Damian Hughes
16. Kick Ass; Mel Robbins**
17. The coaching habit: Daniel Mate**
18. How to make disease disappear: Rangan Chaterjee**
19. Selfie: Will Store**
20. Move fast and break things: Jonathan Taplin**
21. Skin in the game:  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
22. Talk like ted: Carmine Gallo
23. There is no map in hell: Steve Birkinshaw*
24. Crushing it: Gary Vaynerchuck**
25. Endure: Alex Hutchinson**
26. Principles: Ray Dalio**
27. Crushing it: Gary Vee**
28. Into thin air: Jon Krakauer*
29. The Awakened Woman: Tererai Trent**
30. Chasing Excellence- Ben Bergeron
31. Make your bed – Admiral William McRaven
32. Swim Bike Run: Alistair & Jonathan Brownlee*
33. Fire and Fury: Michael Wolff**
34. Kiss or Kill: Mark Twight – (This is a re read)**
35. This is going to Hurt – Adam Kay**
36. Ego is the enemy – Ryan Holiday**
37. Grit: Angela Duckworth