These are the books that I have read over the past decade. I hope that this list will help to illustrate why I think my opinion means anything. I have also provided amazon links to each of these books, just in case you see something you’d like to read for yourself.
The books under Psychology/Social Behavior and Persuasion could have just as easily been filed under Self-help. Those books will teach you a great deal about how you think.
Leadership
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t
The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs
Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way: Adapted from the Official Army Leadership Manual
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Self-help
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Psychology/Social Behavior
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People’s Gestures and Expressions
Persuasion/Marketing
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
The One Sentence Persuasion Course – 27 Words to Make the World Do Your Bidding
How to Hypnotise Anyone – Confessions of a Rogue Hypnotist
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter
80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More
Strategy
History
The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
The Real George Washington (American Classic Series)
Religion
Holy Bible: New Living Translation
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus
Politics
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War (The Politically Incorrect Guides)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science (The Politically Incorrect Guides)
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
They Got It Wrong: History: All the Facts that Turned Out to be Myths
Economics
Masonry
Currently Reading
Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions
On Deck
This last section contains books that I already own and intend to read, but have not yet gotten around to it.
How Not to Be a Dick: An Everyday Etiquette Guide
How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking
The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
On Government (Penguin Classics)
The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)
