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The following are the books that I have read over the last few years along with thoughts and reviews of those worthy of such. I recently added in there an honorary section for the newsletters I subscribe to. Those deserve mention as they are a huge inspiration for my own writing as well.
Currently Reading
Theres never enough time in the day to read all the books that I want to read, but I’ll sure try. I will often read multiple books at a time depending on my mood. HOWEVER in 2025 I made a pact to only read ONE at a time. 20 pages a day non negotiable. Now I’m getting through a few a month. Here’s my current read… unless you see it on the finished 2025 section and in that case, I forgot to update this. Sorry ;)
Nightstand Stack
This is my “on deck” spot. The books that are here are comprised of the books that I am about to read.
- Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
- The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
- Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
- Authentic by Paul Van Doren
- Never Enough by Andrew Wilkinson
- Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
All Time Favorites:
It can be a difficult task to really pick “favorites”. But in my attempt, here are the books that I feel have had the largest impact on my life and ones that I sincerely could not put down from start to finish. In no particular order:
Non-Fiction:
- The 5 Types Of Wealth
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Who Not How
- Shoe Dog
- Vivid Vision
- Buy Back Your Time
- Anything You Want
- Your Music And People
- Hell Yeah or No
- 1 Page Marketing Plan
- The War Of Art
- The Perennial Seller
Fiction:
Favorite Newsletters
- Matt Ragland
- Gareth Martin
- Fry AI
- The Neuron
- Romeen Sheth
- Seth godin
- Jay Vasantharajah
- Chandra Clarke
The List:
The following list contains the books that I have read in order of completion.
2025
- Coders (8/28/25)
- The Lion Trackers Guide To Life (8/9/25)
- The Comfort Crisis (8/4/25)
- The Coming Wave (7/20/25)
- Impromptu; Amplifying our humanity through AI (7/5/25)
- The Power of One More (6/22/25)
- Becoming Trader Joe (6/9/25)
- The Five Regrets Of The Dying (5/27/25)
- You Can Just Do Things (5/12/25)
- Delivering Happiness (5/5/25)
- The Third Door (4/24/25)
- How to fail at everything and still win big (4/14/25)
- Purple Cow (4/10/25)
- Purpose and Profit (4/3/25)
- The Dip (4/3/25)
- Tiny Experiments (3/30/25)
- What’s Your Drean (3/18/25)
- The 5 Types Of Wealth (3/4/25)
- The Obvious Choice (2/15/25)
- How To Make A Living With Your Writing (2/5/25)
- Influence (1/30/25)
- Green Lights (Audible) (1/24/25)
- Write Useful Books (1/16/25)
- Published (1/10/25)
2024
- Do The Work (12/10/24)
- Serve To Sell (12/4/24)
- Anything You Want (second time) (11/21/24)
- Your Music And People (11/7/24)
- Mans Search For Meaning (10/27/24)
- The Donut King (10/2/24)
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (9/29/24)
- The Perennial Seller (6/30/24)
- From Blue To Digital Gold (6/19/24)
- Skip The Line (6/11/24)
- Create Once Distribute Forever (5/17/24)
- Useful Not True (Early access audio version) (5/11/24)
- HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business (4/10/24)
- Million Dollar Weekend (3/27/24) (Audible)
- The Entrepreneurial Parent (3/16/24)
- Screw It, Let’s Do It (3/15/24)
- Keyboard Rich (2/25/24)
- The War Of Art (1/15/24)
2023
- Improv Wisdom (12/13/23)
- How To Live (11/22/23)
- Anything You Want (11/2/23)
- Turning Pro (10/28/23)
- Max Out Your Life (Audible) (10/25/23)
- Hell Yeah or No (10/22/23)
- The Common Path To Uncommon Success (9/30/23)
- Never Finished (Audible) (9/26/23)
- Podcast Launch (9/23/23)
- Living With a Seal (Audible) 9/5/23
- Can’t Hurt Me (Audible) 8/26/23
- The Amazon Way (8/9/23)
- Traction (7/28/23)
- Behind The Cloud (7/24/23)
- Zero to One(Audible) (7/20/23)
- The Chat GPT Millionaire (6/12/23)
- 1 Page Marketing Plan (5/28/23)
- Traffic Secrets (Audible) (5/28/23)
- The Family Business Balancing Act (5/1/23)
- Uniquely Human (4/23/23)
- The ONE thing (3/29/23)
- The Business Playbook (3/8/23)
- Look Me In The Eye (Audible) (2/26/23)
- Buy Back Your Time (2/24/23)
- The Miracle Morning (2/4/23)
- Shoe Dog (1/31/23) (audible)
- Vivid Vision (1/24/23)
- The Art Of Saying No (1/15/23)
- The E-Myth Revisited (1/13/23)
- Tax Free Wealth (1/1/23)
- Don’t Run From The Fight (1/1/23)
2022
- Never Split The Difference (Audible) (12/29/22)
- Virtual Freedom (12/25/22)
- Who Not How (Audible) (11/17/22)
- The Outsourcing Lever (11/10/22)
- The Family Board Meeting (Audible) (11/9/22)
- Investing In Real Estate with No and Low Money Down (Audible) (10/27/22)
- Skip The Flip 2 (10/24/22)
- Skip The Flip (10/12/22)
- 52 Things Kids Need From A Dad (9/26/22)
- How to Create Wealth Investing In Real Estate (9/13/22)
- The Book On Tax Strategies (9/6/22)
- Big Game Hunting (8/24/22)
- Self Storage Domination (8/21/22)
- Dirt Rich (Audible) (8/19/22)
- Storing Up Profits (8/7/22)
- Growing wealth in self storage (7/24/22)
- Soundtracks (7/11/22)
- Have It All (7/5/22)
- Book Funnel Formula (6/27/22)
- DotCom Secrets (Audible) (6/23/22)
- Why The Rich Are Getting Richer (Audible) (6/7/22)
- Digital Millionaire Secrets (6/1/22)
- Stay At Home Bookkeeper (6/1/22)
- Rich Dad Poor Dad (5/25/22)
- ATM Business Startup (5/7/22)
- The Four Year Career (5/2/22)
- Unscripted (Audible) (4/27/22)
- Midnight Library (4/21/22)
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (3/28/22)
- The Compound Effect (3/27/22)
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (3/4/22)
- Gym Launch Secrets (2/12/22)
- The Story Of You (1/24/22)
- Atomic Habits (1/15/22)
2021
- Building A Story Brand (12/23/21)
- One Minute Sales Person (12/11/21)
- Who Moved My Cheese (11/23/21)
- High Ticket Courses (11/17/21)
- Eat That Frog (11/4/21)
- Think Straight (10/24/21)
- The Big Leap (10/21/21)
- One Book Millions Method (Audible) (10/15/21)
- The Four Agreements (9/28/21)
- The Wealthy Fitpros Guide to Online Training (9/12/21)
- Think And Grow Rich (8/31/21)
- Infinite Income (8/29/21)
- 100M dollar offer (Audible) (8/25/21)
- I will Teach You To Be Rich (7/30/21)
- Man Up (Audio) (7/2/21)
- Bigger Leaner Stronger (6/24/21)
- Max muscle plan (2021)
- Stock Investing For Beginners (6/5/21)
- Chop Wood, Carry Water (6/5/21)
- The Perfect Day Formula (5/12/21)
- Launch (3/9/21)
- The Wise Mans Fear (3/23/21)
- Honey Bee Hobbyist (3/1/21)
- Expert Secrets (2/15/21)
2020
- Name Of The Wind (8/16/20)
- She Calls Me Daddy (5/13/20)
- The Next People You Meet In Heaven (2/16/20)
Unfinished Book List
There was a point when I was reading most of these at the same time. In 2025 I switched it up to read only one book at a time. 20 pages a day. With the intention to blast through them. It worked great, but now I have a stack that I’ll need to revisit and finish at one point. All these were great, but now I’m a recovering shiny book syndrome addict and I need to stick with ONE.
The Go-Giver By Bob Burg & John David Mann
Good Inside By Dr. Becky Kennedy
Head First HTML and CSS By Elisabeth Robson & Eric Freeman
Purpose By Gina Bianchini
Buy Then Build By Walker Deibel
Four Thousand Weeks By Oliver Burkeman
Socrates By Zack Horton
The Dream Machine By Dane Espegard
A Calendar Of Wisdom By Leo Tolstoy
Selling The Dream By Guy Kawasaki
Range By David Epstein
The Lean Startup By Eric Ries
The Alter Ego Effect By Todd Herman
The Tao Of Charlie Munger By David Clark
Made In America By Sam Walton / John Huey
Also These 👇
- Wealth Without Cash
- How To Wholesale Real Estate
- Teamwork
- Putting Stories To Work
- Meditations
- Good To Great
- One Million Followers
- Raising Capital For Real Estate
- The Communicator
- The 10x Rule
- ABCs Of Real Estate Investing
- Free Range Kids
- The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry
- Alone On The Wall
- The Art Of Focus
Maybe more than anything else, I LOVE talking about books.
Non-fiction specifically. If you want recommendations or just to chat about books, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Kevin@kevinbellco.com