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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 ;)

The Purpose Driven Life

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:

• The Name of The Wind
• The Wise Man’s Fear
• Midnight Library

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

• Think This Not That (9/26/25)
• Let Your Life Speak (9/14/25)
• Living With a Seal (Audible) (9/13/25)
• 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

• The 38 Letters From J.D Rockefeller To His Son By G. Ng

• 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

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