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These books have significantly impacted me - click on each to see why

Cover of Dangerous Prayers

Dangerous Prayers

by Craig Groeschel

Christianity
Cover of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

by Jack Schneider, Jennifer Berkshire

Political
Education
Cover of Battle Cry: Waging and Winning the War Within

Battle Cry: Waging and Winning the War Within

by Jason Wilson

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of 15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors

15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors

by Kevin W. Mannoia, Larry Walkemeyer

Christianity
Leadership/Organization
Cover of Relational Intelligence

Relational Intelligence

by Dr. Dharius Daniels

Christianity
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of The Garden Within

The Garden Within

by Dr. Anita Phillips

Christianity
Psychology/Sociology
Science
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

by Aswath Damodaran

Business
Psychology/Sociology
Finance
Cover of The Spook Who Sat By the Door

The Spook Who Sat By the Door

by Sam Greenlee

Fiction
Black
Philosophy
Cover of The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

Growth/Self-Help/Life
History
Cover of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

by Michael Shellenberger

Political
History
Cover of Kingdom Race Theology

Kingdom Race Theology

by Tony Evans

Christianity
Black
Philosophy
Cover of Crushing

Crushing

by T.D. Jakes

Christianity
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek

Leadership/Organization
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of Kingdom Man

Kingdom Man

by Tony Evans

Christianity
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Cover of The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

History
Black
Political
Cover of The Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

Christianity
Fiction
Cover of Black Buck

Black Buck

by Mateo Askaripour

Business
Fiction
Tech/Start-ups

Current + Planned Reads

Books that I'm currently reading or are in the queue - usually representative of what's top of mind for me right now

Systems Thinking for Social Change

by David Peter Stroh

Leadership/Organization

Words Like Loaded Pistols

by Sam Leith

Growth/Self-Help/Life

Everything Else

I don't feel as strongly about the rest of these but feel free to ask me about any of them

The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions

by Jeffrey Sachs

History
Political
Song of a Survivor

by Patricia Phillips Roberts

Autos/Bios
Christianity
I Am Restored

by Lecrae

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Christianity
Conversations With God

by Neale Donald Walsch

Christianity
Fiction
Bad Blood

by John Carreyrou

Business
Tech/Start-ups
Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

Financial Literacy
Percy Jackson and The Olympians

by Rick Riordan

Fiction
Body Mind Mastery

by Dan Millman

Science
Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

Tech/Start-ups
Autos/Bios
Sam Patch

by Paul E. Johnson

History
Autos/Bios
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen R. Covey

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Who Moved My Cheese

by Spencer Johnson

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Ten Rules of Dating

by Dr. R.A. Vernon

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Christianity
Black Man in a White Coat

by Damon Tweedy

Black
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Autos/Bios
Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppman

Tech/Start-ups
Attachment Styles

by Joyce T

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Relationship Goals

by Michael Todd

Christianity
Growth/Self-Help/Life
The Greatest Trade Ever

by Gregory Zuckerman

Finance
The Laws of Human Nature

by Robert Greene

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nahisi Coates

Black
Tools of Titans

by Tim Ferriss

Growth/Self-Help/Life
The Art of the Start 2.0

by Guy Kawasaki

Business
Tech/Start-ups
How to be the Startup Hero

by Tim Draper

Tech/Start-ups
The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires

by Dennis Kimbro

Black
Financial Literacy
Knowing God

by J. I. Packer

Christianity
After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

by Tripp Mickle

Tech/Start-ups
Business
The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

Tech/Start-ups
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

by Marcia Chatelain

Black
History
Business
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

by Ainissa Ramirez

History
Science
Power vs. Force

by David R. Hawkins

Science
Psychology/Sociology
Other
Secrets of Sand Hill Road

by Scott Kupor

Tech/Start-ups
Venture Deals

by Feld Mendelson

Tech/Start-ups
Excellent Sheep

by William Deresiewicz

Education
The Shallows

by Nicholas Carr

Psychology/Sociology
Doing Business by the Good Book

by David L. Steward, Robert L. Shook

Christianity
Business
Burn Rate

by Andy Dunn

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Autos/Bios
Tech/Start-ups
Slide:ology

by Nancy Duarte

Design
Leadership by the Good Book

by David L. Steward, Brandon K. Mann

Leadership/Organization
Christianity
The Weight of Glory

by C.S. Lewis

Christianity
The Willpower Instinct

by Kelly McGonigal

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
High Tech Start Up

by John L. Nesheim

Tech/Start-ups
Made to Stick

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Marketing
Psychology/Sociology
The Tipping Point

by Malcolm Gladwell

Marketing
Psychology/Sociology
The Founder Factor

by Nancy Truitt Pierce

Tech/Start-ups
Resonate

by Nancy Duarte

Design
Live Smart

by Dan Dumas

Christianity
What You Do is Who You Are

by Ben Horowitz

Leadership/Organization
Tech/Start-ups
The Influential Product Manager

by Ken Sandy

Business
Tech/Start-ups
The Four Agreements

by Don Miguel Ruiz

Growth/Self-Help/Life
You and Your You Profile: Identity After Authenticity

by Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio

Psychology/Sociology
The Peebles Path to Real Estate Wealth

by Don Peebles

Business
The Ten-Day MBA

by Steven Silbiger

Business
The Little Book that Still Beats the Market

by Joel Greenblatt

Finance
Rebels at Work

by Lois Kelly, Carmen Medina

Leadership/Organization
How to Speak Tech: The Non-Techie’s Guide to Key Technology Concepts

by Vinay Trivedi

Tech/Start-ups
Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

History
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

by Andreas Nalm

Political
Science
Sula

by Toni Morrison

Fiction
Black
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

by Jeff Hobbs

Black
Autos/Bios
Business Model Generation

by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

Business
The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspiration Learned from 4:44

by Ash Cash

Financial Literacy
The Millionaire Fastlane

by MJ Demarco

Financial Literacy
The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Accountable Leaders

by Dr. Vince Molinaro

Leadership/Organization
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

Business
Tech/Start-ups
Political
Zero to One

by Peter Thiel

Tech/Start-ups
Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

Leadership/Organization
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

by Rom Brafman, Ori Brafman

Psychology/Sociology
The Third Door

by Alex Banayan

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Forty Million Dollar Slaves

by William C. Rhoden

Black
History
Political
Manager’s Handbook

by Harvard Business Review

Leadership/Organization
Can’t Hurt Me

by David Goggins

Autos/Bios
Growth/Self-Help/Life
The Prince

by Nicolo Machiavelli

Political
Growth/Self-Help/Life
History
Leadership/Organization
Philosophy
Rich Dad Poor Dad

by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Financial Literacy
Measure What Matters

by John Doerr

Tech/Start-ups
Business
Good to Great

by Jim Collins

Business
Leadership/Organization
Damaged but Not Destroyed

by Michael Todd

Christianity
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Psychology/Sociology
Jesus’ Son

by Denis Johnson

Fiction
Our Final Invention

by James Barrat

Science
Tech/Start-ups
Gain the American Dream

by Dr. President Marks

Financial Literacy
Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur

by Stuart Skorman

Tech/Start-ups
Autos/Bios
3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Business
Autos/Bios
Music/Entertainment
The Way of the Superior Man

by David Deida

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Young, Black, Rich, and Famous

by Todd Boyd

Black
History
Political
Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?

by Reginald Lewis

Business
Black
Autos/Bios
Entrepreneurship

by Robert D. Hisrich, Michael P. Peters, Dean A. Shepherd

Tech/Start-ups
Business
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Stevent D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Business
Psychology/Sociology
Accounting for Slavery

by Caitlin Rosenthal

Business
History
Black
The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

Leadership/Organization
Tech/Start-ups
Jay-Z: Made in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

Black
Autos/Bios
Music/Entertainment
Bible Nobodies Who Became Somebodies

by

Christianity
The Big Short

by Michael Lewis

Finance
The Language of God

by Francis S. Collins

Science
Christianity
The Pursuit of God

by A. W. Tozer

Christianity
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

History
Political
The Leadership Contract

by Dr. Vince Molinaro

Leadership/Organization
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

by Alice Walker

Black
The Other Side of Innovation

by Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble

Leadership/Organization
Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

by Jefferson Cowie

History
Business
Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
The Caesars Palace Coup

by Max Fumes, Sujeet Indap

Finance
The Way of the Wall Street Warrior

by Dave Liu

Finance
Pitching Hacks!

by Venture Hacks

Business
Leaders Eat Last

by Simon Sinek

Leadership/Organization
The 50th Law

by Robert Greene, 50 Cent

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Evidence That Demands A Verdict

by Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell

Christianity
Your Brain is a Muscle Too

by Vince Fudzie, Andre N. Hayes

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Good Boss, Bad Boss

by Robert I. Sutton

Leadership/Organization
Creativity, Inc.

by Ed Catmull

Leadership/Organization
Tech/Start-ups
Grit

by Angela Duckworth

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Built to Last

by Jim Collins

Business
Leadership/Organization
The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less

by Barry Schwartz

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Founder’s Pocket Guide

by Stephen R. Poland

Tech/Start-ups
Principles

by Ray Dalio

Business
The Startup Game

by William H. Draper III

Tech/Start-ups
The Action Bible

by Sergio Cariello

Christianity
The Startup Owner’s Manual

by Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

Tech/Start-ups
The Greatest Salesman in the World (Pt. 1 and 2)

by OG Mandino

Fiction
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Business
Cry Like a Man

by Jason Wilson

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Do More Faster

by David Cohen

Tech/Start-ups
All Marketers are Storytellers

by Seth Godin

Marketing
Psychology/Sociology
The Art of Seduction

by Robert Greene

Psychology/Sociology
The One Thing

by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

Leadership/Organization
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law

by Constance E. Bagley, Craig E. Dauchy

Tech/Start-ups
The Knowledge of the Holy

by A. W. Tozer

Christianity
Nudge: Improve Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Psychology/Sociology
On the Run

by Alice Goffman

Black
A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists, and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Business
Autos/Bios
Tech/Start-ups
The Power of Habit

by Charles Duhigg

Psychology/Sociology
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Elon Musk

by Walter Isaacson

Tech/Start-ups
Autos/Bios
You: A Natural History

by William Braxton Irvine

Science
The Republic of Plato

by Plato, Allan Boom

Fiction
Philosophy
The Fifth Risk

by Michael Lewis

Political
The Cosmic Serpent

by Jeremy Narby

Science
The Infinite Retina

by Irena Cronin, Robert Scoble

Science
Business
Tech/Start-ups
The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities

by Lawrence C Ross Jr

History
Black
The Millionaire Next Door

by Thomas J. Stanley

Financial Literacy
Blitzscaling

by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh

Business
Tech/Start-ups
Alienation

by Rahel Jaeggi

Psychology/Sociology
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

by Mark Manson

Growth/Self-Help/Life
How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Psychology/Sociology
Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

Psychology/Sociology
Tim Tebow: Through My Eyes

by Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker

Autos/Bios
Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education

by Beth Harry, Janette Klinger

Education
Black
The Man Who Wasn’t There

by Anil Ananthaswamy

Science
Psychology/Sociology
Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle, Robert C. Barlett, Susan D. Collins

Philosophy
The Innovator’s DNA

by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen

Leadership/Organization
The Richest Man in Babylon

by George S. Clason

Financial Literacy
Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

Philosophy
Fiction
Race for Profit

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Business
Black
History
The Peebles Principles

by Don Peebles

Business
The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein

Black
History
Political
Money: Master the Game

by Tony Robbins

Finance
The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

Philosophy
Fiction
Pure Eyes: A Man’s Guide to Sexual Integrity

by Steven Luff, Craig Gross

Christianity
Growth/Self-Help/Life
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Business
Autos/Bios
Black
Music/Entertainment
God’s Pursuit of Man

by A. W. Tozer

Christianity
Husslenomics

by Ash Cash

Financial Literacy
Music/Entertainment
Black
Business
Michael Jackson, Inc.

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Business
Autos/Bios
Music/Entertainment
Contagious

by Jonah Berger

Marketing
Psychology/Sociology
The Lessons of History

by Will and Ariel Durant

History
The Founder’s Dilemna: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

by Noam Wasserman

Tech/Start-ups
The Predator’s Ball

by Connie Bruck

History
Finance
A Fasted Life: Living A Lifestyle of Intimacy With God

by Philip Renner

Christianity
Honoring Your Lane

by Kevin J. Ray

Growth/Self-Help/Life
Mastering the VC Game

by Jeffrey Bussgang

Tech/Start-ups
Engineering Your Start-Up

by James A. Swanson, Michael L. Baird

Tech/Start-ups
Crushing It!

by Gary V

Marketing
Term Sheets and Valuations

by Alex Wilmerding

Tech/Start-ups
Business Adventures

by John Brooks

Business
Liar’s Poker

by Michael Lewis

Finance
The Culture Map

by Erin Meyer

Leadership/Organization
Daily Rituals

by Mason Currey

Other
Autos/Bios
History
Invisible Influence

by Jonah Berger

Marketing
Psychology/Sociology