Alex Ogorek's Book List

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Top 10 (All 🌟🌟) (In no particular order)

1. Millionaire booklet by Grant Cardone
2. Be obsessed or be average
3. Skin in the game
4. The Infinite Game
5. Unscripted
6. Nutrition Made Clear
7. The Inevitable
8. Atomic Habits
9. Mastering Fear
10. The Art of Impossible

Note: 🌟 ones are favorites for the year; cream of the crop. (especially considering the books I read are already the best of the best)

Also: 🌟🌟 are considered… well… the “11 out of 10” so to speak. Should you see any of these on the list, read them immediately. If you already have, I’m sure you agree with my opinion.

This list also gets updated as I read books… which means this is a fluid / living document.

Check back every few weeks to see the new books :)

Feel free to suggest ones to me: alex@alexogorek.com

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2015

Goal: Read/Listen to 50 books for the year (aka, about 1 book per week on average). Actual: 70

These are the books I read for 2015. They are in order starting around 20-something. Before that, the list was not created so the order is unknown.

1. Flow
2. Winners dream
3. Everything store
4. Crossing the chasm
5. Screw it let's do it
6. Emyth revisited
7. 🌟 The one thing
8. 🌟 Why beautiful people have more daughters
9. The Facebook effect
10. When I stop talking you know I’m dead
11. 🌟 The war of art
12. Awaken the giant within
13. 🌟 Purple cow
14. The dip
15. The way of the superior man
16. Inheritance: How our genes change our lives
17. The happiness hypothesis
18. Contagious
19. Rich dad poor dad
20. Managing oneself
21. The art of war
22. Smart pricing
23. Accounting for the numberphobic
24. How to get rich
25. 🌟 Outliers
26. Misbehaving
27. The art of learning
28. 🌟 The millionaire next door
29. The accounting game
30. Eat that frog
31. Lessons of history
32. Tribes
33. Zero to one
34. The tipping point
35. The black swan
36. Lying
37. How to win friends and influence people
38. Incognito
39. The automatic customer
40. The Rise
41. The automatic millionaire
42. Seeing what others don't
43. The power of now
44. The lean startup
45. 🌟 Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
46. The self-made billionaire effect
47. 🌟 The power of habit
48. The little book of common sense investing
49. What I learned losing a million dollars
50. 🌟 The education of millionaires
51. How to win at the sport of business
52. The five most important questions
53. How children succeed
54. Start with why
55. The gift of failure
56. Manage your day to day
57. Linchpin
58. The new one minute manager
59. Drive
60. Where good ideas come from
61. 🌟 The Dorito effect
62. The compound effect
63. 🌟 The entrepreneur roller coaster
64. Relentless
65. The sales acceleration formula
66. All-in startup
67. Hooked
68. 🌟 Living with a SEAL
69. Hatching Twitter
70. Conversation tactics

2016

Goal: Read/Listen to 100 books for the year (aka, about 2 books per week on average). Actual: 100

These are the books I read for 2016. They are in the order I read them. The date on these is the day I finished them (aka, stopped listening to it). I started tracking finish-date mid September.

1. 🌟 Good strategy Bad strategy
2. Undecided
3. Anything you want
4. 🌟 Disrupt you
5. Likeonomics
6. 🌟 Bargaining for advantage (only read ch6 on Leverage)
7. You can't send a duck to eagle school
8. Subscription marketing (jargon, bad -- do not read)
9. Steal like an artist
10. Creative confidence
11. 🌟 You are now less dumb
12. Rock breaks scissors
13. The power of failure
14. Change by design
15. The life changing magic of not giving a fuck
16. How we learn
17. Originals
18. Startupland
19. The launch pad: Inside Y Combinator
20. Sprint
21. $100 startup
22. 🌟 Bounce
23. Bold
24. The innovator's dilemma
25. Growth hacker marketing
26. Insight out
27. Be your best boss
28. 5 temptations of a CEO
29. 🌟 Startup CEO
30. 🌟 Humans need not apply
31. Surviving AI
32. Exponential organizations
33. How to build self discipline to exercise
34. The third wave
35. 🌟 In defense of food
36. 🌟 How not to die
37. Eat move sleep
38. Smarter faster better
39. She comes first
40. 🌟 Vagabonding
41. Slow sex
42. 🌟 Men are from Mars, women from Venus
43. Girls and sex
44. 🌟 How to set up your business for under $1000
45. 🌟 The little book of behavioral investing
46. 🌟 You are not so smart
47. How to talk to anyone (bad -- do not read)
48. Mating in captivity
49. Are you smart enough to work at Google
50. 🌟 The hard thing about hard things
51. Antifragile
52. Lean in
53. As the future catches you
54. Blah blah blah
55. Chaos monkeys
56. Crucial conversations
57. Greatest business decisions of all time
58. 🌟 Random walk down wall street
59. 🌟 Venture deals
60. Sept 8 - 🌟🌟 Millionaire booklet by Grant Cardone (Favorite of the year, read 5+ times by the end of the year)
61. Sept 12 - Remote
62. Sept 16 - Ego is the enemy
63. Sept 17 - Survival of the Sickest
64. Sept 21 - Superforecasting
65. Sept 22 - Good Calories Bad Calories
66. Sept 23 - An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
67. Sept 26 - Never Eat Alone
68. Sept 29 - Algorithms to live by
69. Oct 2 - Infectious madness
70. Oct 4 - Moonwalking with Einstein
71. Oct 6 - 🌟 Secrets of Selling
72. Oct 7 - the subtle art of not giving a fuck
73. Oct 17 - 🌟🌟 Be obsessed or be average - Same auther as Millionaire Booklet, and read by the author. It's the motivation you were looking for when it comes to getting your shit together.
74. Oct 18 - Chasing daylight
75. Oct 21 - 10x rule
76. Oct 24 - Fanatical prospecting
77. Oct 25 - Naked money
78. Oct 27 - Millionaire fastlane
79. Oct 29 - Matchmakers: the new Economy
80. Oct 29 - The obstacle is the way
81. Oct 30 - Investing for beginners
82. Nov 1 - 🌟 If you’re not first, you’re last
83. Nov 2 - You don't have to be a shark
84. Nov 2 - Close that sale
85. Nov 4 - 🌟 Sell or be sold
86. Nov 4 - No one understands you and what to do about it

Nov 5 - Be Obsessed or Be Average (yes, again. It’s that good, but not going to count it the 2nd time)]()

87. Nov 7 - Alibaba
88. Nov 9 - 🌟 The Startup J curve
89. Nov 14 - How to fail at almost everything and still win big
90. Nov 23 - #AskGaryVee
91. Nov 23 - Finance Basics by HBR
92. Nov 28 - Rework
93. Nov 29 - The science of growth
94. Dec 3 - 🌟 Buyology
95. Dec 7 - Finance your own business
96. Dec 9 - The long tail
97. Dec 15 - The membership economy
98. Dec 20 - Slicing pie
99. Dec 21 - 🌟 Entrepreneur’s blueprint to massive success
100. Dec 28 - 🌟 Small data

2017

I don’t have a goal, but I’ll mark down which books I read here.

1. Early Jan - A life in parts
2. Mid Jan - If you're not first you're last
3. Feb 2 - 🌟 Be obsessed or be average (4 times by Dec 2017)
4. Feb 2 - 🌟 Millionaire booklet (6 times by Dec 2017)
5. Mar 9 - Unshakeable
6. Mar 11 - 🌟 The art of startup fundraising
7. Mar 18 - 🌟 Everyday bias
8. Mar 21 - the power of broke
9. Mar 24 - the upstarts
10. Mar 31 - the sale of a lifetime
11. Apr 3 - Win at losing
12. Apr 11 - the case against sugar
13. Apr 17 - 🌟 Nail it then scale it
14. Aug 14 - You are a badass at making money
15. Sept 13 - 🌟 Brandwashed
16. Oct 5 - so good they can’t ignore you
17. Oct 25 - deep work
18. Nov 8 - man’s search for meaning
19. Nov 9 - founder’s mentality
20. Nov 13 - shoe dog
21. Nov 20 - 🌟🌟 Unscripted (Even if you only read the first 2 chapters, or listen for 30 minutes, this will be worth it. I guarantee it.) -- 17 hours of absolutely epic audiobook
22. Nov 21 - 🌟 How to get and stay motivated
23. Nov 22 - Unfu*k Yourself
24. Nov 22 - The Magnolia Story
25. Nov 24 - Wealth cant wait
26. Nov 27 - 🌟 Serve No Master
27. Nov 28 - 5 Second Rule
28. Dec 1 - Get your shit together
29. Dec 3 - 20K A Day: How to launch more books
30. Dec 6 - Breaking Orbit
31. Dec 12 - 🌟 Ca$hvertising
32. Dec 27 - Rich20Something

2018

Goal: Get back to reading 50-100 books in a year. Actual: 57 (Stopped in late September)

1. Jan 6 - The Vanishing American Adult
2. Jan 11 - It Didn't Start With You
3. Feb 7 - 🌟 Principles: Life and Work
4. Feb 22 - NeuroLogic
5. Feb 27 - 🌟 Set for Life
6. Mar 8 - 🌟 Whiplash
7. Mar 13 - 🌟 Building a Story Brand
8. Mar 16 - 🌟 Barking up the wrong tree
9. Mar 20 - 🌟 Everybody Lies
10. Mar 22 - Capital Gains
11. Mar 24 - 🌟 1-Page Marketing Plan
12. Mar 26 - Daily Rituals
13. Mar 28 - 🌟 Dont Bullshit Yourself
14. Apr 7 - 🌟 Book Yourself Solid
15. Apr 7 - Better Than Beach Money
16. Apr 7 - What If It Does Work Out
17. Apr 10 - Hardcore (c)loser
18. Apr 10 - Investing for Beginners by Walter Wayne
19. Apr 12 - Make: Bootstrappers handbook
20. Apr 17 - 🌟 Never Lose A Customer Again

Re-reading some good books in prep for a product launch

21. Apr 18 - Millionaire Booklet
22. Apr 19 - 1-Page Marketing Plan
23. Apr 20 - Building a Story Brand
24. Apr 24 - Ca$hvertising
25. Apr 25 - 🌟 Conversion Code
26. May 1 - Unscripted
27. May 2 - Entrepreneur’s blueprint to massive success
28. May 2 - 🌟 Just Sell The Damn Thing
29. May 3 - 🌟 Profit First
30. May 13 - How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars
31. May 14 - Crushing It!
32. May 15 - When To Jump
33. May 16 - 🌟 Stealing Fire
34. May 22 - 🌟 All Marketers Are Liars
35. May 31 - 🌟🌟 The Inevitable - If you do nothing but follow these trends, you'll become a billionaire.
36. June 1 - Presence
37. June 7 - 🌟 When by Daniel Pink
38. June 15 - 🌟 Future Presence
39. June 21 - Bad Blood
40. June 23 - Dawn of the new everything
41. June 27 - Living with the monks
42. July 2 - 🌟 The Fourth Transformation
43. July 4 - 🌟 Ready Player One
44. July 5 - Experience on demand
45. July 10 - What the future looks like
46. July 12 - 🌟 The Pumpkin Plan
47. July 19 - 🌟 The Fourth Age
48. July 23 - Defying Reality
49. Aug 7 - The Third Door
50. Aug 10 - Million-Dollar, One-Person Business
51. Aug 16 - Thinking In Bets
52. Sept 4 - Tell Me What You Want
53. Sept 6 - 5 Love Languages
54. Sept 10 - 5 Love Languages For Men
55. Sept 17 - 🌟🌟 Mastering Fear - An hour in, it was immediately one of my favorite books of all time. Written by a Navy SEAL. Absolute gold.
56. Sept 27 - Passive Income Ideas: 50 Ways To Make Money Online
57. Sept 29 - Start Now. Get Perfect Later

2019

Goal: I'm doing at least 50 this year. Fact. Actual: 50

1. Jan 7 Bluefishing
2. Jan 14 Bad With Money
3. Jan 15 The Financial Diet
4. Jan 22 The Total Money Makeover
5. Jan 24 🌟 Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant
6. Jan 25 The Charisma Myth
7. Jan 29 Everyday Millionaire
8. Feb 3 🌟 48 Laws of Power
9. Feb 5 🌟 Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down
10. Feb 7 The Small Business Bible
11. Feb 18 The Book On Rental Property Investing
12. Feb 20 The Righteous Mind
13. Mar 7 🌟🌟 Nutrition Made Clear <- Honestly the only book on nutrition you'll ever need. ever.
14. Mar 15 Million Dollar Consulting
15. Mar 20 The Richest Man In Town
16. April 30 🌟 Learn Spanish with Paul Noble - Only got about 75% through it. Listened at "normal" speed instead of 2.0. But WOW this book is fucking good when it comes to learning Spanish.
17. May 9 Human Errors
18. May 17 Sales EQ
19. May 23 Faster Than Normal
20. May 31 Options Trading Simplified
21. June 5 I Will Teach You To Be Rich <- Meh, TLDR: Index funds and automatic contributions
22. June 7 🌟 Sleep Smarter
23. June 11 🌟🌟 Atomic Habits <- Make or break ANY habit, with new and profound ways of approaching it
24. June 15 The Code of Trust
25. June 19 New Geography of Jobs
26. June 21 Dreamland
27. June 30 🌟 Why We Sleep
28. July 5 🌟 Inspired
29. July 9 The Lean Product Playbook
30. July 24 🌟🌟 Skin in the game <- Learn everything there is to know about hidden asymmetries in life. Definitely a must-read.
31. July 28 The ADHD Effect on Marriage
32. Aug 2 The Two Income Trap
33. Aug 7 🌟 The Power of Moments
34. Aug 14 The Proximity Principle
35. Aug 26 Come As You Are
36. Sept 5 AI Superpowers
37. Sept 18 🌟 UnSelling
38. Oct 11 What Customers Crave
39. Oct 30 The Burnout Generation
40. Nov 9 🌟 That Will Never Work
41. Nov 13 The Madness of Crowds
42. Nov 18 Ca$hvertising - fucking love this book, 3rd through and still learning
43. Nov 20 The Endangered Customer
44. Nov 27 🌟🌟 The Infinite Game <- Wow. Just wow. The mindset this books gives you. Unreal.
45. Dec 1 The Art of the Start 2.0
46. Dec 3 You Are The Placebo
47. Dec 6 Dare To Lead
48. Dec 12 Can't Hurt Me
49. Dec 16 What You Do Is Who You Are
50. Dec 30 Over The Top

2020

Goal: Keeping the 50, but this time it'll be more travel and culture focused.

1. Jan 5 Talking to Strangers
2. Jan 9 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
3. Jan 10 The Minimalist Way
4. Jan 15 Quit like a Millionaire
5. Jan 16 How to Travel the World on $50 a day
6. Jan 22 Into The Wild
7. Jan 23 Scam Me If You Can
8. Jan 24 Into Thin Air
9. Jan 27 Food: A Cultural Culinary History
10. Feb 11 The Story of Human Language
11. Apr 7 Tribe

2022

Goal: Based on what happened in 2020, I just wanna get back into the swing of things

1. May 24 Homeless to Billionaire
2. June 16 $100M Offers
3. June 22 🌟 Think Again
4. July 3 🌟🌟 The Art of Impossible

2023

Goal: Same as last year, just enjoy listening / reading more

1. Jan 25 🌟 You Said This Would Be Fun
2. Jan 30 Think Like a Game Designer
3. Feb 2 Breaking Up with Sugar