2017 Reading List

Interviewees on the Tim Ferriss podcast have recommended hundreds of books. I chose the following 52 books from that list to read in 2017. Click on any book to view the author, the person who suggested the book, a link to the podcast where we discuss the book, and my review.

#	Book	Author	Recommended By	Book Page	# of Pages
1	The Inevitable	Kevin Kelly	Marc Goodman	426	328
2	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	Jack Dorsey	510	127
3	The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing	Al Ries, Jack Trout	Tim Ferriss	276	132
4	Natural Born Heroes	Christopher McDougall	Laird Hamilton	94	324
5	Vagabonding	Rolf Potts	Tim Ferriss	362	208
6	Stone Soup	Marcia Brown	Peter Diamandis	372	40
7	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	Shaun White	274	285
8	Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life	Steve Martin	Marc Andreessen	173	204
9	Show Your Work	Austin Kleon	Chase Jarvis	284	210
10	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!	Richard Feynman	Peter Attila, Noah Kagan	70, 327	346
11	Buck Up, Suck Up...Foul Up	James Carville / Paul Begala	Tim Ferriss	601	220
12	The Things they Carried	Tim O'Brien	Caroline Paul	460	246
13	Iacocca: An Autobiography	Lee Iacocca, William Novak	Ramit Sethi	288	357
14	The Effective Executive	Peter Drucker	Matt Mullenweg	203	174
15	Who	Geoff Smart, Randy Street	Noah Kagan	327	174
16	Start with Why	Simon Sinek	Peter Diamandis, Robert Rodriguez	373, 639	228
17	Bird by Bird	Anne Lamott	Tim Ferriss / Paulo Coelho	513	237
18	Walden	Henry David Thoreau	Tim Ferriss	362	255
19	Dune	Frank Herbert	Kelly Starrett	123	883
20	Heraclitean Fire	Erwin Chargaff	Eric Weinstein	526	252
21	Once an Eagle	Anton Myrer	General Stanley McChrystal	440	1,291
22	Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World	Jack Weatherford	Daymond John	324	271
23	Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)	Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson	Peter Attia	70	314
24	Ogilvy on Advertising	David Ogilvy	Noah Kagan	328	224
25	The Artist's Way: Morning Pages Journal	Julia Cameron	Tim Ferriss, Brian Koppelman	225, 614	304
26	The Autobiography of Malcom X	Malcom X	Casey Neistat	219	466
27	Deep Survival	Laurence Gonzales	Laird Hamilton	94	295
28	The Art of Learning	Josh Waitzkin	Bryan Callen	485	262
29	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	Jocko Willink	418	351
30	Generations	William Strauss	Tony Robbins	215	428
31	The Republic	Plato	Maria Popova	411	310
32	About Face	Colonel David H. Hackworth	Jocko Willink	418	833
33	Gates of Fire	Steven Pressfield	Chris Fussell	440	386
34	Hooked	Nir Eyal	Marc Goodman	426	221
35	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Cal Fussman	498	422
36	The Power of Persuasion	Robert Levine	Will MacCaskill	448	244
37	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman	Tim Ferriss	8	320
38	Maxims and Reflections	Goethe	Ed Cooke	519	100
39	Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	Jack Dorsey	510	128
40	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe	Cal Fussman	499	352
41	Touching the Rock	John Hull	Ed Cooke	519	248
42	Open	Andre Agassi	Shaun White	272	400
43	On the Shortness of Life	Seneca	Maria Popova	409	105
44	Debt	David Graeber	Seth Godin	243	560
45	Age of Propaganda	Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson	Ramit Sethi	289	432
46	How Proust Can Change Your Life	Alain de Botton	Matt Mullenweg	203	208
47	The War of Art	Steven Pressfield	Seth Godin, Brian Koppelman	243, 615	190
48	Think Twice	Michael Mauboussin	Tim FerrissÊ	599	224
49	The Fourth Turning	William Strauss	Tony Robbins	215	400
50	Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor Frankl	Tony Robbins	215	184
51	House of Leaves	Mark Danielewski	Amelia Boone	3	709
52	West with the Night	Beryl Markham	Cal Fussman	499	293