The following is a list of all suggested books in the body of Tools of Titans. This list does not include the full list of “The Most-Gifted and Recommended Books of All Guests” included within the book’s conclusion (pgs 650 – 665). I chose 52 of the books from this list of 121 books for my 2017 reading list.
| Book | Author | Recommended By | Book Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| House of Leaves | Mark Danielewski | Amelia Boone | 3 |
| The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Tim Ferriss | 8 |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | Jason Nemer | 50 |
| Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | Jason Nemer | 50 |
| 10% Happier | Dan Harris | Peter Attia | 70 |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard Feynman | Peter Attila, Noah Kagan | 70, 327 |
| Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) | Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson | Peter Attia | 70 |
| 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute | Richard Wiseman | Charles Poliquin | 79 |
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss | Charles Poliquin | 80 |
| The ONE Thing | Gary Keller | Charles Poliquin | 80 |
| Psych | Dr. Judd Biasiotto | Pavel Tsatsouline | 91 |
| Natural Born Heroes | Christopher McDougall | Laird Hamilton | 94 |
| Deep Survival | Laurence Gonzales | Laird Hamilton | 94 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Kelly Starrett | 123 |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | Kelly Starrett | 123 |
| Finite and Infinite Games | James Carse | Jane McGonigal | 133 |
| Suffering is Optional | Cheri Huber | Jane McGonigal | 133 |
| I Seem to be Verb | Buckminster Fuller | Chris Sacca | 165 |
| Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life | Steve Martin | Marc Andreessen | 173 |
| Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger | Peter Bevelin | Derek Sivers | 185 |
| Awaken the Giant Within | Tony Robbins | Derek Sivers | 185 |
| The Effective Executive | Peter Drucker | Matt Mullenweg | 203 |
| How Proust Can Change Your Life | Alain de Botton | Matt Mullenweg | 203 |
| Words that Work | Frank Luntz | Matt Mullenweg | 206 |
| Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things | George Lakoff | Matt Mullenweg | 206 |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | Tony Robbins | 215 |
| The Fourth Turning | William Strauss | Tony Robbins | 215 |
| Generations | William Strauss | Tony Robbins | 215 |
| Mindset | Carol Dweck | Tony Robbins | 215 |
| As a Man Thinketh | James Allen | Tony Robbins | 215 |
| The Autobiography of Malcom X | Malcom X | Casey Neistat | 219 |
| The Second World War | John Keegan | Casey Neistat | 219 |
| The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita | Sri Swami Satchidananda | Morgan Spurlock | 223 |
| The Artist’s Way: Morning Pages Journal | Julia Cameron | Tim Ferriss, Brian Koppelman | 225, 614 |
| How to Stay Motivated | Zig Ziglar | Seth Godin | 243 |
| Secrets of Closing the Sale | Zig Ziglar | Seth Godin | 243 |
| The Art of Possibility | Benjamin & Rosamund Stone Zander | Seth Godin | 243 |
| The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | Seth Godin, Brian Koppelman | 243, 615 |
| Just Kids | Patti Smith | Seth Godin | 243 |
| Debt | David Graeber | Seth Godin | 243 |
| Venture Deals | Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson | Tim Ferriss | 260 |
| Open | Andre Agassi | Shaun White | 272 |
| Outliers | Malcom Gladwell | Shaun White | 274 |
| Fifty Shades of Chicken | F.L. Fowler | Shaun White | 275 |
| The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing | Al Ries, Jack Trout | Tim Ferriss | 276 |
| Show Your Work | Austin Kleon | Chase Jarvis | 284 |
| Iacocca: An Autobiography | Lee Iacocca, William Novak | Ramit Sethi | 288 |
| The Age of Propaganda | Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson | Ramit Sethi | 289 |
| The Robert Collier Letter Book | Robert Collier | Ramit Sethi | 289 |
| Small Giants | Bo Burlingham | Tim Ferriss | 297 |
| One Monster After Another | Mercer Mayer | Ed Catmull | 311 |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | Chris Young | 319 |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Chris Young | 319 |
| The Second Law | P.W. Atkins | Chris Young | 322 |
| The Last Lion | William Manchester | Chris Young | 322 |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napolean Hill | Daymond John | 324 |
| Who Moved my Cheese | Spencer Johnson | Daymond John | 324 |
| Blue Ocean Strategy | W. Chan Kim | Daymond John | 324 |
| Invisible Selling Machine | Ryan Deiss | Daymond John | 324 |
| The Richest Man in Babylon | George S. Clason | Daymond John | 324 |
| Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World | Jack Weatherford | Daymond John | 324 |
| Who | Geoff Smart, Randy Street | Noah Kagan | 327 |
| Oglivy on Advertising | David Oglivy | Noah Kagan | 328 |
| Life is Elsewhere | Milan Kundera | Neil Strauss | 348 |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Tim Ferriss | 362 |
| Vagabonding | Rolf Potts | Tim Ferriss | 362 |
| Stone Soup | Marcia Brown | Peter Diamandis | 372 |
| Start with Why | Simon Sinek | Peter Diamandis, Robert Rodriguez | 373, 639 |
| The Oxford Book of Aphorisms | John Gross | B.J. Novak | 383 |
| Daily Rituals | Mason Currey | B.J. Novak | 383 |
| Diaries of Henry David Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau | Maria Popova | 408 |
| On the Shortness of Life | Seneca | Maria Popova | 409 |
| The Republic | Plato | Maria Popova | 411 |
| If this is a Man | Primo Levi | Jocko Willink | 414 |
| The Truce | Primo Levi | Jocko Willink | 414 |
| About Face | Colonel David H. Hackworth | Jocko Willink | 418 |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | Jocko Willink | 418 |
| At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Peter Matthiessen | Sebastian Junger | 423 |
| Hooked | Nir Eyal | Marc Goodman | 426 |
| The Inevitable | Kevin Kelly | Marc Goodman | 426 |
| Gates of Fire | Steven Pressfield | Chris Fussell | 440 |
| Once an Eagle | Anton Myrer | General Stanley McCrystal | 440 |
| Reasons and Persons | Derek Parfit | Will MacCaskill | 447 |
| Mindfulness | Mark Williams, Danny Penman | Will MacCaskill | 448 |
| The Power of Persuasion | Robert Levine | Will MacCaskill | 448 |
| The Things they Carried | Tim O’Brien | Caroline Paul | 460 |
| The Drama of the Gifted Child | Alice Miller | Whitney Cummings | 478 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Bryan Callen | 484 |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Bryan Callen | 484 |
| On the Geneology of Morality | Nietzsche | Bryan Callen | 484 |
| The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell | Bryan Callen | 484 |
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | Bryan Callen | 484 |
| The Art of Learning | Josh Waitzkin | Bryan Callen | 485 |
| The 4-Hour Body | Tim Ferriss | Bryan Callen | 485 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Alain de Botton | 488 |
| Essays | Michael de Montigne | Alain de Botton | 488 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Cal Fussman | 498 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Cal Fussman | 499 |
| West with the Night | Beryl Markham | Cal Fussman | 499 |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | Cal Fussman | 499 |
| Cocktail Techniques | Kazuo Uyeda | Joshua Skenes | 501 |
| The Dao of Taijiquan | Tsung Hwa Joy | Joshua Skenes | 501 |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Jack Dorsey | 510 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | Jack Dorsey | 510 |
| Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | Tim Ferris / Paulo Coelho | 513 |
| In Praise of Idleness | Bertrand Russell | Ed Cooke | 518 |
| The Joyous Cosmology | Alan Watts | Ed Cooke | 518 |
| Maxims and Relfections | Goethe | Ed Cooke | 519 |
| Touching the Rock | John Hull | Ed Cooke | 519 |
| Dropping Ashes on Buddha | Seung Sahn | Amanda Palmer | 522 |
| Only Don’t Know | Seung Sahn | Amanda Palmer | 522 |
| The Emperor of Scent | Chandler Burr | Eric Weinstein | 526 |
| Heraclitean Fire | Erwin Chargaff | Eric Weinstein | 526 |
| The Art of Dramatic Writing | Lajos Egri | Judd Apatow / Evan Goldberg | 533 |
| Levels of the Game | John McPhee | Stephen Dubner | 575 |
| The Empty Pot | Demi | Stephen Dubner | 575 |
| The Writer’s Journey | Christopher Vogel | Jon Favreau | 593 |
| Think Twice | Michael Mauboussin | Tim Ferriss | 599 |
| Buck Up, Suck Up…Foul Up | James Carville / Paul Bengals | Tim Ferriss | 601 |
| What Makes Sammy Run | Budd Schulberg | Brian Koppelman | 615 |
