Read Trip!

When it comes to the books we read, the authors become our friendly travel companions whose influence endures long after we’ve closed the book or clicked off the Kindle. And their words — assuming they’re good ones — change us — hopefully for the better.
Predictably, every year I discover that my Amazon purchases are my biggest deduction on my Schedule C. (Lucky for me, I was never that much into shoes. Whatever is under the bed is fine.)
Here are some of my favorite reads on my own life's journey — for so many different reasons, there’s no point in putting them in any order at all:
Exuberance
The Happiness Hypothesis
Crossing the Unknown Sea
Atlas Shrugged
Selling the Dream
Art of Possibility
Fascinate
Making Ideas Happen
Start With Why
The War of Art
Authentic Leadership
Rework
Dead Wake (you’ll have a whole new respect for Captain Von Trapp)
In the Garden of Beasts
The Perfect Storm (when I was reading this book, I actually thought: “If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as this book.”)
Learned Optimism
Essays of E.B. White
Natural History of the Senses
Big Magic (if you have a spare hour and a good connection, watch this fantastic interview about the book between author Liz Gilbert and Marie Forleo)
Dove
Enchantment
Travels
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (there’s an unforgettable passage where the author is kayaking in the dark and he comes upon bioluminescence)
Click Millionaires
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
The Education of Millionaires
The Rape of Europa
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Seabiscuit
Never Eat Alone
Risky is the New Safe
The Miracle Morning
The Candy Bombers
The Slight Edge
If I Were Going
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