PE Operator's Book Recommendations

The $100 Startup

Chris Guillebeau

$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

1000 True Fans

Jongo Longhurst

10x Is Easier Than 2x

Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson

168 Hours

Laura Vanderkam

1776

David McCullough

The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

After the Flood

Bill Cooper

The Age of AI

Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

Alchemy

Rory Sutherland

The Algorithm

Jon McNeill

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

All About Asset Allocation

Richard A. Ferri

Am I Being Too Subtle

Sam Zell

American Creation

Joseph J. Ellis

American Lion: Andrew Jackson

Jon Meacham

American Nations

Colin Woodard

American Sphinx

Joseph J. Ellis

Andrew Jackson

H. W. Brands

Angels

Michael S. Heiser

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Art of Less Doing

Ari Meisel

The Art of Living

Epictetus (Sharon Lebell)

The Art of the Good Life

Rolf Dobelli

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

At Home

Bill Bryson

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Awareness

Anthony De Mello and J. Francis Stroud

Basic Christianity

John Stott

The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

Berkshire Hathaway Letters

Warren Buffett

Beyond Order

Jordan B. Peterson

The Big Short

Michael Lewis

Bitcoin

Jason A. Williams

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

The Body

Bill Bryson

The Book of Elon

Eric Jorgenson

Boone

Robert Morgan

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

Born to Be Wired

John Malone

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett

Built from Scratch

Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank

The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

Vijay Boyapati and Michael Saylor

Buy Back Your Time

Dan Martell

Buy Then Build

Walker Deibel

Cable Cowboy

Mark Robichaux

Call Sign Chaos

Jim Mattis, Bing West

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

Chip War

Chris Miller

The Christian Case for Bitcoin

Patrick Melder

Churchill - Walking With Destiny

Andrew Roberts

Colonel Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

The Complete Far Side: Volume Two 1987-1994

Gary Larson

The Compounders

Oddbjørn Dybvad, Kjetil Nyland, Adnan Hadžiefendić

Confessions of an Advertising Man

David Ogilvy

Counterfeit Gods

Timothy Keller

Daring to Succeed

Guy Gendron

David & Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Desiring God

John Piper

Destiny of the Republic

Candice Millard

Die With Zero

Bill Perkins

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Don't Waste Your Life

John Piper

Double Your Profits: In Six Months or Less

Bob Fifer

Dream Team

Jack McCallum

Drive

Daniel H. Pink

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

The Education of a Value Investor

Guy Spier

Education of a Wandering Man

Louis L'Amour

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

The Electrical Grid

James A. Ketchledge and Steven D. Catanach

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

ENDURANCE

Alfred Lansing

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

Every Good Endeavor

Timothy Keller

Everything Is Never Enough

Bobby Jamieson

The Everything Store

Brad Stone

The Experience Mindset

Tiffani Bova and Tom Peters

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

The Fellowship Of The Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren E. Buffett

Peter Bevelin

The Fiat Standard

Saifedean Ammous

Filters Against Folly

Garrett Hardin

The Fish that Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen

Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

Flatland

Edwin A. Abbott

Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis

Founding Partisans

H. W. Brands

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness

Timothy Keller

From Lucky to Smart

Chester Cadieux

The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Grant

Ron Chernow

The Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis

The Great Mental Models Vol. 1: General Thinking Concepts

Shane Parrish

The Great Mental Models Vol. 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Shane Parrish

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

The Grid

Gretchen Bakke

A Grief Observed

C. S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle

Halftime

Bob P. Buford

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?

George Stalk

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Hero of the Empire

Candice Millard

Hidden Genius

Polina Marinova Pompliano

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

How I Invest My Money

Joshua Brown, Brian Portnoy, and Carl Richards

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

Arthur Herman

How to Be a Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer Geary

How to Buy a Great Business With No Cash Down

Arnold S. Goldstein

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Scott Adams

How to Get Rich

Felix Dennis

How To Live An Extraordinary Life

Anthony Pompliano

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton Christensen

In the Heart of the Sea

Nathaniel Philbrick

Influence

Robert B. Cialini

The Inner Game of Tennis

Timothy Gallwey

Intelligent Fanatics

Sean Iddings & Ian Cassel

Invent & Wander

Jeff Bezos

Is This Anything?

Jerry Seinfeld

Isn't It Obvious?

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Jesus the King

Timothy Keller

JFK and the Unspeakable

James W. Douglass

John Adams

David McCullough

The Jordan Rules

Sam Smith

Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

Max H. Bazerman & Don Moore

Jumpstart Your Career in Data Centers

Carrie Goetz

Just Keep Buying

Nick Maggiulli

The Kierkegaard Collection

Soren Kierkegaard

King Icahn

Mark Stevens

Knowing Scripture

R.C. Sproul

The Last Lion: Alone, 1932-1940

William Manchester

The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

William Manchester & Paul Reid

The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

William Manchester

Leading Change

John P. Kotter

The Lean Manager

Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé

Lessons From Private Equity Any Company Can Use

Orit Gadiesh and Hugh Macarthur

Lessons From The Titans

Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, Rob Wertheimer

The Lessons of History

Will Durant and Ariel Durant

Let Go

François Fénelon

Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

George Horace Lorimer

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Marie Kondo

Live from New York

Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller

Living Fearless

Jamie Winship

Living Life Backward

David Gibson

Lorne

Josh Karp

The Machine

Justin Roff-Marsh

Made in America

Bill Bryson

Managing Oneself

Peter F. Drucker

The Martian

Andy Weir

Mastering Private Equity

Claudia Zeisberger, Michael Prahl, Bowen White

The Matheny Manifesto

Mike Matheny, Jerry B. Jenkins

Maverick

Ricardo Semler

Melanin

Melanin Research Foundation

Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis

Michael Jordan

Roland Lazenby

Midlife

Kieran Setiya

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko

The Mindbody Prescription

John E. Sarno

Models of My Life

Herbert A. Simon

The Monster of Florence

Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi

The Most Important Thing

Howard Marks

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss and Tahl Raz

The New One Minute Manager

Ken Blanchard, Spencer, M.D. Johnson

A New Way to Think

Roger L. Martin

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Outlive

Peter Attia MD

The Outsiders

Will Thorndike

Own the Day, Own Your Life

Aubrey Marcus

Peak

Anders Ericsson

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Charlie Munger

The Power of Regret

Daniel H. Pink

The Practice of the Presence of God

Brother Lawrence

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Principles

Ray Dalio

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Private Equity

Carrie Sun

The Prodigal God

Timothy Keller

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Quality Investing: Owning the best companies for the long term

Cunningham, Eide, Hargreaves

The Quartet

Joseph J. Ellis

Range

David Epstein

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

Read Write Own

Chris Dixon

Reagan: The Life

H.W. Brands

The Reason for God

Tim Keller

Religion of the Apostles

Stephen De Young

The Return Of The King

J.R.R. Tolkien

Reversing Hermon

Michael S. Heiser

Revolutionary Summer

Joseph J. Ellis

Richer, Wiser, Happier

William Green

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S Clason

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

The River of Doubt

Candice Millard

River of the Gods

Candice Millard

The Roots of the Federal Reserve: Tracing the Nephilim from Noah to the US Dollar

Laura Sanger

Rules for a Knight

Ethan Hawke

The Sages

Charles R. Morris

Saturday Night

Doug Hill, Jeff Weingrad

Scaling People

Claire Hughes Johnson

Searching for God Knows What

Donald Miller

Shadow Divers

Robert Kurson

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

A Short History of England

Simon Jenkins

A Short History of Europe

Simon Jenkins

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

The Simple Path to Wealth

JL Collins

Small Giants

Bo Burlingham

The Son Rises

William L. Craig

Start at the End

Matt Wallaert

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Stock Picker

Ian Cassel

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

The Strenuous Life

Theodore Roosevelt

SuperFreakonomics

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard P. Feynman

Switch

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

T.R.

H. W. Brands

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Theo of Golden

Allen Levi

Theodore Rex

Edmund Morris

Think Like a Freak

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Thinking Strategically

Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

The Time Illusion

John Gribbin

The Timechart of Biblical History

Third Millennium Press

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

Titan

Ron Chernow

The Titanium Economy

Asutosh Padhi et al.

Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace

Tracey Buchanan

Traction

Gino Wickman

Tribe of Mentors

Timothy Ferriss

Turning the Flywheel

Jim Collins

The Two Towers

J.R.R. Tolkien

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

Undaunted Courage

Stephen E. Ambrose

Unreasonable Hospitality

Will Guidara

The Unseen Realm

Michael S. Heiser

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

The War Below

Ernest Scheyder

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

The Warren Buffett CEO

Robert P Miles

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

What Is This Thing Called Theory of Constraints

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

Stephen A. Schwarzman

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

Laura Vanderkam

When

Daniel H. Pink

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

When Genius Failed

Roger Lowenstein

Why Business Matters to God

Jeff Van Duzer

Why I Am a Christian

Norman L. Geisler & Paul K. Hoffman

Wild at Heart

John Eldredge

Winning

Tim Grover

Winning Moves

Dan Cremons

The World Is Flat

Thomas L. Friedman

Zero to One

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters