To close out the reading year, I read 3 books on Amazon in December. These books included Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, and The English Spy. Each of these books was fun to read in its own right. However, my favorite of these three books was Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within.
David Goggins, author of Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, knows how to tell a story. Goggins holds nothing back. This book is so raw that you wonder if it was even edited (just kidding). With that said, let’s jump into the books on Amazon list from December.
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Best Books on Amazon
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
Vanguard Mutal Fund Group founder and author John Bogle, creator of the first index mutual fund, led a campaign educating investors on how to build wealth. The path to wealth according to Bogle was through a low-cost mutual fund that minimizes fees and taxes. In Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, Bogle explains what he considers to be enough in terms of wealth. It’s not accumulating money so that you can buy material things. It’s earning money so that you can help others. This book resonated with me because it’s how I feel about money. Yes, it’s nice to have the cash to buy things. But that won’t make you happy. What makes you happy is helping others. Other finance books to check out are Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market, and Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life.
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
David Goggins is one of the few human beings that can say they’ve truly conquered their mind. Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within takes you inside Goggins’ Mental Lab where he developed strategies to tap into how to overcome any challenge. This book is raw. You hear about how Goggins and his mother were both abused by his father while they were living in Buffalo. Goggins also shares the difficulties he had in the military through special forces training and missions. In addition, you read about how Goggins fought through the pain to finish some of the most insane ultra-endurance competitions in the world. I came away with a new appreciation for what it means to work hard. Other coaching/leadership books to check out are More Than a Game, A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court, Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization, Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring, My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey, and Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence, Coach Wooden One-On-One.
The English Spy
Author Daniel Silva’s fifteenth book in the Gabriel Allon series, The English Spy, starts with a bomb that murders a princess in the British Royal Family while on her holiday yacht. British Intelligence is tipped off by Israeli intelligence that the man behind the bomb is master bomb maker and IRA member Eamon Quinn. Allon is recruited to find Quinn and soon brings on his partner in crime, Christopher Keller, an ex-SAS officer turned professional assassin. In the hunt for Quinn, Allon and Keller look for clues throughout Europe, with the majority of the story taking place in the U.K. Other spy fiction books to check out are The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, American Assassin: A Thriller, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, and The English Spy.
Which books on Amazon did you read last month? What books do you recommend? Please let me know in the comments or by emailing me on my contact page.
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