For this month’s books on Amazon list, I tied my record for the most books I’ve read in a month. With the amount of time I’m spending at home with the coronavirus restricting travel, I have more time to read.
Self Help and Finance/Investing are the book categories that I read. Tribe of Mentors, Stillness is the Key, and Ego is the Enemy have been on my list for a while. I found The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read and A Random Walk Down Wall Street from Ramit Sethi’s book list.
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5 Best Books to Read While Traveling
Tribe of Mentors
Tribe of Mentors shows you how to improve yourself by learning from the best in the world. Ferriss interviews the best of the best in their field for this book. Many of the interviewees are people who have not even been on his popular podcast.
Like The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4 Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, and Tools of Titans, Tribe of Mentors delivers. I found tactical advice from all sorts of people who I did not expect to learn from.
Recommend: Yes
Stillness is the Key
Stillness is the Key is short, in a good way. Holiday makes the case on why we need to slow down and embrace the quiet that’s all around us. Great leaders throughout history found stillness amidst great adversity. Leaders like Winston Churchill, during the peak of WWII, found stillness.
The stories of Marcus Aurelius and Winston Churchill, among others, showed me that I can embrace stillness. As someone who does not like to be still, this book was eye-opening. It forced me to slow down and appreciate the tranquility around me.
Recommend: Yes
Ego is the Enemy
What do George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt have in common? They kept their ego in check. Each reached the peak of their profession/career. It was their ability to contain their ego that allowed them to succeed. Holiday convinces you of this in Ego is the Enemy.
This book is interesting but I found more value in Stillness is the Key. Do I think you should read Ego is the Enemy? Yes. Is the book as good as Holiday’s other books? No.
Recommend: Yes
The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read
A simple investing book is what we all need. A book that delivers an easy-to-follow plan to gives you results. That’s what The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Every Read delivers. Solin outlines exactly how to invest in an easy to understand way.
The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read is fantastic! It’s one of the most fun and interesting books on investing I’ve ever read. And I’ve read quite a few. Do yourself a favor and learn about investing by reading this book!
Recommend: Yes
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street preaches a buy and hold strategy and with why most investors should buy low-cost index funds. Malkiel also teaches you the basic terms of “the Street” to help you become a better investor.
I love books on investing and this one is one of my favorites. It’s an easy and fun read with practical advice for all investors. Malkiel shares his lessons on everything you need to know to become a top investor. This book gives you confidence that you can win at the game of investing.
Recommend: Yes
Other Ideas for Best Books to Read While Traveling
I like to keep a running list of books on Amazon every month. That way, I can easily reference books that I want to read in the future. Many of these books come from Ramit Sethi’s book list. I recently found Blinklist and can’t wait to dive into their book list.
Finance/Investment Books on Amazon
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Psychology Books on Amazon
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
- Choose Yourself!
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall in Love with the Process of Becoming Great
History Books on Amazon
- Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Cleopatra: A Life
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Leonardo da Vinci
- The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Miscellaneous Books on Amazon
- The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
- The Order of Time
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
- Tiger Woods
- It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
- Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
- Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
- One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
- Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
- The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney
- Iacocca: An Autobiography
Entrepreneurship Books on Amazon
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Conclusion on the Best Books to Read While Traveling:
Reading is a skill that I’ve continued to work on by focusing on books that pique my interest at the time. Hopefully, my best books to read while traveling list includes books that you’ll find interesting and enjoy too.
What about you? Which books did you read while traveling last month? Please let me know in the comments or by sending me an email on my contact page.
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