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  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from May 2022

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from May 2022

    The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day, Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization, American Assassin: A Thriller (A Mitch Rapp Novel), and Man’s Search for Meaning were the four best books on Amazon that I read in May. Of these books on Amazon, my favorite is Wooden on Leadership: How to…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from April 2022

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from April 2022

    The Defector by Daniel Silva and A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden were the two books on Amazon that I read in April. Both of these books are fantastic! Author Daniel Silva is slowly becoming one of my favorite authors while John Wooden is a master in…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from March 2022

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from March 2022

    Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb was the two book on Amazon I finished last month. Both were interesting in their own right. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable gets my vote for best book of…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from February 2022

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 2 Books from February 2022

    While not as productive of a reading month as I would have liked, these best books on Amazon were Fun reads. I read More Than a Game and Moscow Rules (Gabriel Allon). These books are in completely different hemispheres. So, that’s how I like to keep it fresh. Moscow Rules (Gabriel Allon) was my favorite…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from January 2022

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from January 2022

    January kicked off the year with a fun reading month with these books on Amazon. Book topics include finance, a spy novel, and philosophy. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves, The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon), and Meditations: The Annotated Edition were…


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