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  • 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…


  • 2021 Reading List: My 40 Best Books of 2021

    2021 Reading List: My 40 Best Books of 2021

    2021 was another successful reading year. In total, I read 40 books that are included below in my best books of 2021. Book categories included in my best books of 2021 are World War I and II, Finance and Investing, the American Revolution, Fiction, Sports, New Orleans, General History, Self-Help, Entrepreneurship, and Energy. I went…


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