Books I Read in 2024

For decades now, I have carried two books with me at all times and advocate for my leadership coaching clients to do the same as a discipline essential and critical to discovering the truth of their leadership…one book to read and one book to write in.

Here are the books I have read in 2024.

The War on Warriors - Pete Hegseth

Creative Destruction How ESG Mandates Are Destroying Capitalism, Costing You Money, and Wrecking America - W. David Prescott & Michael Ashley

The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene

Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman

With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa - Eugene Sledge

Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin

The Bhagavad Gita - Eknath Easwaran

Platform-Get Noticed in a Noisy World - Michael Hyatt

The 4-Hour Body - Tim Ferriss

Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby

Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) - Victor Hugo

The 4-Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferriss (revisiting this one for the 3rd time)

“Dig for gold in the supertexts while your competitors stay mired down in trade publications and other ephemera. You can depend on your lieutenants to give you any current news that really matters.” ~Stephen B. Sample, author of A Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership

As to carrying a book to write in, I started writing a book 12 months ago, by compiling my writings over years. 11 months later with the great help, assistance, and coaching from a professional development and line editor, what I wrote turned into something that now resembles a book. Now to publish it…maybe. We’ll see.

Your Leadership Matters: Discovering the Truth of Your Leadership - David Norris (unpublished)