By Joel Dare - Updated March 20, 2026 - Written July 11, 2024
This is a list of books I’ve read, those I’ve purchased and am waiting to read, and those I’ve abandoned part way through. This list is relatively new—I started keeping track in the middle of 2024.
My abandoned list is relatively large. I give myself permission to bail out of books that I find myself flogging through for one reason or another. This doesn’t mean they’re bad books. In many cases my interests just change before I can finish. In some cases it’s my second time reading since starting this list. I’ve also been forced to add books to the list when they were removed from the subscription service I was using to read them. Don’t read too much into it.
In 2024 I learned that reading multiple books at the same time is a really bad idea for me. For the foreseeable future I plan to focus on a single book at a time. In March 2025 I found myself in this situation again because I was reading a book, listening to one recommended at work, and listening to one with my wife. It played out and worked okay, but I still want to avoid doing this as much as I can help it.
Bookshelf
The Art and Business of Online Writing (Kindle), Nicolas Cole
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Kindle), Matt Dinniman
Otherworldly (Kindle), Dwain Worrell
Forever Road (Kindle), Catie Rhodes
Land of Dreams: A Novel (Kindle), Gian Sardar
The 10 Commandments of Con Men (Kindle), John Bejakovic
Federal Bureau of Magic Boxed Set (Audible), Annabel Chase
The Whisper on the Night Wind (Audible), Adam Shoalts
Mini Book Writing (Kindle), Chris Stanley
Mini Book Money (Kindle), Chris Stanley
Mini Book Publishing (Kindle), Chris Stanley
Simple Online Business Model (Kindle), Chris Stanley
Mini Book Marketing (Kindle), Chris Stanley
The Drawing Habit (Kindle), Daria Bogdanova
Practice Drawing Faces (Kindle Scribe), Gregory Hiderbrand Jr.
Knees in the Garden (Kindle), Christina D. Rodriguez
Tea & Alchemy (Kindle), Sharon Lynn Fisher
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Kindle), Dale Carnegie
The Millionaire Fast Lane (Audible), MJ Demarco
The Pragmatic Programmer (Audible), David Thomas
JavaScript Handbook (epub), Flavio Copes
The Demon-Haunted World (Audible), Carl Sagan
How to: $10M (Kindle), William Brown
Careless People (Audible), Sarah Wynn-Williams
Deploy Empathy (Kindle), Michele Hansen
The Mom Test (Kindle), Rob Fitzpatrick
Thinking Through Refuse to Choose (Kindle), Barbara Sher
The Brain Audit (Kindle), Sean D’Souza
The Fire Starter Sessions (Kindle), Danielle LaPorte
Sprint (Kindle), Jake Knapp
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was (Kindle), Barbara Sher
Rework (Kindle), Jason Fried
Mickey 7 (Kindle), Edward Ashton
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Kindle), Patrick M. Lencioni
The Practice of Programming (pdf), Brian W. Kerningham and Rob Pike
Operating System in 1,000 Lines (epub), Seiya Nuta
Source Code: My Beginnings (Kindle), Bill Gates
How to Write a Movie (Kindle), Viki King
2,000 to 10,000 (Kindle), Rachel Aaron
Creativity, Inc. (Kindle), Ed Catmull
Cartoon Animation (Kindle), Preston Blair
Tribe of Mentors (Kindle), Timothy Ferriss
Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant (Everand), Robert Kiyosaki
Engineering Management (Kindle), Sarah Drasner
Lean Marketing (Kindle), Allan Dib
Will it Fly? (Kindle), Pat Flynn
Simply Said (Kindle), Jay Sullivan
111 ChatGPT Prompts (Kindle), Mauricio Vasquez
Start Marketing (PDF), Rob Walling
Sizzling Synopsys (Kindle), Bryan Cohen
Get Started with MicroPython on Pi Pico (Kindle), Gareth Halfacree
Good to Great (Everand), Jim Collins
The Lean Startup (Kindle), Eric Ries
Reading
The Imagineering Pyramid (Kindle), Louis J Prosperi
Finished
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Kindle), Stephen King, February 2026
Mini Book Model (Kindle), Chris Stanley, January 2026
Off to Be the Wizard (Kindle), Scott Meyer, December 2025
The Kill Clause (Kindle), Lisa Unger, December 2025
The Idea Book (Kindle), Fredrik Haren, December 2025
Deep Work (Kindle), Cal Newport, November 2025
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome (Audible), Kelly Vincent, October 2025
$10M Online Education (Book Player), Olly Richards, September 2025
$100M Offers (Kindle), Alex Hormozi, August 2025
Anatomy of a $10M Online Education Business, Olly Richard’s, August 2025
$100M Leads (Audible), Alex Hormozi, August 2025
Perspective Made Easy (Kindle), Earnest R. Norling, July 2025
Very Good Copy (Kindle), Eddie Shleyner, July 2025
Dark Matter (Kindle), Blake Crouch, June 2025
Suddenly Talented (Paperback), Sean D’Souza, June 2025
Eat Well, Live Well, Carie Cox BSc, June 2025
The 16 Word Sales Letter (PDF), Evaldo Albuquerque, May 2025
Million Dollar Weekend (Kindle), Noah Kagan, May 2025
The Five Disfunctions of a Team (Audible), Patric Lencioni, April 2025
Be Weird Make Money (Kindle), Kimberly Stewart, April 2025
Company of One (Kindle), Paul Jarvis, April 2025
The Checklist Manifesto (Kindle), Atul Gawande, February 2025
Particle Casting (Kindle), Tim McCreight, December 2024
Sand Casting Jewellery (Kindle), D. A. Stone, December 2024
21 Day Miracle (Kindle), Ed Rush, December 2024
Barbara Sher’s Idea Book (PDF), Barbara Sher, November 2024
The PARA Method (Kindle), Tiago Forte, November 2024
The Art and Business of Online Writing (Kindle), Nocolas Cole, November 2024
Natural Selection (Kindle), Elin Hilderbrand, October 2024
Busy Doing Nothing (PDF), Hundred Rabbits, October 2024
Rich Dad’s Before You Quit (Everand), Robert T. Kiyosaki, August 2024
Permission Marketing (Kindle), Seth Godin, 2024
Rich Dad Poor Dad (Everand), Robert T. Kiyosaki, Everand, 2024
Dotcom Secrets (Hardcover), Russell Brunson, 2024
Walt’s Way (Kindle), Andrew Lock, 2024
Write a Must Read (Kindle), AJ Harper, 2024
Abandoned
More Cute Stories Vol. 1 (Kindle), Molly Crump
Apt Pupil (Kindle), Stephen King
Red Rising (Kindle), Pierce Brown
Good Strategy Bad Strategy (Kindle), Richard Rumelt
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts (Audible), Winston and Seif
Management 101 (Kindle), Stephen Soundering
The Artists Way (Kindle), Julia Cameron
It’s Only Too Late if you Don’t Start Now (Kindle), Barbara Sher, June 2025
The Let Them Theory (Audible), Mel Robbins, April 2025
The Minimalist Entrepreneur (Kindle), Sahil Lavingia, March 2025
Nudge (Kindle), Thaler/Sunstein, March 2025
Go Programming in Easy Steps (Kindle), Mike McGrath, March 2025
FreeCAD Step-by-Step (Kindle), Johannes Wild, December 2024
Assembly Language Programming for the TRS-80 Color Computer (PDF), Don Inman and Kurt Inman, November 2024
Profit First (Everand), Mike Michalowicz, Dropped by Everand, October 2024
Refuse to Choose (Paperback), Barbara Sher, October 2024
Lean Media (Kindle), Ian Lamont, September 2024
Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (Kindle), Mike Michalowicz, August 2024
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think (Everand), Brianna West, August 2024
H3 Leadership: Humble, Hungry, Hustle (Everand), August 2024