Books

Read until you understand.

Read

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey

Reading list. For any field, find the foundational books, the originals, and don't read other people's opinions of them first.

Theological foundations

• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
• Knowing God, J.I. Packer
• The Holiness of God, R.C. Sproul

Christian living

• Holiness, J.C. Ryle
• The Pursuit of Holiness, Jerry Bridges
• The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
• Don't Waste Your Life, John Piper
• The Mortification of Sin, John Owen
• What Jesus Demands from the World, John Piper
• The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis

Evangelism

• The Master Plan of Evangelism, Robert E. Coleman
• Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J.I. Packer
• The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Mark Dever

Leadership

• Spiritual Leadership, J. Oswald Sanders
• The Conviction to Lead, Albert Mohler

Relationships

• The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy and Kathy Keller
• Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Boundaries, Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Investing and business

• The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
• Margin of Safety, Seth Klarman
• The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
• Mastering the Market Cycle, Howard Marks
• Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charlie Munger
• Good Profit, Charles Koch
• Expected Returns, Antti Ilmanen
• The Bond King, Mary Childs
• Trading at the Speed of Light, Donald MacKenzie
• Diary of a Very Bad Year, n+1

Foundations, read the originals

• The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
• Principles of Economics, Alfred Marshall
• Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, von Neumann and Morgenstern
• Games and Decisions, Luce and Raiffa
• Principles of Physiological Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
• Rhetoric, Aristotle
• Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
• Organon, Aristotle
• Elements, Euclid
• On Computable Numbers, Alan Turing
• On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
• The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson
• Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
• Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb
• 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson