BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
The following books I’ve either read and loved or they’ve been recommended to me by people I trust and I’ve put them on my reading list. There is no specific order and I’m aiming to keep this list updated, add new reads, and scratch the ones that didn’t meet my expectations. If you have more recommendations, you can send them over at katy@katytrost.com.
- Scaling Up: Navigating the Challenges of Accelerated Business Growth – By Katy Trost
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – By Greg McKeown
- Principles: Life and Work – By Ray Dalio
- Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind – By David Buss
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – By Cal Newport
- Managing Oneself – Peter F. Drucker
- High-Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way – By Brendon Burchard
- Psycho-Cybernetics – By Maxwell Matz
- Taming Your Gremlin – By Rick Carson
- How to Win Friends & Influence People – By Dale Carnegie
- You Can Heal Your Life – By Louise Hay
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – By Eckart Tolle
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – By Yuval Harari
- Awaken the Giant Within – By Anthony Robbins
- Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters – By Alan Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – By Mihali Csikszentmihalyi
- Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand & Treat Fear – By Joseph Ledoux
- Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life – By Gary John Bishop
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change – By Stephen R. Covey
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams pull Together and Others Don’t – By Simon Sinek
- The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure – By Grant Cardone
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – By Daniel Kahneman
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – By John Warrilow
- Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back – By David Finkel
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stree-free Productivity – By David Allen
- Mind-Body Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain – By John E. Sarno M.D.
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – By Robert B. Cialdini Ph.D
- Subliminal: How Your Unconcious Mind Rules Your Behavior – By Leonard Mlodinow
- The Science of High Performance – By Som Bathla
- 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think – By Brianna Wiest
- Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way – By Rick Carson
- Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives – By Henry Kimsey-House
- Siddhartha: A Novel – Hermann Hesse
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor And Middle Class Do Not – By Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere, And Join the New Rich – By Tim Ferriss
- The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Obstacles Into Triumph – By Ryan Holiday
- Think And Grow Rich – By Napoleon Hill
- The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business – By Charles Duhigg
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap And Others Don’t – By Jim Collins
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – By Jim Collins
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – By Travis Bradberry
- The 12-Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months – By Michael Lennington
- Leading at A Higher Level: Blanchard on How to be a High-Performing Leader – By Ken Blanchard
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It… and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) – By Verne Harnish