Tai Lopez's 194 Book Recommendations
Tai Lopez's 194 Book Recommendations
The following is a list of 194 books Tai Lopez recommends, ranked in order of importance:
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Tai Lopez's vlog on "How Arnold Schwarzenegger Got Everything He Wanted in Life" (circa 2014)
Jonah Berger: "Contagious: Why Things Catch On" (via Talks at Google)
"Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior" (by Leonard Mlodinow at Talks @ Google)
Steven Levitt talks about Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (via C-SPAN, circa 2005)
Oren "The Triggerman" Klaff on London Real talking about his ideas in Pitch Anything
Jordan Ellenberg gives a presentation at the Royal Institution
Seth Godin's TED Talk: "The Tribes We Lead"; he argues that the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived tribes (a human social unit from the distant past)
Hardwiring happiness: Dr. Rick Hanson at TEDxMarin (circa 2013)
Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker: Tai Lopez's review of the book discusses Drucker's use of "feedback analysis" to break one's "simple psychological denial" and take better control of one's life. In Lopez's words: [1] Feedback analysis is just a fancy way of saying that, instead of just using our gut feeling, we should instead test ourselves based on ACTUAL past successes and failures.
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science Of The Mind by David Buss
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Tai Lopez's vlog on "How Arnold Schwarzenegger Got Everything He Wanted in Life" (circa 2014) Arnold Schwarzenegger: Lopez says in one of his YouTube vlogs that, "In many ways, this book is one of the best books he's ever read." He points out Arnold's idea instilled by his parents at an age as early as 5 years old: to be rewarded, it had to be earned through "sets and repetitions." In a blog post, he alludes to a German saying he learned when he lived with the Amish community in his early 20's, which translates to: When you have something hard to do, just jump right in, and the next thing you know you will be done.
In 2014, Tai wrote in his blog considers this book "one of the 5 most important books that every human should read."
He writes: The question of selfishness vs. unselfishness is at the core of every major decision you will ever make.
The Lessons of History by Will Durant & Ariel Durant
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead by Jerry Weintraub
The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
Riveted by Jim Davies
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant
Made in America: My Story by Sam Walton
The Decision Book: Fifty Models of Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter D. Kaufman
Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit
A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers by Warren Buffett
Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
The Hiltons: the True Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Croc
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Inheritance by Sharon Moalem
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew Lieberman
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking
Jonah Berger: "Contagious: Why Things Catch On" (via Talks at Google) Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
Berkshire Hathaway: Letters to Shareholders 1965 - 2016 by Warren Buffett and Max Olson
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
President Me: The America in My Head by Adam Corolla
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love by Marina Adshade
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David Landes
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: TheFood Buyers Guide to Farm Friendly Food by Joel Salatin
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David Buss
Lying (book) by Sam Harris
Eat the Yolksby Liz Wolfe**
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
The Conversion Code: Capture Internet Leads, Create Quality Appointments, Close More Sales by Chris Smith (author)
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister & John Tierney
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by Dalai Lama
No One Understands You and What to Do about It by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety by Joseph LeDoux
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Compelling People: the Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential by John Neffinger & Matthew Kohut
Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Natureby Randy J. Larsen** and David Buss
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone by David Carey
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey Moore
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Anthropology by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember & Peter Peregrine
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business by Richard Branson
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
King Rat by James Clavell
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
Alaska by James A. Michener
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value by John Sviokla & Mitch Cohen
Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice by Matthew Syed
"Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior" (by Leonard Mlodinow at Talks @ Google) Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
Plowman's Folly by Edward Faulkner
Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography by Kathryn Spink
Great by Choice by James C. Collins & Morten Hansen
The Winter Effect by Ian Robertson
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers by Will Durant
Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times by Dennis McDougal
Steven Levitt talks about Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (via C-SPAN, circa 2005) Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Change in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul by Phil Jackson
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples
Smart Pricing by Jagmohan Raju & Z. John Zhang
How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
Oren "The Triggerman" Klaff on London Real talking about his ideas in Pitch Anything Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff
Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
How to Be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth by Martin S. Fridson
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis
Quality Pasture: How to Create It, Manage It, and Profit from It by Allan Nation
Human Resource Management by Robert L. Mathis & John H. Jackson
88 The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money by Felix Dennis
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
Jordan Ellenberg gives a presentation at the Royal Institution based on his book: "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking"How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed by Michael D. Eisner
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It by Michael Gerber
Speed Reading for Dummies by Richard Sutz
Chesapeake by James A. Michener
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
From My Experience by Louis Bromfield
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Seth Godin's TED Talk: "The Tribes We Lead"; he argues that the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived tribes (a human social unit from the distant past) Tribes by Seth Godin
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett
The Time Machine and the Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio by William J. Bernstein
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management by M.G. Kains
Why Grassfed Is Best! by Jo Robinson (journalist)
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
Secret Millionaires Club: Warren Buffett's 26 Secrets to Success in the Business of Life by Andy Heyward & Amy Heyward
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
J.R. Simplot: A Billion the Hard Way by Louie Attebery
Papillon by Henri Charrière
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google** by Scott Galloway
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Grandfather (book) by Tom Brown, Jr.
The Incredible Colonel by Colonel Harland Sanders
The Spirit to Serve: Marriott's Way by J.W. Marriott & Kathi Ann Brown
Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out by John Calipari
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Life without Limits by Nick Vujicic
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
Amish Society by John A. Hostetler
The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women in to Bed by Erik von Markovik (aka Mystery)
The Republic by Plato
Beyond Tallulah: How Sam Wyly Became America's Boldest Big-Time Entrepreneur by Dennis Hamilton
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill
Listen out Loud: A Life in Music - Managing McCartney Madonna, and Michael Jackson by Ron Weisner
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil by Andy Lee & Pat Foreman
The Old West by D.W.
Torrance
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Million Dollar Selling Techniques by the Million Dollar Round Table Center for Productivity
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy by Jamie Smith (author)
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
Seriously...I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
Think and Grow Rich: The Practical Steps to Transforming Your Desires into Riches by Napoleon Hill
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
10 Reasons You Feel Old and Get Fat by Frank Lipman
Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson
Killing Jesus: A History by Bill O'Reilly
Improbably Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos
The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action by Christian Moore
Unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson & Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Martin J. Blaser
The One Minute Sales Person by Spencer Johnson & Larry Wilson
Moster: The Autobiography of an L.A.
Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur
Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success by Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch & Frederick W. Smit
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute
The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles by Karen Reivich & Andrew Shatte
Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
Rich20Something: Ditch Your Average Job, Start an Epic Business, and Score the Life You Want by Daniel DiPiazza
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being by Linda Graham
No Limits: Blow the Cap off Your Capacity by John C. Maxwell
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income by Brain Tracy
Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today's Complex World by John Gray
Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach by James W. Neuliep
The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life by Nathaniel Branden
Hardwiring happiness: Dr. Rick Hanson at TEDxMarin (circa 2013) Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence by Rick Hanson
The Little Big Small Business Book by Micah Fraim
Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature by Randy J. Larson and David Buss
F My Life by Maxime Valette
Statistics
In his list, Tai Lopez includes multiple books written by the same author, including:
David Buss (4)
Stephen J. Dubner (2)
Will Durant (4)
Ken Follett (3)
Warren Buffett (2)
Felix Dennis (2)
Jared Diamond (2)
Peter Drucker (2)
Seth Godin (2)
Sam Harris (2)
Stephen Hawking (2)
Ernest Hemingway (2)
Steven Johnson (2)
Steven D. Levitt (2)
Jack London (2)
James A. Michener (2)
Other Tai Lopez Book Recommendations
Tai Lopez has also reviewed and recommended other books that are not on his main list.
He has uploaded book reviews of several books, many of which he recorded on video and uploaded on his YouTube channel. He discussed these books individually as his "Book of the Day."
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham
"How You Can Be A Smart Investor": Lopez gives a review on The Intelligent Investor
"How You Can Be A Smart Investor": Lopez gives a review on The Intelligent Investor Most people are always working for money, and money never works for them. [...] How much money are you making in a job if you're making $20/hour? If you make $20/hour, you make about $40,000/year. But imagine if you made $20/hour but [for] 24 hours/day. [...] Now you're making over $100,000/year. So, the first rule is money's got to work for you, not just in a job. The second thing is - and what's big in [ The Intelligent Investor ] - whenever you invest your money, make sure there's what's called a margin of safety. That means, if you think it's barely a good investment [...] and you think there's a 50/50 chance that it's going to be a good investment, don't do it... because things don't work out as well as you think. You basically only want things that are home runs.
The Airbnb Story: How Three Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions of Dollars... and Plenty of Enemies by Leigh Gallagher
Lopez's discusses the concept of "turning your mess into your message" in a 2-minute review of The Airbnb Story
Lopez's discusses the concept of "turning your mess into your message" in a 2-minute review of The Airbnb Story So, [ Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia ] had a problem. They moved from the East Coast to San Francisco. They had a thousand dollars in their bank account, and rent was coming up; it was 1500 bucks. Huge problem: they can't pay their bills. What do most people do? They whine, complain and give up. What did these guys do? They got creative. They said there's a conference in town - they looked up, they found out there were some conferences in town - they said, "What if we rent out some air mattresses in our little apartment here? What if we could generate enough money to pay our bills to pay the full $1500 rent?" And that's the story of Airbnb; it worked. They took their biggest problem in their life - not being able to pay rent - and they turned it into what's now a $30 billion company.
Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA by Caron Butler
Tai Lopez talks with Caron Butler about Butler's book, Tuff Juice; Butler shares his stories about his life before the NBA
How do you rise out of your circumstances?
So many of us didn't grow up with the best circumstances: didn't grow up rich, didn't grow up in the best place, maybe not the best family.
[Caron Butler's book] talks about how [he] went from family poverty all the way (to) becoming a multi-millionaire, drafted #10 in the NBA, the professional basketball league.
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss
One of the premises and the things that I agree with a lot with Tim Ferriss is that, at the end of the day, life is about whether you enjoy the day-to-day moments [...] One of the things that the book talks about is how you can work less, be more productive, travel the world, live anywhere.
I think The 4-Hour Workweek is much more [about] the wealth aspect (of four pillars: health wealth love, happiness). One [part] in this book that I thought was great. [He says to] "pick an affordably reachable niche market." And he has a quote from Joan Chen: "When I was younger, I didn't want to be pigeon-holed." Basically, now you want to be pigeon-holed; it's your niche. And then Tim says, "Creating demand is hard, filling demands is much easier. Don't create a product and seek someone to sell it to. Find a market to find your customers, then find or develop a product for them." So he's all about reverse engineering your income. I think one of the things that Tim Ferriss talks about in his book - and there's a lot of people that have written about it and worked on things since this book came out - (is) what I call location-neutral income sources. And there's the concept called the 'you economy,' where non-nine-to-five jobs that now exist, whether they're Uber drivers or people who are designers on 99designs and people who do piecemeal work on Fiverr and people who do things on Postmates [...] These are location-neutral: you can go anywhere if you have some skills to do some freelance work for people, depending on your skillset. People forget: poverty of lifestyle is more important to focus on that poverty of bank account. Because you can have a wealthy bank account and a poor lifestyle.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Tai Lopez talks about Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers **
Tai Lopez talks about Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers ** Every scientific report you'll see will be like, "The average person sleeps eight hours a day." "The average person who has a high-paying job went to college this many years." But forget average. What you want to do is study the outliers. [...] What do exceptional people do differently? You study average, you end up with average. So, in the book, he studies top rags-to-riches stories, lawyers, he studies a guy who has the highest IQ in the world, but didn't get far [...] as he should have. [...] Luck plays a big role, but not luck like you think. Luck about things like being born to a wealthier family does help, but there (are) other factors that can mitigate against being born [...] in poverty [...] And he examines the fine line between what we call luck [...] and having opportunist luck. So, for example, if you're born healthy, that's lucky. But if you don't take advantage of the opportunity, it's all for nothing. I think some people think it's black and white, like you're born unlucky so you have no chance or you're born luck and therefore things will automatically come to you. It's not really that way. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...] had to grab the opportunity: had he never worked out, he would have just been probably a kind of stocky dude. [...] Bill Gates spent 10-20,000 hours as a teenager programming. Sure, he had a school that was wealthy enough and a family that was wealthy enough to give him that opportunity to have a computer back in the 60's and 70's when most didn't. But a lot of kids had that, and he took that opportunistic luck and ran with it. The takeaway (message) for me is, no matter who you are, there's some luck to your life and you've gotta grab that opportunity.
Body Language: How to Know What's Really Being Said by James Borg
The first thing you have to know about body language is the 55-38-7 rule: 55 percent of body language is what you look like. So, like, how you dress, how you stand, your posture, if you're leaning towards somebody, if you're learning away. 38 percent [...] is how you say stuff. So, how quickly you speak, the tone of voice - whether it's harsh or kind - whether it's really fast or really slow, how much space you have between, how you look people in the eyes or don't look them in the eyes. 7 percent is the actual words that you say. Once you understand this 55-38-7 communication law, then the second thing you have to know is that eyes are the most powerful part of body language. So, you have to know where to look with your eyes, how long to look, and how often. If it's a business situation, you want to look in their forehead. If it's a friendship situation, you want to look at the nose. If it's a romantic situation, you want to look at the chine. [An] interesting study from this book [...] they did a study in America, (there were} three types of waiters and waitresses that got the most tips. Level 1: People who smile. Level 2 that made even more money than just smiling people was leaning down. Level 3 that made the most money was touching (i.e. their elbow or shoulder)