I did indeed read 52 Books this past year and I enjoyed it so much that I’m going to keep up the habit for 2017!

I 100% just wrote out the entire list of 52 Books I read this year and it took forever! 52 books is a lot of titles, plus just to make it easier for you I linked their Twitter accounts in case you are interested in their works and want to follow them on Twitter as well.  I have separated out the TOP 10 choices of the year for myself.

I don’t actually want to talk about the books, those were all great and even the books that weren’t as interesting were still valuable to me. I want to mention something about reading in general and goal setting. I set a goal to read 52 books in 2016 and I’m not someone who has always hit his goals and I’ve never had a goal that was so specific and time-consuming. I did find though that this was one of the most valuable habits I ever could have picked up. I’ve learned more in a single year than I learned in my entire college experience, and I went to college for a LONG time! It might be because I was the one that chose the books and they all appealed to me in some way. It might be because in a college setting you might only read the text and then listen to lectures, I’m not sure. I can tell you that I will continue this habit and that I’m literally SOLD on reading a book a week and you should be too. The ideas in these books spurred my own ideas and helped me to spend countless nights blogging, writing and thinking up ways to improve or help others. Some of these books had been on the back burner for years and I had never gotten around to reading them. I can’t believe I waited so long. I wholeheartedly encourage you to head to the library, log onto Amazon or Audible and get your hands on a book today. In case you are wondering, yeah, I totally ranked my own book in the top 10. Get The Art of SalesFu on Amazon today 🙂 If you already love the book head on over to The Doj on Facebook or the Training Center to learn some more! Never stop learning!

1. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill @NapoleonHillFdn
2. Sales Management Simplified – Mike Weinberg @mike_weinberg
3. Selling to anyone over the Phone- Sandra McKee and Renee Walkup @SalesPEAK
4. Fanatical Prospecting – Jeb Blount @SalesGravy
5. Sell or be Sold –  Grant Cardone @GrantCardone
6. The Like Switch – Jack Schafer and Marvin Karlins @jackschafer
7. Nudge – Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein @R_Thaler @CassSunstein
8. Go for No! – Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz @GoforNo
9. Pre-Suasion – Robert Cialdini  @RobertCialdini
10. The Art of SalesFu– Sundance Brennan @salesfumaster

Here is the entire list of books I read this year – (Its long.. I mean 52 is a big number so just keep scrolling down!) Most of these I also blog posted although a few didn’t make the migration over from salesfumaster to the new thesalesnerds blog. I’ll live. I’m sure you will too.

1. Selling 101 – Zig Ziglar @TheZigZiglar
2. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership – Various
3. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
4. Selling to anyone over the Phone- Sandra McKee and Renee Walkup @SalesPEAK
5. Blink – Malcomb Gladwell @Gladwell
6. It’s called Work for a Reason! – Larry Winget @larrywinget
7. The 10X Rule – Grant Cardone @GrantCardone
8. Bulletproof Business – Ryan Stewman @ryanstewman
9. Go for No! – Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz @GoforNo
10. The Unfair Advantage – Duane Lakin
11. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill @NapoleonHillFdn
12. Sales Management Simplified – Mike Weinberg @mike_weinberg
13. Pitch Perfect – Bill McGowan @BillMcGowan22
14. The Little Red Book of Selling – Jeffrey Gitomer  @gitomer
15. Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff @pitchanything
16. How to Win – Mark Cuban  @mcuban
17. The Score Takes Care of Itself- Bill Walsh
18. The Richest Man in Babylon –  George Clason
19. Extreme Ownership – Leif Babin and Jocko Willink @XtremeOwnership
20. You are a BADASS – Jen Sincero @JenSincero
21. The Sales Bible – Jeffrey Gitomer  @gitomer
22. Sell or be Sold –  Grant Cardone @GrantCardone
23. The Nerdist Way – Chris Hardwick @nerdist
24. #askgaryvee – Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee
25. How to become a Rainmaker – Jeffrey Fox  @JeffreyJFox
26. The 4-Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss @tferriss
27. Dialogue – William Isaacs
28. Who moved my Cheese? – Spencer Johnson @MovedMyCheese
29. In the Plex – Steven Levy @StevenLevy
30. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey @StephenRCovey
31. Lead with a story – Paul Smith  @LeadWithAStory
32. Never be Closing – Tim Hurson and Tim Dunne @tim_hurson @dunne_tim
33. Fanatical Prospecting – Jeb Blount @SalesGravy
34. The Like Switch – Jack Schafer and Marvin Karlins @jackschafer
35. Coaching Salespeople to Sales Champions – Keith Rosen @KeithRosen
36. The Sales Acceleration Formula – Mark Roberge @markroberge
37. Smarter, Faster, Better – Charles Duhigg @cduhigg
38. Born to Win – Zig Ziglar @TheZigZiglar
39. The Maverick Selling Method – Brian Burns  @MaverickMethod
40. Be Obsessed or Be Average – Grant Cardone @GrantCardone
41. How to Talk to Anyone – Leil Lowndes @Leil_Lowndes
42. The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino @TheOgGroup
43. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter – @theRealKiyosaki
44. Catalyst 5 – Carlos Quintero and Nancy Southerland @SalesLeader
45. Nudge – Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein @R_Thaler @CassSunstein
46. Pre-Suasion – Robert Cialdini  @RobertCialdini
47. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership – John Maxwell @JohnCMaxwell
48. Elevator to the Top – Ryan Stewman @ryanstewman
49. Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek @simonsinek
50. Stories that Sell – Paul Smith  @LeadWithAStory
51. The way of the Peaceful Warrior – Dan Millman @pwdan
52. The Art of SalesFu- Sundance Brennan @salesfumaster