Wallace's 2018 reading list.

duda • September 8, 2025

Late 2017 I identified that the #1 activity I wanted to dedicate myself to in 2018 was learning.

One of the ways I wanted to do this was to reconnect with reading. Below is the list of all of the books/audiobooks I have consumed in 2018.

I set the goal of 36.5 books. (One every 10 days) Turns out I was shooting a little low. In reality, I went silly and ran through that number in June.

Most of my notes from these books are in my journals, If you?d like to know some key take aways or recommendations, leave a comment below!

My top 12 are in bold

BOOKS READ/LISTENED TO IN 2018

  1. 5 people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom

  2. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

  3. Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander

  4. Understanding Women - Alison Armstrong

  5. Leadership and self deception - Arbinger Institute

  6. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

  7. Conscious coaching - Brett Bartholomew

  8. Don?t die with the music in you - Wayne Bennett

  9. Losing my virginity - Richard Branson

  10. Finding my virginity - Richard Branson

  11. A short history of nearly everything - bill bryson

  12. How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie

  13. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

  14. The 5 love languages - Gary Chapman

  15. The Richest Man in Babylon - George S Clason

  16. Principles - Ray Dalio

  17. Enchiridion - Epictetus

  18. Tribe of mentors - Tim Ferris?s

  19. Tools of titans - Tim Ferris

  20. Man's search for meaning - Victor Frankyl

  21. Ikigai - Hector garcia

  22. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

  23. We are all weird - Seth Godin

  24. Can't hurt me - David Goggins

  25. The Halbert Copywriting method - Bond Halbert

  26. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

  27. Homo deus - Yuval Noah Harari

  28. Free Will - Sam Harris

  29. The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway

  30. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

  31. Think and grow rich - Napoleon Hill

  32. God is not great - Christopher Hitchens

  33. The hard thing about hard things - Ben Horowitz

  34. Thrive - Ariana Huffington*

  35. Tribe- Sebastian junger

  36. Milk and Honey - Rupi Kapaur

  37. The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman

  38. An Everyone culture - Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey

  39. The One thing - Gary Keller

  40. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

  41. Carpe Diem Regained - Roman Krznaric

  42. Beyond Religion - Dalai Lama

  43. The biology of belief - Bruce Lipton

  44. The code of the extraordinary mind - Viehrn Lakhiani

  45. The subtle art of not giving a fuck - mark Manson

  46. Own the day, own your life: Aubrey Marcus

  47. Anatomy - Franks Martin

  48. CEO strength coach - Ron Mckeefery

  49. The way of the peaceful warrior - Dan Millman

  50. 1984 - George Orwell

  51. Animal farm - George Orwell

  52. Disruptive Leadership - Sharon Pearson

  53. Oversubscribed - Daniel Priestley

  54. Confessions of an economic hitman - John Perkins

  55. Shapeshifting - John Perkins

  56. 12 rules for lif: An antidote to chaos - Jordan Peterson

  57. How to change your mind - Michael Pollan

  58. Peak - Robert Pool

  59. Living an incredible life - Jim Rohn

  60. Seasons of life - Jim Rohn

  61. The 4 agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

  62. The Celestine prophecy - James Redfield

  63. Finding Ultra - Rich Roll

  64. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

  65. The power of now - eckhart tolle

  66. The monk who sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma

  67. Together is better - Simon Sinek

  68. Start with why - Simon Sinek

  69. Leaders eat last - Simon Sinek

  70. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson

  71. Astrophysics for people in a hurry - Neil degrasse Tyson

  72. The art of war - Sun Tzu

  73. Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

  74. Marching Powder - Rusty Young

  75. Crushing it: Gary Vaynerchuk

  76. Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance

  77. A bone of fact - David Walsh

  78. Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

  79. Discipline Equals Freedom - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

There is still a couple of days left, I?m expecting to update this again.

Lachie


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