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Every year I share my 10 favorite books:
Latest2025My 10 favorite books of the year · Thread on XAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2025: The 5 Types of Wealth, The Expectation Effect, The Enchanted Hour, The Art of Spending Money, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Before and After the Book Deal, Before the Bestseller, Wealthy and Well Known, Why We Remember and Write a Must-Read
2024Thread on XAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2024: Good Energy, Never Enough, Glucose Revolution, Disappointing Affirmations, How to Live, Tuesdays with Morrie, Million Dollar Weekend, Napoleon’s Library, Crypto Confidential and Write a Must-Read
2023Thread on XAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2023: $100M Offers, Never Finished, $100M Leads, The Comfort Crisis, The Anthology of Balaji, Blue Mind, Make Time, Dopamine Nation, Nonviolent Communication and Same as Ever
2022Thread on XAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2022: Hyperfocus, Building a Second Brain, Just Keep Buying, The Happiest Man on Earth, Chatter, Thinking in Bets, The Fine Art of Small Talk, How Will You Measure Your Life?, When Breath Becomes Air and Snow Leopard
2021Thread on XAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2021: Beyond Order, The Daily Stoic, How to Not Die Alone, The Dip, Lying, The Strangest Secret, Ikigai, Attached, How to Talk to Anyone and Come as You Are
2020On the blogAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2020: The Psychology of Money, Ultralearning, The Go-Giver, Steal Like an Artist, How to Read a Book, Tiny Habits, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, Limitless, Indistractable and The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
2019On the blogAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2019: The Millionaire Fastlane, Mars and Venus on a Date, The Essential Marcus Aurelius, What Women Want, Letters of Note, Sapiens, The Man’s Guide to Women, The Creative Curve, A Calendar of Wisdom and Can’t Hurt Me
2018On the blogAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2018: The Compound Effect, Total Recall, Discipline Equals Freedom, The ONE Thing, The Third Door, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, Atomic Habits, Man’s Search for Meaning, Extreme Ownership and 12 Rules for Life
2017On the blogAlex’s 10 favorite books of 2017: Zero to One, How to Win Friends and Influence People, What Every Body Is Saying, Grit, Mindset, The War of Art, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Trust Me, I’m Lying, How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Tools of Titans
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