THE STAPESKI CREATIVE

What I’ve read

This is the exact order I’ve completed the following books. I typically have 2-3 books I’m jumping between at any given time.

2023

  1. Why The Rich Are Getting Richer – Robert Kiyosaki
  2. The Win-Win Wealth Strategy – Tom Wheelwright
  3. Star Wars: Darth Plagueis – James Luceno
  4. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
  5. Star Wars: Dark Force Rising – Timothy Zahn
  6. Ikigai – Hector Garcia, Francesc Miralles
  7. The Capitalist Manifesto – Johan Norberg

2022

  1. Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  2. The Outsider – Stephen King
  3. Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
  4. The New Great Depression – James Rickards

2021

  1. Post Corona – Scott Galloway
  2. Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students – Robert Kiyosaki
  3. Fake – Robert Kiyosaki (x2)
  4. Tax-Free Wealth – Tom Wheelwright, CPA
  5. The Lady of the Lake – Andrezj Sapkowski
  6. The Fourth Turning – William Strauss

2020

  1. Baptism of Fire – Andrezj Sapkowski
  2. The War on Normal People – Andrew Yang
  3. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

2019

  1. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter – Meg Jay
  2. Boyd – Robert Coram
  3. The Dark Tower VII – Stephen King
  4. The Time of Contempt: The Witcher, Book 2 – Andrzej Sapkowski
  5. The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida (re-read x1)
  6. How to Talk to Anyone – Leil Lowndes

2018

  1. The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah – Stephen King
  2. The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday
  3. Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
  4. Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer
  5. Tribe – Sebastian Junger
  6. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael A. Singer
  7. Unfu*k Yourself – Gary John Bishop
  8. Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  9. 12 Rules for Life – Jordan B. Peterson
  10. Becoming a Barbarian – Jack Donovan
  11. Zero-to-One -Peter Thiel (re-read x1)
  12. Boomerang – Michael Lewis
  13. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Gordon Livingston
  14. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol Dweck
  15. The Four – Scott Galloway
  16. Sword of Destiny – Andrzej Sapkowski
  17. Season of Storms – Andrzej Sapkowski
  18. Blood of Elves – Andrzej Sapkowski

2017

  1. Always Faithful, Always Forward – Dick Couch
  2. Zero To One – Peter Thiel
  3. The Icarus Deception – Seth Godin
  4. The Happiness of Pursuit – Chris Guillebeau
  5. The E-Myth Revisited – Michael Gerber
  6. The Compound Effect – Darren Hardy
  7. 1776 – David McCullough
  8. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield (x2)
  9. The Warrior Ethos – Steven Pressfield
  10. Level Zero Heros – Michael Golembesky
  11. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
  12. Trust me, I’m Lying – Ryan Holiday
  13. How Google Works – Eric Schmidt
  14. On Writing Well – William Zinsser
  15. The Stand – Stephen King
  16. One Click (Amazon) – Richard Brandt
  17. When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chödrön
  18. On Writing – Stephen King
  19. Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
  20. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
  21. Work Rules – Laszlo Bock
  22. Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
  23. Waking Up – Sam Harriss
  24. Unshakeable – Tony Robbins
  25. Mastery – Robert Greene
  26. Show Your Work – Austin Kleon
  27. The Inevitable – Kevin Kelly
  28. Start With Why – Simon Sinek
  29. Confessions of an Economic Hitman – John Perkins
  30. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  31. Think Like a Freak – Steven Levit and Stephen Dubner
  32. Digital Gold – Nathaniel Popper
  33. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
  34. Manage your Day-to-Day – Jocelyn Glei
  35. The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley and William Danko
  36. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
  37. The Creator’s Code – Amy Wilkinson
  38. Currency Wars – James Rickards
  39. The Giver – Lois Lowry
  40. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three – Stephen King
  41. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands – Stephen King
  42. Set For Life – Scott Trench
  43. The Way of Men – Jack Donovan
  44. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass – Stephen King
  45. The Dark Tower VIII: The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King
  46. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King

2016

  1. Bursting the Interest Rate Lies – Kim D. H. Butler
  2. You Can Read Anyone – David J. Lieberman
  3. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
  4. Anthem – Ayn Rand
  5. How Successful People Think – John C. Maxwell
  6. 5/3/1 – Jim Wendler
  7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
  8. Emergency – Neil Strauss
  9. Civilization and Its Discontents – Sigmund Freud
  10. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Philip A. Fischer
  11. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing – John C. Bogle
  12. The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida
  13. The Little Book of Economics – Greg Ip
  14. The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
  15. The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
  16. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
  17. Free Market Revolution – Yaron Brook
  18. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
  19. The Enemy – Lee Child
  20. Made to Stick – Chip and Dan Heath
  21. The Art of Non-Conformity – Chris Guillebeau
  22. The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferriss
  23. The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau
  24. Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
  25. Switch – Chip and Dan Heath
  26. Flash Boys – Michael Lewis
  27. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
  28. Talk like TED – Carmine Gallo
  29. The Last Wish – Andrzej
  30. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia – Mohsin Hamid

2015

  1. The Power of Zero – David McKnight
  2. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
  3. The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  4. What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars – Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
  5. The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
  6. Metro 2033 – Dmitry Glukhovsky
  7. Dune – Frank Herbert

2014

  1. Never Go Back – Lee Child
  2. Wool – Hugh Howey
  3. Gone Girl – Paula Hawkins

2013

  1. MCDP-1: Warfighting – United States Marine Corps
  2. U. S. Constitution

Unfortunately, I didn’t start logging anything prior to 2013. Of note, I barely read anything of real substance on my own volition from the period stemming from the end of college to my arrival in Okinawa and first deployment in the late summer of 2014. Everything I remember prior to, has come from what “stuck” from high school, and admittedly, only to a little degree from college. I spent too much time on video games and partying to really remember reading anything at all. My fondest memories still go back to high school literature and philosophy, largely from my Sophomore through Senior years (2005-2008). Some books that I distinctly remember and admire, in no particular order, are:

  1. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  2. Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
  3. 1984 – George Orwell
  4. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  5. All Along the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  6. Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
  7. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. Animal Farm – George Orwell