Books I Read in 2017

These are the 44 books I read in 2017. I read more books that year than ever before. If you’d like to see the list you can view it below.

I’ve grouped the books in three primary categories; Christian Faith, Business and Self Improvement. There are some sub-categories as well to further clarify the topics.

Books on Christian Faith

Books on Marriage

  1. Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
  2. Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage

Books on the Christian Lifestyle

  1. Destined to Win: How to Embrace Your God-Given Identity and Realize Your Kingdom Purpose
  2. The Master Plan of Evangelism
  3. Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
  4. Every Body Matters: Strengthening Your Body to Strengthen Your Soul
  5. God @ Work
  6. God @ Work: Developing Ministers in the Marketplace, Vol. 2

Books on Business

Books on Sales

  1. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
  2. How To Get A Meeting With Anyone: The Untapped Selling Power of Contact Marketing
  3. The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
  4. Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide for Starting Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, E-Mail, and Cold Calling
  5. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
  6. SPIN Selling: The Best-Validated Sales Method Available Today.The
  7. Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million
  8. No B.S. Sales Success in The New Economy
  9. No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Sell Anything with Webinars, Online Media, Speeches, and Seminars

Books on Marketing

  1. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
  2. Permission Marketing
  3. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
  4. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
  5. The Ultimate Marketing Plan: Target Your Audience! Get Out Your Message! Build Your Brand!
  6. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: VIolate Them at Your Own Risk!
  7. My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising
  8. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  9. All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
  10. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
  11. No B.S. Direct Marketing: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Direct Marketing for Non-Direct Marketing Businesses

Books on Ecommerce

  1. ECommerce Marketing: How to Drive Traffic That Buys to Your Website
  2. B2B eCommerce MasterPlan: How to Make eCommerce a Key Part of Your Business to Business Sales Growth

Books on Entrepreneurship

  1. Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry
  2. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
  3. Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence
  4. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
  5. Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
  6. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
  7. No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity
  8. No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich

Books on Self Improvement

  1. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
  2. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
  3. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
  4. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
  5. Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
  6. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance