Argentina welcomed me in January 2020, and I had the pleasure of reading 20 business books there. The best 6 have been:


In January 2019, I had the pleasure of reading 20 business books in 20 days in Sri Lanka, and the best 6 are:


I was in Senegal in April 2018, reading my yearly self-imposed “20 books in 20 days”, and the ranking of the best 6 is as follows:


In January 2017, my "business books top-up" took place in Myanmar.  I read 20 books in 20 days, and the 6 best books from the lot were:


My self-imposed challenge took place in Cambodia in January 2016.  I read "20 books in 20 days in the sun", and the best 6 were:


Here are the books in my satchel for my 2021 reading trip (likely Jordan), and hopefully I’ll draw 20 great ones!

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Intelligent Investor
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Sway
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There


Fred Pelard's favorite books »

... and here are 150+ of the smartest books I've ever read (in no particular order):

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future
The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise
Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
He Said/She Said
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business