These are my favorite books for a life of adventure – in this list you’ll find travel books and you’ll also find books that challenged my thinking and made me a better person. I am not endorsing every idea in each of these books or podcasts, but will leave you to your own assessment.

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Travel Reads and Listens

• Into Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
• The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin
• On the Road – Jack Kerouac
• Wild – Cheryl Strayed
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert
• Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
• The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
• Podcast: Zero to Travel
• The Sun is a Compass – Caroline Van Hemert
• 3 Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
• Walking the Gobi: A 1600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair – Helen Thayer

For an Amazing Life

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck
• Atomic Habits – James Clear
• The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
• The 5 Second Rule – Mel Robbins
• The Five Major Pieces To The Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success – Jim Rohn
• 12 Rules to Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World – Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu 
• Anatomy of Peace – The Arbinger Institute
• The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have – Mark Nepo

Relationships, Parenting and Education

• Grit – Angela Duckworth
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families – Stephen R. Covey
• The Anxious Generation – Haidt Jonathan 
• Wide Open World – John Marshall
• The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents – Lisa Damour (and all her books)
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel Siegel
• The Incredible Teenage Brain – Hohnen
• The Anxious Generation – Haidt 
• Boys Adrift – Leonard Sax
• The Mel Robbins Podcast

Finance and Entrepreneurship

• Podcast – Your Limitless Life
• Wildpreneurs – Tamara Jacobi
• Let my People go Surfing – Yvon Chouinard
• The Wealth Mindset: Understanding the Mental Path to Wealth – Neville Goddard

Formative Books for the Whole Family

These books are some of my favorite older kid’s books that the whole family can enjoy.

• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• The Boy who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba
• The Giver – Lois Lowry
• The Lord of the Ring Series – JR Tolkein
• The Lost Prince – Michael Mewshaw 
• Wonder – RJ Palacio
• See you in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
• Peak by Roland Smith