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Shaan Puri’s book recommendations in 2025

46 books · 36 episodes · Shaan Puri’s most recommended books, all years →

Every episode from 2025, newest first

if you didn't make progress in 2025, listen to the first 10 minutes

My First Million · 2025-12-08

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull · discussed · at 40:33

I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.

My First Million · 2025-11-12

Titan by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 28:38
Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 28:40
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling · discussed · at 29:29
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler · discussed · at 52:30

How to live your life at full power

My First Million · 2025-10-17

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie · discussed · at 6:27
Titan by Ron Chernow · recommended · at 7:02

$50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders

My First Million · 2025-10-06

The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey · recommended · at 46:40

The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok

My First Million · 2025-10-03

Meditations by Aurelius Marcus · discussed · at 36:22

The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups

My First Million · 2025-09-30

The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey · recommended · at 1:11
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara · recommended · at 1:22
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini · discussed · at 19:58

How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing

My First Million · 2025-09-19

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene · discussed · at 1:01:09

This guy made millions by inventing the McFlurry & the $1 Menu

My First Million · 2025-09-10

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries · recommended · at 21:34

These old school businesses are making millions

My First Million · 2025-09-03

Train Hard, Win Easy by Toby Tanser · recommended · at 13:24
The Triple Package by Amy Chua · discussed · at 16:34
Purple Cow by Seth Godin · recommended · at 20:20

The Hidden Laws That Quietly Rule The World | Robert Greene

My First Million · 2025-08-28

Mastery by Robert Greene · discussed · at 4:06

Start This Business If Want To Survive The Ai Apocalypse

My First Million · 2025-08-26

Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam · recommended · at 17:14

I built a billion dollar company in 18 months

My First Million · 2025-08-20

Meditations by Aurelius Marcus · discussed · at 44:19

The man who built American banking - and walked away with $0

My First Million · 2025-08-18

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries · recommended · at 20:16
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene · discussed · at 22:09

We Talk To The $500M Man About How He Finds Hit After Hit

My First Million · 2025-08-15

The Queen's gambit by Walter S. Tevis · discussed · at 1:08:23
Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin · discussed · at 1:08:23

Hormozi Teaches Me Everything He Knows in 90 Minutes

My First Million · 2025-08-06

Viral Loop by Adam L. Penenberg · discussed · at 8:51
$100M Offers by Alex Hormozi · discussed · at 9:25

Talking to Tim Ferriss about how to live a dope life

My First Million · 2025-08-04

The Leangains Method by Martin Berkhan · discussed · at 1:16:31

How I Automated 20 Hours of Work With AI Agents

My First Million · 2025-07-28

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt · discussed · at 41:51

How this dumb doll makes $2M per day

My First Million · 2025-07-09

How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis · discussed · at 52:43

How I Bought a $3.4M Business For $200K

My First Million · 2025-07-04

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz · discussed · at 47:28

I Turned $1M into $2.3B (Then Blew It Up and Rebuilt)

My First Million · 2025-06-30

How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs · discussed · at 34:20

He Bought a Local Newspaper… Now He Makes $600K/YR

My First Million · 2025-06-27

A Promised Land by Barack Obama · discussed · at 38:46

Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi

My First Million · 2025-06-25

The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey · discussed · at 11:26

We found the weirdest ways to make $1M, $1B, and $5B

My First Million · 2025-06-13

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder · discussed · at 51:30
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca · recommended · at 52:00
Save the cat! by Blake Snyder · discussed · at 52:20
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni · recommended · at 52:33
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie · discussed · at 57:35

“I’m moving 75% of my investments outside the US” - Scott Galloway’s Warning

My First Million · 2025-05-16

The Game by Neil Strauss · discussed · at 1:02:15

5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)

My First Million · 2025-04-24

An Immense World by Ed Yong · discussed · at 35:12

Are tariffs good or bad for founders?

My First Million · 2025-04-11

Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon · discussed · at 42:30

How to build a $100M+ newsletter business

My First Million · 2025-04-04

Traction by Gino Wickman · recommended · at 35:23

This Is The Most Exciting Drama in HR SaaS History | Rippling vs. Deel

My First Million · 2025-03-21

The Game by Neil Strauss · discussed · at 13:24

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week

My First Million · 2025-03-12

Zero to One by Peter Thiel · discussed · at 29:29
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper · discussed · at 49:30

He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18

My First Million · 2025-03-03

Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got by Jay Abraham · recommended · at 39:39
The Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber · recommended · at 1:07:27

We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets

My First Million · 2025-02-26

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton · discussed · at 0:32
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton · discussed · at 1:24

What’s truly going on inside DOGE?

My First Million · 2025-02-17

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene · discussed · at 15:37

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets

My First Million · 2025-02-11

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky · discussed · at 28:53

I Started WordPress at 19... Now It Powers 40% Of The Internet

My First Million · 2025-01-31

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton · recommended · at 32:45

I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis

My First Million · 2025-01-24

Chip War by Chris Miller · discussed · at 51:28

Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M

My First Million · 2025-01-14

Going Infinite by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 41:34
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson · discussed · at 53:50

Other mentions in 2025 (17: passing, ad reads, own books)