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The Outdoor Biz Podcast Reading List

Favorite Books from over 100 Outdoor Biz Podcast Guests . . . what are you reading?

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Shannon Walton episode 003
The River Wild by Dennis Oneil
anything by:
Terry Tempest Williams
 Wendell Berry
Rick Bass
Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Jeff Sermak episode 004
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Getting to Yes by William Ury, and Bruce Patton
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann
The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
Tribes by Seth Godin
Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki

Amy Magyar episode 005
The Art of Uncertainty- Dennis Merritt Jones
Insanely Simple- Ken Segall
Big Magic- Elizabeth Gilbert
Work like DaVinci- Michael Gelb
The Power of Kindness-Piero Ferrucci
The One Day Contract-Rick Pitino
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Born to Run- Christopher McDougall
Natural Born Heroes- Christopher McDougall
A life without limits- Chrissie Wellington
Tools of Titans- by Tim Ferriss

Mary Maliff episode 006
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Geoff O Keefe episode 007
The Discipline of Market Leaders by Fred Wiersma

Serena Bishop episode 008
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Mindset by Carol Dweck
How bad do you want it by Matt Fitzgerald

Fynn Glover episode 009
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Grant by Ron Chernow
Titan by Ron Chernow
Super Intelligence by Nick Bostrom
Sapiens by Yuval Harari
High Output Management by Andy Grove
Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon McKenzie

Maura Kistler episode 011
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Jeff Sheets episode 012
Thomas Friedman
Timekeeper by Mitch Albom 
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough 
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck- 
The Wilderness World of John Muir
Backpacking One Step at a Time by Harvey Manning

Todd Walton episode 013
anything by Ed Abbey

Mike Glavin episode 014
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Dave Best episode 015
anything by Malcolm Gladwell
Pushups in the Prayer Room by Norm Schriever
South of Normal by Norm Schriever
A good life wasted by Dave Ames

Ted Ganio episode 016
anything by W.E.B Griffin
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Jim Thomsen episode 017
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Industries of the Future by Alec Ross

Bob Woodward episode 018
The House that George built by Wilfrid Sheed

Kenji Haroutunian episode 019
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The physics of the impossible by Michio Kaku
On the Nose by Hans Florine
The Adventure Gap by James Mills

Jim Moss episode 020
Everest the West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein and Jon Krakauer
The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Spokesman Cycling Roundtable podcast

David Deioma episode 021
The Last Season by Eric Blehm
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt

Amy Roberts episode 022
Fear and loathing on the campaign trail by Hunter S Thompson
Buying the night flight by Georgie Anne Geyer
Annapurna by Maurice Herzog

Mike Wallenfels episode 023
Men to match my Mountains by Irving Stone
Good to Great by Jim Collins

Wylie Robinson episode 024
Change by Design by Tim Brown
A Beautiful Question by Frank Wilczek
Meetings Suck by Cameron Herold
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Compass and the Nail by Craig Wilson
Traction by Gino Wickman
Kellogg on Branding by The Kellogg School of Management

Veronica Cox episode 026
The Art of Happiness, by the Dalai Lama
The Culting of Brands by Douglas Atkins
Quiet by  Susan Cain
The Quiet Revolution

Jeff Weidman episode 027
The Hippies Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder by Skip Yowell

John Sterling episode 028
The River Why by David James Duncan
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee

Brian Bennett episode 030
Calm the Fuck Down by David Vienna

Marty Hiester episode 031
The Brand You 50 by Tom Peters

Peter Downing episode 032
Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
The Hard Way by Mark Jenkins
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Titan by Ron Chernow
After Jackie by Cal Fussman

Shannon Stowell episode 034
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
West with the Night Beryl Markham

Tim McGuire episode 035
Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven

Jennifer Pringle episode 036
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Mountain Vision by Jeff Evans

Sevag Kazanci  episode 038
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Sam Roberts episode 039
Flow. The psychology of optimal experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Barbarian Days. A surfing life, by William Finnegan
The Rise of Superman, by Stephen Kotler

Paul Petersen episode 040
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Fatu Hiva by Thor Hyerdahl
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko

Stacy Bare episode 041
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
Open Midnight by Brooke Williams

Kristie Focht episode 043
Unbound by Steph Jagger
I Love You, Send Money, by Jordan Alexander
Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
anything by Victoria Laurie
anything by Deepak Chopra

Scott Ohsman episode 044
Contagious by John Berger
Be Unstoppable by Alden Mills

Crazy Jack episode 045
Mount Whitney- Mountain Lore from the Whitney Store, by Doug Thompson

Michael Lanza episode 046
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Before They're Gone, by Michael Lanza

Colin Moynihan episode 048
4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Steve Barker episode 050
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
A Night on the Ground a Day in the Open by Doug Robinson

Alden Mills episode 051
Be Unstoppable by Alden Mills
The Diamond Cutter by Geshe Michael Roche

Chez Chesak episode 052
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ulysses by James Joyce

Luis Benitez episode 053
Undaunted Courage by Steven Ambrose
Everest, West Ridge by Tom Hornbein

Gary Bard episode 054
The Grouchy Historian by Ed Asner
Alone by Admiral Byrd

Luis Vargas episode 055
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
The first 90 days by Michael D. Watkins
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

Jay Getzel episode 058
Contagious by Jonah Berger
Tribes by Seth Godin

Jake Anderson episode 060
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Adam Kolton episode 61
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

Don Bushey episode 66
Hawaii by James Michener

John Mead episode 67
Innovators by Walter Isaacson
Men to match my Mountains by Irving Stone
In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Boy Scout Handbook

Soraya Shattuck episode 68
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Surviving the Extremes by Kenneth Kamler

Dan Blanchard episode 69
Salmon in the Trees by Amy Gulick
The Alexander Archipelago by Gustav Tjgaard
Sailing around the World by Josh Slocum

Krista Dill episode 70
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Travis Campbell episode 71
All the  Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Stasia Rines Walker episode 72
Dove by Robin L. Graham

Jeannette Stawski 073
Moleskine Journal
National Geographic Atlas
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Gordon Wiltsie 074
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Mawson's Will by Lennard Bickel
The Terror by Dan Simmons

Rachid Dahnoun 075
The Peregrine by J. A. Baker

Bruce Ward 076
My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin
Forever Green by Chuck Leavell
American Canopy by Eric Rutkow
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Wilderness Warrior by Douglas Brinkley

John Salzinger 077
Girl on a Train by A J Waines
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Laura Johnston 078
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams

Paul Easto 079
Colin Prior Photography
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Brian Hennessy 080
Thinking Fast Thinking Slow by Daniel Kahneman
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Derwyn Harris 081
Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon McKenzie
Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull
Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Dan Funk 082
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Hillary Harris 083
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Ruben Martin 084
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Dave Mathias 085
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

Jordan Mead 086
One second after by William Forstchen
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Alli Noland 087
anything by David Sedaris
You'll never eat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips
Popular Science
Popular Mechanics
US weekly

Gordon Seabury 088
E-myth by Michael Gerber
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Barbarian Days, a Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Lee Fromson 089
Read Me by Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne

Ricky Schlesinger 090
Thich Nhat Hanh

Kenny Ballard 091

Jan Greenspan 092

Sara Ray Lewis 093
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Seth Blackamore 094
Bible
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Who killed Jesus, Who killed Kennedy, Who killed Lincoln, Who killed Patton by Bill O'Reilly

Marc Sherman 095
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

Nate Simmons 096
50 Classic Ski Descents in North America

Larry Harrison 097
The Long Haul by Finn Murphy
Dispatches from Pluto, Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
The Broom of God by John Bragg
Stories from the Dirt by John Long
The Home Distiller's Workbook – Your guide to making Moonshine, Whisky, Vodka, Rum and so much more! by Jeff King

Chris Speak 098
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Mike Harvey 099
Big Bang by Simon Singh
Wherever you go There you are by John Kabat-Zinn

Rick Saez 100
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
They Call Me Coach by John Wooden
Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
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