Marc's Book Club - The Big List

Since 2008 I have run a small book club for a group of friends. We meet every second month over dinner and a glass of wine. It's a great way to stimulate an interesting conversation with a group of friends, and also some discipline to keep us reading regularly. I often say to people that for the price of a few books and a few hours reading time, we've learned so much it almost feels like cheating! For anyone interested in doing more reading and wanting to know where to start, I have marked the books that I recommend that everyone read..

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Marc Harrison
Marc Harrison
8th September 2025 in books & literature
Marc's Book Club - The Big List
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All Marketers Are Liars

Seth Godin
Oct 2008Don Mateo's
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The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber
Dec 2008Kanzaman
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  • Strategy

The Speed of Trust

Stephen M. R. Covey with Rebecca R. Merrill
Jan 2009Boheme
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Made to Stick

Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Mar 2009Kanzaman
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Purple Cow/Tribes/The Dip

Seth Godin
May 2009Curry Club
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A Whole New Mind

Daniel H. Pink
Aug 2009Spread Eagle
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4-Hour Work Week

Timothy Ferriss
Oct 2009Gurkhas
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Influence

Robert B. Cialdini
Nov 2009Burmese House
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Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell
Feb 2010Boheme
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What Got You Here

Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
Apr 2010Boheme
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  • Leadership/Management

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Michael Surowiecki
Jul 2010Boheme
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The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sep 2010Burmese House
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Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh
Nov 2010Gurkhas
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The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell
Jan 2011Boheme
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The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli
Mar 2011Boheme
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The Mesh

Lisa Gansky
Apr 2011OST
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Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
May 2011Himalaya Sherpa
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Predictably Irrational

Dr. Dan Ariely
Jul 2011Kanzaman
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Art of the Start

Guy Kawasaki
Oct 2011Boheme
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Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson
Dec 2012Himalaya Sherpa
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More Than You Know

Michael Mauboussin
Jan 2012Boheme
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The Innovator's Solution

Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
Mar 2012Spread Eagle
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Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

Luke Sullivan and Edward Boches
Apr 2012Burmese House
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Pitch Anything

Oren Klaff
May 2012Groove Train
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Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes

Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich
Jul 2012Boheme
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Abundance

Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Aug 2012Maedaya
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Blink

Malcolm Gladwell
Oct 2012Gurkhas
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Twilight of the Elites

Christophe Guilluy
Jan 2013Boheme
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Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher and William Ury
Mar 2013Gurkhas
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To Sell is Human

Daniel H. Pink
May 2013Boheme
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Impro

Keith Johnstone
Jul 2013I Love Dumplings
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Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt
Sep 2013I Love Dumplings
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Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nov 2013Spread Eagle
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The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman
Jan 2014Boheme
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Mindset

Carol S. Dweck
Mar 2014Groove Train
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Daring Greatly

Brené Brown
May 2014Boheme
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Big Short / Flash Boys

Michael Lewis
Jul 2014I Love Dumplings
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Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
Sep 2014The Hungarian
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Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer
Nov 2014Boheme
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The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg
Jan 2015Boheme
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How Children Succeed

Paul Tough
Mar 2015Spread Eagle
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The Rise of Superman

Steven Kotler
Jun 2015The Hung
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The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch
Jul 2015Spread Eagle
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Bold

Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Sep 2015Boheme
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Rise of the Robots

Martin Ford
Nov 2015Boheme
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Thinking Fast & Slow

Daniel Kahneman
Jan 2016BBQ at home
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Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance
Mar 2016Boheme
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Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder
May 2016Boheme
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