My Reading List from 2024

Matt Kornfield
2 min readJan 26, 2025

What I’d recommend of the set of books I read/listened to this past year

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Who are These Books For?

Well… they were for me haha, so think man in his early 30s who’s interested in productivity books and biographies, but likes sci-fi/fantasy. I think they run the gamut but I’ll try to divide them all by category.

I’ve sorted each section by what I think was the most entertaining/informative at the top. If there’s interest in why I ordered them I can add more, but I figured a list would suffice, since you can try them out yourself.

Productivity

  • Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
  • The Goal — Eliyahu Goldrat
  • Deep Work — Cal Newport
  • Essentialism and Effortless — Greg McKeown
  • $100M Offers — Alex Hormozi
  • Who Moved My Cheese?/ Out of the Maze — Spencer Johnson

Non Fiction/Humorous

  • The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
  • Kerplunk!
  • Eve
  • The Message
  • The Body

Biographies

  • Greenlights (Matthew McConaughey)
  • Born Standing Up (Steve Martin)
  • The Race to Be Myself (Caster Semenya)
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died (Jeannette McCurdy)
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Matthew Perry)
  • The Woman in Me (Britney Spears)

Historical Fiction

  • Shantharam
  • All the Light We Cannot See

Science Fiction

  • Leviathan Falls (Book 9 of The Expanse Series)
  • Foundation

Fantasy/Misc. Fiction

  • He Who Fights with Monsters (Books 1–11)
  • The Bear
  • The Big Door Prize

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Matt Kornfield
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