Reading and Audiobooks

I did not expect to end up with a books page. Then a friend told me to try Dungeon Crawler Carl on audio instead of the paperback I was already a few chapters into, and I have not shut up about it since. Most of what is here is what actually gets finished: things you can listen to pushing a mower, driving to a meet, or putting plates away at the end of a session. Every book has two links, one for the audiobook and one for the print copy, because those are genuinely different experiences and sometimes the narrator is the whole reason to pick one.

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Book 2)Everyday Carry
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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Book 2)

Book two, and the one that confirmed I was in for the whole series. I loved it.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 1)Everyday Carry
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 1)

I started this in paperback, switched to the audiobook on a friend's advice, and have not looked back.

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American SniperEveryday Carry

American Sniper

Chris Kyle's own account of four Iraq deployments and what came home with him.

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Atomic HabitsEveryday Carry

Atomic Habits

The habit book that actually gives you mechanisms instead of motivation.

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Band of BrothersEveryday Carry

Band of Brothers

Easy Company from Toccoa to the Eagle's Nest, built from interviews with the men who were there.

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BreathEveryday Carry

Breath

Nasal breathing, carbon dioxide tolerance and why how you breathe matters more than people assume.

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The Butcher's Masquerade (Book 5)Everyday Carry

The Butcher's Masquerade (Book 5)

The one longtime readers bring up first when they talk about the series.

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Can't Hurt MeEveryday Carry

Can't Hurt Me

Goggins' own account, and the audiobook is a genuinely different product from the print.

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Unsouled (Cradle Book 1)Everyday Carry

Unsouled (Cradle Book 1)

The cleanest entry point into progression fantasy, and a finished twelve-book series so there is no waiting.

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Dark MatterEveryday Carry

Dark Matter

A thriller about the life you did not choose, moving fast enough that you forgive the physics.

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Deep WorkEveryday Carry

Deep Work

An argument that the ability to concentrate is becoming rare and therefore valuable.

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Die With ZeroEveryday Carry

Die With Zero

An argument that saving everything for a retirement you may not be well enough to enjoy is its own kind of failure.

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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field ManualEveryday Carry

Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

Not a book so much as a short, blunt manual you reread the morning you do not want to.

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DuneEveryday Carry

Dune

The one everyone means when they say science fiction, and genuinely worth the reputation.

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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Book 3)Everyday Carry

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Book 3)

The one I am on now, and the point most readers say the series locks in.

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible VoyageEveryday Carry

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Twenty-eight men, a ship crushed by ice, and a leader who got every one of them home.

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Extreme OwnershipEveryday Carry

Extreme Ownership

Two SEAL officers turn combat leadership into something you can run a crew, a shop or a household on.

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Book 6)Everyday Carry

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Book 6)

Longest in the series so far, and the one that pays off threads from book one.

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FearlessEveryday Carry

Fearless

Adam Brown went from drug addiction to SEAL Team Six, and the addiction half is the harder story.

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Book 4)Everyday Carry

The Gate of the Feral Gods (Book 4)

Where the scale jumps and the stakes stop being personal.

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Helmet for My PillowEveryday Carry

Helmet for My Pillow

The other half of the Pacific story: Leckie from Parris Island to Guadalcanal, funnier and angrier than Sledge.

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The Last Stand of Fox CompanyEveryday Carry

The Last Stand of Fox Company

Chosin Reservoir: 246 Marines holding a hill in thirty below so a division could get out.

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Leviathan WakesEveryday Carry

Leviathan Wakes

Book one of The Expanse: a noir detective story and a ship's crew, in a solar system that feels lived in.

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Lone SurvivorEveryday Carry

Lone Survivor

The firsthand account of Operation Red Wings, from the only man who walked out.

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MatterhornEveryday Carry

Matterhorn

A novel about a Marine company in Vietnam, written by a Marine who was there and took thirty years to finish it.

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Never FinishedEveryday Carry

Never Finished

The follow-up, with the same audio-only conversations and a slightly more reflective Goggins.

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One Bullet AwayEveryday Carry

One Bullet Away

A Marine officer's account of OCS through Afghanistan and Iraq, and the best writing on leadership under fire I have come across.

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OutliveEveryday Carry

Outlive

The most rigorous longevity book available, and the one that puts VO2 max and strength at the centre.

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Project Hail MaryEveryday Carry

Project Hail Mary

The most fun I can point anyone at, and an audiobook that does something print physically cannot.

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Red RisingEveryday Carry

Red Rising

Brutal, fast, and the series gets substantially better after this first book.

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Scarcity BrainEveryday Carry

Scarcity Brain

Why we overconsume everything from food to phones, and what to do about the loop.

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Shoe DogEveryday Carry

Shoe Dog

Knight's own account of building Nike, and far more honest about near-bankruptcy than founder memoirs usually are.

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Starting StrengthEveryday Carry

Starting Strength

The barbell coaching manual. Buy the print copy; this is the rare book where the format is not a preference.

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The Body Keeps the ScoreEveryday Carry

The Body Keeps the Score

The standard book on how trauma lives in the body, and the one most often handed to veterans.

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The Boys in the BoatEveryday Carry

The Boys in the Boat

Depression-era working-class rowers from Washington who went to Hitler's 1936 Olympics.

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The Comfort CrisisEveryday Carry

The Comfort Crisis

Easter goes on a month-long Arctic hunt and uses it to frame what modern comfort costs us.

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The E-Myth RevisitedEveryday Carry

The E-Myth Revisited

Why most small businesses fail: the owner is good at the work and therefore keeps doing the work.

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The Killer AngelsEveryday Carry

The Killer Angels

Gettysburg from inside the heads of the men who decided it, and required reading at more than one service academy.

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The MartianEveryday Carry

The Martian

An astronaut works the problem, then the next one, for four hundred pages, and it is gripping.

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The Psychology of MoneyEveryday Carry

The Psychology of Money

Nineteen short chapters on why people make bad money decisions, none of which are about picking investments.

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The Terminal ListEveryday Carry

The Terminal List

A former SEAL writing revenge thrillers with the tradecraft and gear details actually right.

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This Inevitable Ruin (Book 7)Everyday Carry

This Inevitable Ruin (Book 7)

The current end of the line, with more coming.

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Tribe: On Homecoming and BelongingEveryday Carry

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Short, and the best thing I know of on why coming home is harder than deploying.

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UnbrokenEveryday Carry

Unbroken

Louis Zamperini: Olympic runner, bomber crash, 47 days on a raft, then two years in Japanese POW camps.

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Why We SleepEveryday Carry

Why We Sleep

The book that made most people take sleep seriously, with the caveat that parts of it have been challenged.

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With the Old BreedEveryday Carry

With the Old Breed

A Marine mortarman at Peleliu and Okinawa, and the book every account of the Pacific is measured against.

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