We hosted a 1,000 person investor summit for our investor club (Family Office Club) and asked how many people in the room have read 100 or 200 books about business or strategy, etc. Many hands went up – I asked who had read more than 10 books authored by billionaires (not just on them). Nobody raised a hand, those who have studied billionaires have read 10-20 books at most I find. Why is that? Why are we reading business books which are authored by people great at marketing books instead of less popular books by people actually smart at doing business? I do not want someone else’s guess at what is going on in the mind of a billionaire, I have enough guesses of my own, I want to read the words of the billionaire – unadulterated. There are 245 books authored by billionaires, I have read and ranked 110 of them to date, and below you will find the release of the top 10 and top 25 books authored by billionaires that I have read so far. These are not ranked by Amazon rank, year released, or copies sold – they are ranked by the value I received by reading these books – you will have your own favorites but I don’t want to put someone’s book at the top simply because they spent $500k on promoting it – or hired a great PR firm – I do not care about that. I care about reading solid gold strategies for scaling, mental models, insights, hard lessons learned straight from the billionaires. I hope this list is helpful to you, we will soon be expanding it to the top 50 and 100 books, and release the full ranking of all 245 books once I make it through every book by 2025.