14 Books To Read as a Growth-Oriented Entrepreneur

Darrah Brustein
5 min readMar 6, 2023

After devouring 60 books over the last year, I’ve whittled them down to my top 14 to help you find something you’ll love and that will support your growth this year.

Because what I do lives at the intersection of life coaching and business strategy, my reading over-indexes in the personal development and business genres. I’ve listed them in no particular order or rank and trust that there’s at least one recommendation here that you’ll enjoy:

Big Little Breakthroughs — Josh Linkner

If you’re building a business, leading a team, and/or looking for inspiration and tools to help you have more frequent and sustained creativity and innovation, it’s worth a read.

Finding Me- Viola Davis

I challenge you to read this memoir and not be taken on an emotional journey of empathy, compassion, sadness, anger, amazement, love, and joy. A couple of quotes that stood out: “My biggest discovery was that you can re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past.” and “The purpose of life is to live it.” After reading Viola Davis’ story, these will move and inspire you even more deeply.

How Minds Change — David Mcraney

It’s funny how common sense can fly right out of the window when it comes to topics…

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Darrah Brustein

On a mission to debunk "sleep when you're dead" culture + chasing others people's definitions of success to build a life of your own design. www.darrah.co