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My 21 Favorite Books from the Last 5 Years (Out of 629 Total)

Matt Karamazov
24 min readJan 25, 2025

Plus 44 Honorable Mentions and some new books coming out soon

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I tried to narrow down my favorite books from recent years to just one from each year — couldn’t — then gave up and tried to choose three favorites from each year, for a total of fifteen.

Couldn’t do that either! I was working on whittling down my favorites from 2021 onwards and I had it narrowed down to 17 before I thought to myself, to hell with it! It’s my article and I’ll do what I want! 😊

Then I cheated even more, because I just could not keep it to just 21 books. So I added several “honorable mentions” from each year. 44 of them, to be exact.

Most of these books are so close to that top spot anyway, and I just know your next favorite book is hiding in there somewhere.

This is a long-ish article, so I’ll just quickly mention a few books that came out since the last my latest article:

📚 Sponsor Magnet, by Justin Moore (Justin is the guy for creators who want to learn how to earn more in brand deals, sponsorships, etc. There’s no one I trust in that area more than him).

📚 The Obvious Choice, by Jonathan Goodman (I read an advance copy of this book and his method is a beautifully simple and effective way to build a…

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Matt Karamazov
Matt Karamazov

Written by Matt Karamazov

Literacy Advocate 📖 Full-Time Book Influencer: Recommended Reading List (1,300+ Books) ⤵️ https://thereadinglife.beehiiv.com/c/readinglist

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