Nipsey Hussle’s Prolific Book List Inspires The World To Continue “The Marathon”

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Ermias Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 – March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle  was an American rapper, activist, and entrepreneur.

On March 31, 2019 Nipsey was murdered in front of his world famous Marathon Store. Although the Nipsey Hussle we know is no longer alive in the flesh, he is certainly alive in the sense that his music and life story still inspires millions around the world to continue “The Marathon“. His life and legacy is an inspiration to the world because few who’ve came from where he started make it to ultimate success, especially without compromising character. Nipsey Hussle was indeed one of the best to ever do it and we could certainly learn a lot from his personal evolution.

Check out this list of books that Nipsey Hussle has read and recommended at one time or another. Perhaps it may provide a glimpse of insight into the prolific mind of the man we know as Nipsey Hussle.

“People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.”

-Malcolm X

The List Of Books That Inspired Nipsey Hussle

  1. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  2. Blood In My Eye by George Jackson
  3. Coded Language by Saul Williams
  4. Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
  5. Culture Vulture by Kenyatta Griggs and Damon Dash
  6. Fools By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  7. Heal Thy Self by Queen Afua
  8. How To Eat To Live by Elijah Muhammad
  9. Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger
  10. Law And Economics Of Vertical Integrations And Control by David Kaserman
  11. Manchild In The Promise Land by Claude Brown
  12. Message To The Black Man In America by Elijah Muhammad
  13. No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton
  14. Originals by Adam Grant
  15. Power VS Force by David R. Hawkins
  16. Powernomics by Claude Anderson
  17. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
  18. Sacred Woman by Queen Afua
  19. Seize The Time by Bobby Seale
  20. Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson
  21. The Book Of Change by I Ching
  22. Rework by Jason Fried
  23. The Art Of Science And Respect by James Prince
  24. The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  25. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  26. The Four by Scott Galloway
  27. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  28. The Lost Book Of Enoch by David Humphries
  29. The One Device by Brian Merchant
  30. The Peebles Principles by Donahue Peebles
  31. The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason
  32. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
  33. The Spook Who Sat By The Door by Sam Grennlee
  34. The Wretched Of The Earth by Frantz Fanon
  35. The Way Of The Superior Man by David Deida
  36. The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries
  37. The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
  38. Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
  39. Three Magic Words by Uell Stanley Andersen
  40. Vertical Integration And Technological Innovation by Yeong Heok Lee
  41. We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  42. 1% Rule by Tommy Baker
  43. 2022 Annunaki Code by Maximillien De Lafayette
  44. 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene
  45. Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
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