The Top 10 Kindle Books Glasp Readers Highlighted in June 2026
Hi friends,
Here’s something we noticed while pulling this month’s most-imported books.
Read them in order and a quiet argument starts to form, one that none of these authors coordinated, and that this month’s highlighters seem to have arrived at independently:
Building anything real begins with deciding what you’re willing to stop caring about.
Mark Manson opens and closes the argument: care about fewer things, and pick them well. In between, an entire founder’s bookshelf shows what that focus buys you. Naval’s leverage, Tiago Forte’s second brain, Chris Voss’s ruthless attention to what the other side actually needs, Ray Dalio’s uncorrelated bets, and Ben Horowitz’s refusal to even look at the odds. Subtraction first, then systems.
So this month we’re not just sharing what got imported. For every book, we’re showing you the single line that the most readers stopped to highlight, what we’re calling Reader Consensus. It’s the closest thing we have to a room full of strangers nodding at the same sentence.
Here are June’s top 10.
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1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson, blogger-turned-author whose profanity-laced case for caring about less made counterintuitive self-help a genre of its own.
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
Reader Consensus: 26 of 55 highlighters underlined this exact line (47%), the highest agreement of any book on this list.
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: Português (14) · Español (4)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
2. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson, who distilled a decade of Naval Ravikant’s tweets, interviews, and essays into a free guide to wealth and happiness.
“Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.”
Reader Consensus: 25 of 64 highlighters (39%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: 日本語 (24) · Português (2)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
3. Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte, productivity teacher whose CODE method turned personal knowledge management from a niche habit into a movement.
“For modern, professional notetaking, a note is a “knowledge building block”—a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.”
Reader Consensus: 22 of 52 highlighters (42%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: 日本語 (16) · Português (15) · Español (5)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
4. Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss, former lead FBI hostage negotiator who brought tactical empathy from life-or-death standoffs to the boardroom.
“Great negotiators are able to question the assumptions that the rest of the involved players accept on faith or in arrogance, and thus remain more emotionally open to all possibilities, and more intellectually agile to a fluid situation.”
Reader Consensus: 17 of 45 highlighters (38%).
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
5. Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, who codified forty years of investing and management into an operating system for decisions.
“Making a handful of good uncorrelated bets that are balanced and leveraged well is the surest way of having a lot of upside without being exposed to unacceptable downside.”
Reader Consensus: 13 of 44 highlighters (30%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: 日本語 (12) · Português (5)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
6. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, writing the management book for the moments when there is no playbook.
“Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.”
Reader Consensus: 14 of 33 highlighters (42%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: 日本語 (36)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
7. Zero to One
Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and first outside investor in Facebook, on why the next great company won’t be built by copying anyone.
“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.”
Reader Consensus: 14 of 32 highlighters (44%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: 日本語 (51) · Español (3) · Português (3) · Français (1)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
8. The Lean Startup
Eric Ries, entrepreneur whose build-measure-learn loop gave a generation of founders a vocabulary for learning faster than they fail.
“A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”
Reader Consensus: 9 of 32 highlighters (28%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: 日本語 (11) · Español (8) · Português (4) · Italiano (2)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
9. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Mark Manson, back for a second appearance this month, turning from what to ignore toward what’s still worth hoping for.
“To build and maintain hope, we need three things: a sense of control, a belief in the value of something, and a community.”
Reader Consensus: 4 of 12 highlighters (33%).
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
10. Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss, podcaster and author who spent years extracting the routines of world-class performers, then shipped the field notes.
“More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice”
Reader Consensus: 13 of 57 highlighters (23%).
🌐 Top highlights in other languages: Español (4)
📖 Read on Amazon · Highlights on Glasp
📈 Discovered in June
The top 10 measures volume. This section measures momentum: books whose June arrivals make up an outsized share of everyone who has ever imported them. The first sits at #9 above; the other two tied the #10 book at three June imports each and missed the list only on the tiebreaker.
Everything Is F*cked: 4 of its 13 all-time importers (31%) arrived this month. Manson’s 2019 sequel is having its moment seven years on.
The 5 Types of Wealth: 3 of 10 all-time importers (30%). Sahil Bloom’s reframing of wealth beyond money is climbing fast.
A System for Writing: 3 of 10 all-time importers (30%). Bob Doto’s zettelkasten guide, riding the same current as Building a Second Brain at #3.
❤️ Before you go
Every line above came from someone who took the time to mark it. That’s the whole idea: when you highlight on Glasp, you’re not just saving a sentence for yourself — you’re leaving it for the next reader.
If any of these books are on your shelf, import your highlights and add your own underline to the count. Next month’s consensus is being written right now.
See you in the margins,
The Glasp Team
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