Books

The one thing all successful people in the world have in common is they read — a lot. These books shaped my development, and I'd like to offer them as ideas if you are so interested.

Personal Finance 5
1
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
2
The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas Stanley and William Danko
3
The Ten Roads to Riches
Ken Fisher
4
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez
5
The Trick to Money is Having Some!
Stuart Wilde
Business 8
1
Built to Last
Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
2
Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time
Daniel Gross
3
The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker
4
Conscious Business
Fred Kofman
5
On Selling
Mark McCormack
6
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
7
The Perfect Store
Adam Cohen
8
The Monk and the Riddle
Randy Komisar
Autobiography 14
1
My American Life
Ronald Reagan
2
Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
3
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
4
Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller
5
Seal Team Six
Howard Wasdin
6
Total Recall
Arnold Schwarzenegger
7
Confessions of a Street Addict
James Cramer
8
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
9
Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
10
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
11
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
12
Left to Tell
Immaculée Ilibagiza
13
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
14
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
Biography 6
1
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Hank Ketcham
2
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
3
Alexander the Great
Thomas Martin and Christopher Blackwell
4
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
M
5
Six Tycoons
Wyn Derbyshire
6
The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas
Keith Dowman
History 2
1
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2
Better Angels of Our Nature
Stephen Pinker
Spirituality 8
1
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
King James Bible
2
Blazing Splendor
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
3
The Myth of Enlightenment, and the Way of Meditation
Chögyam Trungpa
4
Nature of Mind
Patrul Rinpoche
5
The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks
6
I Heard God Laughing
Hafiz
7
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
8
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Fiction 9
1
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
2
Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
3
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
5
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
6
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
7
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
8
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
9
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Self-Help 6
1
Managing Oneself
Peter Drucker
2
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles Munger
3
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
4
The 4-Hour Work Week
Tim Ferriss
5
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
6
How to Be a No-Limit Person
Wayne Dyer
Relationships 7
1
The Five Love Languages
Gary Chapman
2
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall Rosenberg
3
Influence
Robert Cialdini
4
The Multi-Orgasmic Man
Mantak Chia
5
The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida
6
My Secret Garden
Nancy Friday
7
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin