Books Worth Exploring

I’ve read hundreds of books over the years and have given away around 500 books I had read so others could benefit from them. This is a selection of the books I’ve read and found worthwhile, grouped by theme. I recommend them because they gave me a great deal of value, and I believe they are worth reading.

Communication and Relationships

  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk — Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
  • People Skills — Robert Bolton
  • Just Listen — Mark Goulston
  • Games People Play — Eric Berne
  • I’m OK—You’re OK — Thomas A. Harris
  • Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus — John Gray

Leadership, Work and Results

  • The Goal — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey
  • The One Minute Manager — Kenneth Blanchard
  • The Fifth Discipline — Peter Senge
  • The Effective Executive — Peter F. Drucker
  • The 80/20 Principle — Richard Koch
  • The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
  • Who Moved My Cheese? — Spencer Johnson
  • The Psychology of Selling — Brian Tracy
  • Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill

Self-Understanding and Personal Growth

  • The Healing Brain — Robert Evan Ornstein and David Sobel
  • Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
  • Man and His Symbols — Carl Jung
  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections — Carl Jung
  • The Undiscovered Self — Carl Jung
  • Psycho-Cybernetics — Maxwell Maltz
  • The Road Less Traveled — M. Scott Peck
  • Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway — Susan Jeffers
  • Learned Optimism — Martin Seligman
  • Wishcraft — Barbara Sher
  • Creative Visualization — Shakti Gawain
  • Pulling Your Own Strings — Wayne Dyer
  • You Can Heal Your Life — Louise Hay
  • The Power of Positive Thinking — Norman Vincent Peale
  • Unlimited Power — Tony Robbins
  • Awaken the Giant Within — Tony Robbins
  • The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success — Deepak Chopra
  • The Art of Possibility — Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Meaning, Life and Human Experience

  • Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
  • Awakenings — Oliver Sacks
  • On Death and Dying — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
  • The Art of Happiness — the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach
  • The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield
  • Women Who Run with the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés