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