I have read a lot of books that I have loved. I’m not going to share all of them here, but this is a big list of some of my favourite books that I recommend. They are in no particular order. Many of these books could fit into more than one category. You may think a particular book belongs in a different category than I’ve placed it. There are no right or wrong’s to the categories, I’ve just chosen one that I though worked.

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Success, Personal Development and Motivation (and others I’m just not sure where to put)

• Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
• How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• The Slight Edge – Jeff Olson
• The Compound Effect – Darren Hardy
• Living Your Best Year Ever – Darren Hardy
• The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure – Grant Cardone
• The Aladdin Factor – Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen (This has been a very powerful book in my life, especially as an entrepreneur)
• Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! – Tony Robbins
• The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret – Richie Norton
• Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream – Whitney L. Johnson
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change – Stephen R. Covey
• The SPEED of TRUST: The One Thing That Changes Everything – Stephen M. R. Covey
• How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance – Zig Ziglar
• Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
• Leading an Inspired Life – Jim Rohn
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love – Cal Newport
• Mastery – Robert Greene
• The Power of Positive Thinking – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
• Lying – Sam Harris
• Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence – Tim Sanders
• The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
• The Magic of Thinking Big – David J. Schwartz
• As You Think – James Allen
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – David Allen
• The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How To Be One – Peter B Kyne
• The Power of Focus: What the World’s Greatest Achievers Know about The Secret to Financial Freedom & Success – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt
• Accountability: Getting a Grip on Results – David Irvine
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny – Robin Sharma
• The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be – Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
• Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want – Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible – Brian Tracy
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich – Timothy Ferriss
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
• Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone – Mitch Joel
• The Miracle of Tithing: A Little Book of Answers to Questions about Tithing – Mark Victor Hansen
• The Lost Choice: A Legend of Personal Discovery – Andy Andrews
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century – Thomas L. Friedman
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants – Malcolm Gladwell
• A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
• What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values – Hyrum Smith
• Get Motivated!: Overcome Any Obstacle, Achieve Any Goal, and Accelerate Your Success with Motivational DNA – Tamara Lowe
• On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life – John O’Leary
• Be Obsessed or Be Average – Grant Cardone
• How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle – Matt Fitzgerald
• Equal is Unfair: American’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality – Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
• GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth
• Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality – Jacob Tomsky
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics – Richard H Thaler
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers – Tim Ferriss
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
• The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold – Robert Levine
• The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan (P.S.) – Eric Blehm
• Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success – Brad Stulberg, Steve
• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will ListenMagness – Donald Miller
• The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage – Mel Robbins
• Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography – Richard Branson
• High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way – Brandon Burchard
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How – Daniel Coyle

Business Related

• Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion – Gary Vaynerchuk
• #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness – Gary Vaynerchuk
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon – Brad Stone
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives – Steven Levy
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business – Clayton M. Christensen
• Rework – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal – Nick Bilton
• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the WorldThe Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World – David Kirkpatrick
• The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs – Charles D. Ellis
• Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth – David G. Thomson
• Mormon Way of Doing Business – Jeff Benedict
• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist – Brad Feld
• TRUMP: The Art of the Deal – Donald J. Trump
• Screw It, Lets Do It: Lessons in Life – Sir Richard Branson
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Faun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way – Sir Richard Branson
• Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur – Sir Richard Branson
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Ed Catmull
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley – Antonio Garcia Martinez
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis
• Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street – Michael Lewis
• No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller – Harry Markopolos
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande, John Bedford Loyd
• Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination – Adam Lashinsky
• Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
• Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions – Carmen Simon

Marketing and Sales

• The Marketing Blueprint: Lessons to Market & Sell Anything – Jules Marcoux
• Engagement Marketing: How Smal Business Wins in a Socially Connected World – Gail F. Goodman
• First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently – Gallup Press
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable – Seth Godin
• Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow – Seth Godin
• Strengths Based Selling – Tony Rutigliano and Brian Brim
• No B.S. Sales Success – Dan S. Kennedy
• The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost Your Sales – Dan S. Kennedy (I have personally found this very effective and beneficial)
• Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless – Jeffrey Gitomer
• Spin Selling: The Best-Validated Sales Method Available Today – Neil Rackham
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! – Al Res, Jack Trout
• Sell or Be Sold: How to get your way in business and in life – Grant Cardone
• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen – Donald Miller
• Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success – Jordan Belfort
• Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty – Patrack Lencioni
• The CAP Equation: A Foolproof Formula for Unlimited Success in Sales – Joe Buzzello

Leadership and Management

• Good to Great – Jim Collins
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
• How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In – Jim Collins
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
• Extraordinary Leadership (Audible) – Robin Sharma
• A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring – John Wooden
• All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results – Adrian Gnostic and Chester Elton
• Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit – Brad Hams
• EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches – Dave Ramsey
• Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service – Ken Blanchard
• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm – Verne Harnish
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu M Goldratt
• Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results – Mark Sanborn
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You – John C. Maxwell
• Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition – Harvey B. Mackay
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us – Seth Godin
• FISH: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results – Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen & Ken Blanchard
• Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazine Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life – Spencer Johnson
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today… and the Lessons You Can Learn – Steve Forbes, John Prevas and Rudolph Giuliani
• Gung Ho! Turn on the People in Your Organization – Ken Blanchard
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer – Jeffrey K. Liker
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Delivering Happiness: a Path to Profit, Passion, and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
• Leadership & Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box –  Peter Berkrot
• 100 Ways to Motivate Others, Third Edition: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy – Steve Chandler
• The Life Coaching Connection: How Coaching Changes Lives – Steve Chandler
• Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges – Mary Beth A. O’Neil
• Life Coach: How to Start a Life Coaching Practice – K.L. Hammond
• Life Coaching – John Daniels

Money , Wealth and Finance

• Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money – Rabbi Daniel Lapin
• The Richest Man in Babylon – George S Clason
• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness – Dave Ramsey
• Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth – T. Harv Eker
• The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth – Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen
• How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today’s Economy – Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames
• The Wealthy Barber: Everyone’s Common-sense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent – David Chilton
• The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich – David Bach
• How to Be Rich: Compact Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Wealth-Builders – Napoleon Hill, Joseph Murphy, Wallace D. Wattles, Robert Collier and Patricia G. Horan
• MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom – Tony Robbins
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World – Niall Ferguson
• You Were Born Rich – Bob Proctor
• God Wants You to Be Rich: How and Why Everyone Can Enjoy Material and Spiritual Wealth in Our Abundant World – Paul Zan Pilfer
• The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder’s Complete and Original Lesson Plan for Achieving Your Dreams – Napoleon Hill
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy – Thomas J. Stanley
• The Millionaire Booklet – Grant Cardone
• Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups–Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000 – Jason Calacanis

Entrepreneurship and Startups

• The Lean Startup: How today’s Entrepreneurs Use continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses – Eric Ries
• Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup – Brad Feld and David Cohen
• The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #JoinTheRide – Darren Hardy
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything – Guy Kawasaki
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It – Michael E. Gerber
• The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage – Daymond John
• Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs – Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingame
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel
• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble – Dan Lyons
• Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence – and How You Can, Too – Gary Vaynerchuk

Negotiation, Persuasion and Presentation

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In – Roger Risher
• Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets from Master Negotiators – Roger Dawson
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It – Chris Voss
• Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation – Brian Tracy
• Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation – Sally Hogshead
• How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination – Sally Hogshead
• The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice – Brendon Buchard
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences – Nancy Duarte
• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of any Audience – Carmine Gallo
• The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking… Because People Do Business with People They Like – Michelle Tillis Lederman
• 3D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals – David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius
• Negotiate This!: By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much – Herb Cohen
• Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Granny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
• Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing –  Roger Dooley, Mark Ashby
• The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold – Robert Levine
• Persuasion: 3 Manuscripts – Persuasion Definitive Guide, Persuasion Mastery, Persuasion Complete Step by Step Guide (Persuasion Series) – Ryan James

Real Estate

• Find It, Fix It, Flip It!: Make Millions in Real Estate – One House at a Time – Michael Corbett
• Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate – Robert G. Allen
• The Road to Wealth – Robert G. Allen

Rich Dad Series

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Who Took My Money?: Why Slow Investors Lose and Fast Money Wins! – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest In, That the Poor and the Middle Class do Not! – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards: Turn “Bad Debt” into “Good Debt” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Retire Young retire Rich: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever! – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Million-Dollar Business – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Rich Kid Smart Kid: Giving Your Child a Financial Head Start – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money – Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Rich Dad’s Advisors: OPM: How to Attract Other People’s Money for Your Investments — The Ultimate Leverage – Michael A Lechter and Robert Kiyosaki
• Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men, One Message – Robert T. Kiyosaki and Donald Trump
• Rich Dad’s The ABCs of Real Estate Investing: the Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss – Ken McElroy

Biographies & Autobiographies 

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow
• Hammer: The Life and Times of Armand Hammer, one of America’s Great Industrialists – Armand Hammer
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist – Roger Lowenstein
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
• Driven: An Autobiography – Larry H Miller
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike – Phil Knight
• Surround Yourself with Greatness – Chad Lewis
• Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination – Neal Gabler
• The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
• Winning – Jack Welch and Suzy Welch
• Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games – Mitt Romney and Timothy Robinson
• Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World – Raymond Lamont-Brown
• The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century – Steven Watts
• The Spirit to Serve, Marriott’s Way – J. W. Marriott and Kathy Ann Brown
• Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt – Edward J Renehan Jr.
• Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire – Michael T. Kaufman
• Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times – John M Huntsman and Glenn Back
• West by West: My Charmed,Tormented Life – Jerry West
• Michael Jordan: The Life – Roland Lazenby
• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time – Howard Schultz
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mr. Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer
• QB: My Life Behind the Spiral – Steve Young and Jeff Benedict
• Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jon II – Michael Malice
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany – William L. Shirer
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – Edmund Morris
• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road – Nick Bilton
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York – Robert A. Caro
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weathorford
• Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man – Martin Corona, Tony Rafael, Jacob Vargas
• A Truck Full of Money – Tracy Kidder
• Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography – Richard Branson
• The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple – Jeff Guinn
• Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi
  

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