My Favorite Books
My Favorite Books
GREAT books
Autobiographies, Biographies, and Memoirs
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank)
- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- David Ogilvy: Confessions of an Ad Man
- David Ogilvy: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
- Donald J. Trump: The Art of the Deal
- Frederick Douglass: My Bondage and My Freedom
- Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
- Kang Chol-Hwan: The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
- Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Mary White Rowlandson: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Nakazawa Keiji: Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen
- Osho: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
- Solomon Northup: Twelve Years A Slave
- Viktor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
Business, Marketing, and Sales
- Alex Hormozi: $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
- Blair Enns: The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
- Blair Warren: One Sentence Persuasion Course
- Blair Warren: The Forbidden Keys to Persuasion
- Chris Evans & Taylor Welch: The Consultant Next Door: The Modern-Day Consulting Playbook for Getting Clients & Getting Paid
- Chris Evans & Taylor Welch: The Intelligent Advertiser: Advertising Handbook: More Customers, More Profit, More Impact
- Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
- Claude Hopkins: Scientific Advertising
- Dan Kennedy: Almost Alchemy: Make Any Business Of Any Size Produce More With Fewer And Less
- Dan Kennedy: Magnetic Marketing: How to Attract a Flood of New Customers That Pay, Stay, and Refer
- Dan Kennedy: No B.S. Trust Based Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Trust in an Understandibly Un-trusting World
- Dan Kennedy: Speak to Sell: Persuade, Influence, And Establish Authority & Promote Your Products, Services, Practice, Business, or Cause
- Dan Sullivan: Always Be The Buyer: Attracting other people's highest commitment to your biggest and best standards.
- Dan Sullivan: The Self-Managing Company: Freeing yourself up from everything that prevents you from creating a 10x bigger future.
- Derek Sivers: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
- Dusan Djukich: Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times
- Eli Wilde: The Art of Enrollment
- Evaldo Albuquerque: The 16-Word Sales Letter: A proven method of writing multi-million-dollar copy faster than you ever thought possible
- Gary Halbert: The Boron Letters
- Harry Browne: The Secret of Selling Anything: A road map to success for the salesman… who is not aggressive, who is not a “smooth talker,” and who is not an extrovert
- James Webb Young: A technique for producing ideas: A simple five step formula for producing ideas
- John Caples: Tested Advertising
- John E. Kennedy: Intensive Advertising
- John E. Kennedy: Reason Why Advertising
- Jordan Belfort: The Wolf of Wall Street
- Keenan: Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price
- Keith J. Cunningham: The Road Less Stupid
- Kevin Daley: Socratic Selling: How to Ask the Questions That Get the Sale
- Marc Wayshak: Game Plan Selling: The Definitive Rulebook for Closing the Sale in the Age of the Well-Informed Prospect
- Mark Joyner: The Irresistible Offer: How to Sell Your Product or Service in 3 Seconds or Less
- Michael Oliver: How To Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety Or Losing Your Friends!
- Michael Oliver: How to ‘Sell’ The Way People Buy
- Naval Ravikant: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- Oren Klaff: Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea
- Oren Klaff: Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
- Phil M. Jones: Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact
- Peter Thiel: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Price Pritchett: Service Excellence!
- R.B. Sparkman: The Art of Manipulation: How to Get What You Want Out of People in Business, in Your Personal Life, and in Your Love Life
- Robert R. Updegraff: Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman
- Russell Brunson: DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online With Sales Funnels
- Russell Brunson: Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Converting Your Online Visitors into Lifelong Customers
- Scott Adams: Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
- Simon Leslie: There is no F in Sales: A book about selling in every market condition
- Spencer Johnson: The One Minute Salesperson
- Stephen Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Tim Ferriss: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
- Victor Antonio: Response Block Selling
Economics
- Carl Menger: The Origins of Money
- Frédéric Bastiat: That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
- Gary North: Honest Money: The Biblical Blueprint for Money and Banking
- Peter Schiff: How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
Health & Fitness
- Mark Rippetoe: Pratical Programming for Strength Training
- Mark Rippetoe: Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
History
- Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto (Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei)
- Miyamoto Musashi: The Book of Five Rings
- Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, death scene from Phaedo
- Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Investing
Novels
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
- Ambrose Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
- Budd Schulberg: What Makes Sammy Run?
- Charles Bukowski: Factotum
- Charles Bukowski: Post Office: A Novel
- Christopher Buckley: Thank You for Smoking: A Novel
- Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club: A Novel
- Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe
- Eli Wiesel: Night
- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blume des Koran
- Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel (Im Westen nichts Neues: Roman)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
- Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung)
- Graham Greene: Travels with my Aunt
- Jay McInerney: Story of my Life
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Julien Gracq: The Opposing Shore
- Mario Puzo: The Godfather
- Max Frisch: Homo Faber (Homo Faber: Ein Bericht)
- O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
- Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Raymond Carver: Cathedral
- Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
- Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
- Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Shel Silverstein: The Giving Tree (Rise and Shine)
- Stefan Zweig: The Royal Game (Schachnovelle)
- Tama Janowitz: Slaves of New York
Philosophy, Self-Help, and Spirituality
- Adi Shankara: Ātma-bodha
- Adi Shankara: Dakshinamurti Stotra
- Alan Watts: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
- Albert Camus: The Stranger
- Anthony de Mello: The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
- Avadhuta Gita
- Baltasar Gracian: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- Bruce Lee: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
- Cesar Milan: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
- Darryl Bailey: Dismantling the Fantasy: An Invitation to the Fullness of Life
- Darryl Bailey: Essence: Slipping Past the Shadows of Illusion
- Darryl Bailey: Finding Wholeness, Harmony, and Rest: Exposing the Conflict in All Thinking
- Darryl Bailey: "What the...": A Conversation about Living
- David R. Hawkins: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
- David R. Hawkins: Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour
- David R. Hawkins: The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden
- David R. Hawkins: The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential
- Dr. Joe Dispenza: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
- Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
- Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks: The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Also Sprach Zarathustra
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
- Gerald G. Jampolsky MD: Love Is Letting Go of Fear
- Göran Backlund: Refuting The External World
- H. Spencer Lewis: Mental Poisoning
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden
- Heraclitus: Fragments The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus
- Hermann Hesse: Siddharta
- Huang Po: The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
- Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth: 15th Century Zen Master
- James Allen: As A Man Thinketh
- Jed McKenna: Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory: Volume 2 (The Dreamstate Trilogy)
- Jed McKenna: Jed Talks #1: Essays, Teachings, Rants & Frivolous Frivolity
- Jed McKenna: Jed Talks #2: Away from the Things of Man
- Jed McKenna: Jed Talks #3: The Tao of the Large-Breasted Goddess with the Shapely Behind
- Jed McKenna: Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing: Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy
- Jed McKenna: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment: Book Two of The Enlightenment Trilogy
- Jed McKenna: Spiritual Warfare: Book Three of The Enlightenment Trilogy
- Jed McKenna: Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective (Dreamstate Trilogy)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: Think on These Things
- John Astin: Rain In The Monsoon
- John C. Maxwell: Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
- Kamal Ravikant: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
- Kapil Gupta: A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living
- Kapil Gupta: Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God.
- Kapil Gupta: Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
- Khalil Gibran: The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran
- Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
- Mark Manson: Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
- Montaigne: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- Mooji: Before I Am: The Direct Recognition of Truth
- Mooji: Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Neville Goddard: Feeling Is the Secret
- Neville Goddard: The Power of Awareness
- Nisargadatta Maharaj: Consciousness and The Absolute: The Final Talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Osho: Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously (Insights for a New Way of Living)
- Osho: Creativity (Insights for a New Way of Living)
- Osho: I Am That: Discourses on the Isha Upanishad
- Osho: My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
- Osho: Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness
- Osho: The Art of Living and Dying: Celebrating Life and Celebrating Death
- Osho: The Book of Nothing: Hsin Hsin Ming
- Osho: The Book of Women: Celebrating the Female Spirit (Foundations of a New Humanity)
- Osho: The Buddha Said: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
- Osho: The Empty Boat: Encounters with Nothingness
- Osho: The Great Challenge: Exploring The World Within
- Osho: The Inner Journey
- Osho: The Mustard Seed: The Revolutionary Teachings of Jesus
- Osho: The Sun Rises In The Evening
- Osho: The White Lotus: Discourses on Fragmentary Notes of Bodhidharma's Disciples
- Osho: Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen: Responses to Disciples' and Visitors' Questions and Zen Stories
- Osho: When The Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
- Osho: Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet
- Paul Owens with Norma Eckroate: The Dog Whisperer: A Compassionate, Nonviolent Approach to Dog Training
- Price Pritchett: You 2: A High Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps
- Rainer Marie Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter)
- Ramana Maharshi: Who am I
- Ramesh Balsekar: A Duet of One: The Ashtavakra Gita Dialogue
- Ramesh Balsekar: Let Life Flow: Meeting The Challenges Of Daily Living In A Calm, Peaceful Way
- Ramesh Balsekar: The End of Duality
- Ribhu Gita Chapter 26
- Robert Adams: The Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams
- Robert Saltzman: Depending on No-Thing
- Sam Harris: Lying
- Sam Harris: Free Will
- Scott Adams: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
- Scott Adams: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
- Scott Adams: The Religion War
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
- Seneca: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It
- Sengcan: Hsin Hsin Ming
- Shitou: Inside the Grass Hut: Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem
- Stuart Wilde: Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle
- Stuart Wilde: Silent Power
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Introduction to Vedanta
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Problem is You Solution is You
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Surrender and Freedom
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Teaching Tradition of Advaita Vedanta
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The Value of Values
- Swami Muktananda: I Am That: The Science of Hamsa from the Vijnana Bhairava
- Swami Rama: Enlightenment Without God (Mandukya Upanishad)
- T. Harv Eker: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
- Thich Nhat Hanh: No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life
- Tony Parsons: Open Secret
- U.G. Krishnamurti: Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
- U.G. Krishnamurti: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti
- U.G. Krishnamurti: Thought is Your Enemy
- Vaiyai R. Subramaniam: All is One (Ellam Ondre)
- William Irvine: A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art Of Stoic Joy
Psychology
- Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
- Carl Rogers: Active Listening
- Robert Cialdini: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
Writing
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Updated May 24, 2022