Autobiographies, Biographies, and Memoirs

1. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago
2. Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery
3. Ernst Jünger: The Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers)
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5. Felix Dennis: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
6. Paul Kalanithi: When Breath Becomes Air
7. Sam Walton: Made in America
8. Varlam Shalamov: Kolyma Tales

Bitcoin

1. Arvind Narayanan , Joseph Bonneau, et aliī: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction

Business, Marketing, and Sales

1. Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas: Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others
2. Al Ries: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Exposed and Explained by the World's Two 
3. Benjamin Franklin: The Way to Wealth
4. Ben Horowitz: The Hard Things About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
5. Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change)
6. Chet Holmes: The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
7. Dan Kennedy: Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
8. Dan Kennedy: No B.S. Price Strategy: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoner Guide to Profits, Power, and Prosperity
9. Dan Kennedy: No B.S. Sales Success in the New Economy
10. Dan Kennedy: No B.S. Wealth Attraction
11. Dan Sullivan: Deep D.O.S. Innovation: Create unique value for your clients by helping them transform their dangers, opportunities, and strengths.
12. Dan Sullivan: The ABC Model Breakthrough: Shifting your time into activities that fascinate and motivate you.
13. Dan Sullivan: The Free Zone Frontier: Achieving competition-free growth and profit
14. Dan Sullivan: Total Cash Confidence: You magically bypass the anxious uncertainty of low-profit competition.
15. Dan Sullivan: Simplifier-Multiplier Collaboration: Identify your fundamental value-creation activity and discover a world of collaboration opportunities.
16. Dan Sullivan: Who Do You Want To Be A Hero To?: Answer just one question and clarify who you can always be
17. Don Norman: The Design of Everyday Things
18. Drew Eric Whitman: Cashvertising: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone
19. E. Haldeman-Julius: First Hundred Million: How to Sky Rocket Your Book Sales with Slam Dunk Titles
20. Eric Ries: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
21. Eugene Schwartz: Breakthrough Advertising
22. Gary Vaynerchuk: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
23. Gerry Spence: Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time
24. Grant Cardone: If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition
25. Grant Cardone: Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life
26. Grant Cardone: The Closer's Survival Guide
27. Grant Cardone: The Millionaire Booklet
28. Jason Fried: Rework
29. Jeb Blount: Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide for Mastering The Art and Science of Getting Past No
30. Jeff Walker: Launch: How to Sell Almost Anything Online, Build a Business You Love, and Live the Life of Your Dreams
31. Jim Edwards: Copywriting Secrets: How Everyone Can Use The Power Of Words To Get More Clicks, Sales and Profits . . . No Matter What You Sell Or Who You Sell It To!
32. Jim Paul: What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
33. Joe Navarro: How to Spot a Psychopath
34. Joe Navarro: What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
35. Joseph Sugarman: The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters
36. Lee B. Salz: Sales Differentiation: 19 Powerful Strategies to Win More Deals at the Prices You Want
37. Mark Ford: Persuasion: The Subtle Art of Getting What You Want
38. Michael Masterson: Copy Logic!
39. Michael Masterson: Great Leads: The Six Easiest Ways to Start Any Sales Message
40. Michael Masterson: Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat (Agora)
    
41. Paul Cherry: Questions That Sell
42. Peter Drucker: Managing Oneself
43. P.T. Barnum: The Art of Money Getting
44. Robert Collier: The Robert Collier Letter Book
45. Robert Green: 48 Laws of Power
46. Rosser Reeves: Reality in Advertising
    
47. Ryan Holiday: Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
48. Sabri Suby: SELL LIKE CRAZY: How to Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales As You Can Possibly Handle
49. Steven Siebold: 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class: The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones
50. Steven Siebold: How Rich People Think
51. Todd Duncan: High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress
52. Tom Hopkins: How to Master the Art of Selling
53. Tom Sant: The Giants of Sales: What Dale Carnegie, John Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, and Joe Girard Can Teach You About Real Sales Success
54. Victor Schwab: How To Write A Good Advertisement: A Short Course in Copywriting
55. Zig Ziglar: Secrets of Closing the Sale: For Anyone Who Must Get Others to Say Yes!

Economics

1. William Playfair: An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations

Evolutionary Biology 

1. Desmond Morris: The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
2. Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene

History

1. Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
2. Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens

Novels 

1. Andy Weir: The Martian: A Novel
2. A. M. Homes: Safety of Objects: Stories
3. Amy Hempel: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
4. Charles Bukowski: Ham on Rye: A Novel
5. Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor
6. Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
7. Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun: A Novel
8. David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
9. Denis Johnson: Jesus Son: Stories
10. Don Carpenter: Hard Rain Falling
11. Donald Ray Pollock: Knockemstiff
12. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
13. Frédéric Dard: Birds in a Cage
14. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
15. Franz Kafka: The Trial (Der Process)
16. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
17. Hermann Hesse: Damain
18. Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf (Der Steppenwolf)
19. Italo Calvino: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
20. James Frey: A Million Little Pieces
21. Jerzy Kosinski: Steps
22. J.D. Salinger: Nine Stories
23. John Fante: Ask the Dust
24. Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley: Catch-22
25. Junot Díaz: Drown
26. Katherine Dunn: Geek Love: A Novel
27. Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
28. Knut Hamsun: Hunger
29. Mario Puzo: Fools Die: A Thriler
30. Miranda July: No One Belongs Here More Than You
31. Ray Bradburry: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
32. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
33. Sommerset W. Maugham: The Razor's Edge
34. Stephen King: Night Shift
35. Sylvia Path: The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
36. Tobias Wolff: In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories (Art of the Story)
37. Tom Robbins: Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel
38. Truman Capote: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
    
39. Williams Joy: Breaking and Entering
40. Yoshikazu Takeuchi: Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis

Philosophy, Self-Help, and Spirituality

1. Adyashanti: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
2. Alain de Botton: How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity
3. Alan Watts: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
4. Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
5. Anthony De Mello: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
6. Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
7. Baron D'Holbach: Good Sense
8. Baron D'Holbach: The System of Nature
9. Burton Watson: The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-chi lu
10. Chögyam Trungpa: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
11. Coleman Barks: The Essential Rumi
12. Dale Carnegie: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
13. Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People
14. Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy: The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success
15. David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
16. David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh
17. Dogen: The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
18. Dṛg Dṛśya Viveka
19. Earl Nightingale: The Strangest Secret
20. Easwaran Eknath: The Dhammapada
21. Eckhart Tolle: Stillness Speaks
22. E.M. Cioran: On the Heights of Despair
23. E.M. Cioran: The Trouble with Being Born
24. Epictetus: Discourses
25. Ernstes Becker: The Denial of Death
26. Eugen Herrigel: Zen in the Art of Archery
27. Frederick Dodson: Levels of Energy
28. Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
29. Gary Chapman: The 5 Love Languages: Five Love Languages Revised Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts
30. G.I. Gurdjieff: In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness
31. Honghzhi: Cultivating the empty field the silent illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi (Tuttle Library of Enlightenment)
32. Hui Hai: Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening being the teaching of the Zen Master Hui Hai, known as the Great Pearl
33. Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga: The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
34. Jane Roberts: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
35. Jean Klein: I Am
36. Jean Meslier: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
37. Jed McKenna: Play: A Play by Jed McKenna (The Dreamstate Trilogy)
38. Jiddu Krishnamurti: At The Feet of the Master
39. Jiddu Krishnamurti: The First and Last Freedom
40. Jiddu Krishnamurti: Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
41. John Gray: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
42. Joseph Campbell: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
43. Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
44. Kabir: Songs of Kabir
45. Malaclypse The Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst: Principia Discordia
    
46. Mark Manson: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
47. Martin Buber: I and Thou (Ich und Du)
48. Meister Eckhart: Sister Catherine Treatise
49. Napoleon Hill: Outwitting the Devil
50. Michael A. Singer: The Unethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
51. Mike Cernovich: Gorilla Mindset
52. Mikhail Naimy: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
53. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
54. Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek
55. Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
56. Olivia Fox Cabane: The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
57. Osho: A Cup of Tea: Letters Written by Osho to Disciples and Friends
58. Osho: The God Conspiracy: The Path from Superstition to Super Consciousness
59. Paul Hedderman: The Escape To Everywhere
60. Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen
61. Publius Syrus: The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
62. Ram Dass: Be Here Now
63. Ramesh Balsekar: The One In The Mirror: See What You Truly Are!
64. René Descartes: A Discourse on the Method: of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
65. Rhj and R H Jarrett: It Works: The Famous Little Red Book That Makes Your Dreams Come True!
66. Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
67. Ryan A Bush: Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
68. Ryōkan: Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
69. Sadhguru: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
70. Silent Illumination (translated by Hakuun Barnhard)
71. Spinoza: Ethics
72. Sri Aurobindo: The Upanishads
73. Stephen Mitchell: Tao Te Ching
74. Steven Norquist: Haunted Universe: The True Knowledge of Enlightenment
75. Stuart Wilde: Weight loss for the mind
76. Swami Muktananda: Kundalini: The Secret of Life
77. Swami Ramdas: The Essential Swami Ramdas
78. Swami Sivananda: Karma and Diseases
79. Swami Sivananda: Self Knowledge
80. Swami Venkatesananda: Enlightened Living: A New Interpretative Translation of the Yoga Sutra of Maharisi Patanjali
81. The Agreement of Difference and Unity (translated by James Mitchell & Yulie Lo)
82. The Cloud of Unknowing
83. The Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi (translated by Ming Yee Wang and Pei-gwang Dowia)
84. The Three Initiates: Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
85. The Zen Teachings of Boddhidharma
86. Thomas Merton: The Way of Chuang Tzu
87. Timothy Gallwey: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
88. Todd Herman: The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
89. Tony Parsons: All There Is
90. Voltaire: Candide
91. Vyasa: The Mahabharata
92. Wallace D Wattles: The Science of Getting Rich
93. Wayne Dyer: The Power of Intention
94. Wei Wu Wei: Open Secret
95. Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
96. Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh: Song of Enlightenment

Psychology 

1. Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 
2. Daniel Gilbert: Stumbling on Happiness
3. Daniel Kahnemann: Thinking Fast and Slow
4. Eric Hoffer: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
5. Ian Rowland: The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading: The definitive guide to how cold reading is used in the psychic industry
6. Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam:  A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships
7. Milton Erickson: My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
8. Richard Thaler: Nudge
9. Robert Dilts: Changing Beliefs with NLP
10. Robert Cialdini: Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Science 

1. John Gall: Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
2. Michael Moss: Salt, Sugar, and Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Updated June 25, 2022

Hardy Haberland