I consider myself a bit of a book work when it comes to self-help and personal development books
However, I just came across this 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime list compiled by Amazon and realized I've still got some reading to do as there's a lot of books on here I haven't read.
It got me pretty excited so I thought I'd share that list with you.
NOTE: If you want to get any of these books and don't mind a pre-loved copy then I recommend getting a used copy from Amazon as they usually cost a bit less.
Also, if you don't like reading then it might be worth getting the audiobook version.
I love to listen to books when driving and when at the gym. That time might as well be used for something positive.
Imagine how many books you could listen to in a year if you played them when driving or working out?
Quite a few I bet!
You can get a free trial with Audible and get Two Free Audiobooks here.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this as much I did.
100 Leadership & Success Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime
Click here to see the list on Amazon.
1. #GIRLBOSS – Sophia Amoruso
2. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose – Eckhart Tolle
3. Andrew Carnegie – David Nasaw
4. Awaken the Giant Within – Tony Robbins
5. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street – John Brooks
7. Chicken Soup for the Soul – Mark Victor Hansen & Jack Canfield
8. Choose Yourself! – James Altucher
9. Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion – Gary Vaynerchuk
10. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life – Daniel G. Amen M.D.
11. Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck – Jon Acuff
12. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Daniel H. Pink
13. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
14. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
15. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done – Larry Bossidy
16. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time – Brian Tracy
17. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
18. Find a Way – Diana Nyad
19. Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success – Thomas J. DeLong
20. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt
21. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
22. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently – Marcus Buckingham
23. Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life – Stuart Diamond
24. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity – David Allen
25. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In – Roger Fisher
26. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success – Adam Grant
27. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't – Jim Collins
28. How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
29. How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
30. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
31. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership – Colin Powell
32. Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading – Martin Linsky & Ronald A. Heifetz
33. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead – Sheryl Sandberg
34. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
35. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck
36. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics – Richard H. Thaler
37. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath
38. Man's Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
39. Oh, the Places You'll Go! – Dr. Seuss
40. Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
41. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dr. Dan Ariely
42. Personal History – Katharine Graham
43. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking – Susan Cain
44. Siddhartha: A Novel – Hermann Hesse
45. Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
46. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction – Philip E. Tetlock
47. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
48. Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
49. StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Tom Rath
50. Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else – Geoff Colvin
51. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! – Al Ries
52. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
53. The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World – Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler M.D.
54. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere – Pico Iyer
55. The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life – Avinash K. Dixit
56. The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
57. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich – Timothy Ferriss
58. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
59. The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything – Guy Kawasaki
60. The Art Of War – Sun Tzu
61. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis
62. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
63. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism – Olivia Fox Cabane
64. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande
65. The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – Katty Kay
66. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done – Peter F. Drucker
67. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America – Warren E. Buffett & Lawrence A. Cunningham
68. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter – Michael D. Watkins
69. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt – T.J. Stiles
70. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable – Patrick Lencioni
71. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Don Miguel Ruiz
72. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are – Brené Brown
73. The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life – Shawn Achor
74. The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
75. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
76. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business – Clayton M. Christensen
77. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing – Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig & Warren E. Buffett
78. The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
79. The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
80. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondō
81. The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) – Hal Elrod
82. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play – Neil Fiore
83. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
84. The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
85. The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
86. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth – M. Scott Peck
87. The Road to Character – David Brooks
88. The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
89. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams – Deepak Chopra
90. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
91. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr – Ron Chernow
92. Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts – Becoming the Person You Want to Be – Marshall Goldsmith
93. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson – Mitch Albom
94. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders – L. David Marquet
95. Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance – Jonathan Fields
96. Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives – Dan Millman
97. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful – Marshall Goldsmith
98. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength – Roy F. Baumeister
99. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person – Shonda Rhimes
100. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
need be miserable and glum. This book has got me rocking my mornings. I found that my first few hours in the morning before the rest of the world gets up can be the most productive hours of my day. I guarantee if you give this ago you'll be surprised at how much you'll love the mornings.
This book is from the same author of Think And Grow Rich, and it will blow your mind at some of the things he mentions. This book was well ahead of its time but didn't get released till Napoleon Hill died. I think Hill was worried about the potential backlash because of some of the statements and ideas laid out in this book. Some of the things he talks about will probably leave you wondering how he could even know what he knew in his day and age.
For some reason, this is a super hard book to get hold of, and that might be why it's one of the most expensive books on this list. Bob Proctor is up there with Joe Dispenzer as one of my favorite authors. He usually does seminars, but his books are great too. Bob Proctor is someone who lives and breaths the principles in Think And Grow Rich, and his own success will show you that. This book is a classic that the average self-help reader may not have heard of. Definitely worth checking out (if you can get a copy for a reasonable price).
Don't think you have something of value to offer the world? Think again! Expert secrets proves that everyone has some kind of knowledge that can be packaged and sold to people who want it. If Russell Brunson can make money selling a DVD on how to make a spud gun then anyone can sell their knowledge.
I'm sure you've heard of The Secret, who couldn't? It swept across the world like wildfire when it was released. Oprah Winfrey and countless other successful people swear by it and for good reason. This stuff works. Some people may think of The Law Of Attraction as some hokey pokey nonsense, but it's not, as many people will verify. That's what this book is about; it's inspiring stories that will BLOW YOU MIND from people who've successfully used the ideas from The Secret. Beware quite a few stories from this book brought a tear to my eye and they might for you as well.
Such a unique book. If you want to get advice on how to become rich are you going to take advice from someone who is poor or someone who is rich? Obviously the later and this is what this book is about, a kid who grows up gets advice from his poor dad and advice from his rich friend's dad. You might notice similarities from what you've been taught growing up. This book is for anyone looking to take control of their financial future.
This book is relatively short, but I found it to be jam-packed which some great wisdom. Deepak gives you a lesson from every letter of the alphabet from A right through to z. It's a personal development book on the more spiritual side of things.
I've just gone through this book for the third time as of writing this. He was featured in the Secret, and that's where I first heard of him. This book is about finding your “Inner Vision” of your life purpose. You'll be able to get in tune with what you truly want to do with your life rather than what you think you should be doing. I find the words carry such a peaceful and profound teaching that I still enjoy and learn more from each time I read it. Highly recommended for the people who want more than just material success.
I've always been a firm believer in the benefits of meditation. I also used to think it was something only spiritual Yogi hippies did which made me a little embarrassed to admit I meditated. However, Russell Simmons (the founder of Def Jam Records) made meditation seem cool and explained it in a way that most people will then understand the benefits of meditation. He was like me, a bit of a wild one and after meditating he has peace and happiness in his life. I recommend meditation to anyone as a way to bring peace and harmony to your mind and your life. If you don't meditate then read this book and you might see why it's worth doing.
This book goes well with the other I mentioned “Three Feet From Gold”. Seth shows why so many people could have been successful if they had just kept going past “The Dip.” Most new ventures start of going well then at some point they inevitably hit a rough patch called “The Dip.” This is the point most people give up and this is why you must keep going stronger than ever. You may be very close to getting over that dip. If you give up te easily then this book may be for you.
Neally all our actions and behaviors are derived from our subconscious mind. Joseph Murphy shows us how to unlock the potential that our subconscious has to offer. This book offers plenty of techniques to take control of your subconscious and get it working for you, not against you. Packed with plenty of case studies you'll be inspired to take action on what you discover in this excellent book.
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