Books hold a lifetime of wisdom. Yet many times we get caught up with the latest TV show, which has little benefit to our lives, and forget to read the books that have shaped the greatest people in history. Below is a list of 30 books that everyone should read sometime in their life and preferably when they are younger. As Socrates once said: “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
Life, Health and Happiness Books
How To Win Friends and Influence People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn
The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Health
The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Eat This and Live! by Don Colbert
Finance Books
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke by Suze Orman
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
Business Books
The Millionaires Notebook by Steven Scott
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Getting Things Done By David Allen
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Non-Fiction Books
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
Fiction Books
1984 by George Orwell
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
BONUS The Bible: It’s not just for Christians. Read Proverbs and Ecclesiastes (written by the wisest man in the world).
BONUS Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss: If you need a short motivational book, here it is! This is great for a graduate gift as well.
Enjoyed the list.