Here is a list of books that I have found useful over the years. I will keep updating this list and write more detailed descriptions of the books and what I found useful in them so keep an eye out.
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Personal Development
The Power of Now
"A reminder to be truly present in our own lives and liberated from our past and future. It can transform your thinking." (O: The Oprah Magazine)
Realizing the Power of Now
An In-Depth Retreat with Eckhart Tolle
The Art of Learning
An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
The 4-Hour Work Week
If your dream is escaping the rat race, high-end world travel, monthly five-figure income with zero management or just living more and working less then this audiobook is the blueprint.
The 4-Hour Body
An uncommon guide to rapid fat-loss, incredible sex and becoming superhuman
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different?
The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Business
Delivering Happiness
A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose.
The Tipping Point
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Old but good.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing can mean the difference between success or failure for your product or company. Calling upon over 40 years of marketing experience, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout use vivid examples and fascinating anecdotes to explain the keys to today's tough, competitive marketplace.
SPIN Selling
Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff
Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data.
Scrum
By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as "Scrum", Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1,200 percent.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
The essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume.
Writing
Story
Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Dialogue
The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen.
On WritinG
A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King.
Travel
Vagabonding
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.
Autobiographies
Total Recall
My Unbelievably True Life Story
Up Till Now
This is the story of William Shatner’s half-century career and private life.
Undisputed Truth
Brutally honest, raw, and often hilarious, Tyson chronicles his tumultuous highs and lows in the same sincere, straightforward manner we have come to expect from this legendary athlete. A singular journey from Brooklyn's ghettos to worldwide fame to notoriety, and, finally, to a tranquil wisdom, Undisputed Truth is not only a great sports memoir but an autobiography for the ages.
Non-Fiction
A Brief History of Time
This landmark book is for those of us who prefer words to equations; this is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge, the ongoing search for the secrets at the heart of time and space.
The Grand Design
Professor Hawking and renowned science writer Leonard Mlodinow have drawn on 40 years of Hawking's own research and a recent series of extraordinary astronomical observations and theoretical breakthroughs to reveal an original and controversial theory. They convincingly argue that scientific obsession with formulating a single new model may be misplaced, and that by synthesising existing theories we may discover the key to finally understanding the universe's deepest mysteries.
Fiction
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.
The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories can, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.