High-Impact Books You Have to Read

It sounds cliched, but books really have changed my life. They have shaped the way I think, speak, and act.
Here are the best books that I’ve read so far from each category. I tried to keep it to the three best books per category, but there are so many aspects to personal growth that I had to select ten for that category :)
Personal Growth:
1. The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
2. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
3. The Path by Laurie Beth Jones
4. Talent is Never Enough by John Maxwell
5. Today Matters by John Maxwell
6. See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar
7. The Kaizen Way: One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer
8. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
9. Jesus, CEO by Laurie Beth Jones
10. The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
Career Choice:
1. What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Boelles
2. Do What You Are by Paul Tieger & Barbara Barron
3. What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson
Work/Business:
1. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris
2. The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
3. Good to Great by Jim Collins
Life Philosophy:
1. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
2. Optimism by Helen Keller
3. Think on These Things by John Maxwell
Learning/Memory:
1. Quantum Learning by Bobbi DePorter
2. Superlearning 2000 by Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder
3. Super Memory – Super Student by Harry Lorayne
Economics/History:
1. Predicatbly Irrational by Dan Ariely
2. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
3. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes
Fiction:
1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Autobiographical/Semi-autobiographical:
1. Why Courage Matters by John McCain
2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
3. Martin Luther King, Jr: A Life by Marshall Frady
Spirituality/Christianity:
1. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
2. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
3. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren

It sounds cliched, but books really have changed my life. They have shaped the way I think, speak, and act.

Here are the best books that I’ve read so far from each category. I tried to keep it to the three best books per category, but there are so many aspects to personal growth that I had to select ten for that category :)

Personal Growth:

1. The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

2. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

3. The Path by Laurie Beth Jones

4. Talent is Never Enough by John Maxwell

5. Today Matters by John Maxwell

6. See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar

7. The Kaizen Way: One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer

8. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

9. Jesus, CEO by Laurie Beth Jones

10. The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz

Career Choice:

1. What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Boelles

2. Do What You Are by Paul Tieger & Barbara Barron

3. What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson

Work/Business:

1. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris

2. The E-Myth by Michael Gerber

3. Good to Great by Jim Collins

Life Philosophy:

1. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

2. Optimism by Helen Keller

3. Think on These Things by John Maxwell

Learning/Memory:

1. Quantum Learning by Bobbi DePorter

2. Superlearning 2000 by Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder

3. Super Memory – Super Student by Harry Lorayne

Economics/History:

1. Predicatbly Irrational by Dan Ariely

2. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

3. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes

Fiction:

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

3. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Autobiographical/Semi-autobiographical:

1. Why Courage Matters by John McCain

2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

3. Martin Luther King, Jr: A Life by Marshall Frady

Spirituality/Christianity:

1. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

2. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

3. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren