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Top 100 Books Recommended by SmartGuy®

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH​

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH​

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH​

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
  • Atomic Habits – James Clear
  • The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
  • Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
  • Boundaries – Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
  • Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
  • Deep Work – Cal Newport
  • Grit – Angela Duckworth
  • Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
  • The War of Art – Steven Pressfield

FAITH & SPIRITUAL FORMATION​

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH​

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH​

  • The Bible (start with Proverbs, Gospels, Psalms)
  • The Confessions – St. Augustine
  • The Imitation of Christ – Thomas à Kempis
  • Introduction to the Devout Life – St. Francis de Sales
  • Story of a Soul – St. Thérèse of Lisieux
  • The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
  • Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
  • Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Life of Christ – Fulton J. Sheen

WISDOM & PHILOSOPHY

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH​

HISTORY & BIOGRAPHIES​

  • Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
  • Letters from a Stoic – Seneca
  • Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  • The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius
  • The Republic – Plato
  • The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  • Tao Te Ching – Laozi
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzsche
  • The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
  • Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

HISTORY & BIOGRAPHIES​

FINANCE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY​

HISTORY & BIOGRAPHIES​

  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
  • John Paul II: Witness to Hope – George Weigel
  • Bonhoeffer – Eric Metaxas
  • The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
  • Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  • Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand

SCIENCE & CURIOSITY​

FINANCE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY​

FINANCE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY​

  • Cosmos – Carl Sagan
  • The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman

FINANCE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY​

FINANCE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY​

FINANCE & SELF-SUFFICIENCY​

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
  • The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich – Ramit Sethi
  • Your Money or Your Life – Vicki Robin
  • The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
  • The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason

CREATIVITY & COMMUNICATION

CLASSIC LITERATURE & MORAL IMAGINATION

CREATIVITY & COMMUNICATION

  • On Writing – Stephen King
  • The Elements of Style – Strunk & White
  • Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
  • Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
  • Show Your Work – Austin Kleon
  • The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
  • Talk Like TED – Carmine Gallo

LIFE & PRACTICAL SKILLS

CLASSIC LITERATURE & MORAL IMAGINATION

CREATIVITY & COMMUNICATION

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
  • The Art of Manliness – Brett McKay
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
  • Crucial Conversations – Patterson, Grenny, McMillan
  • How to Be an Adult – David Richo
  • 12 Rules for Life – Jordan Peterson
  • Make Your Bed – Admiral William H. McRaven
  • Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
  • The Gift of Fear – Gavin de Becker
  • The Boy Scout Handbook – Boy Scouts of America (or a modern life skills equivalent)

CLASSIC LITERATURE & MORAL IMAGINATION

CLASSIC LITERATURE & MORAL IMAGINATION

CLASSIC LITERATURE & MORAL IMAGINATION

  • Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky
  • Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • The Odyssey – Homer
  • The Iliad – Homer
  • The Aeneid – Virgil
  • Beowulf
  • The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
  • Paradise Lost – John Milton
  • The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
  • Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

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