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Books That Changed My Life

Books that Changed My Life


 

The SOUL OF SHAME

by Curt Thompson MD

The Courage to Be Disliked

by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

by David Brooks

All About Love: New Visions

By Bell Hooks

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By Gino Wickman

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By Priya Parker

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

By Brennan Manning

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

By Bo Burlingham

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By Tiago Forte

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

By Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler and Emily Gregory

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By Will Guidara

The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

By Stephen M .R. Covey

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

By C.S. Lewis

The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy

By William Strauss and Neil Howe

Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

By Robert Rodriguez

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

By Lawrence M. Miller

No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex and Life

By Robert A. Glover

The Practice of the Presence of God

By Brother Lawrence

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

By Brené Brown

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By Julie Zhuo

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By Mortimer J. Adler

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

By Austin Kleon

The Great Divorce

By C.S. Lewis

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Inspiring Conversations on Hope, Love and Personal Growth

By Charlie Mackesy

Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By Ed Catmull

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By Cal Newport

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

By Cal Newport

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

By Oliver Burkeman

The Freelance Manifesto: A Field Guide for the Modern Motion Designer

By Joey Korenman

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

By Madeleine L'Engle

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: the Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

By Luke Sullivan

On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

By Alexander Mackendrick

The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

By Will Storr

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

By Walter Murch

Poetics

By Aristotle

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By Jonathan Haidt

Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms

By Jim Wilder

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary

By Robert Alter

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

By Tim Keller

Mere Christianity

By C.S. Lewis

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

By Dallas Willard

The Conquest of Happiness

By Bertrand Russell

From Paycheck to Purpose: The Clear Path to Doing Work You Love

By Ken Coleman

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By Stephen R. Covey

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

By James Clear

The Abolition of Man

By C.S. Lewis

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

By Meg Jay

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

By Chris Voss

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By Stephen King

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

By Julia Cameron

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By Steven Pressfield

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

By Jeff Olson

Orthodoxy

By G.K. Chesterton

The Pursuit of God

By A.W. Tozer

The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

By Jared C. Wilson

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life

By Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

By Shauna Niequist

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

By Paul E. Miller

Trusting God

By Jerry Bridges

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

By Donald Miller

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

By Michael E. Gerber

How to Win Friends & Influence People

By Dale Carnegie

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

By Robert B Cialdini, PhD

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

By Mitch Albom

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

By Don Miguel Ruiz

Meditations

By Marcus Aurelius

Principles: Life and Work

By Ray Dalio

The Four Loves

By C.S. Lewis