Introduction

This is a list of the most influential books in my life so far. I have started reading on a regular basis when I was 21 years old. Now I can not even imagine living without the input of these great books. There is nothing better than to start the day with an hour of reading. Go try it out. I promise this will change your life for the better in ways you can not even imagine.

I have tried to arrange the list in the order I would recommend reading them. Remember there is no best book in the world, there is only the best book for you at that particular moment in time. Because the subjective view on the world of each of us varies in a greater or lesser extent everyone perceives the world differently and everyone takes away different anecdotes from each book. Therefore it is also never a bad idea to read good books at least twice in life.

No two persons ever read the same book.

– Edmund Wilson

Same as for my most used tools, I will try to write separate blog posts for each book when I have the time. First I have to check the legal situation regarding the copyright law and book summaries in Germany. In the meantime you can go ahead and pick a good read for yourself.

Productivity

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
• Eat that Frog - Brian Tracy
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure - Grant Cardone
• Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive - Kevin Horsley

Communication and Personal Development

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
• The Law of Success - Napoleon Hill

Health

• Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success - Shawn Stevenson
• Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food - Catherine Shanahan

Marketing

• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen - Donals Miller
• Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - Seth Godin
• Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence―and How You Can, Too - Gary Vaynerchuk
• Branding: Brand Identity, Brand Strategy & Brand Development - K.L.Hammond
• Principles of Marketing - Philip T. Kotler, Gary Armstrong

Business and Finance

• Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution, Management, Personal Productivity and More - Donald Miller
• Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t - Jim Collins
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
• The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success - Howard Love
• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
• The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses - Eric Ries
• Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation - Tim Brown

Sales

• Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal - Oren Klaff
• Way of the Wolf: Straight line selling: Master the art of persuasion, influence, and success - Jordan Belfort
• Deal! Du gibst mir, was ich will! - Jack Nasher

Psychology

• The Private Life of the Brain - Susan A. Greenfield
• Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Harnessing the Power of the Four Cognitive Modes - Stephen Kosslyn
• Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung

Science

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking
• Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana - Revised and Updated - Michael Backes, Andrew Weil