Below is complete (more-or-less) list of personal growth, self-help, self-improvement, personal development and spiritual books that I’ve read—many of them more than once—over the past 50 years.
They’re listed here in no particular order or importance to me, even though some of them absolutely have made a more significant impact on my life than others.
- The Wisdom of Yoga – Stephen Cope
- The Untethered Soul – Michael A. Singer
- Three Simple Steps – Trevor Blake
- You Can Have It All – Arnold M. Patent
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself – Joe Dispenza
- A Course in Miracles – Foundation for Inner Peace
- Consciousness Is All – Peter Francis Dxiuban
- Mindfulness In Plain English – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
- The Power of Now – Eckahart Tolle
- A New World – Eckahart Tolle
- The War Of Art – Steven Pressfield
- Nothing Real Can Be Threatened – Tara Singh
- The Science of Mind – Ernest Holmes
- Unlimited Power – Tony Robbins
- Awaken The Giant Within – Tony Robbins
- A Return To Love – Marianne Williamson
- Your Erroneous Zones – Wayne Dyer
- Real Magic – Wayne Dyer
- Loving What Is – Byron Katie
- Discover The Power Within You – Eric Butterworth
- The Way of Chuang Tzu – Thomas Merton
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success – Deepak Chopra
- Busting Loose From the Money Game – Robert Scheinfeld
- The Ultimate Key to Happiness – Robert Scheinfeld
- The End of Your World – Adyashanti
- The Road Less Travelled – M. Scott Peck
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
- The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science – Thomas Troward
- Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
- Think and Grow Rich With Peace of Mind – Napoleon Hill
- Three Magic Words – U.S. Anderson
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind – Joseph Murphy
- How I Found Freedom In an Unfree World – Harry Browne
- The Nature of Personal Reality – Jane Roberts
- Seth Speaks – Jane Roberts
- Illusions – Richard Bach
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
- The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
- How To Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
- How To Stop Worring and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
- The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking – Dale Carnegie
- Limitless Mind – Russell Targ
- Handbook To Higher Consciousness – Ken Keyes Jr
- Infinite Self – Stuart Wilde
- The Trick to Money Is Having Some – Stuart Wilde
- Tao Te Ching – translation by Derek Lin
- The Essential Crazy Wisdom – Wes “scoop” Nisker
- The Holographic Universe – Michael Talbot
- Your Nostradamus Factor – Ingo Swann
- The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
- Winning Through Intimidation – Robert Ringer
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got – Jay Abraham
- The 4 Hour Work Week – Timothy Ferriss
- No B.S. Wealth Attraction For Entrepreneurs – Dan Kennedy
- No B.S. Time Management For Entrepreneurs – Dan Kennedy
- Thick Face, Black Heart – Chin-Ning Chu
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
- Power vs Force – David R Hawkins
- The Presence Process – Michael Brown
- The 10X Rule – Grant Cardone
- The Field – Lynne McTaggart
- Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing – Jed McKenna
- Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment – Jed McKenna
- Spiritual Warfare – Jed McKenna
- Jed McKenna’s Theory of Everything – Jed McKenna
- The Man Made Prison – Mateo Tabatabai
- Super Normal – Dean Radin
- The Root of Chinese Qigong – Yang Jwing-Ming
- The Emotion Code – Bradley Nelson
- Fuck It – John C. Parkin
- The Complete Book of Numerology – David A. Phillips
- Why Quantum Physicists Do Not Fail – Greg Kuhn
- How Quantum Physicists Build New Beliefs – Greg Kuhn
- Let The Universe Lead You – Richard Dotts
- Dollars Flow To Me Easily – Richard Dotts
- The God Academy – Angelica Crystal Powers
- As a Man Thinketh – James Allen
- Models: Attract Women Through Honesty – Mark Manson
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck – Mark Manson
- The Abundance Book – John Randolf Price
- Atomic Habits – James Clear
- The Sacred Six – JB Glossinger
- Ask and It Shall Be Given – Esther Hicks
- Money, and the Law of Attraction – Esther Hicks
- Psycho Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz
- The Abundance Book – Larry Crane, Lester Levinson
- Choose Yourself – James Altucher
- The Gospel According To Jesus – Paul Ferrini
- The First and Last Freedom – Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The Lazy Man’s Way To Riches – Joe Karbo
- You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero
- I’m OK—You’re OK – Thomas A. Harris
- Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
- The Richest Man in Babylon – George Samuel Clason
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- The Power of Positive Thinking – Norman Vincent Peale
- The Magic of Thinking Big – David J. Schwartz
- Chicken Soup For the Soul – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark
- The Biology of Belief – Bruce Lipton
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl
- The Four Agreements – Miguel Ruiz
- The Paleo Solution – Robb Wolf
- Healthy at 100 – John Robbins
- The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino
- The Celestine Prophecy – James Refield
- Conversations With God – Neale Donald Walsch
- Be Here Now – Ram Dass
- Peace Is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence – Robert M. Pirsig
- Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert