This was my favorite question to ask when I was a senior interviewer for my college many years ago. The answer was very telling about the interviewee and their love of reading. What would your answer be? Mine is...I can't give that away here. I will save that for one of our conversations. In the summers of '02 and '03, I rode a bicycle across America with a copy of my favorite on my back. Needless to say almost 20 years later I still read from it daily in the mornings. I am so thankful for learning the ability to turn to the greats from before who wrote it down. Learning from those that have come before you is paramount. One of the most incredible things about human beings is our ability to store information outside the mind in external sources.
Here are my top 48 books recommended for my Card Coaches. I promise if you read all of these with an open & malleable mind your life will change. There are a few on this list that profoundly impacted me just on their own.
1. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
2. Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
3. The Magic of Thinking Big - James Schwartz
4. The Ultimate Gift - Jim Stoval
5. The Strangest Secret - Earl Nightingale
6. Life is Tremendous - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
7. Skill with People - Les Giblin
8. The Richest Man In Babylon - George C. Clason
9. You^2 - Price Pritchett
10. Better Than Beach Money - Jordan Adler
11. Enchiridion - Epictetus
12. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
13. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
14. Lincoln - The Unknown - Dale Carnegie
15. The Invisible Man - Ralph Elisson
16. Psycho Cybernetics - Maxwell Martz, MD
17. You Don't Have to Be Blind To See - Jim Stoval
18. As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
19. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
20. Seasons of Life - Jim Rohn
21. See You At The Top - Zig Ziggler
22. The Go Giver - Bob Burg
23. The Leader Who Had No Title - Robin Sharma
24. Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
25. You and Your Network - Fred Smith
26. Sales Bible - Jeffrey Gittimer
27. Inspire Any Audience - Tony Jeary
28. How to Master the Art of Selling - Tom Hopkins
29. Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive - Harvey Mckay
30. Unlimited Power - Tony Robbins
31. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
32. Who is In Your Room? - Ivan Misner, Stewart Emory, Rick Sapio
33. Crucial Conversations - Patterson, Grenny, McMillian, Switzler
34. The 4 Year Career - Richard Brooke
35. Beach Money - Jordan Adler
36. Ismael - Daniel Quinn
37. The Kingship of Self-control: Individual Problems and Possibilities - William George Jordan
38. I know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
39. Consulting the Wise - Zelig Pliskin
40. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandella
41. The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln
42. On the Shoulders of Giants - Stephen Hawking
43. The Story of my experiments with Truth - Ghandi
44. Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
45. The Diary of a Young Girl - Ann Frank
46. Helmet for my Pillow - Robert Leckie
47. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
48. The Republic - Plato