You are Flying to Mars never to return...you can only bring

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