50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life From Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 James Allen – As a Man Thinketh (1902)

2 Marcus Aurelius – Meditations (2nd century)

3 The Bhagavad-Gita

4 The Bible

5 Robert Bly – Iron John (1990)

6 Boethius – The Consolation of Philosophy (6th century)

7 Alain de Botton – How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)

8 William Bridges – Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes (1980)

9 David Brooks – The Road to Character (2015)

10 Brené Brown – Daring Greatly (2012)

11 David D. Burns – Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (1980)

12 Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers – The Power of Myth (1987)

13 Richard Carlson – Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff … and It’s All Small Stuff (1997)

14 Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)

15 Deepak Chopra – The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994)

16 Clayton Christensen – How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012)

17 Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist (1993)

18 Stephen Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)

19 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990)

20 The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler – The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (1998)

21 The Dhammapada (Buddha’s teachings)

22 Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit (2011)

23 Wayne Dyer – Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life (1992)

24 Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance (1841)

25 Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992)

26 Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning (1959)

27 Benjamin Franklin – Autobiography (1790)

28 Shakti Gawain – Creative Visualization (1978)

29 Daniel Goleman – Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ (1995)

30 John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992)

31 Louise Hay – You Can Heal Your Life (1984)

32 James Hillman – The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996)

33 Susan Jeffers – Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (1987)

34 Richard Koch – The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less (1998)

35 Marie Kondo – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014)

36 Ellen J. Langer – Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life (1989)

37 Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching (5th–3rd century BC)

38 Maxwell Maltz – Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)

39 Abraham Maslow – Motivation and Personality (1954)

40 Thomas Moore – Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (1992)

41 Joseph Murphy – The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963)

42 Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)

43 M. Scott Peck – The Road Less Traveled (1978)

44 Anthony Robbins – Awaken the Giant Within (1991)

45 Florence Scovell Shinn – The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925)

46 Martin Seligman – Learned Optimism (1991)

47 Samuel Smiles – Self-Help (1859)

48 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

49 Henry David Thoreau – Walden (1854)

50 Marianne Williamson – A Return to Love (1994)

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