Top 100 books to read | what successful people read

Juju Gurgel
6 min readMay 19, 2020

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Looking to read more books but don’t know where to start? Here’s a list of 100 books to read that are also recommend by the most successful people in the world, such as the internet and social media Guru, Tai Lopez, the great speaker Tony Robbins and many others.

Top 100 books to read — what successful people read

1 — Managing oneself by Peter F. Drucker

2 — Evolutionary psychology by David Buss

3 — Civilization and it’s discontents by Sigmund Freud

4 — How to win friends and influence people — Dale Canergie

5 — TOTAL RECALL BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

6 — The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins

7 — THE LESSONS OF HISTORY BY WILL & ARIEL DURANT

8 — KON-TIKI BY THOR HEYERDAHL

9 — WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW I’M DEAD BY JERRY WEINTRAUB

10 — THE FOLLY OF FOOLS: THE LOGIC OF DECEIT AND SELF-DECEPTION IN HUMAN LIFE BY ROBERT TRIVERS

11 — The H factor of personality: why some people manipulative , self entitled. materialistic and exploitative and why it matter for everyone — Kibeom Lee and Michael C. Ashton

12 — The one thing — Gary Keller

13 — The greatest minds and ideas of all time — Will Durant

14 — Made in America — Sam Walton

15 — The complete story of civilization by Will Durant

16 — The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus

17 — Poor Charlie’s Almanack; The wit and wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter Kaufman

18 — Disrupt you! Master personal transformation seize opportunity and thrive in the era of endless innovation by Jay Samit

19 — A few lessons for investors and managers by Warren Buffet

20 — Michael Jordan: the life by Roland Lazenby

21 — All quiet in the western front by Erich Maria Remarque

22 — The happiness hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

23 — Salt Sugar Fat — How the food giants hooked us by Michael Moss

24 — Awaken the giant within by Anthony Robbins

25 — The Hiltons: The true story of an American dynasty by J. Randy Taraborreli

26 — Grinding it out: the making of McDonalds by Ray Croc

27 — The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of amazon by Brad Stone

28 — Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives — and Our Lives Change Our Genes by Sharon Moalem

29 — Why beautiful people have more daughters by Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa

30 — Social: Why our brains are wired to connect by Matthew D. Lieberman

31 — Flow: the psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

32 — The theory of everything by Stephen Hawking

33 — Contagious why things catch on by Jonah Berger

34 — Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler

35 — Berkshire Hathaway letters to shareholders 1965–2018 by Warren Buffet

36 — Attached: The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find — and keep — love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

37 — President me: The America that’s in my head by Adam Carolla

38 — Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

39 — Dollars and sex: How economics influences sex and love by Marina Adshade

40 — The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes

41 — An autobiography: the story of my experiments with truth by Mohandas Gandhi

42 — The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

43 — The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway

44 — Switch: how to change things when change is hard by Chip and Dean Heath

45 — The millionaire next door by Thomas J Stanley

46 — Holy cows and hog heaven: the food buyers guide to farm friendly food by Joel Salatin

47 — The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating by David M Buss

48 — Lying by Sam Harrin

49 — Eat the yolks by Liz Wolfe

50 — The moral landscape: How science can determine human values by Sam Harris

51 — I am ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne

51 — The Conversion Code: Capture Internet Leads, Create Quality Appointments, Close More Sales

53 — The fish that are the whale: The life and times of America’s banana kind by Rich Cohen

54 — Willpower: Rediscovering the greatest human strength by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney

55 — The essential by Peter F. Drucker

56 — Beyond religion — ethics for a whole world by Dalai Lama

57 — No one understand you and what to do about it by Heidi Grant Halvorson

58 — Anxious : using the brain to understand and treat fear and anxiety by Joseph Ledoux

59 — Hatching twitter by Nick Bilton

60 — The magic of thinking big by David J. Schwartz Phd

61 — Influence: The psychology of persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

62 — Compelling people: The psychology hidden qualities that make us influential by John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut

63 — Personality psychology: domains of knowledge about human nature by Randy J. Larsen and David M Buss

64 — Fast food nation by Eric Schlosser

65: KING OF CAPITAL: THE REMARKABLE RISE, FALL, AND RISE AGAIN OF STEVE SCHWARZMAN AND BLACKSTONE BY DAVID CAREY

66 — Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Projects to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore

67 — Cosmos by Carl Sagan

68 — Anthropology by Carol R. Ember, Melvin R. Ember

69 — How Google Works by Eric Schmidt

70 — Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life and Business by Sir Richard Branson

71 — The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey

72 — Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

73 — King Rat: The Epic Novel of War and Survival by James Clavell

74 — The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life by Barry J. Nalebuff

75 — Alaska: A Novel by James A. Michener

76 — The Art of War by Sun Tzu

77 — The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value by John Sviokla

78 — Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed

79 — Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow

80 — Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson

81 — Plowman’s Folly by Edward H. Faulkner

82 — Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography by Kathryn Spink

83 — Great by ChoiceBook by Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

84 — The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure by Ian H. Robertson

85 — The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

86 — The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant

87 — Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times by Dennis McDougal

88 — Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

89 — Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

90 — Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, Doug Ordunio

91: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

92 — The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul by Phil Jackson

93 — A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

94 — Principles of Economicsby N. Gregory Mankiw

95 — Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

96: Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples

97 — Smart Pricing: How Google, Priceline, and Leading Businesses Use Pricing Innovation for Profitability by Jagmohan Raju

98 — How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis

99 — Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Dealby Oren Klaff

100: Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy

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Juju Gurgel
Juju Gurgel

Written by Juju Gurgel

Brazilian American wife and mother of three blogger and writer based out of Florida.

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