340 Books For Personal Development

In the building & developing of Campus Consultancy, Founder Josh Farr has read 340 books (as of December, 2021) to expand his thinking, learn from the best in the world and empower him/his team to teach the very best concepts to the attendees at our workshops.

Note: As a starting point, titles marked with a ★ are my top-20 recommendations.

10% Happier by Dan Harris

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson★

28 by Brandon Jack

4 Archetypes by Carl Jung

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey★

A Chance To Make History by Wendy Kopp

A Deeper Truth by Tim Stroh

A Force For Good by Daniel Goleman

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A repurposed Life by Ronni Kahn

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Theory of Human Motivation by A.Maslow

Abundance by Peter Diamandis

Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal liberation by Peter Singer

Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis

As A Man Thinketh by James Allen★

Ash In The Belly by Harsh Mander

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins★

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Because A White Man'll Never Do it by Kevin Gilbert

Become a Key Person of Influence by Daniel Priestley

Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Better Together by Simon Sinek

Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson

Big Data by Kenneth Cukier

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Body by Bill Bryson

Bold by Peter Diamandis★

Book Blueprint by Jacqui Pretty

Born For Love by Bruce Perry

Braving The Wilderness by Brene Brown

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

Built to Sell by John Warrillow

Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

Chapter One by Daniel Flynn★

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Connected by Nicholas Christakis

Conscious Business by Fred Kofman

Creative Schools by Ken Robinson

Crush it! by Gary Vaynerchuck

Crushing it by Gary Vaynerchuk

Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

Dare To Lead by Brené Brown

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Defiant Earth by Clive Hamilton

Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio

Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Developing the leader within you by John C Maxwell

Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell

Difficult Conversation by Douglas Stone

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Do Human Kind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell

Do Purpose: Why Brands With A Purpose Do Better by David Hieatt

Do You Really Need It by Pierre-Yves McSweden

Doing Good Better by Will Macaskill

Dreams from my father by Barack Obama

DRiVE by Dan Pink

Drop Dead Healthy by AJ Jacobs

Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter

Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Emotional Agility by Susan David

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman★

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Ethics In The Real World by Peter Singer

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Factfulness by Hans Rosling★

Finite & Infinite Games by James Carse

Flourish by Martin Seligman

Focus by Daniel Goleman

Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Free Will by Sam Harris

From Poverty to Power by James Allen

Getting To Yes by Fisher & Ury

Give and Take by Adam Grant

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Gradgate by Yousef Shadid

grit: The power of passion and perseverance by Angela Duckworth

Happy by Turia Pitt ★

High Output Management by Andrew Grove

High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit

How are we to live? by Peter Singer

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

How To Be Bored by Eva Hoffman

How To Become A Rainmaker by Jeffery Fox

How To Create A Mind by Ray Kurzweil

How To Rob A Bank by Steve Levitt & Stephen Lubner

How To Stop Worrying by Dale Carnegie

How to Win friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie ★

How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen

Identity by Francis Fukuyama

If This Is A Man by Primo Levi

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

In Praise of Slow by Carl Honoré★

In The Deep Heart's Core by Michael Johnston

Influence by Robert Cialdini

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny et. al

Irresistible by Adam Alter

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuck

Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette

Leaders Eat Last by Simin Sinek

Leading Without Authority by Keith Ferrazzi

Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Leaving Microsoft To Change The World by John Wood

Legacy by James Kerr

Lessons of History by Will Durant

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer

Levels of The Game by John McPhee

Liespotting by Pamela Meyer

Linchpin by Seth Godin

Living an Inspired Life by Wayne Dwyer

Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Loonshots by Safi Bahcall

Lost Connections by Johann Hari

Lotsaholic by Adam Jablin

Lying by Sam Harris

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl★

Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson

Marketing: A Love Story by Bernadette Jiwa

Mastery by Robert Greene

Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius★

Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

Mentor by Russell Brand

Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Money: Master The Game by Tony Robbins

Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Keller

Multipliers by Liz Wiseman

My Philosophy for Successful Living by Jim Rohn

Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss

NLP The Essential Guide by Tom Hoobyar

Noise by Daniel Kahneman et al.

Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

Notes From A Friend by Tony Robbins

On Being A Data Skeptic by Cathy O'Neil

On Death & Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

On The Shortness of Life by Seneca

One Day, All Children... by Wendy Koop

One Person / Multiple Careers by Marci Alboher

One Shot: Trees as our last chance for survival by John Learey

One-Week Job by Sean Aiken

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

Originals by Adam Grant

Payoff by Dan Ariely

Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday

Permission Marketing by Seth Godin

Permission to FEEL by Marc Brackett

Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Primal Leadership by Daniel Coleman

Principles by Ray Dalio★

Principles For Success by Ray Dalio

Progress by Johan Norberg

Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Quiet by Susan Cain

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Rafe Esquith by There Are No Shortcuts

Range by David Epstein

Real Role Models: African Americans Beyond Pop Culture by Joah Spearman

Recovery by Russell Brand

Religion for Atheists: A non-believers guide to the uses of religion by Alain de Botton

Revolution by Russell Brand

Rework by Jason Fried

Rhetoric by Aristotle

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

River out of Eden by Richard Dawkins

sand talk by Tyson

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari★

Sapiens: A Graphic History by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave

Saving Your Life One Day At A Time by Roy Sugarman

Say Yes To Life by Viktor Frankl

Screw Business As Usual by Richard Branson

Self-Leadership & The OMM by Ken Blanchard

Sell Like Crazy by Sabri Suby

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono

Slicing Pie by Mike Moyer

Small Giant by Bo Burlingham

Smart Work by Dermot Crowley (#45)

So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

Social Media Secret Sauce by Adam Houlihan

Start With Why by Simon Sinek

Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday

Stone Soup by The Brothers Grimm

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Stumbling On Happiness by Daniel Gilbert★

Surely you're joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman

Talking To My Country by Stan Grant

Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Teach and Grow Rich by Danny Iny

Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire by Rafe Esquith

Teach Your Gift by Danny Iny

Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk

Thanks A Thousand by A.J. Jacobs

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell

The 4 Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss

The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss★

The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma

The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

The Art of Winning by Dennis Conner

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog by Bruce Perry

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

The Choice by Edith Eger

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The Denial of Death by Ernest Beck

The Dip by Seth Godin

The Disney Way by Bill Capodagli & Lynn Jackson

The Enchiridion by Epictetus

The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Firm by Duff McDonald

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe

The Future by Us by Hugh Evans

The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler

The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary

The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino

The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

The Kirkpatrick Model

The Latte Factor by David Bach

The Leader In Me by Stephen Covey

The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

The LinkedIn Playbook by Adam Houlahan

The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Mentor. by Jack Bancroft

The Mind In The Making by James Harvey Robinson

The Mind of A Leader by Harvard Business Review Ft. Daniel Goleman

The Mind of Winning Teams by Richard Maloney

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer

The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard

The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The New Toughness Training for Sport by James Loehr

The NLP Toolbox by Colin G Smith

The Obstacle is The Way by Ryan Holiday

The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard

The Person & The Situation by Lee Ross

The Power of Discord by Ed Tronick & Claudia Gold

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Power of The Subconscious Mind by Dr Joseph Murphy

The Practice by Seth Godin

The Promise of A Pencil by Adam Braun

The Psychology of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

The Richest Man In Babylon by George Clason

The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck

The Road To Your Best Stuff by Mike Williams

The Seasons of Life by Jim Rohn

The Secret of The Ages by Robert Collier

The Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work by John Gottman

The Space Between by Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald

The Speed of Trust by Stephen M R Covey

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

The War for Kindness by Jamil Zaki

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Way of Peace by James Allen

The Why Cafe by John Strelecky

Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Think Again by Adam Grant

Think Like A Freak by Steven Dubner

Think. Decide. Act. by Russell Boon

Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman★

Thirst by Scott Harrison★

This is Marketing by Seth Godin

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

To Sell Is Human by Dan Pink

Tony Robbins by Andrew Knight

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Traction by Gino Wickman

Trailblazer by Marc Benioff

Tribe by Sebastian Jung

Tribes by Seth Godin

Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle

Twelve and a Half by Gary Vaynerchuck

Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions by Bill W.

Ultra Learning by Scott Young

Unicorn Tears by Jamie Pride

United by Cory Booker

Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins

Unshakeable by Tony Robbins

Vagabonding by Rolf Potts

Victim To Victor by Nick Santonastasso

Waking Up by Sam Harris

Walden by Henry David Thoreau ★

We Are All Weird by Seth Godin

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

What Great Story-Tellers Know by Bernadette Jiwa

Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Wise Guy by Guy Kawasaki

Working With Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

World As I See It by Albert Einstein

Yellow Elephant by Tansel Ali

You’ve Got To Be Hungry by Les Brown

Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer

Zero to One by Peter Thiel