BOOK SPECIAL.................... 17 Intriguing Books Entrepreneurs Recommend You Read

17 Intriguing Books Entrepreneurs Recommend You Read

Looking for a long-read recommendation not suggested by an algorithm or off of the current best-seller list? After interviewing over 60 entrepreneurs, here's a list of intriguing suggestions to use to select your next read.

 #Girlboss, anything by marketing guru Seth Godin and the Stephen Covey's classic "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", these books may be on your book shelf or Kindle already. But have you read "The Renaissance Soul: How to Make Your Passions Your Life" by Margaret Lobenstein"? For entrepreneur Michelle Ward, aka When I Grow Up Coach, "The Renaissance Soul" is her drop-everything recommendation for any multi-passionate, creative type. If you're looking for a must-read recommendation to productively pass the time on a lazy summer afternoon or alternatively, to pack for your next business trip, here are the most intriguing books - from classic novels to timeless business advice - which entrepreneurs have indicted are their must read:

1.                Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini.

2.    The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield.

3.    Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, by John T. Cacioppo.

4.    Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek.

5.    Rain of Gold, by Vctor E. Villaseor.

6.    Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.

7.    Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon.

8.    The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, by M. Scott Peck.

9.    Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, by Nelson Mandela.

10.                   Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy, by Isadore Sharp.

11.                   The Architecture of All Abundance: Seven Foundations to Prosperity, by Lenedra Carroll.

12.                   100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

13.                   Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, by Queen Noor

14.                   Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, by Carolyn Myss.

15.                   The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

16.                   The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro.

17.                   The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg.

On the top of my personal recommendation must-read list is the brutally frank and crushingly honest "Personal History" by Katharine Graham. But don't just take my word for it that "Personal History" is a must business-read. When asked in an interview whether he would write his autobiography, Warren Buffet replied that he had always considered it, that is, until his good friend Katharine Graham published her incredible story.

BY KELLY HOEY

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