60 Books People Like Us Recommend

It is key to build relaxation and balance into our week, I call this #happybalance. Many of us like to do this by getting stuck into a good book. Whether a novel or a business book, every read shows us something new. I’ve asked people like us what they like to read and here are the 60 recommended reads for you to browse and add to. Let us know your favourites.

1. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
2. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists — Robert Tressell
3. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
4. Happy — Derren Brown
5. The Second Bounce Of The Ball: Turning Risk Into Opportunity Paperback — Sir Ronald Cohen
6. Eat that Frog — Brian Tracy
7. The Success Principles — Jack Canfield
8. Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not -Robert T. Kiyosaki
9. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
10. Lazarillo de Tormes — Anonymous
11. The E-myth — Michael Gerber
12. The Chimp Paradox — Steve Peters
13. The Faraway Tree — Enid Blyton
14. How the Mighty Fall — Why Some Companies Fail — Jim Collins.
15. Good to Great — Jim Collins
16. The President is Missing — President Bill Clinton and James Patterson
17. The Establishment — Owen Jones
18. PostCapitalism — Paul Mason
19. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
20. IQ84 — Haruki Murakami
21. Tender is the Night — F Scott. Fitzgerald
22. Great Apes — Will Self
23. Amsterdam — Ian McEwan
24. Rebecca — Daphne Du Marier
25. Wonderful Lives — Nicky Bayliss
26. Emergence — Derek Rydall
27. A Hundred Little Flames — Preeti Shenoy
28. This is Marketing — Seth Godin
29. Start with Why — Simon Sinek
30. Be More Pirate — Sam Connie
31. Make Your Bed Admiral William H McRaven
32. Better Than Before — Gretchen Rubin
33. SS-GB — Len Deighton
34. The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
35. Alias Grace — Margaret Atwood
36. Linchpin — Seth Godin
37. The Very First Damned Thing — Jodi Taylor
38. Jolt: Shake Up Your Thinking — Richard Tyler
39. Dare To Lead — Brene Brown
40. The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg
41. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance — Angela Duckworth
42. Tools of Titans — Tim Ferris
43. Founders Dilemma — Noam Wasserman
44. Border — Kapka Kassabova
45. Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature — Swami Vivekananda
46. The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern
47. Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
48. Climbing the Mango Trees — Madhur Jaffrey
49. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery — Henry Marsh
50. Shantaram — Gregory David Roberts
51. Poison Wood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
52. Killing Floor — Lee Child
53. A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
54. Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
55. Innovation and Entrepreneurship — Peter Drucker
56. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers — Ben Horowitz
57. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress — Steven Pinker
58. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language — Steven Pinker
59. How to Be A Productivity Ninja – Graham Allcott
60. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R Covey