Books everyone must read

Hi all!

I was asking a few people at work today if they could offer the world one book to read, what would it be?

So far I've gotten a few responses.

The first was Ishmael.
The second was The Secret.

(Neither of which I've read, but a lady said she'd bring me a copy of Ishmael tomorrow to read.)

What book would you offer the world to read?

I Really really had a life changing experience from the book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success was written by Carol S. Dweck and focuses on how differing attitudes affect the way that people view both themselves and their interactions with others" Especially since it's backed by my college's psychology department (ASU). I Think everyone should read that book before anyone tries to learn something new ,so everyone.


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Just general mind expanding books.

How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. The book attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.

How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide.

The Agile Gene, Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.

Tricks of the mind, "Derren Brown's amazing television and stage performances have entranced and amazed millions. His baffling tricks and stunning illusions have set new standards of what's possible, as well as causing controversy"

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey.

The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection.

The secret isn't that big, and your already getting it in your Jedi training.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig

I've read Ishmael; that's a really good book, so your coworker has great taste in literature

The single most influential book I've ever read was Star Wars: Traitor. It would be nearly impossible to understand without the context of having read the dozen or so books before it, however, the author Matthew Stover took Jediism and turned it on its head. Some (those who don't understand it) might call it dark. Others might just call it honest.

Illusions by Richard Bach
Though, I second Ishmael and Tricks of the Mind.
I have been thinking of making a list of books everyone should read.

Aristotle - Ethics

fiction: either 'steel beach' by john varley or 'starship troopers' by heinlein.

non- an abridged encylopedia. and for serious. like any good nerdling, i used to do this when i was a kid.

if I were to choose one book, I think I'd ask them to read Turning the Mind into an Ally by my teacher, the Sakyong Mipham.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Crimson Shadow (three-book series) - R.A. Salvatore
Freehold - Michael Z. Williamson

There are plenty to choose from and I could name more.

There is a lot of books that I would recomend that everyone should read during their life.

The Bible: Regardless of whether or not you believe in a god or not. It has a lot of good advice.
A Buddhist Bible: edited by: Dwight Goddard
The Tao
Awaken the Giant Within: Anthony Robbins
Unlimited Power: Anthony Robbins
What the Bleep do we know!?: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Discovering Your Past Lives: Chadwick
The Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell
The Secret/The Power/The Magic/Soon to come-Hero:Rhonda Byrne
The Sedona Method: Dwoskin
Any Book by Chopra But I suggest,"The book of secrets" and "Reinventing the body resurrecting the soul" and "the spontaneuous fulfillment of desire."
Any Book by Eckhart Tolle But I suggest, "The Power of NOw"
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: T. Harv Eker
Reincarnation: Elizabeth Clare Prophet
The Success Principles: Jack Canfield
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen R. Covey
The Aladdin Factor: Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Law of Attraction: Michael J. Losier
Republic: Plato
Brain Builders: Richard Leviton
Poetics and Rhetoric: Aristotle
Positive Magic: Marion Weinstein
Living Witchcraft: Allen Scarboro, Nancy Campbell, Shirley Stave
The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great: Wallace D. Wattles
Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes
Deep Truth: Gregg Braden
Becoming God: Elizabeth Clare Prophet
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Drunvalo Melchizedek
The Law of Success, Think and Grow Rich, Outwitting the Devil: Napoleon Hill... Think and Grow Rich is the foundation for the modern day Law of Attraction.
The Master Key System: Charles F Hannel.
The Secret of the Ages: Rober Collier

Well that is part of my Library: Without any of the E-Books I have added which are over 500 dealing with the same subjects as the list above.
Plus I have about 150 E-Books on Psychology
Somewhere close to 30 Audio Seminars from Anthony Robbins, Bill Gold, Brian Tracy, Deepak Chopra, Jim Rohn, Jim Rohn, John Maxwell, Robert Kiyosaki, Zig Ziglar(Top motivational speaker In my opinion), David Bach, James Allen, and many others.

Bah Sorry I got carried away.

I will try to shorten it now.
ONE BOOK
Think and Grow Rich.

If two books:
Think and Grow Rich
The BIble

If three books:
Think and Grow Rich
The Bible
A Buddhist Bible

Learn_To_Know wrote: If (you) could offer the world one book to read, what would it be?

Guys, focus. Its not 'list every good book you ever read'. Its one book. And yes, I put 3, but 2 fiction and one non. So nyah.

Great suggestions everyone...keep 'em coming...

I think I would suggest Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World.

I recommend The Art of Happiness by H.H. The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler.

Ohhhhh that's a good one, Archon!

Desolous wrote:

Learn_To_Know wrote: If (you) could offer the world one book to read, what would it be?

Guys, focus. Its not 'list every good book you ever read'. Its one book. And yes, I put 3, but 2 fiction and one non. So nyah.

Focus ?!? What's does that mean. :evil:

Off the top of my head... learn about THIS AGE before you get lost in the New Age nonsense.

Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike

Manly P Hall

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Naked Communist, Cleon Skousen
The Naked Capitalist, Cleon Skousen

Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis

Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race

Smedley Darlington Butler, War is a Racket

Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism

G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve,

Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot

Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

Antony Sutton Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

H.G. Wells, The New World Order

George Orwell 1984

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Confessions of an Economic Hitman John Perkins

Emperor Wears No Clothes Jack Herer

Andy Spalding wrote: The secret isn't that big, and your already getting it in your Jedi training.

Ahh, thanks for the info.

Part of me doesn't want to read it anymore, the other part wants to read it more just to see what you're saying.

I'll probably read it still, but it will be down on the list...

Streen wrote: I've read Ishmael; that's a really good book, so your coworker has great taste in literature

The single most influential book I've ever read was Star Wars: Traitor. It would be nearly impossible to understand without the context of having read the dozen or so books before it, however, the author Matthew Stover took Jediism and turned it on its head. Some (those who don't understand it) might call it dark. Others might just call it honest.

Interesting.

I looked it up on Amazon and see that it's book 12 of a series. I've read a few Star Wars books ( the original and prequel trilogies and a few "pre" prequel books). I'll have to keep that one in mind for sure...