30 Books You Should Read Before You’re 30

30 Books You Should Read Before You’re 30

Books hold a lifetime of wisdom. Yet many times we get caught up with the latest TV show, which has little benefit to our lives, and forget to read the books that have shaped the greatest people in history. Below is a list of 30 books that everyone should read sometime in their life and preferably when they are younger. As Socrates once said: “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

30 Books You Should Read Before You’re 30

Life, Health and Happiness Books

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change and The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn

The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Health

The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

Eat This and Live! by Don Colbert

Finance Books

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke by Suze Orman

The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

Business Books

The Millionaires Notebook by Steven Scott

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Getting Things Done By David Allen

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard

The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Non-Fiction Books

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson

Fiction Books

1984 by George Orwell

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

BONUS The Bible: It’s not just for Christians. Read Proverbs and Ecclesiastes (written by the wisest man in the world).

BONUS Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss: If you need a short motivational book, here it is! This is great for a graduate gift as well.

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