Top 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime

What makes a good business book? How does a self help book stand the test of time? The Amazon Editors got together to build a list of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime, with an eye toward helping customers to prepare for their future and/or better deal with their present. You'll find self help, business, inspiration, science of the mind, and more.

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1

#GIRLBOSS

by Sophia Amoruso

4.5 avg rating, 1521 reviews, 2015-09-29

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2

A New Earth

by Eckhart Tolle

4.6 avg rating, 4203 reviews, 2008-01-30

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3

Andrew Carnegie

by David Nasaw

4.3 avg rating, 130 reviews, 2007-10-30

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4

Awaken the Giant Within

by Tony Robbins

4.5 avg rating, 1221 reviews, 1992-11-01

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5

Big Magic

by Elizabeth Gilbert

4.6 avg rating, 2440 reviews, 2015-09-22

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6

Business Adventures

by John Brooks

4 avg rating, 471 reviews, 2014-08-12

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7

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

by Daniel G. Amen M.D.

4.3 avg rating, 909 reviews, 2015-11-03

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8

Chicken Soup for the Soul 20th Anniversary Edition

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark

4.5 avg rating, 120 reviews, 2013-06-25

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9

Choose Yourself!

by James Altucher

4.4 avg rating, 1939 reviews, 2013-06-03

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10

Crush It!

by Gary Vaynerchuk

4.5 avg rating, 1137 reviews, 2009-10-13

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11

Do Over

by Jon Acuff

4.7 avg rating, 359 reviews, 2015-04-07

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12

Drive

by Daniel H. Pink

4.4 avg rating, 1162 reviews, 2011-04-05

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13

Eat That Frog!

by Brian Tracy

4.6 avg rating, 971 reviews, 2007-01-01

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14

Elon Musk

by Ashlee Vance

4.7 avg rating, 2823 reviews, 2015-05-19

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15

Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

4.3 avg rating, 952 reviews, 2005-09-27

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16

Essentialism

by Greg McKeown

4.6 avg rating, 1526 reviews, 2014-04-15

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17

Execution

by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck

4.2 avg rating, 424 reviews, 2011-02-01

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18

Find a Way

by Diana Nyad

4.5 avg rating, 172 reviews, 2015-10-20

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19

First, Break All the Rules

by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

4.5 avg rating, 583 reviews, 1999-05-05

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20

Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4.1 avg rating, 641 reviews, 2008-07-01

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21

Flying Without a Net

by Thomas J. DeLong

3.9 avg rating, 13 reviews, 2011-06-14

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22

Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt

4.4 avg rating, 3387 reviews, 2009-08-25

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23

Getting More

by Stuart Diamond

4.6 avg rating, 391 reviews, 2012-08-14

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24

Getting Things Done

by David Allen

4.4 avg rating, 3163 reviews, 2015-03-17

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25

Getting to Yes

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton

4.5 avg rating, 1092 reviews, 2011-05-03

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26

Give and Take

by Adam Grant

4.5 avg rating, 711 reviews, 2014-03-25

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27

Good to Great

by Jim Collins

4.4 avg rating, 2670 reviews, 2001-10-16

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28

How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

4.6 avg rating, 7538 reviews, 1998-10-01

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29

How Will You Measure Your Life?

by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon

4.6 avg rating, 778 reviews, 2012-05-15

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30

Influence

by Robert B. Cialdini

4.5 avg rating, 1688 reviews, 2006-12-26

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31

Leadership on the Line

by Martin Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz

4.5 avg rating, 150 reviews, 2002-04-18

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32

Lean In

by Sheryl Sandberg

4.5 avg rating, 4430 reviews, 2013-03-12

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33

Made to Stick

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

4.6 avg rating, 1062 reviews, 2007-01-02

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34

Man’s Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

4.7 avg rating, 4966 reviews, 2006-06-01

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35

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

4.2 avg rating, 3716 reviews, 1997-07-11

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36

Mindset

by Carol S. Dweck

4.4 avg rating, 2440 reviews, 2007-12-26

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37

Misbehaving

by Richard H. Thaler

4.5 avg rating, 423 reviews, 2015-05-11

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38

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

by Dr. Seuss

4.8 avg rating, 7672 reviews, 1990-01-22

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39

Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

4.6 avg rating, 5294 reviews, 2011-06-07

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40

Personal History

by Katharine Graham

4.4 avg rating, 327 reviews, 1998-02-24

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41

Predictably Irrational

by Dan Ariely

4.5 avg rating, 1233 reviews, 2010-04-27

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42

Quiet

by Susan Cain

4.5 avg rating, 5685 reviews, 2013-01-29

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43

It Worked for Me

by Colin Powell

4.6 avg rating, 470 reviews, 2014-06-03

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44

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

4.4 avg rating, 1855 reviews, 1982-01-01

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45

Start with Why

by Simon Sinek

4.5 avg rating, 2372 reviews, 2011-12-27

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46

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

4.4 avg rating, 6745 reviews, 2015-09-15

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47

StrengthsFinder 2.0

by Tom Rath

4 avg rating, 3713 reviews, 2007-02-01

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48

Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Gilbert

4 avg rating, 619 reviews, 2007-03-20

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49

Superforecasting

by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

4.2 avg rating, 320 reviews, 2015-09-29

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50

Talent is Overrated

by Geoff Colvin

4.4 avg rating, 428 reviews, 2010-05-25

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51

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

by Al Ries, Jack Trout

4.4 avg rating, 425 reviews, 1994-04-27

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52

The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

4.5 avg rating, 2770 reviews, 2000-09-01

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53

The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss

4.4 avg rating, 5361 reviews, 2009-12-15

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54

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen R. Covey

4.5 avg rating, 5427 reviews, 2013-11-19

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55

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

4.6 avg rating, 12312 reviews, 2014-04-15

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56

The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

by Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler M.D.

4.3 avg rating, 42 reviews, 2009-10-06

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57

The Art of Stillness

by Pico Iyer

4.2 avg rating, 233 reviews, 2014-11-04

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58

The Art of Strategy

by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff

4.3 avg rating, 98 reviews, 2010-01-04

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59

The Art of the Start 2.0

by Guy Kawasaki

4.7 avg rating, 248 reviews, 2015-03-03

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60

The Art Of War

by Sun Tzu

4.3 avg rating, 5142 reviews, 2007-11-07

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