Recommended Books

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Books are one of my favorite ways to learn and grow as a person. In fact, I try to read 1 book every week. Below you can find lists by category of my favorites from years of reading in the areas of productivity, life design, time management, happiness, fiction, etc.

 

Designing Your Life:

• Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• Design Your Day by Claire Diaz Ortiz
• Cultivate by Lara Casey
• Wellth: How I learned to Build a Life Not a Resume by Jason Wachob
• Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice, and Build Your Dream Life by Lisa Sugar
• Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey off the Beaten Path by Erin Loechner
• How to Live a Good Life: A Practical Guide to a Life Well Lived by Jonathan Fields
• Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want by Michael Hyatt

 

A Guide to Life:

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar
• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss
• Love Does by Bob Goff
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

 

Mindset:

• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Three Feet From Gold: Turn Your Obstacles Into Opportunities by Sharon Lechter
• Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by Barbara Oakley
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

 

Habits:

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Organize Tomorrow Today by Jason Selk

 

Time Management:

• Breaking Busy by Alli Worthington
• Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
• The Fringe Hours: Making Time For You by Jessica N Turner
• The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life by Craig Ballantyne
• 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam

 

General Productivity:

• Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart + Live Life Your Way by Shaa Wasmund
• The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future by Skip Prichard
• The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bailey
• Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• Are You Fully Charged? 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life by Tom Rath

 

Happiness + Positive Psychology:

• Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Spreading Positivity and Creating a Spiral of Success by Michelle Gielan
• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu
• The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life by Janice Kaplan
• Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy by Emily Ley
• Present Over Perfect: :Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist
• The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppala

 

Career:

• Own It: The Power of Women at Work by Sallie Krawcheck
• How to Have a Good Day: Harnessing the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life by Caroline Webb
• Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do by Chris Guillebeau

 

Transition:

• Pivot by Jenny Blake
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
• Fearless + Free: How Smart Women Pivot and Relaunch Their Careers by Wendy Sachs
• Leap: Leaving a Job With No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want by Tess Vigeland

 

Anxiety + Mental Health:

• On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety by Andrea Peterson
• This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin

 

Sleep + Health:

• The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington

 

Jane Austen Inspired:

• Pride + Prejudice + Mistletoe by Melissa De La Cruz
• The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay
• The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennett by Bernie Su

 

Historical Fiction:

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

 

Chick Lit:

• My Not so Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella