General Personal Development: The RSD Book List

The RSD Book List

General Personal Development

    Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

    Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

    Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception by Daniel Goleman

    Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

    Flourish by Martin Seligman

    The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

    Laughter by Robert R. Provine

    Changing For Good by James Prochaska

    Wishcraft by Barbara Sher

    Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel

    Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Change by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield

    Find Your Focus Zone by Lucy Jo Palladino

    The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

    Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns

    The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns

    No More Mister Nice Guy by Robert Glover

    Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Steven C. Hayes

    Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It by Henriette Anne Klauser PhD

    Self Discipline in 10 days by Theodore Bryant

    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

    Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

    * The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell

    Blink by Malcom Gladwell

    What the Dog Saw by Malcom Gladwell

    How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne

    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

    The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte

    Healing Your Emotional Self by Beverly Engel

    The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt by Russ Harris, Steven Hayes PhD

    The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris, Steven Hayes

    The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

    The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

    Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

    * Pimp by Iceberg Slim

    The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

    The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

    The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle

    Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin

    Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz

    Frogs Into Princes by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

    Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women by Jane Ann Krentz

    Change or Die by Alan Deutchman

    Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz

    100 Simple Secrets of Happy People by David Niven

    Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron, Dave Loga

    The Book of Secrets: 112 Keys to the Mystery Within by Osho

    The Power of Full Engagement by Tony Schwartz

    No Excuses by Brian Tracy

    Psychology of Selling by Tracy Brian

    Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy

    The Psychology of Achievement: Develop the Top Achiever's Mindset by Brian Tracy

    Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton

    The Challenge to Succeed A Philosophy for Successful Living by Jim Rohn

    * My Philosophy for Successful Living by Jim Rohn

    * The 50th Law by 50 Cent

    * The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

    Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

    * The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene

    10 Mental Laws by Barbara Berger

    Seeds of Light by Elizabeth K. Stratton

    A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield

    Our Appointment With Life by Thich Nhat Hanh and Annabel Laity

    Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom by Guy Finley

    Fire In The Belly by Sam Keen

    You Can't Turn Back

    The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

    The Millennium Trilogy by Steig Larsson

    Changing for Good by James Prochaska

    Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute

    Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

    The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

    Winning Through Enlightenment by Ron Smothermon

    Believing Bullshit by Stephen Law

    Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Jean-Pierre Chodlerdos de Laclos

    The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

    Waiting by Ha Jin

    Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman

    The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

    Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

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

    The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

    Beyond Positive Thinking by Dr. Robert Anthony

    Change Your Life in Seven Days by Paul McKenna

    Thick Face, Black Heart by Chin-Ning Chu

    Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness by Gillian Butler

    How to Think Like Leonardo aa Vinci by Michael Gelb

    Games People Play by Eric Berne

    Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

    Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

    Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think by Dean H. Hamer

    What to Say When You Talk To Your Self by Shad Helmstetter

    Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality by Tad James

    Phoenix: Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson by David Gordon

    Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie

    A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber

    Mind-lines: Lines For Changing Minds by L. Michael Hall

    How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday by Gerry Spence

    Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them, and When to Leave Them by Carole Lieberman

    Thinking About Thinking With Nlp by Joseph Yeager

    Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism by Susan C. Vaughan

    The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere by Wilson Bryan Key

    Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising by Paul Messaris

    Silent Power by Stuart Wilde

    * The Secret of Creating Your Future by James Tad

    The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley

    The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex by David M. Buss

    Modern Coin Magic by J.B. Bobo

    Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

    The Magic You Can Perform With Reframing

    Beliefs by Robert Dilts

    A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkings

    Who Are You, Really? by Gary Null

    Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly

    177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class by Steve Siebold

    As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

    Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

    Thresholds of the Mind by Bill Harris

    The Psychology of Self Esteem by Nathaniel Branden

    Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden

    The Psychology of Romantic Love by Nathaniel Branden

    Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max

    Body by Science by John Little

    A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

    Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Well

    How to Read Book by Charles Van Doren

    This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman

    The Pedant's Revolt by Andrea Barham

    War of the Worldviews by Leonard Mlodinow and Deepak Chopra

    Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    The ZigZag Principle by Rich Christiansen

    Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

    Opening the Mind's Eye by Ian Robertson

    Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate MD

    The Silent Pulse by George Leonard

    The Moral Animal by Robert Wright

    Use Your Brain to Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen

    Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell

    Give Me a Break by John Stossel

    The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One by David Sklansky

    The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal

    Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney

    Using Your Brain for a Change by Richard Bandler

    The Psychology of Winning by Denis Waitley

    The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky

    The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

    Yoritomo and Clausewitz

    The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick

    Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

    Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

    The Stranger by Albert Camus

    I am Legend by Richard Matheson

    Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich by Philip K. Dick

    Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

    Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

    2001 Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

    Alphabet of Manliness by Maddox

    The Art of Speed Reading People by Paul D. Tieger

    How to Argue and Win Everytime by Gerry Spence

    What to Say When You Talk to Your Self by Shad Hemlstetter

    Body Language by Fast Julius

    The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy

    Take Me to Truth: Undoing the Ego by Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira

    Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Walden by Henry David Thoreau

    Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

    The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovell Shinn

    How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

    The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

    The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

    Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges

    You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

    The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By by Carol S. Pearson

    The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers

    * Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life by Ellen J. Langer

    Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

    Men Are from Mars,Women Are from Venus by John Gray

    Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

     NLP: The New Technology of Achievement by Steve Andreas & Charles Faulkner

     A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

    The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman

    How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

    Don't Sweat the Small Stuff… And It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

    Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters by Philip C. McGraw

    Finding Your Own North Star: How to Claim the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha Beck

    How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne

    The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

    Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

    Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

    * The Power of a Positive No by William Ury

    Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury

    Bargaining for Advantage by G. Richard Shell

    Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction by Colin Camerer

    Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa

    Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

    Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

    Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

    Dare by Gary Leboff

    Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber

    The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset

    The Iron Flute by Nyogen Senzaki

    The Gateless Gate by Koun Yamada and Ruben L. F. Habito

    Thick Face, Black Heart by Chin-Ning Chu

    In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky

    The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz

    Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

    50 Self-Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon

    Sex-Ploytation by Matthew Fitzgerald

    The Hagakure: The Code of The Samurai

    Born To Run by Christopher McDougall

    Conditioned Reflex Therapy by Andrew Salter

    Beyond Success and Failure: Ways to Self-Reliance and Maturity by Willard Beecher and Marguerite Beecher

     Something Happened by Joseph Heller

    * The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq 

     The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder

    * Thresholds of the Mind by Bill Harris

    Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

    The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz

    The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

    Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony De Mello

    Your Magic Powers of Persuasion by Vernon Howard

    The Open Secret by Tony Parsons

    I Hope You Die Soon by Richard Sylvester

    The Telling Stones by Riktam Barry

    The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill

    I Can Make You Confident by Paul McKenna

    Self-Discipline in 10 days: How To Go From Thinking to Doing by Theodore Bryan

    Pulling Your Own Strings: Dynamic Techniques for Dealing with Other People and Living Your Life As You Choose by Wayne W. Dyer

    Manifest Your Destiny: Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want, The by Wayne W. Dyer

    Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Wayne W. Dyer

    Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

    The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

    Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

    Becoming a Life Change Artist: 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life by Fred Mandell and Kathleen Jordan

    Getting Things Done by David Allen

    First You Have To Row A Little Boat by Richard Bode

    The Art of War by Sun Tsu

    The Work by Byron Katie

    The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide by Rick Jarow

    The Silent Language by Edward Twitchell Hall

    Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute

    Get Off Your "But" by Sean Stephenson

    Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now by Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen

    The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller

    * The Dangerous Passion by David M. Buss

    The Evolution of Desire by David M. Buss

    On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson

    * The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want by Mike Hernacki

    Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward by James O. Prochaska, John Norcross and Carlo DiClemente

    Hard Goals : The Secret to Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

    Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield and Ron McMillan

    This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True by M. J. Ryan

    Find Your Focus Zone: An Effective New Plan to Defeat Distraction and Overload by Lucy Jo Palladino

    The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey, Zach Kleiman and Pete Carroll

    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

    The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

    Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov

    1984 by Orwell

    Island by Aldous Huxley

    Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

    The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

    The Stand by Stephen King

    Call of the Wild / White Fang by Jack London

    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

    Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony -On a Pale Horse -Bearing an Hourglass -With a Tangled Skein -Wielding a Red Sword -Being a Green Mother -For Love of Evil -And Eternity

    The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

    Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    Mark Twain: Four Complete Novels by Mark Twain

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

    The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa

    Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton

    A Journey by Tony Blair

    Muscle Gaining secrets by Jason Ferrugia

    * The Holosync Solution

    My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand

    Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal by Russell Brand

    Peaceful Warrior The Movie

    Humes Dialogue on Natural Religion by David Hume

    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston

    Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously by Osho

    The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon

    Shape Shifter by Geoff Thompson

    On the Road by Jack Kerouac

    The Carl Rogers Reader

    Toxic Parents by Susan Forward

    Narcissism by Alexander Lowen

    The Drama of The Gifted Child by Alice Miller

    Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw

    Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

    Homecoming by John Bradshaw

    For Your Own Good by Alice Miller

    Real Time Relationships by Stefan Molyneux

    Self-Therapy by Jay Earley

    On Becoming A Person By Carl Rogers

    Memo by Oddbjorn By

    * Books by Matt Ridley

    * Books by Joel Osteen

    * Books by Paulo Coelho

    * Books by Jim Rohn

    * Books by Douglas Adams

    * Books by Christopher Moore

    * Books by Terry Pratchett

    * Books by Chuck Pahlaniuk

    * Books by George Orwell