Tina’s Reading List

The following is a list of books I plan to read or re-read over the next year.  I’ve broken them down by categories. Feel free to give me book suggestions that you think I’ll enjoy.

To see what I’m currently reading, please find the section along tht sidebar titled “What I’m Reading Now”

Personal Transformations & Self Improvement

• Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao – Wayne W. Dyer
• See You at the Top – Zig Ziglar
• Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny – Anthony Robbins
• Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life – Srikumar S. Rao
• Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success – Russell Simmons
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life – Byron Katie
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose – Eckhart Tolle
• Divine Interventions: True Stories of Mysteries and Miracles That Change Lives – Dan Millman
• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers
• Feel the Fear and Beyond: Mastering the Techniques for Doing It Anyway – Susan Jeffers
• Live Your Dreams – Les Brown
• The Magic of Believing – Claude M. Bristol
• The Art of Possibilities : Transforming Professional and Personal Life – Rosamund Zander, Benjamin Zanderibilities
• Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness – Deepak Chopra
• The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work – Dan Millman
• Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions – Dan Millman
• The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose – Dan Millman
• Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth – Dan Millman

NLP & Language Patterns

• The Structure of Magic: A Book About Language and Therapy – Richard Bandler, John Grinder
• Brilliant NLP: What the Most Successful People Know, Say and Do – David Molden and Pat Hutchinson
• Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement – Anthony Robbins
• Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People – Joseph O’Connor, John Seymour
• Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming – Richard Bandler, John Grinder
• The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change – Richard Bandler, John Grinder
• Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius – John Grinder, Judith Delozier
• Using Your Brain For a Change – Richard Bandler

Health

• Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness – Kathy Freston
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain – John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman
• The China Study : The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health – T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II, John Robbins, and Howard Lyman
• Water: You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty! – Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
• Your Body’s Many Cries for Water – Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
• 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food – Victoria Boutenko
• Green For Live – Victoria Boutenko

Creativity

• A Whole New Mind : Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future – Daniel Pink
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius – Michael Michalko
• Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques – - Michael Michalko
• Creative Visualization – Shakti Gawain
• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity – Julia Cameron

Business

• Moonlighting on the Internet – Yanik Silver
• The Answer : Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life – John Assaraf and Murray Smith
• The Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable – Seth Godin
• Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas – Seth Godin
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• Secrets of Greatness – Fortune Magazine
• Influence: Science and Practice – Robert Cialdini
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini

Fiction

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Journeys of Socrates: An Adventure – Dan Millman
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
• The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – Richard Bach
• One – Richard Bach
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

Others

• Breakthrough Rapid Reading – Peter Kump
• Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It – Kenneth L. Higbee
• How to Retire Early and Live Well With Less Than a Million Dollars – Gillette Edmunds
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
• Working with Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness – Esther Hicks
• The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking – Dale Carnegie
• How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie
• Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior – David R. Hawkins

Want More? Click here to see my list of highly recommended books.

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1. ana

   Aug 22 08, 6:18 am PDT

   1

   I recommend you a book: Reading Lolita in Teheran. You should have read Lolita first for more understanding. Is a very interesting book.
   Hope you enjoy it.

   Best

   Ana

2. Alexa

   Aug 22 08, 11:21 am PDT

   2

   Recommending you “Harvest for Hope” by Jane Goodall, as well as “Reason for Hope” by the same author.

   Cheers,
   A

3. Jeannette

   Sep 15 08, 8:56 am PDT

   3

   Hi Tina!

   I highly recommend “The Invitation” by Oriah Mountain Dreamer and “The World is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved” by Trebbe Johnson.

   Again, thank you for sharing YOU with all of us. You are truly inspirational and I belive that I too can live my life in a way that most aligns with my true self. I’m not there yet but I’m doing what I need to do now to make it happen. Reading your posts definitely is a great boost :)

   Congratulations on your course. Looking forward to hearing how it works out.

4. Uzma

   Oct 03 08, 12:32 pm PDT

   4

   Hey Tina,
   If you liked Khalid Hosseini’s Thousand Splendid Suns, you will also definitely like his first book The Kite Runner. Moves one to tears.

   Oh and do also read Deepak Chopra’s 7 spiritual laws of success.

   God bless
   Uzma

5. david

   Dec 10 08, 11:10 am PDT

   5

   wow, great list! did you get to any of the NLP stuff, any suggestions?

6. Fiona

   Dec 16 08, 3:06 pm PDT

   6

   Hi Tina. I am recommending you A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

   Keep up the great work!

   Fiona

7. Brian McDonnell

   Dec 21 08, 9:26 pm PDT

   7

   Suprised to not find The Four Agreements or Mastery of Love on your list….Wonderful to find some Richard Bach!

   Love what you’re doing here, and that I found it!

   Brian

8. Ashley Wills

   Dec 30 08, 7:12 pm PDT

   8

   Hey,

   I recommend;

   Truth vs Falsehood by Dr. David Hawkins

   Cheers!

9. Patricia

   Jan 02 09, 8:11 pm PDT

   9

   Tina -

   That’s a great book-list..thanks for sharing. I will probably download a few on my kindle.

   I highly recommend “The Lazy Person’s Guide To Success” by Ernie Zelinksi, and “The Joy of Not Working” also by Zelinksi. These books literally changed my life and I still refer to them when my world gets way out of my control.

10. tragiang

    Feb 10 09, 1:54 am PDT

    10

    I recommend you to read Krishnamurti’ talks. Please try to search on google to know about him first.

11. Derek @ NüHabits

    Mar 13 09, 6:16 pm PDT

    11

    When you get a chance, check out “Return To Love” by Marianne Williamson – very good read.

12. Lily

    May 21 09, 3:31 pm PDT

    12

    Hi Tina, I’d recommend “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho for fiction reading.

13. chetan

    Aug 05 09, 12:06 pm PDT

    13

    Autobiography of a Yogi , by Paramahansa Yogananda

14. Christopher Laney

    Jan 02 10, 3:10 am PDT

    14

    “The Artist’s Way” had a tremendous influence on me.

    I didn’t realize “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” was in a similar category as the others you listed. It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for a while, and while I cracked it open once, I only read a few pages, putting it down for something else. I always planned to come back to it, but given you listed it, I think I’ll do that soon.

15. aN

    Mar 30 10, 6:01 pm PDT

    15

    “Desert Flower” by Waris Dirie

16. Monica Van Den Heuvel

    Apr 16 10, 11:28 am PDT

    16

    Broken Open (How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow) by Elizabeth Lesser

    She’s a beautiful writer; I quote her often. :)

17. Caroline

    Jun 06 10, 2:19 pm PDT

    17

    I’m recommending “Man’s search for meaning” by Victor Frankl.

18. Marc Rohde

    Sep 12 10, 7:27 am PDT

    18

    I would recommend A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. This was an extraordinary book that helped me understand how to live a life of meaning.

    http://marc.rohde-net.us/blog/2010/05/15/review-a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-years/

19. Maria Aurora

    Oct 22 10, 10:22 am PDT

    19

    Thank you Tina for the wonderfully written articles, I have gained so much inner sight via reading from you.

    I would warmly recommend Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain…simply brilliant and freshly different! Also Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner touched my heart.

20. Maria Aurora

    Nov 17 10, 11:55 am PDT

    20

    Just finished reading don Miguel Ruiz’s The Voice of Knowledge – A Practical Guide to Inner Peace.

    I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to find peace within and really find their true calling in this life. The book has left me with no words to describe, you have to read it for yourself to understand how overwhelming one book can be.

    All the best for all of you finding your beautiful path on this planet!

21. Graure Dana

    Feb 19 11, 1:59 am PDT

    21

    Hi Tina
    I as you like peacefulness or happy moments in my life.
    I read Eckhart Tolle’s 2 books that you had.I went on and listened to Tony Parsons,Jeff Foster, Gangaji,Byron Katie ,doctor Jill Bollte Taylor.They pretty much say the same things.So you can take a look if you want.
    But I read something that kind of made my happiness or peacefulness continue all day or days in a row.Of course sad feelings may come ,but they don’t bother me anymore as I see them come and go.
    So I would recommend you: The joy of living written by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and eric swanson.
    It is a good book.I liked it.

22. Christine

    Feb 23 11, 12:39 pm PDT

    22

    Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert

    This book is not fiction, it’s a true story.

23. Amit Sharma

    Jul 12 12, 6:37 pm PDT

    23

    Aah, great list, great books mentioned in there. Read few of them, truly inspirational, something that boosts up your soul.

    But I would like to add some happiness, some love, some compassion by Dalai Lama’s “The Art Of Happiness : A Handbook For Living” is one powerful wisdom to have by your side. The compassionate showers this book offers, are worth the weight in golds.

    Thanks for sharing your reading list. :)

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