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50 Self-Help Classics

50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life
from timeless sages to contemporary gurus

by Tom Butler-Bowden
1. NLP The New Technology of Achievement
by Charles Faulkner
  
2. Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius
  
3. Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
by Martha Beck
  
4. The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
5. The Holy Bible: King James Version, Black, Imitation Leather, Gift & Award  
6. Iron John: A Book About Men
by Robert Bly
  
7. The Consolation of Philosophy
by Boethius
  
8. How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
by Alain De Botton
  
9. Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition
by William Bridges
  
10. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated
by David D. Burns
  
11. The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
  
12. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series)
by Richard Carlson
  
13. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
  
14.
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 The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
by Deepak Chopra
  
15. The Alchemist (Plus)
by Paulo Coelho
  
16. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
  
17.
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 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  
18. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
by Dalai Lama
  
19. The Dhammapada (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
20. Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life
by Wayne W. Dyer
  
21. Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
22. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  
23. Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
  
24. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
  
25. Creative Visualization
by Shakti Gawain
  
26. Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by Daniel Goleman
  
27. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
by John Gray
  
28.
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 You Can Heal Your Life
by Louise L. Hay
  
29.
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 The Soul's Code
by James Hillman
  
30. Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway (r)
by Susan Jeffers
  
31. The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
by Richard Koch
  
32. Mindfulness
by Ellen J. Langer
  
33. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)
by Stephen Mitchell
  
34. Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
by F.I.C.S. Maxwell Maltz
  
35.
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 Motivation and Personality  
36. Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
by Phillip C. McGraw
  
37. Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
by Thomas Moore
  
38. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Revised Edition
by Joseph Murphy
  
39. The Power of Positive Thinking (minature edition)
by Norman Vincent Peale
  
40. The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By
by Carol S. Pearson
  
41. The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
by M. Scott Peck
  
42. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
43. Awaken the Giant Within
by Anthony Robbins
  
44. The Game of Life (Hay House Classics)
by Florence Scovel Shinn
  
45. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
by Martin E. Seligman
  
46. Self-Help
by Samuel Smiles
  
47. The Phenomenon of Man
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  
48. Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
by Henry David Thoreau
  
49.
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 A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles
by Marianne Williamson
  
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Created by Norabear on Jan 16, 2007.