I read a lot of non-fiction books in few select areas and wanted to share some of the best reads with you.

If you share my passion for non-fiction reading, you may find a few gems among my “Top Books.”

First few include some of my favorite books that are related to business.. The rest reflect my passions for investing, spiritual development, and interests that span over many years; you may find them random, but nonetheless interesting vocational reading.

Entrepreneurship:

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1. How To Make Millions With Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy
2. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
3. Get Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
4. The 4 Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
5. How to Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
6. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Personal Development:

1. Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
2. Self Discipline In 10 Days by Theodore Bryant
3. The Science Of Success by James Arthur Ray
4. Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
5. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Sales & Marketing:

1. Forbidden Keys to Persuasion by Blair Warren 2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
3. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
4. Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
5. The Secret of Selling Anything by Harry Browne
6. Made To Stick by Chip Heath

Copywriting:

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1. Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
2. Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
3. Tested Advertising Methods (Prentice Hall Business Classics) by John Caples
4. My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
5. The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly 6. Breakthrough Advertizing by Eugine M. Schwartz 7. Best Copywriting Secrets (a course) by Alex Vayner

Writing:

1. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr.
2. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Joseph M. Williams
3. On Writing Well, The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser
4. Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun

Investing:

1. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
2. Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition by Graham
3. The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham
4. The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America by Warren E. Buffett
5. You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt
6. Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, Second Edition by Howard Schilit
7. How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition by William O’Neil
8. Value Investing With the Masters: Revealing Interviews With 20 Market-Beating Managers Who Have Stood the Test of Time by Kirk Kazanjian

Trading:

1. Trader Vic-Methods of a Wall Street Master by Victor Sperandeo
2. Entries & Exits : Visits to 16 Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder
3. Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition by Steve Nison
4. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns (Wiley Trading) by Thomas N. Bulkowski
5. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van Tharp
6. The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results by Michael W. Covel
7. The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes by Mark Douglas
8. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
9. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance) by John J. Murphy

Buddhism and Meditation:

1. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
2. The Secret Art of Boabom: Awakening Inner Power Through Defense-Meditation from Ancient Tibet by Asanaro
3. The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
4. The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman
5. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
6. Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk
7. The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume One: The Lamrim Chenmo by Tsong-kha-pa
8. An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by The Dalai Lama
9. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
10. Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel

Chinese Medicine:

1. Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine: Zhong Yi Xue Ji Chu (Paradigm title) by Nigel Wisemann
2. The Secret of Chinese Pulse Diagnosis by Bob Flaws
3. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Third Edition by Dan Bensky
4. A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine by Nigel Wiseman
5. A Tooth from the Tiger’s Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of the Great Chinese Warrior (Fireside Books (Fireside) by Tom Bisio
6. Shaolin Secret Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury by Monk De Qian, Ting-Liang Zhang, and Bob Flaws
7. Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts by Marc Tedeschi

Martial Arts:

1. Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi
2. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
3. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
4. The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani: 58 Movements for Eternal Youth from Ancient Tibet (Paperback) by Asanaro
5. Dynamic Strength (Paperback) by Harry Wong
6. Fighter’s Fact Book: Over 400 Concepts, Principles, and Drills to Make You a Better Fighter (Paperback) by Loren W. Christensen
7. Unleash The Warrior Within by Richard J. Machowicz
8. The Power of Internal Martial Arts: Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I by Bruce Frantzis

Tennis:

1. Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert
2. The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey, Zach Kleiman, and Pete Carroll
3. Coaching Tennis by Chuck Kriese