What are your top books that define you?

Hey men, when I was in my career, about ready to leave, my team asked me if I'd put together a list of books that I've enjoyed reading, books that I found very useful. Here’s my list.

Some of them are spiritual, some of them are not. I hope they're useful to you. Take what you want, and forget the rest!

God bless, men.

Sales and Business Books

Sales Challenger – Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

Spin Selling – Neil Rackham

Mastering the Complex Sale – Jeff Thull

Questions that Sell – Paul Cherry

Socratic Selling – Kevin Daley and Emmett Wolfe

The Great Game of Business – Jack Stack

Self-Improvement

As a Man Thinketh – James Allen

7 habits of highly effective people – Stephen R. Covey

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

How to stop worrying and start living – Dale Carnegie

How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnegie

Richest man in Babylon – George S. Clason

How to Read a Book – Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

Parenting and Marriage

Bringing Up Boys – Dr. James Dobson

The 5 Key habits of Smart Dads – Paul Lewis

Father Book: An Instruction Manual – Minirth, Newman, Warren

Your 30-day Journey to Being a World Class Father – Connie W. Neal

Boys! Shaping Ordinary Boys into Extraordinary Men – William Beausay

How to Raise a Gentleman – Kay West

Thriving Marriages – John Yzaguirre & Claire Frazier Yzaguirre

Love & Respect – Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

Spiritual Growth

The Imitation of Christ – Thomas Á Kempis

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius – Louis J. Puhl, S.J.

The Discernment of Spirts – Timothy M. Gallagher

Spiritual Consolation by Timothy M. Gallagher

The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross – Kieran Kavanaugh & Otilio Rodriguez

No Man is an Island – Thomas Merton

Catherine of Siena – Sigrid Undset

Saint Thomas Aquinas “The Dumb Ox” – G.K. Chesterton

Benedict’s Way – Lonni Collins Pratt & Father Daniel Homan

Purgatory – Fr. F.X. Schouppe S.J.

Life Of Christ – Fulton J. Sheen

Introduction to the Devout Life – St. Francis de Sales

The Sermons of the Curé Of Ars – St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney

Saint Francis of Assisi – G. K. Chesterton

Augustine Confessions (Second Edition) – F.J. Sheed & introduction by Peter Brown

St. John of the Cross Ascent of Mount Carmel

Abandonment to Divine Providence – Jean Pierre de Caussade

Leadership

Start with Why – Simon Sinek

The Effective Executive – Peter F. Drucker

Lead Like Jesus – Blanchard and Hodges

Principle-Centered Leadership – Stephen R. Covey

Deming Management at Work – Mary Walton

Other Books

Texas Snakes – John E. Werler and James R. Dixon

The Sibley Guide to Birds – David Allen Sibley (The National Audubon Society)

1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die – Rae Spencer-Jones and Elizabeth Scholtz

The Family – Mark Twain

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 – William Manchester

FDR: A biography – Ted Morgan

Never Complain, Never Explain: The Story of Henry Ford II – Victor Lasky

The Light and the Glory – Peter Marshall and David Manuel

Your turn!

Comment the #1 book that has impressed, moved, formed, or set you up for success today.