Self-Help Book Summaries

How To Win Friends & Influence People is a classic book that teaches us how to make people like us, how to win over people to your way of thinking, and how to change people without causing a mess. It’s no wonder this book sold more than 15 million copies. Book Title: How to Win

High Performance Habits is a book that synthesizes everything that makes people become high performers. Burchard uses this term to account for habits that create a high performer from a person’s professional and personal life.  The six habits that Burchard explains in the book are those that will make you a high performer in all

Black Privilege is an autobiography of Charlamagne tha God (Lenard Larry McKelvey), a radio presenter and host of The Breakfast Club. The story follows Charlamagne from his childhood at Moncks Corner, South Carolina, all the way to his success at The Breakfast Club. Book Title: Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It Author:

12 Rules for Life explains how to walk the thin thread of life that’s situated between Order and Chaos. The 12 rules are what will give you direction so you don’t fall in too much Chaos (or Order). A bestseller that sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Book Title: 12 Rules for Life: An

Choose Yourself! is James Altucher’s way of going true life while staying true to yourself. It’s a book full of his personal successes and a lot of failures (and I mean a lot!). Book Title: Choose YourselfAuthor: James AltucherDate of Reading: August, 2017Rating: 6/10 Table of Contents What Is Being Said In Detail:   Choose

There’s a reason why “The Power of Now” is called the most spiritual book of the 20th century. This isn’t a woo-woo type of book, but more of a spiritual guide to enlightenment that combines the wisdom of religious texts with the freshness of New Age spirituality.   Book Title: The Power of Now: A

“Faking It” is all about appearing to be better than you actually are. This is like the lazy person’s guide to success, happiness, and sex. It’s fun to read and you do actually learn a lot from this book. Book Title: Faking It: How To Seem Like A Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself Author:

There are 48 laws of power and it’s our obligation to know them. The Laws work and, whether we like them or not, we need to know them so they’re not used against us. There’s a reason why this book is banned in most U.S. federal prisons. Greene provides us with historical examples of people

The novel’s main theme is the love triangle between Patty, her husband Walter, and his best friend Richard. The book also covers topics such as the Iraqi war, politics in general, sports, ecology, and family relationships.  Book Title: Freedom Author: Jonathan Franzen Date of Reading: July, 2017 Rating: 5/10 Table of Contents What Is Being

When Breathe Becomes Air is a sad story of a guy who just made it in life—  he was young, had a great wife who was expecting their first child, and he was the main neurosurgeon at the general hospital at 36. And then the roof came crashing in when he was diagnosed with stage