A Bigger Investing Books Reader’s Guide for the investor and entrepreneur.
Real Estate Investing
- The Book on Rental Property Invesinting| Brandon Turner
- The Book on Managing Rental Property | Brandon Turner
- The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down| Brandon Turner
- McGraw-Hill’s Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities 2018 | Brian Spilker et al.
- Build a Rental Property Empire: The No-Nonsense Book on Finding Deals, Financing the Right Way and Managing Wisely | Mark Ferguson
- Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate | Brian H. Murray
- The Due Diligence Handbook for Commercial Real Estate | Brian Hennessey
Accounting
- Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting | John J. Wild, Ken Shaw, & Barbara Chiappetta
- Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less | Mike Piper
- Intermediate Accounting | David Spiceland
- McGraw-Hill’s Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities 2019 | Brian Spilker et al.
- Financial Accounting Fundamentals | John Wild, Ken Shaw, & Barbara Chiappetta
- The Tax & Legal Playbook | Mark J. Kohler
- The Business Owner’s Guide to Financial Freedom | Mark J. Kohler
- What Your CPA Isn’t Telling You | Mark J. Kohler
- Lawyers Are Liars: The Truth About Protecting Our Assets | Mark J. Kohler
American Legal Studies
Ethics
- Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases | O. C. Ferrell & John Fraedrich
- The Ethics of Management | La Rue Tone Hosmer
Communication
- BCOM9 | Carol M. Lehman & Debbie D. DuFrene
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction | William Zinsser
- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery | Garr Reynolds
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | Chip and Dan Health
- The Copywriter’s Handbook | Robert Bly
- Show Me The Numbers | Stephen Few
- Writing for the Mass Media | James Stovall
- Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology | Joseph Straubhaar, Robert LaRose, & Lucinda Davenport
Business Start-Up
The only way to get started is knowing how to get started.
- Go It Alone | Bruce Judson
- The Lean Startup | Eric Ries
- Street Smarts | Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
- Ready, Fire, Aim | Michael Masterson
- Escape from Cubicle Nation | Pamela Slim
- Bankable Business Plans | Edward Rogoff
- The Art of the Start | Guy Kawasaki
- The Bootstrapper’s Bible: How to Start and Build a Business with a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money | Seth Godin
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About it| Michael Gerber
Analysis
- Thinking statistically | Uri Bram
- Turning Numbers Into Knowledge | Jonathan Koomey
- How to Lie with Statistics | Darrell Huff
- Marketing Metrics: The Manager’s Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance | Paul Farris & Neil Bendle
- The Economist Numbers Guide | Richard Stuteley
- Financial Statement Analysis | K. R. Subramanyam
Business General
- The Book of Business Wisdom | Peter Krass
- The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More Than 50 Businesses Legends | Peter Krass
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business | Josh Kaufman
- 2011 Business Reference Guide: The Essential Guide to Pricing Businesses and Franchises | Tom West
Coaching
- Coach U’s Essential Coaching Tools | Inc. Coach U
- Coaching for Performance | John Whitmore
- Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others | James Flaherty
- Co-Active Coaching | Henry & Karen Kimsey-House
- Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges | Mary Beth O’Neill
- Masterful Coaching | Robert Hargrove
- On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence | Christine Wahl, Clarice Scriber, & Beth Bloomfield
- The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching | Leni Wildflower & Diane Brennan
- The Little Book of Coaching | Ken Blanchard & Don Shula
Influence
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Rober B. Cialdini
- How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High | Kerry Patterson & Joseph Grenny
- The 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene
- Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility | Charles Larson
Negotiation
- Bargaining For Advantage | G. Richard Shell
- 3-D Negotiation | David Lax & James Sebenius
- The Partnership Charter | David Gage
- Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, And Cases | Lewicki Saunders
- Resolving Everday Conflict | Ken Sande
- Pitch Anything: An Innovation Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal | Oren Klaff
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert Cialdini
Consulting
- Getting Started in Consulting | Alan Weiss
- Secrets of Consulting | Gerald M. Weinberg
Corporate Skills
- Purpose | Nikos Mourkogiannis
- Competitive Strategy | Michael Porter
- Blue Ocean Strategy | W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
- Seeing What’s Next | Clayton M. Christensen & Erick A. Roth
Entrepreneurship
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life | Twyla Tharp
- Myths of Innovation | Scott Berkun
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Peter Drucker
- The Design of Everyday Things | Donal Norman
- Universal Principles of Design | William Lidwel & Kritina Holden
- The Book of Entrepreneur’s Wisdom | Peter Krass
- Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management | Scarborough Cornwall
E-Commerce
- E-Commerce 2016: Business, Technology, Society | Kenneth Laudon
Decision-Making
- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions | Gary Klein
- Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions | John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, & Howard Raiffa
- Ethics for the Real World | Ronald Howard & Clinton Korver
- The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy
Economics
- Principles of Macroeconomics | Lee Coppock & Dirk Mateer
- Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ | David Cowan
- Financial Markets and Institutions | Jeff Madura
- Business Forecasting with ForecastX | J. Holton Wilson & Barry Keating
- Trade and Globalization: An Introduction to Regional Trade Agreements | David Lynch
- Why The Rich Are Getting Richer | Robert Kiyosaki
- Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom | Robert Kiyosaki
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! | Robert Kiyosaki
Modern Political and Economic Ideas
- Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy | Steven M. Cahn
- History of Political Philosophy | Leo Strauss & Joseph Cropsey
Finance
- Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs | Karen Berman & Joe Knight
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits | Greg Crabtree
- The 1% Windfall | Rafi Mohammed
- How to Read a Financial Report | John A. Tracy
- Venture Deals | Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
- Your Money or Your Life | Joel Dominguez & Vicki Robin
Financial Planning
- Fundamentals of Financial Planning | Dalton
- Estate Planning
- Personal Financial Planning | Lewis J. Altfest
- The Self-Directed IRA Handbook | Mat Sorensen
Franchising
Healthcare Management
- Law and Ethics for Health Professions | Karen Judson & Carlene Harrison
- Introduction to Health Care Management | Sharon Buchbinder & Nancy Shanks
- Basic Concepts of Health Care Human Resource Management | Nancy Niles
- Health Informatics: A System Perspective | Gordon Brown, Timothy Patrick, & Kalyan Pasupathy
- Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach | Ramona Nelson, Nancy Staggers
History
- American Business, 1920-2000: How it Worked | Thomas K. McCraw, John H. Franklin, A.S. Eisenstadt
Human Resources
- Labor Relations: Striking a Balance | John Budd
- Human Resource Management Applications: Cases, Exercises, Incident, and Skill Builders | Stella Nkomo, Myron Fottler, & Bruce McAfee
- Compensation | George Milkovich, Jerry Newman, & Barry Gerhart
- Staffing Organizations | Herbert Heneman III, Timothy Judge, & John Kammeyer-Mueller
- Employee Training & Development | Raymond Andrew
International Business
- Cross-Border Commerce: With Biblical Worldview Application | Brian Satterlee
- Annual Editions: International Business | Fred Maidment
- globalEDGE
- Import/Export: How to Take Your Business Across Borders | Carl Nelson
- International Project Management | Thomas Grisham
Investing
- The Millionaire Next Door | Thomas Stanley & William Danko
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich | Ramit Sethi
- Fail-Safe Investing | Harry Browne
- The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing | Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf, & John C. Bogle
- Fundamentals of Investments | Bradford Jordan & Thomas Miller
Information Systems
- Thinking in Systems | Donella Meadows
- Work the System | Sam Carpenter
Leadership
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us | Seth Godin
- Total Leadership | Steward Friedman
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There | Marshall Goldsmith
- The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan | George Bradt & Jayme A. Check
- The Book of Leadership Wisdom | Peter Krass
- Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consume’s Trust from Wedgwood to Dell | Nancy F. Koehn
- Leade Like Jesus Revisited | Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges
- Leadership: Theory and Practice | Peter Northouse
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable | Patrick Lencioni
- Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators | Patrick Lencioni
- Group Dynamics for Teams | Daniel Levi
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Jacko Willink & Leif Babin
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Simon Sinek
Management
- First, Break All The Rules | Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
- 12: The Elements of Great Managing | Rodd Wagner & James Harter
- Growing Great Employees | Ericka Andersen
- The Essential Drucker | Peter Drucker
- The Halo Effect | Phil Rosenzweig
- The Book of Management Wisdom | Peter Krass
- Organizational Management and Leadership | Anita Satterlee
Managing Teams
- Everyone’s a Coach | Ken Blanchard & Don Shula
- Full Steam Ahead | Ken Blanchard & Jesse Lyn Stoner
- Go, Team! Take your Team to the Next Level | Ken Blanchard, Alan Randolph, & Peter Grazier
- High Five! | Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
- The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams | Ken Blanchard, Donald Carew & Eunice Parisi-Carew
Managing Organizations
- Operations Management | William Stevenson
Managing Another
- One Minute Mentoring | Ken Blanchard & Claire Dias-Ortiz
- The New One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
- Helping People Win at Work | Ken Blanchard & Garry Ridge
- Leadership and the One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, & Drea Zigarmi
- Putting the One Minute Manager to Work | Ken Blanchard & Robert Lorber
- The 4th Secret of the One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard & Margret McBride
- The Leadership Pill | Ken Blanchard & Marc Muchnick
- The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey | Ken Blanchard & William Oncken Jr., & Hal Burrows
- The Secret | Ken Blanchard & Mark Miller
- Trust Works! | Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, & Martha Lawrence
- Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships | Ken Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, & Jim Ballard
- Servant Leadership in Action | Ken Blanchard & Renee Broadwell
Management – Family Business
Networking
- Networking with the Affluent | Thomas Stanley
Project Management
- Making Things Happen | Scott Berkun
- Results Without Authority | Tom Kendrick
- The Art of Project Management | Scott Berkun
- Project Management: The Management Process | Erick Larson & Clifford Gray
Marketing
- All Marketers Are Liars | Seth Godin
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable | Seth Godin
- Permission Marketing | Seth Godin
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing | Al Ries & Jack Trout
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve God | Jay Abraham
- Essentials of Marketing Research: A Hands-On Orientation | Naresh K. Malhotra
- CB 7 | Barry Babin & Eric Harris
- Questionnaire Design: How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research | Ian Brace
- Integrated Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing Communications | Kenneth Clow
- Star Brands: A Brand Manager’s Guide to Build, Manage & Market Brands | Carolina Rogoll
- Marketing to the Affluent | Thomast Stanley
Digital Marketing & Advertising
- Internet Marketing: Integrating Online and Offline Strategies | Mary Lou Robert
- Reinventing Interactive and Direct Marketing: Leading Experts Show How to Maximize Digital ROI with iDirect and iBranding Imperatives | Stan Rapp
- The Activation Imperative: How to Build Brands and Business by Inspiring Action | William Rosen, Laurence Minksy, & Rory Sutherland
Sales
- The Psychology of Selling | Brian Tracy
- Pitch Anything | Oren Klaff
- The Ultimate Sales Machine | Chet Holmes
- Value-Based Free | Alan Weiss
- SPIN Selling | Neil Rackham
- Selling: Building Partnerships | Stephen Castleberry
- Retailing Management | Michael Levy
- Selling to the Affluent | Thomast Stanley
Productivity & Effectiveness
- Getting Things Done | David Allen
- The Power of Full Engagement | Jim Loeher & Tony Schwartz
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 | Tom Rath
- Bit Literacy | Mark Hurst
- 10 Days to Faster Reading | Abby Marks-Beale
- The 4-Hour Workweek | Timothy Ferriss
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less | Greg McKeown
- The ONE Thing: | Gary Keller
Self Development
- Who Wants to be a Champion?: 10 Building Blocks to Help You Become Everything You Can Be | Pat Williams
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One | Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Lifeonaire | Steve Cook
- Lead the Field | Earl Nightingale
- The Art of Exceptional Living | Jim Rohn
- A Guide to the Good Life | William Braxton Irvine
- The War of Art | Steven Pressfield
Philosophy
- How Do We Know? An Introduction to Epistemology |
- Philosophy of Religion: Thinking about Faith |
- Prelude to Philosophy: An Introduction for Christians |
- Metaphysics: Constructing a World View |
- Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions |
- On Guard: Defending your Faith with Reason and Precision |
- The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus |
- Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture |
Problem Solving
- The 80/20 Principle | Richard Koch
- Accidental Genius | Mark Levy
- Learning from the Future | Liam Fahey & Robert Randal
Public Administration
- The Public Administration Casebook | Robert Cropf
- Introducing Public Administration | Jay Shafritz, et al.
- Budget Tools; Financial Methods in the Public Sector | Greg Chen, et al.
- The Politics of Public Budgeting; Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing | Irene Rubin
- How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution | Richard Epstein
- The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business | Marisa Pagnattaro, et al.
- Cases in Public Policy and Administration: From Ancient Time to the Present | Jay Shafritz & Christopher Borick
- Classics of Public Administration | Jay Shafritz & Albert Hyde
The Mindset
- Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman
- Brian Rules | John Medina
- Making Sense of Behavior | William T. Powers
- Driven | Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- Deep Survival | Laurence Gonzales
- Mindset to Millionaire: 7 Keys to Becoming a Real Estate Millionaire | Mitch Nelson
- Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill
- The Millionaire Next Door | Thomas Stanley
- The Millionaire Mind | Thomas Stanley
- Stop Acting Rich | Thomas Stanley
- Millionaire Women Next Door | Thomas Stanley
Value-Creation
- Rework | Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- The New Business Road Test | John Mullins
- How to Make Millions with Your Ideas | Dan Kennedy
Value-Delivery
- Indispensable | Joe Calloway
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement | Eliyahu Goldratt
- Lean Thinking | James Womack & Daniel Jones