- Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity by David Allen
- I Love You More Than My Dog by Jeanne Bliss
- Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Also a favourite of Jay-Z and Charlie Munger
- Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow by Chip Conley
- Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness by Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek
- Also a favourite of Tony Robbins and Richard Branson
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
- Also a favourite of Seth Godin
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
- Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson