EduAvenues Reading List

We find that the most successful students tend to also be the students that READ the most. We've curated a list of our most recommended books. Please check out the list below, and consider reading one (or many) of the books on the list. Most often, you can find the books below through your local library, school library, or sites like Amazon.com.

If you finish everything on the list, please reach out for additional recommendations!

• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie. Time-tested advice on building successful relationships.
• Atomic Habits — James Clear. Practical guide to forming good habits, breaking bad ones.
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success — Carol S. Dweck. How mindset affects success.
• Getting Things Done — David Allen. Framework for organizing tasks and staying productive.
• The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle. Spiritual enlightenment and present-moment living.
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance — Angela Duckworth. Grit as predictor of success.
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman. Two types of thought processes that drive decisions.
• The Pyramid Principle — Barbara Minto. How to communicate effectively (ex-McKinsey partner).

• Zero to One — Peter Thiel. Creating something radically new.
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries. New approach to business.
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love — Marty Cagan.
• The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton M. Christensen. Why outstanding companies fail to disruptive innovation.
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz. Building and running a startup.
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products — Nir Eyal.

• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham. Definitive text on value investing.
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street — Burton Malkiel. Diversified portfolio approach.
• Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki. Money working for you vs. working for money.
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits — Philip Fisher.
• Security Analysis — Benjamin Graham and David Dodd. The value-investing bible.
• The Little Book That Beats the Market — Joel Greenblatt. "Magic formula" investing.
• The Essays of Warren Buffett — Curated by Lawrence Cunningham.
• The Richest Man in Babylon — George S. Clason. Parables on wealth building.

• Clean Code — Robert C. Martin. Principles for writing clean, understandable code.
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software — Charles Petzold.
• The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
• Cracking the Coding Interview — Gayle Laakmann McDowell. 189 questions and solutions.
• The Mythical Man-Month — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

• The Man Who Knew Infinity — Robert Kanigel. Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
• Fermat's Enigma — Simon Singh. Solving Fermat's Last Theorem.
• Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter. Themes connecting Gödel, Escher, and Bach.
• The Code Book — Simon Singh. History of codes and codebreaking.
• The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene. String theory.
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman. Autobiographical stories.

• The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee. History of cancer.
• The Gene: An Intimate History — Siddhartha Mukherjee. History of genetic research.
• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande. Medicine and end of life.
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot.
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks. Neurological case histories.

• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl. Holocaust survivor's psychotherapeutic method.
• 1984 — George Orwell.
• To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee.
• The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger.
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley.
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari.

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft — Stephen King.
• Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott.
• The War of Art — Steven Pressfield. Breaking through creative blocks.
• Steal Like an Artist — Austin Kleon.

• Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be — Frank Bruni. Antidote to admissions mania.
• The Fiske Guide to Colleges — Edward B. Fiske. 300+ honest school profiles.
• What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens — Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles.