Ripple Coworking’s entrepreneur members shared the books that have made a meaningful impact on their businesses and careers.
Recently, we asked Ripple Coworking members about the books that have made the biggest impact on their career and/or business. They didn’t disappoint, they recommended 30 books ranging from self-help to leadership to autobiographies and fiction.
We have compiled a list of the books that were recommended, along with their Amazon descriptions and links to purchase.
We hope you discover your next inspirational read!
1. Become Your Own Boss by Melinda Emerson
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/cJ0ycxd

This new edition of Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months can help you build your business and invest your time (and money) where you need it most in order to succeed in today’s market. With Emerson’s expert business advice, you can finally follow your dreams and be on your way to becoming your own boss!”
2. The Power of Focus by Mark Hansen
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/gevQO1v

3. Money-Smart Solopreneur by Laura Adams
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/3rW7c86

In Money-Smart Solopreneur, Laura D. Adams answers questions every aspiring and new entrepreneur has about creating a business and building a secure financial future. It’s a complete guide for what to do, critical mistakes to avoid, and how to start a solo business without taking too much risk.
4. Do it Anyway Girl by Michele Cunningham
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/g12WHUF

Michelle Cunningham made one strategic shift in her nearly non-existent direct sales business that completely changed the trajectory of her life.
In this book, you’ll learn the exact words Michelle used to sell to a perfect stranger, recruit her first new team member, and then turn her team members into successful leaders.
Do It Anyway, Girl shows you how to get unstuck, shut off limiting beliefs, and get into the right action that brings BIG results.
5. You Are The Girl For The Job by Jess Connolly
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/6xGqL7G

It’s tough when your gifts and passions are stuck in holding patterns of insecurity, shame, and comparison. But the truth is, every experience of your life has prepared you to live out your God-given purpose in this exact moment. The world is hurting and our lives are waiting, we don’t have time stay stuck—we’ve got to make a move.
You Are the Girl for the Job is not an empty catchphrase. It’s the straight-up truth God has proclaimed over your life from the beginning. It’s not a statement about your capacity, but rather about His—and that’s why we can dare to believe it’s true.
6. The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/i5WhYfH

For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
7. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/dVBSgQ2

Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don’t have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the co-author of the multimillion best seller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude.
Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.
8. Better Than Good by Zig Ziglar
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/eXjjjyi

In the real-life stories Zig shares, drawn from nearly 50 years as a world-class motivational author, speaker, and businessman, you’ll discover how others have risen above fear and failure to embrace the quality of life they were meant to have. Their experiences will teach you how to accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible, even as you learn:
The three pillars of the Better Than Good life
New discoveries that will motivate you for life
How to develop a strategic plan that accomplishes your goals
What often keeps good people from reaching the ultimate level of productivity and happiness
Ways to form better-than-good habits that can take you to new horizons of success
And much, much more!
Let the master of motivation help you clear your mind of failure-prone thinking as together with Zig Ziglar you redefine success and take hold of your dreams. Let him inspire you to be better than good!
9. The Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/4Th6q1Z
All of us are involved in selling every day. Whenever we present a product or a principle, inform a client, or instruct a child, we are engaging in the art of effective persuasion. Allow America’s master of the art of selling explain proven, practical sales techniques all of us can use every day. He provides vital strategies for specific closes, hundred of sales questions, and dozens of persuasion procedures to help everyone sell their ideas, or themselves. No matter what your age, gender, occupation, or lifestyle, these proven techniques from America’s selling sensation can work for you.
10. The 5 Levels of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/6QzkQUh

True leadership isn’t a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than “the boss” people follow only because they are required to, you have to master the ability to invest in people and inspire them. To grow further in your role, you must achieve results and build a team that produces. You need to help people to develop their skills to become leaders in their own right. And if you have the skill and dedication, you can reach the pinnacle of leadership – where experience will allow you to extend your influence beyond your immediate reach and time for the benefit of others.
Through humor, in-depth insight, and examples, internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell describes each stage of leadership. He shows you how to master each level and rise up to the next to become a more influential, respected, and successful leader.
11. Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/jiiZ9y1

Since it’s release in October 2015, Extreme Ownership has revolutionized leadership development and set a new standard for literature on the subject. Required listening for many of the most successful organizations, it has become an integral part of the official leadership training programs for scores of business teams, military units, and first responders. Detailing the mindset and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult combat missions, Extreme Ownership demonstrates how to apply them to any team or organization, in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.
12. Atomic Habits by James Clear
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/2raRMxS

If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits – whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.
13. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/5S4m2G9

In this book, the author fuses his spiritual wisdom and scientific research to bring to light how the sub-conscious mind can be a major influence on our daily lives. Once you understand your subconscious mind, you can also control or get rid of the various phobias that you may have in turn opening a brand new world of positive energy.
14. Detox Your Thoughts by Andrea Bonior PhD
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/5R4oKDO

To overcome the most common mental traps, you must completely change the way you relate to your thoughts.
If breaking free of negative thought patterns could be cured through simply thinking positively or doubling down on our self-care, we wouldn’t see such epidemic rates of depression and anxiety disorders worldwide. Bonior deciphers the psychological research to help us disempower our self-sabotaging thoughts, and teaches specific and actionable ways to overcome them in a transformational listen.
With bite-sized pop psychology takes on the thought patterns that plague most people and a practical approach to quitting negative self-talk for good, Detox Your Thoughts is a transformational read.
15. Red Notice by Bill Browder
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/166xjRM

Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky’s imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder – the hedge fund manager who employed Magnitsky – takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin’s orders. Browder’s graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend.
With fraud, bribery, corruption, and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking but true political roller-coaster that plays out in the highest echelons of Western power.
16. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/h4gpIXW

The seven habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work!
With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the seven habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders.
This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity – principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
17. Tax-Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright, CPA
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/h1m1sCl

Once listeners understand the basic principles of tax reduction, they can immediately reduce their taxes to the point where, eventually, they may even be able to legally eliminate income taxes and drastically reduce other taxes.
18. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/ibfWvI1

20 Years… 20/20 Hindsight
In the 20th anniversary edition of this classic, Robert offers an update on what we’ve seen over the past 20 years related to money, investing, and the global economy. Sidebars throughout the book will take listeners “fast forward” – from 1997 to today – as Robert assesses how the principles taught by his rich dad have stood the test of time.
In many ways, the messages of Rich Dad Poor Dad, messages that were criticized and challenged two decades ago, are more meaningful, relevant and important today than they were 20 years ago.
As always, listeners can expect that Robert will be candid, insightful… and continue to rock more than a few boats in his retrospective.
Will there be a few surprises? Count on it.
19. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegle
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/aqCO4tR

One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed.
Originally published during the depths of the Great Depression—and equally valuable during booming economies or hard times—Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their professional and personal lives.
Achieve your maximum potential with this updated version of a classic—a must-listen for the 21st century.
20. The Latte Factor by David Bach
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/6GTfxJT

In this compelling, heartwarming parable, Bach and his best-selling coauthor John David Mann (The Go-Giver) tell the story of Zoey, a 20-something woman living and working in New York City. Like many young professionals, Zoey is struggling to make ends meet under a growing burden of credit card and student loan debt, working crazy hours at her dream job but still not earning enough to provide a comfortable financial cushion. At her boss’ suggestion, she makes friends with Henry, the elderly barista at her favorite Brooklyn coffee shop.
Henry soon reveals his “Three Secrets to Financial Freedom”, ideas Zoey dismisses at first but whose true power she ultimately comes to appreciate. Over the course of a single week, Zoey discovers she already earns enough to secure her financial future and realize her truest dreams – all she has to do is make a few easy shifts in her everyday routine.
The Latte Factor demystifies the secrets to achieving financial freedom, inspiring you to realize it’s never too late to reach for your dreams. By following the simple, proven path that Henry shows Zoey, anyone can make small changes today that will have big impact for a lifetime.
21. The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/4waKXJg

This expanded edition includes dozens of practical tips and case studies from people who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book. Also included are templates for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients, how to apply lifestyle principles in unpredictable economic times, and the latest tools, tricks, and shortcuts for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
22. Catch 22 by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/dyIOGwJ

Since its publication in 1961, no novel has matched Catch-22’s intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. This 50th-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical responses and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and a selection of advertisements from the original publishing campaign that helped turn Catch-22 into a cultural phenomenon. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.
23. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/9s9Apcr

Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book 25 years ago. And he has included some exciting new stories that apply the laws to today’s business world.
What Maxwell didn’t change are the powerful leadership truths that have been helping people become better leaders for the last quarter century. This is still the best book on leadership people can buy, whether they want to learn leadership on their own, develop as leaders in a group, or teach leadership to others as a mentor.
24. Execution by Lawrence Bossidy
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/ddDboxV

The discipline of execution means understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business. Leading these processes is the real job of running a business, not formulating a “vision” and leaving the work of carrying it out to others. Bossidy and Charan show the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism.
25. Miracle Morning Millionaires by Hal Elrod
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/c5aeoPr

Millionaires know everything in your present is a result of how you thought, decided, and acted in the past. But your present circumstances can easily change – right now. Because with this revolutionary manual to wealth, you’ll discover the undeniable connection between mornings and wealth; Why becoming wealthy is never a sedentary pursuit. The simple five-step wake-up process that’ll guarantee you’ll rise early…like a millionaire. Four choices you must make to become wealthy. The specific actions you must take when you choose to become a millionaire. (They’ll surprise you. Definitely.) A revolutionary twist on affirmations…and how to leverage them in a way that will absolutely produce results. How rearview mirror syndrome can significantly inhibit your financial growth. The key to replacing your blind spots with a vision for the future. A free 30-day transformation challenge fast-start kit.
This, in the end, is the true value of mornings: In that quiet period of stillness, when the world is asleep, and you’re in complete control – that’s when you nurture the golden goose and discover the incredible potential of each new day.
That’s where you find your millionaire miracle morning.
26. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/8O3jPAm

The Purpose Driven Life is more than a book; it’s a road map for your spiritual journey. Combining thoughtful verses from scripture with timely stories and perspectives from Warren’s own life, The Purpose Driven Life will help you discover the answer to one of life’s most important questions: What on Earth am I here for?
Throughout The Purpose Driven Life, Warren will teach you to spend time getting to know yourself and your creator in order to live your life to the fullest. Unlocking your true purpose will also reduce your stress, simplify your decisions, increase your satisfaction, and, most importantly, prepare you for eternity.
27. Do You Sincerely Want to be Rich? by Bernard Cornfield
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/9fVRIh7

28. The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/cRNQLpx

29. The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/fC9ydpw

30. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Buy on Amazon: https://a.co/d/bL6sdNH

 
		