Universal/timeless Book recommendations?

[Baldini]

I’m not sure to where to start this thread… but I would like to get some recommendations on universal/timeless books regardless of the topic.

I find reading universal books along with practical application is a great way to get a more precise/correct model of reality.

Here is some of mine:


The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Is your genius at work?

A great book that helps you discover some of your unique abilities

Negotiating Partnerships: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks

This very good and has some of the same universal principles as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. But it is a more in-depth practical analysis of negotiating.

Marketing warfare (using universal principals of warfare to explain how marketing works)

[cordis]

Great Idea for a thread, I will list a few that I have read and reread over the years. I just love to read and these below are exceptionally inspirational, I certainly learned something extra-ordinary from each one.

Science of Getting Rich ~Wallace Wattles~ free download
Mental Chemistry ~Charles Haanel~ free download
Think and Grow Rich ~Napoleon Hill~ free download
The Master Key System ~ Cahrles Haanel ~ actually a 24 week study
Illusions; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Nothing by Chance; Gift of Wings
The Bridge Across Forever and ONE ~ Richard Bach ~
Mission Success and The Greatest Success in the World ~ Og Mandino ~
THe Richest Man in Babylon ~ George S. Clason ~ over 1,500,000 readers
Man's Eternal Quest ~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~
The Third Eye ~ T. Lobsang Rampa ~

"Love yourself - read a good book."

[Logicseeker]

I definately do not think that the typical personal development books will be timeless. They are written to satisfy the needs of a modern person with renaissance ideals. It's highly probable that a new romantic era will come sometime in the future and in that context the PD books will not be very interesting at all.

I don't think that there is such a thing as a completely timeless book, but Dostoyevskey, Steinbeck and a thousand have written some damn good stuff.

[Baldini]

Thanks for the recommendations!

Interesting point that there is no such thing like a timeless book... I think only a book with 100% correct information can be considered timeless. The closest thing to a timeless book is a universal book such as a lot of personal development material.

[nozbe]

Without the doubt - David Allen "Getting Things Done" - this is what made me work more efficiently and what inspired me to create Nozbe - simply get things done web application.

Just read the book again... and still discovering how I can do better...