Personal Development

The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg Esenwein and Dale Carnegie

The Art of Public Speaking is a classic book published over a century ago that succinctly captures tips to groom you into a proficient...

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, published in 1937, is the best self-improvement and personal development book you could ever read. Hill interviewed...

Children's Books

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Orphans' stories are sometimes very pathetic. However, L. M. Montgomery in her 1908 Anne of Green Gables instead succeeds in capturing the admiration of...

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett revolves around Mary Lennox, a nine-year-old girl who initially resides in India with her wealthy British parents....

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Classic Novels

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a historical fiction published in 1850. The main character is Hester Prynne, who thinks she is a...

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas is one of the most famous French novels. It was first published in 1884. The book...

Business Classics

How to Attract and Hold an Audience by J. Berg Esenwein

How to Attract and Hold an Audience by J. Berg Esenwein is a public speaking self-help book that guides on how to keep your audience...

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale teaches that your mind is the ultimate root of success and what you need to...

Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

The Great Illusion by Norman Angell, published in 1910, is one of the most interesting humanities and social sciences books you could ever read....

Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Propaganda by Edward Bernays explores the idea of convincing people to want things they didn't need. The author coins the term ‘engineering of consent’...

Science & Technology

Relativity: The Special And The General Theory by Albert Einstein

Relativity: The Special And The General Theory by Albert Einstein started as a series of short write-ups, but was eventually converted it into a...

The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans

Life and its origin, the story of the creation of the earth we now live in, remains an enigma. As such, any attempt to...

Biography

The confessions of Saint Augustine

The confessions of Saint Augustine is an autobiography and one of the most innovative and influential spirituality books. It was written when Saint Augustine...

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie's physical feature could have deceived any. He was less than five feet tall. But that wasn’t the most intriguing part of this...

Spirituality

Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard Maurice Bucke

Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard Maurice Bucke is the magnum of the author's career. In the...

The alchemy of happiness by Al Ghazzali

The Alchemy of Happiness by Al Ghazzali was written a thousand years ago. Al Ghazzali asserts his fundamental belief that a connection to God...

Classic Authors

George Orwell

George Orwell’s popularity as a writer is based on two main books, namely: 1984 and Animal Farm. Even though both books were published towards...

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, Père, was born on July 24th, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France. His father, Thomas-Alexander Davy De La Paileteririe, born in wedlock to...

Richard Maurice Bucke

A prominent Canadian psychiatrist, physician, and ardent student of the human mind, Richard Maurice Bucke maintained a strong friendship and devotion to Walt Whitman....

Johanna Spyri

Johanna Heusser Spyri was born on June 12th, 1827, in Hirzel, Switzerland to Dr. Johann a doctor and Mera Scherzer Heusser a poet. She...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett is a well-known author of children literature comprising of short stories and novels. Among her notable works A Little Princess (1905),...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7th, 1867, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ingalls. Wilder was born in a log cabin outside of...