Here’s the Books that You Recommended During Our Nerdy Thirty Giveaway
Need some new reading material? During our Nerdy Thirty Giveaway, celebrating our 30th anniversary, we asked participants to share a book that has lifted up, encouraged, or inspired them.
Below is a compiled list of the books that were recommended.
They are in alphabetical order, bold titles were recommended more than once.
Thanks to everyone who shared one of their favorites! Enjoy!
| 11/22/63 by Stephen King |
| A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren |
| A More Perfect Union by Ben Carson |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson |
| Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank |
| Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez |
| Art of War by Sun Tzu |
| As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer |
| Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand |
| Awareness Heals by Steven Shafarmann |
| Baa Baa Black Sheep by Pappy Boyington |
| Beyond Ourselves by Catherine Marshall |
| Blink by Malcom Gladwell |
| Books by Mark Twain |
| Born to Win by Zig Ziglar |
| Business by the Book by Larry Burkett |
| Captain Rickenbacker’s Story Of The Ordeal And Rescue Of Himself And The Men With Him by Eddie Rickenbacker |
| Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT by Paul Marciano |
| Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick |
| China Cry by Nora Lam with Irene Burk Harrell |
| Crime and Pubishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Daring Greatly by Brené Brown |
| Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath |
| Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh |
| Demian by Hermann Hesse |
| Die Empty by Todd Henry |
| Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink |
| East of the Mountains by David Guterson |
| Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross |
| Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker |
| File… Don’t Pile! by Pat Dorff |
| Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen |
| Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| Follow the River by James Alexander Thom |
| Gabby: A Story of Courage, Love and Resilience by Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly, Jeffrey Zaslow |
| Galatians a Book of the Bible by Paul |
| Generational Insights by Cam Marston |
| Getting Things Done by David Allen |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton |
| Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours by Regina Brett |
| God Ventures; True Accounts Of God In The Lives Of Men by by Irene Burk Harrell |
| God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew, John and Elizabeth Sherrill |
| Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| Good Marriages Grow! A Book for Wives by Irene Burk Harrell |
| Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins |
| Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown |
| Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine by Max Lucado |
| Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski |
| Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner |
| Healing the Heart: Overcoming Betrayal in Your Life by Joan Hunter |
| Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney |
| Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
| How To Enjoy You Life and Your Job by Dale Carnegie |
| How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie |
| How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie |
| If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini |
| Isn’t it Amazin’? by Tommy Lewis as told to Irene Burk Harrell |
| It’s Easier to Succeed Than to Fail by S. Truett Cathy |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry |
| Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard |
| Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman’s |
| Life After Life by Raymond Moody |
| Life Matters by A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill |
| Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin |
| Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Look Great, Feel Great by Joyce Meyer |
| Made to Stick by Dan & Chip Heath |
| Man of Peace by Jerry D Thomas |
| Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness by Brian Leaf |
| Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics by Richard Thaler |
| Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson |
| Muddy Sneakers and Other Family Hassles by Irene Burk Harrell |
| My Story, My Song: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith by Lucimarian Roberts, Missy Buchanan, Robin Roberts |
| Not Without My Child by Rebecca Winters |
| Nudge by Cass Sunstein |
| Off Balance on Purpose: Embrace Uncertainty and Create a Life You Love by Dan Thurmon |
| Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Suess |
| On Combat by Col. Dave Grossman |
| On Gold Mountain by Lisa See |
| On Writing by Stephen King |
| One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr.Seuss |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez |
| One Thousand Beautiful Things Compiled by Marjorie Barrows |
| One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp |
| Personal Power by Tony Robbins |
| Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family by Steve Farrar |
| Prayerables II: Ordinary Days with an Extraordinary God by Irene Burk Harrell |
| Prayerables: Meditations of a Homemaker by Irene Burk Harrell |
| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely |
| QB VII by Leon Uris |
| Ready Player One by Earnest Cline |
| Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You’ve Always Wanted To Be by Steve Chandler |
| Return to Eden by Dean Harrison |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki |
| Security Blankets Family Size Irene Burk Harrell |
| Self-Defeating Behaviors by Milton R Cudney |
| She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler |
| Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
| Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise by Pam Young & Peggy Jones |
| Silver Boxes: The Gift of Encouragement by Florence Littauer |
| Strategy Matters: A Simple 7-Step Process To Go From Struggle To Success by Robert Stover |
| Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker |
| Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath |
| Synchronicity by Joseph Jaworski |
| Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk by Ben Carson |
| Talk Your Way to the Top: Communication Secrets to Change Your Life by Kevin Hogan |
| The 21 Undeniable Secrets of Marriage by Dr. Allen Hunt |
| The 4:8 Principle by Tommy Newberry |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey |
| The Bible |
| The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
| The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande |
| The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy |
| The Covenant Secret: The Master Key to Success by John Feloni |
| The Disease Delusion by Dr. Jeffrey Bland. |
| The E Myth Revisted by Michael Gerber |
| The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni |
| The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz |
| The Frances Treasury: Four Books in One by Russell Hoban (Author), Lillian Hoban (Illustrator) |
| The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth by Chris Brogan |
| The Game of Work by Charles A Coonradt |
| The Gift of the Jews by Thomas Cahill |
| The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry |
| The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
| The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino |
| The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor |
| The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn |
| The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom with John & Elizabeth Sherrill |
| The Kneeling Christian by Albert Richardson |
| The Land Uncharted by Keely Brooke Keith |
| The Last Lecture by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch |
| The Learning Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
| The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks |
| The Mentor’s Spirit by Marsha Sinetar |
| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma |
| The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah |
| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
| The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion by Moshe Feldenkrais |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg |
| The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle |
| The Power of Your Story by Ben Arment |
| The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck |
| The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas |
| The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis |
| The Secret Drawer by Nancy Gee |
| The Shack by William P. Young |
| The Stand: The Final Flight of Lt Frank Luke, Jr. by Stephen Skinner |
| The Stoning of Soraya M. by Freidoune Sahebjam |
| The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson |
| The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff |
| The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes |
| The Way Things Ought To Be by Rush Limbaugh |
| The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal |
| Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman |
| Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey |
| To kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee |
| Trinity by Leon Uris |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand |
| Uncontainable by Kip Tindell |
| Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose |
| War On The Middle Class by Lou Dobbs |
| When God Says Go by Lorry Lutz |
| Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson |
| Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm |
| Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling |
| Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich |
| Winged Defense by Billy Mitchell |
| Your Natural Gifts by Margaret Broadley |
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