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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...

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

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 3, 2019

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

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 12, 2019

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles is the kind of book that challenges one’s mind not to be fixated on competition...

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 11, 2019

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

The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2019

The Art of Money Gettingor or Golden Rules of Making Money by P. T. Barnum outlines a set of brilliant actions that can elevate...

Children's Books

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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee propels the virtues of justice. The author, however, has a preference for moral justice rather than the...

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

Just the title of this children's story The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, would entice any adult to take interest in this classical...

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is one of the most celebrated classic children's literature. The story emanates from the childish, irresponsible,...

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

Alice Adventure in Wonderland is a classical children novel. The writer was an English author and scholar, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who used the pseudonym...

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

Heidi was written by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. The main protagonist of this children's fiction is Heidi, a little girl who becomes an orphan...

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, a French pilot, and a writer, is an interesting story. The storyteller is a pilot who crashes...

Classic Novels

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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

Published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is a novel that recounts the life of a 16-year-old Holden Caulfield...

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

ClassicBooks.com - August 4, 2020

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a novel that perfectly depicts real-life scenarios that can greatly educate and develop children. The main character is...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic literary work that tells the story of a protagonist Guy Montag. He starts as a competent...

Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 2, 2020

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is one of those novels in English literature that’s strives to portray the travails girls go through to maturity....

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is one of the publications in English literature that has stood the test of time. As such, it...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 2, 2020

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald captures a world where most conflicts center around love, materialism, and position. Jay Gatsby is a poor...

Business Classics

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The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

ClassicBooks.com - August 12, 2019

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles is the kind of book that challenges one’s mind not to be fixated on competition...

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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

ClassicBooks.com - August 3, 2019

Published in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a fantastic self- improvement book that shares brilliant tips on...

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

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 3, 2019

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

The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 7, 2019

Andrew Carnegie’s The Gospel of Wealth contains interesting remarks from one of the wealthiest men in history. In the book, Carnegie asserts that poverty...

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 11, 2019

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

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

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 6, 2019

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...

Humanities and Social Sciences

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The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

The fight for gender equality is an age-old struggle. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill handles an arduous task in an attempt...

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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

ClassicBooks.com - August 20, 2019

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, published in 1951, is the most eye-opening book on what causes totalitarianism and the dangers posed. Easily...

The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 20, 2019

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

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

Considered as the weaker sex, women often have to prove that they are just as ordinary as their male counterparts. A Vindication of the...

Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

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

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The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans

ClassicBooks.com - August 6, 2020

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

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What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger

ClassicBooks.com - August 6, 2020

What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger is a very short book in which the author discusses vital biological concepts such as the idea of...

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 5, 2020

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was the book of the year 1859, if not book of the 19th century, for it...

Relativity: The Special And The General Theory by Albert Einstein

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 5, 2020

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 Birth and Death of the Sun by George Gamow

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 6, 2020

The Birth and Death of the Sun by George Gamow provides answers to some of the most difficult questions humanity has ever had. What...

Biography

John D. Rockefeller and his career by Silas Hubbard

ClassicBooks.com - August 7, 2020

The biography John D. Rockefeller and his career by Silas Hubbard is a detailed research on an industrialist and philanthropist, who was admired by...

Biography

An Autobiography Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2020

An Autobiography Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi is an introduction to India’s nationalist and most complex historical figures. The...

The life story of J. Pierpont Morgan: a biography by Carl Hovey

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 7, 2020

From financing the railroad industry to organizing the United States Steel, General Electric, while trying his hand in many other sectors, J.P. Morgan rose...

The confessions of Saint Augustine

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 9, 2020

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

Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement by Arthur D. Howden Smith

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 7, 2020

Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement by Arthur D. Howden Smith is a biography that tells the story of poor Vanderbilt, from his...

St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2020

St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton nears perfection in appreciating Francis’s multifaceted life. Francis of Assisi is one of the greatest saints...

Spirituality

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

ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2020

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...

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The alchemy of happiness by Al Ghazzali

ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2020

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

An Autobiography Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2020

An Autobiography Or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi is an introduction to India’s nationalist and most complex historical figures. The...

The confessions of Saint Augustine

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 9, 2020

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

St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton

Biography ClassicBooks.com - August 10, 2020

St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton nears perfection in appreciating Francis’s multifaceted life. Francis of Assisi is one of the greatest saints...

Classic Authors

Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin is famous for his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in...

Mary Wollstonecraft

Classic Authors ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

Having had an opportunity to be educated, something that was uncommon for women of her time, Mary Wollstonecraft worked hard to become a writer,...

John Stuart Mill

Classic Authors ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher, civil servant, and political economist, gained the attention of many due to his insistence on the need to...

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator, and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol,...