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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...

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Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

ClassicBooks.com - August 12, 2019

Self-Help by Samuel Smiles was written after the author abandoned his interest to become a member of parliament and decided that the best reform...

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...

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 9, 2019

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...

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Book Reviews 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...

Children's Books

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Heidi by Johanna Spyri

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...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

ClassicBooks.com - August 20, 2019

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a fantastical children’s book which tackles the theme of home as well as compares...

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

Book Reviews 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...

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 26, 2020

It can be very intriguing to get the story of a little girl whose father dies when she is still tender with no one...

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, is inspired by the author’s childhood experiences living in the American Mid-West region. The author...

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...

Classic Novels

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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...

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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...

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Book Reviews 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...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen captures the challenging life of young girls growing up without proper parental tutelage and financial stability. Of course,...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Book Reviews 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...

1984 by George Orwell

Book Reviews ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

1984 by George Orwell, though written close to a century ago, succinctly captures the fate of the governance of most countries in the contemporary...

Business Classics

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Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

ClassicBooks.com - August 12, 2019

Self-Help by Samuel Smiles was written after the author abandoned his interest to become a member of parliament and decided that the best reform...

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The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

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 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...

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Book Reviews 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...

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...

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...

Humanities and Social Sciences

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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...

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The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

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....

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’...

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Book Reviews 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 Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Book Reviews 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...

Science & Technology

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Relativity: The Special And The General Theory by Albert Einstein

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...

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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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...

The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans

Book Reviews 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...

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...

What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger

Book Reviews 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...

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...

Biography

The confessions of Saint Augustine

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...

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...

John D. Rockefeller and his career by Silas Hubbard

Biography 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...

Spirituality

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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...

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...

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

Book Reviews 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...

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 Dickens

A - F ClassicBooks.com - August 4, 2020

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

J. Berg Esenwein

Classic Authors ClassicBooks.com - August 3, 2019

J. Berg Esenwein was a distinguished American writer, editor, and lecturer. He is the author of self-improvement books like How to Attract and Hold...

Bram Stoker

A - F ClassicBooks.com - August 4, 2020

Bram Stoker was born on November 8th, 1847 in Clontarf, County Dublin, Ireland. His birth name was Abraham Stoker, and in his early years,...

J. R. R. Tolkien

Classic Authors ClassicBooks.com - July 27, 2020

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was the author of the high fantasy...

William Golding

Classic Authors ClassicBooks.com - August 1, 2020

William Golding is a British novelist who is famous for his book, Lord of the Flies, published in 1954. This is one of the...

James Jeans

Classic Authors ClassicBooks.com - August 6, 2020

Sir James Hopwood Jeans is one of the most highly acclaimed astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists, for he was the first to propose the notion...

St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton

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...