Editors Reads

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Success

10 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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Where to Start with Darren Hardy: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Darren Hardy — how to approach The Compound Effect, his essential book on how small choices accumulate into life outcomes. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with David J. Schwartz: A Reading Guide

Where to start with David J. Schwartz — how to approach The Magic of Thinking Big, his 1959 self-help classic arguing that the size of your success is determined not by talent but by the size of your thinking habits. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Grant Cardone: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Grant Cardone — whether to begin with The 10X Rule or Sell or Be Sold. A complete reading guide to the sales trainer and business author.

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Where to Start with Jen Sincero: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Jen Sincero — whether to begin with You Are a Badass or You Are a Badass at Making Money. A complete reading guide to the self-help author.

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Where to Start with Napoleon Hill: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Napoleon Hill — how to approach Think and Grow Rich, the 1937 classic that distilled the success principles of 500 self-made millionaires and invented modern self-help. A complete reading guide.

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Best Books About Ambition and the American Dream

The best books about ambition and the American Dream — from The Great Gatsby and Revolutionary Road to Babbitt and The Corrections. Essential reading on ambition and failure.

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Best Books About Success: Essential Reading List

The best books about success — from Outliers and Grit to Shoe Dog and Zero to One. Non-fiction that actually changes how you think about achievement, skill, and building something.

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Best Books About Work and Career: Essential Reading for Professionals

The best books about work and career — from Deep Work and So Good They Can't Ignore You to Range and Four Thousand Weeks. Essential professional reading.

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15 Books Like Outliers to Read Next

Loved Outliers? These 15 books explore why some people succeed, what luck and practice actually explain, and how systems shape individual outcomes — with the same big-idea clarity.

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Where to Start with Gay Hendricks: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Gay Hendricks — how to approach The Big Leap, his framework identifying the Upper Limit Problem — the unconscious self-sabotage that caps success — and the path from the Zone of Excellence to the Zone of Genius. A complete reading guide.

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