The following 60+ books can be used as an important part of your self-identity work in many ways, depending on the type of book and its purpose. They are categorized so that you may select books depending upon the integration(s) you are making in your life.
Identity Theory (Theories of YOU)
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The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard
Identity and the Life Cycle
Erik H. Erikson
On Becoming a Person
Carl Rogers
Mind, Self, and Society
G. H. Mead
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Erving Goffman
Spiral Dynamics
Don Edward Beck & Christopher C. Cowan
Living in Deep Alignment with Yourself
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Heavenly Life
James Allen
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Toward a Psychology of Being
Abraham Maslow
Archetypes of the Unconscious
Carl Jung
Symbols of Transformation
Carl Jung
Maps of Meaning
Jordan Peterson
Creating Your Life Purpose
Mastery
Robert Greene
The Big Leap
Gay Hendricks
Editing Your Life Narrative
The Storytelling Animal
Jonathan Gotschall
The Writer’s Journey
Christopher Vogler
Man’s Search For Meaning
Viktor Frankl
The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By
Dan P. McAdams
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
Your Spiritual Practices
Lucid Dreaming
Robert Waggoner
Inner Work
Robert Johnson
On The Taboo Of Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
The Book of Not Knowing
Peter Ralston
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
Translated with a Commentary by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Daniel M. Ingram
A Course in Miracles Workbook
Course in Miracles Society
The Science of Enlightenment
Shinzhen Young
Your Psychological and Emotional Practices
The New Psycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz
Loving What Is
Byron Katie
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden
The Chimp Paradox
Dr. Steve Peters
The Sedona Method
Hale Dwoskin
Your Social Relationships
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Meaning of Others: Narrative Studies of Relationships
Ruthellen Josselson, Amia Lieblich, Dan P. McAdams
Quiet
Susan Cain
The Charisma Myth
Olivia Fox Cabane
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
Your Romantic Relationships
The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida
The Seven Secrets to Happy, Healthy Relationships
Don Miguel Ruiz
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
John Gray
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John M. Gottman
Double Your Dating
David DeAngelo
Your Business & Finances
It’s Not About The Money
Brent Kessel
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
Primal Branding
Patrick Hanlon
Linchpin
Seth Godin
Your Environment
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist: The 500 Best Places on the Planet… Ranked
Lonely Planet
Your Creativity
How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci
Michael J. Gelb
The Artist’s Way
Julia Cameron
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
Thinkertoys
Michael Michalko
Fiction for Identity Work
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1984
George Orwell
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
