51 Books Richard Branson Thinks You Should Read

Over the years, many multi-billionaires such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg have revealed that they are voracious readers. Another famous entrepreneur who recently joined that list is Virgin Record boss Richard Manson.

In honour of World Book Day, Richard Manson recommended the books that helped shape his life as an entrepreneur. Many of these books centre on leadership, business, and self-help.

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Here are 51 books the entrepreneur thinks you should read:

1.  Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
2.  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
3.  1984 – George Orwell
4.  Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
5.  The Quiet American – Graham Greene
6.  Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak Tales of the Unexpected – Roald Dahl
7.  George’s Marvelous Medicine – Roald Dahl
8.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
9.  Oh, The Place You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss
10.  Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
11.  The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
12.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
13.  Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
14.  The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
15.  Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stephenson
16.  The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17.  The Dice Man – Luke Rhinehart
18.  Shantaram – Gregory Roberts
19.  One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20.  Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the  World – Tracy Kidder
21.  The Outermost House – Henry Beston
22.  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
23.  Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege – Antony Beevor
24.  The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
25.  In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex – Nathaniel Philbrick
26.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
27.  Travels with Charley – John Steinbeck
28.  Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela – Nelson Mandela
29.  Mao: The Unknown Story – Jung Chang
30.  A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety – Jimmy Carter
31.  No Future Without Forgiveness – Desmond Tutu
32.  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel
33.  Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage – Stengel
34.  Limitless: Leadership That Endures – Ajaz Ahmed
35.  Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World – Adam Grant
36.  If I Could Tell You Just One Thing: 50 of the world’s most remarkable people pass on their best piece of advice – Richard Reed
37.  Remote: Office Not Required – Jason Fried
38.  Start With Why – Simon Sinek
39.  101 Reasons to Get Out of Bed – Natasha Milne
40. . Letters to a Stranger: A publishing project in aid of MIND – Various
41.  Self Belief: The Vision – Jamal Edwards
42.  The Meaning of the 21st Century – James Martin
43.  Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill – Matthieu Ricard
44. . A Time for New Dreams – Ben Okri
45.  A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
46.  The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Tim Flannery
47.  Big World, Small Planet – Johan Rockström and Mattias Klum
48.  An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It – Al Gore
49. . Necker: A Virgin Island – Russell James
50.  Lost Ocean – Johanna Basford
51. Arctica: The Vanishing North – Sebastian Copeland

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