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72 Books for Career and Financial Success in 2023

Posted by Suzanne on December 26, 2022

If you’re feeling like you could do with some inspiration on how to be successful at your current job, find a new role, and advance your career, this list of books highly rated by Goodreads members is packed with expert guidance.

We’re pretty confident you don’t need our help to discover classics like What Color is Your Parachute and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, so we’ve leant into more recent business books covering key topics from a wide variety of perspectives. And to wrap things up, we’ve included some personal finance books to help you better manage the money you earn.

Strengthening Your Career

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life

Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right

The Right-and Wrong-Stuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade

Strategize to Win: The New Way to Start Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career

7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career

Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace

Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate

Invaluable: Master the 10 Skills You Need to Skyrocket Your Career

Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team

Don't Quit Your Day Job: The 6 Mindshifts You Need to Rise and Thrive at Work

Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional's Guide to Thriving in the Workplace

Get Your Career in SHAPE: A Five-Step Guide to Achieve the Success You Need, Want, and Deserve

Making Better Decisions

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information

Managing Your Time

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

The Burnout Fix: Overcome Overwhelm, Beat Busy, and Sustain Success in the New World of Work

Leadership

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

The Culture Playbook: 60 Highly Effective Actions to Help Your Group Succeed

When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think

Chase Greatness: Enlightened Leadership for the Next Generation of Disruption

Lead to Win: How to Be a Powerful, Impactful, Influential Leader in Any Environment

Career Advice for Women

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead

Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose

Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work

Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

The Other: How to Own Your Power at Work as a Woman of Color

The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America

Prep, Push, Pivot: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women

Design Your Career

Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work

You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career

Happen to Your Career: An Unconventional Approach to Career Change and Meaningful Work

Job Hunting

The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More

Get Hired Now!: How to Accelerate Your Job Search, Stand Out, and Land Your Next Great Opportunity

Linked: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future.

Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker’s Playbook

Communications

Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story

Let's Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower

Inspiration in Business and Life

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage

Stop Living on Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Born to Shine: Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love

More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise

Jump: Dare to Do What Scares You in Business and Life

Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy

Managing the Money You Earn

I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life

Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth

Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

How to Adult: Personal Finance for the Real World

The Great Money Reset: Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life

Is there a standout book that has helped you in your career or financial life? Share your recommendations in the comments!

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