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This is a neat PDF that contains one or two page summaries of a bunch of self help classics.  Great to get an overview, a quick refresher, or to determine if you want to get the book.  The Bhagavad-Gita  The Bible  The Dhammapada (Buddha’s teachings) (2nd century) Marcus Aurelius  Meditations (5th-3rd century BC)  Lao Tzu  Tao Te Ching (6th century)  Boethius  The Consolation of Philosophy1790 Benjamin Franklin  Autobiography1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson  Self-Reliance1854 Henry David Thoreau  Walden1859 Samuel Smiles  Self-Help1902 James Allen  As a Man Thinketh1925 Florence Scovell Shinn  The Game of Life and How to Play It1936 Dale Carnegie  How to Win Friends and Influence People1952 Norman Vincent Peale  The Power of Positive Thinking1954 Abraham Maslow  Motivation and Personality1955 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  The Phenomenon of Man1957 Ayn Rand  Atlas Shrugged1959 Viktor Frankl  Man’s Search for Meaning1960 Maxwell Maltz  Psycho-Cybernetics1963 Joseph Murphy  The Power of Your Subconscious Mind1978 Shakti Gawain  Creative Visualization1978 M. Scott Peck  The Road Less Traveled1980 William Bridges  Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes1980 David D. Burns  Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy1984 Louise Hay  You Can Heal Your Life1986 Carol S. Pearson  The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By1987 Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers  The Power of Myth1987 Susan Jeffers  Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway1989 Stephen Covey  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People1989 Ellen J. Langer  Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life1990 Robert Bly  Iron John1990 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience1991 Anthony Robbins  Awaken the Giant Within1991 Martin Seligman  Learned Optimism1992 Wayne Dyer  Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life1992 Clarissa Pinkola Estés  Women Who Run with the Wolves1992 John Gray  Men Are from Mars,Women Are from Venus1992 Thomas Moore  Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life1993 Paulo Coelho  The Alchemist1994 Steve Andreas & Charles Faulkner   (NLP Comprehensive Team) NLP: The New Technology of Achievement1994 Deepak Chopra  The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success1994 Marianne Williamson  A Return to Love1995 Daniel Goleman  Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ1996 James Hillman  The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling1997 Alain de Botton  How Proust Can Change Your Life1997 Richard Carlson  Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… And It’s All Small Stuff1998 The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler  The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living1998 Richard Koch  The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less1999 Philip C. McGraw  Life Strategies: Doing What Works, DoingWhat Matters2001 Martha Beck  Finding Your Own North Star: How to Claim the Life You Were Meant to Live