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This post is a list of books that would be helpful for everyone interested in personal development, marketing tactics, finance, blogging and web development. As you guessed already the above topics are the main themes of this blog.

My recommendations are created based on my own suggestions, my friends ideas and blogs I check daily(like problogger.net, copyblogger.com, stevepavlina.com).

Feel free to contact me and share with us the books that shaped your life so far. Some of them can change your life and give you a new perspective of the future. As I like to say they are the “golden books”.

Personal Development

• Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
• A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library)
• Notes from a Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Control of Your Life
• Relationship Breakthrough: How to Create Outstanding Relationships in Every Area of Your Life
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Marketing Tactics

• Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
• Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich: Create Winning Ads, Web Pages, Sales Letters and More
• Kotler on Marketing
• Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know
• Marketing Concepts and Strategies

Finance

• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
• More than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
• Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
• Biblical Strategies to Financial Freedom: Bringing God’s Word to Your Finances

Blogging

• The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right
• Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care
• Money For Content and Your Clicks For Free: Turning Web Sites, Blogs, and Podcasts Into Cash
• Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
• Blogging Quick & Easy: A Planned Approach to Blogging Success

Web Development

• Developer’s Guide to Web Application Security
• Web Security Testing Cookbook: Systematic Techniques to Find Problems Fast
• Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
• PHP 5 CMS Framework Development: Expert insight and practical guidance to creating an efficient, flexible, and robust framework for a PHP 5-based content management system