I’ve been stacking this book list for years — literally since I started diving into self-growth, money, branding, spirituality, and all the random rabbit holes I end up in. Every title on here came from somewhere different: podcasts I binge, friends I trust, stuff I catch on social, books that reference other books… all of it. What started as a messy notes app dump turned into a full 100+ book library.

To make it actually useful, I broke everything down into categories — mindset, money, healing, psychology, business, creativity, all that. This isn’t just a “to-read list.” It’s basically the blueprint of everything I want to study, master, and apply to my life and my brand.

This whole collection aligns with everything Wize Co stands for — feeding the mind, strengthening the body, and grounding the soul.

- Tiera Johnson | Founder + CEO

1. Mindset, Personal Development & Spirituality

1. So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport

• How Are You Really — Jenna Kutcher
  
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  Jay Shetty Books
  
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  Manifest Now — Idil Ahmed
  
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  When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal
  
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  Slight Edge
  
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  Don’t Believe Everything You Think
  
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  The Greatness Mindset — Lewis Howes
  
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  Untethered Soul — Michael Singer
  
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  Louise Hay Books
  
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  Seat of the Soul — Gary Zukav
  
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  The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
  
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  You Deserve This Sh*t
  
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  Set Boundaries, Find Peace
  
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  Essentialism
  
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  Atomic Habits
  
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  The Secret
  
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  Manifest — Roxie Nafousi
  
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  Emmanuel Acho Books
  
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  The Daily Stoic — Ryan Holiday
  
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  How We Heal — Alexandra Elle
  
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  The Mountain Is You
  
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  Unlearn — Humble the Poet
  
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  Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins
  
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  The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
  
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  How Successful People Think
  
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  Stay Sane in an Insane World — Greg Harding
  
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  Psycho-Cybernetics
  
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  Hidden Potential — Adam Grant
  
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  The Art of Laziness
  
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  Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
  
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  A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
  
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  The Let Them Theory
  
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  It’s All in Your Head — Russ
  
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  Die With Zero
  
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  You Can Be Happy No Matter What — Richard Carlson
  
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  Creative Visualization — Shakti Gawain
  
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  Living in the Light — Shakti Gawain
  
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  The Power of Partnership — Riane Eisler
  
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  Chatter — Ethan Kross
  
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  Shift — Ethan Kross
  
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  The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
  
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  The Art of Impossible — Steven Kotler
  
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  Wise Effort
  
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  When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön
  
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  Outwitting the Devil — Napoleon Hill
  
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  The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
  
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  The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success
  
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  The 4 Agreements
  
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  You Are a Badass
  
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  You Are a Badass at Making Money
  
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  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
  
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  The 6-Phase Meditation Method
  

2. Money, Wealth, Finance & Business

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  I Will Teach You to Be Rich — Ramit Sethi
  
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  Secrets of the Richest Man Alive (Solomon)
  
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  The Luxury Strategy
  
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  The Power of Same
  
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  The 1-Page Marketing Plan
  
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  The Power of One More — Ed Mylett
  
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  Life Gives to the Giver
  
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  A Happy Pocket Full of Money
  
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  The Science of Getting Rich
  
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  Think and Grow Rich
  
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  Becoming Your Own Banker
  
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  The Laser Fund
  
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  Cashflow Quadrant
  
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  Zero to One — Peter Thiel
  
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  Dotcom Secrets — Russell Brunson
  
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  The 12-Week Year
  
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  Content Marketing Strategy
  
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  Mind Management, Not Time Management
  
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  Hook Point
  
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  The Simple Path to Wealth
  
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  Make Money Easy — Lewis Howes
  
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  The Instant Millionaire
  
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  Trash Man to Cash Man — Myron Golden
  
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  How to Build a Goddamn Empire
  
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  Rich Dad Poor Dad
  
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  Dave Ramsey Books
  
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  The Simple Path to Wealth
  
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  The Power of Partnership (also mindset but money-related)
  

3. Psychology, Performance & Human Behavior

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  Dopamine Nation
  
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  Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
  
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  How to Talk to Anyone
  
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  The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
  
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  Hidden Potential — Adam Grant
  
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  Psycho-Cybernetics
  
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  Above the Line — Urban Meyer
  
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  The Power of Zero
  
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  Chatter — Ethan Kross
  
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  Shift — Ethan Kross
  
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  Deep Work — Cal Newport
  
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  The 4-Hour Workweek — Tim Ferriss
  
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  The E-Myth Revisited — Michael Gerber
  

4. Healing, Health & Wellness

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  Healing Adaptogens
  
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  Healing Mushrooms
  
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  African Holistic Health
  
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  The Way of Herbs
  
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  Eat Smarter
  
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  Sacred Woman
  
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  Becoming Supernatural — Joe Dispenza
  
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  Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself — Joe Dispenza
  
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  Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
  
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  The Body Keeps the Score
  
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  Winter Swimming
  

5. Creativity, Fashion, Branding & Art

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  Virgil Abloh — Icons
  
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  Virgil Abloh — Figures of Speech
  
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  This Is Not a T-Shirt — Bobby Hundreds
  
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  The Artist’s Way (already listed above in mindset but this is creative too)
  
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  The Alchemist
  
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  Big Sean — Go Higher
  

6. Marketing, Branding, Business Strategy

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  Content Marketing Strategy
  
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  What’s in It For Them — Joe Polish
  
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  Dotcom Secrets
  
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  Hook Point
  
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  The 1-Page Marketing Plan
  
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  The E-Myth Revisited
  
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  How to Build a Goddamn Empire

7. Culture, History, War, Social Commentary

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  The 48 Laws of Power
  
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  The 44 Laws of Peace
  
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  The Black Art of War
  
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  The Grand Chessboard
  
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  Yurugu
  
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  If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin
  
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  Black Boy Joy
  

8. Fiction & Classics

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  The Alchemist
  
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  The Divine Comedy
  
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  If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin
  
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  Milk and Honey — Rupi Kaur
  

9. Esoteric, Occult, Mysticism

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  The Occult Book
  
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  The Synchronicity Key
  
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  The Book of Mastery
  
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  Atlas of the Skies
  
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  The Book of the 1000 Dreams