As a teenager entering the prison system I fully understood that such a consequence and experience implied and conveyed an opportunity of ultimate learning. From the onset I was resolved to develop self especially in the most critical areas. Since words are renown for changing the direction of history, I knew that they were also strong enough to effectuate a change in the direction of my life. My initial goal was to read and study 1,000 books before being released from prison. Well, after 11 years I didn't read that many. I READ MORE! My final count just a week before being released was 1,310 books! It's amazing what you can do when you affix your mind to it. Below, I share with you a few of the many books that stood out astoundingly. It is my hopes that if you indulge yourself in any of these readings you will experience understanding, enlightment, inspiration, and the spark that leads to direction. Enjoy!

(NOTE: The list below is in no particular order)

 

* The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) * The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) * The Art of War (Sun Tzu) * The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi) * Behold A Pale Horse (William Cooper) * Ocean of Theosophy (Madame H.P. Blavatsky) * Civilization and It's Discontents (Sigmund Freud) * Powers of the Mind (Adam Smith) * Native Son (Richard Wright) * Word Origins (Wilfred Funk) * Success Runs in Our Race (George Fraser) * The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) * Chess Strategies (Bobby Fisher & Paul Keres) * As A Man Thinketh (James Allen) * The Kybalion (The Three Initiates) * The Power of Concentration (Theron Dupont) * Psychogenesis (Jack E. Addington) * The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley) * The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fannon) * The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) * The Prince (Niccolo Machievelli) * China's Legalist (The Earliest Totalitarians and Their Art of Ruling) (by Zhengyuan Fu) * The Secret of the Ages (Robert Collier) * The Art of Seduction (Robert Greene) * The 48 Laws of Power (Joost Effers/Robert Greene) * Government Secrets (JJ DeSpain & Phyllis Schomaker) * The Bible * The Holy Quran * The Book of Mormon * Blood in My Eye (George L. Jackson) * Destruction of Civilization (Chancellor Williams) * Competitive Intelligence (Larry Kahaner) * Before the Mayflower (Lerone Bennett, Jr.) * At the Foot of the Master (Alcyone) * The Book of Strategy & Leadership: Lessons of the Chinese Masters (Thomas Clearly) * Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (Dr. John Gray) * I CHING (The Book of Change) * The Road Less Traveled (Scott M. Peck, Ph.D) * A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) * Knights of the Tele-Round Table (Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D) * Patton On Leadership (Strategic Lessons For Corporate Warfare) (by Alan Axelrod) * Think & Grow Rich: A Black Choice (Dennis Kimbro/Napoleon Hill) * Ku Klux Klan: America's Recurring Nightmare ((Fred J. Cook) * By Way of Deception (Victor Ostrovsky) * Secrets (F. Lee Bailey) * Lord Chesterfield's Letter To His Son (R.K. Root) * The Art of Thinking (Ernest Dimnet) * The Greatest Salesman in the World (Og Mandino) * The Coldest Winter Ever (Sister Souljah) * Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stefan Covey) * How To Start, Finance and Operate Your Own Business (James L. Silvester) * Letters to My Son (Nerburn) * Black's Law Dictionary (6th & 7th Editions) * The American Heritage College Dictionary (3rd Edition) * Combat (Len Cacutt) * The Special Forces First Aid Survival Manual (Chris McNab) * The Military 100 (Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lee Lanning) * A History of Warfare (John Keegan) * Powerful People (Carroll & Graf) * Marx's Concept of Man (Fromm) * Power Plays (Robert Mayer) * Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun (Wess Roberts, Ph.D.) * The Power Principle (Blaine Lee) * Plato-Republic (Grube/Reeve) * Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle) * Julius Caesar (William Shakespear) * Hamlet (Willaim Shakespear) * Macbeth (William Shakespear) * Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money -- That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not (Robert T. Kiyosaki/Sharon L. Lechter * How To Speak Any Language (Farber) * The Signs in the Heavens & the Earth (For Men of Understanding) (by Harun Yahya) * The Science of Breath (Ramacharaka Yogi) * Integrity (Stephen L. Carter) * In Love and War (Jim & Sybil Stockdale) * ABC's of the Human Body (Reader's Digest) * Sex and Race (I-III) (J.A. Rogers) * War and Rememberance (Herman Wouk) * How To Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)

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