Books like The 4-Hour Workweek

If you liked The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Stephen R. Covey · 1989

    Because shares tags: self help, productivity, business.

    Covey's famous framework for living by principle: seven habits that move from private victory to working well with others.

  2. Steal Like an Artist

    Austin Kleon · 2012

    Because shares tags: self help, business.

    Kleon's 2012 illustrated guide gives ten principles for creative work, from borrowing openly and starting early to sharing, staying kind,…

  3. Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight · 2016

    Because shares tags: business, entrepreneurship.

    Phil Knight tells how Blue Ribbon Sports grew from a trunk of Japanese running shoes into Nike.

  4. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tags: business, self help.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

    Marie Kondo · 2011

    Because shares tags: minimalism, self help.

    Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.

  6. The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · 2012

    Because shares tags: business, self help.

    Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste…

  7. How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie · 1936

    Because shares tags: self help, business.

    Carnegie's 1936 guide to getting along offers plain habits for listening, praise, and persuasion. This summary walks through its parts,…

  8. Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006

    Because shares tags: travel, self help.

    Eat, Pray, Love retold: divorce, Italy for pleasure, India for practice, Bali for balance.

  9. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

    Cal Newport · 2016

    Because shares tags: productivity, business.

    Cal Newport's Deep Work in full: what focused work actually is, why shallow busyness wins by default, and the four philosophies he…

  10. Under the Tuscan Sun

    Frances Mayes · 1996

    Because shares tag: travel.

    Frances Mayes and her husband Ed restore an abandoned villa near Cortona, learning its stone walls, markets, and seasonal cooking one room…

  11. The Purpose Driven Life

    Rick Warren · 2002

    Because shares tag: self help.

    Rick Warren's 40-day guide to Christian purpose, from worship and fellowship to growth, service and mission.

  12. Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift · 1726

    Because shares tag: travel.

    A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.

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