Here is a list of the best Motivation books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011)
- Understanding Motivation and Emotion, Seventh Edition (2017)
- Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental (4th Edition) (2013)
- Master Your Motivation: A Practical Guide to Unstick Yourself, Build Momentum and Sustain Long-Term Motivation (Mastery Series) (2019)
- You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013)
- Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success (2016)
- Motivation-based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best (2018)
- Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals (2019)
- Motivation (2018)
- Mastering Self Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence (6th Edition) (2012)
- Strategic Management Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization (2012)
- Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (1996)
- Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings (2013)
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011)
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others).
Understanding Motivation and Emotion, Seventh Edition (2017)
The past ten years have seen an explosion of useful research surrounding human motivation and emotion; new insights allow researchers to answer the perennial questions, including “What do people want?” and “Why do they want what they want?” By delving into the roots of motivation, the emotional processes at work, and the impa…
Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental (4th Edition) (2013)
Well-grounded in the history of the field, the fourth edition of Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental combines classic studies with current research. The text provides an overarching organizational scheme of how motivation (the inducement of action, feelings, and thought) leads to behavior from physiological, psychological, and environmental sources.
Master Your Motivation: A Practical Guide to Unstick Yourself, Build Momentum and Sustain Long-Term Motivation (Mastery Series) (2019)
Struggle to motivate yourself? Feel stuck, unable to complete your key tasks? Can’t sustain motivation over the long-term? If so, it’s time you make changes and get your motivation back.Author and coach, Thibaut Meurisse, wants to help you reclaim your inner drive. In his latest book, you’ll learn exactly how to rebuild your motivation and sustain it over the long-term. Master Your Motivation is a clear and concise walkthrough that demonstrates how to regain your motivation.
You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013)
YOU ARE A BADASS IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES BUT DON’T WANT TO GET BUSTED DOING IT.
Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success (2016)
Combining theory, research, and applications, this popular text guides college students on how to become self-regulated learners. Students gain knowledge about human motivation and learning as they improve their study skills.
Motivation-based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best (2018)
Hiring the best requires more than just assessing a candidate's skill. Interviewers must also determine the candidate's attitude toward overcoming obstacles and how passionate they are about achieving your goals—both proven predictors of future success.
Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals (2019)
Motivation is at the heart of everything you do and everything you want to do but don’t. Unfortunately, the ways we typically motivate ourselves don’t work. Relying on sheer determination eventually becomes exhausting–it’s not sustainable. And even setting goals can backfire–if you’re not setting them for the right reasons. Susan Fowler says motivation is energy, and what matters is the quality, not the quantity.
Motivation (2018)
This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental sources become motivation―the inducement of behavior, feelings, and cognition. It combines classic studies with current research and uses numerous real-world examples to engage the student and make often-difficult theoretical concepts come to life.
Mastering Self Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence (6th Edition) (2012)
It starts with you—follow the best path to effectively leading others. Mastering Self-Leadership is a comprehensive self-help guide that’s thoroughly grounded in sound principles and research. The powerful advice and tools found in this text emphasize that proper self-leadership is a precursor for the effective leadership of others.
Strategic Management Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization (2012)
Bring your students the most thorough, up-to-date, and relevant collection of strategic management cases available. Developed by highly respected experts and award-winning instructors Hitt, Ireland and Hoskisson, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CASES, 10ecombines the latest cutting-edge research in strategic management with impeccable scholarship and a practical global focus.
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (1996)
If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of motivation? No, says psychologist Edward L. Deci, who challenges traditional thinking and shows that this method actually works against performance. The best way to motivate people—at school, at work, or at home—is to support their sense of autonomy.
Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings (2013)
Criminological Theory: Past to Present–Essential Readings is a comprehensive reader that exposes students to both classic and contemporary theories of crime. Editors Francis T. Cullen, Robert Agnew, and Pamela Wilcox provide accessible yet detailed introductions, preparing students for what they are about to read and placing each selection in context.
Best Motivation Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some motivation books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Motivation Science: Controversies and Insights
Author(s): Mimi Bong, Johnmarshall Reeve, Sung-il Kim
ID: 3556236, Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2023, Size: 8 Mb, Format: epub
The Student Motivation Handbook: 50 Ways to Boost an Intrinsic Desire to Learn
Author(s): Larry Ferlazzo
ID: 3650404, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Intrinsic Motivation: Learn to Love Your Work and Succeed as Never Before
Author(s): Stefan Falk
ID: 3673968, Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are absolutely hot items according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.