Best Career-Books [Career-Book Top 10] [2024 Update]

Are you looking for a good career coaching book? Or a book about making a career switch? Read on for our top 10 career books.

The top 10 best books about your career

1.The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Our pick for anyone looking to carve a career path or choose a new career altogether. This book takes you through the process from start to finish, prioritising your success and satisfaction above all else in the search for positive employment.

2.Careers: The Graphic Guide to Planning Your Future

Planning your future can be difficult; after all, no one knows what tomorrow will bring. However, this graphic career guide gives you just about as much information as you could hope for, handing you all the tools to make the best possible choice for you.

3.What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

This is a superb book for those hoping to find a new line of work that they actually love doing. Changing careers can feel like jumping out of a plane without a parachute, but this book aims to give you all the information to minimise risk and maximise success and happiness.

4.100 Things to Be When You Grow Up

This book is a magnificent present for any individual who is thinking about the numerous job prospects out there. As the name suggests, it hands you 100 different possibilities in the hope that one or two may jump out. Our pick for youngsters entering the career game in the years to come.

5.The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

This book is more about learning the basic elements of style before entering the working world and should be aimed at youngsters still in school. It revolves around the correct use of grammar, punctuation, phrases and more.

6.The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You

Unfortunately, we are taught very little about careers while in school. However, this book seeks to give you the career education you were never handed, outlining all the essential skills you need for success. Perfect for young adults entering the career market.

7.Just as I Am: A Memoir

Motivating, enlightening, and makes you want to go out and share your energy with the world. This book is the memoir of Cicely Tyson, someone who former President Barack Obama claimed ‘not only succeeded as an actor, she shaped the course of history’.

8.Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security (An Uncle Eric Book)

Perfect for anyone from school age to young adults. This Uncle Eric addition tackles all the need-to-know lessons about careers and financial security that schools do not necessarily teach. Our stocking filler pick for any young minds entering the career marker in future years.

9.Now What?: The Young Person’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career

This book is valuable, particularly in assisting you with picking your ideal career. Young people are rarely given enough guidance to make informed career choices at a young age, but this book gives you all the information that you need to pick the perfect path.

10.All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition

In our opinion, this is the one-stop shop book for anyone looking to break into the music business, whether than be as a singer, musician, technician, writer or more. This guide is an endless source of knowledge from those who have already walked the path.

The best bonus book recommendation for your career

A 4-hour work week – Escape the 9-to-5 mentality and live a rich life

This book is not about literally getting rich, but about having a rich life. In other words, make sure you do fun and enjoyable things with your time. You shift the focus from work to life. In any case, it overturns all of your beliefs that you have developed over the years.

The top 10 best books on Career of all time

Let’s finish with giving you our top picks on this subject. We will present you our top 10 best books about Career of all time. We have updated this ultimate list of our recommendations this year, including all the recent titles.

BOOKS	AUTHOR
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success (Touchstone Books (Paperback))	Nicholas Lore
Careers: The Graphic Guide to Planning Your Future	DK
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers	Richard N. Bolles
100 Things to Be When You Grow Up	Lisa Gerry
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition	William Strunk Jr. E. B. White
The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You	Mark A. Herschberg
Just as I Am: A Memoir	Cicely Tyson
Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security (An Uncle Eric Book)	Richard J. Maybury
Now What?: The Young Person’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career	Nicholas Lore
All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition	Donald S. Passman

To your success!