It's hard to know what somebody else will find inspiring, but I can share a handful that I personally found to be so: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand It's Not Abo

It's hard to know what somebody else will find inspiring, but I can share a handful that I personally found to be so: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong Ultramarathon Man - Dean Karnazes Charles Proteus Steinmetz: The Electrical Wizard of Schenectady - Robert Bly Report From Engine Co 82 - Dennis Smith The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets - Graham Farmelo The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth - Paul Hoffman The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan - Robert Kanigel Also, I haven't read it yet myself, but I have heard good things about The Last Lecture[1] by Randy Pausch, and have it queued up to read soon. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Lecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Lecture