ChatGPT Prompt: Generate Personalized Book Recommendations

I love to read. Often times, I will Google or search on Amazon “Best business books of all time”, “Best WordPress development book 2023”, etc. This prompt allows us to do the same using ChatGPT. We get a curated list of books to read based on our interests. Unfortunately, until ChatGPT can create responses from up-to-the-minute data, it will not recommend books newer than late 2021 (at the time of this writing) and struggles with accurate URLs.

Regarding the URLs, I originally wanted the reading list to include the purchase links from Amazon, but had to remove the ask because ChatGPT is remarkably bad at returning working URLs. It’s because the data ChatGPT trained on is old and the links often changed, so it typically returns dead links.

You know the title and author of every book on Amazon.com. Your job is to return a list of 10 books on the topic provided. The 10 books should be the highest reviewed on Amazon.com for the given topic. For each book in the list, return its title, author, and publish date. If you understand, please respond with yes without elaborating.

Yes.

Private equity

Here are the top 10 highest reviewed books on Private Equity on Amazon.com with their title, author, and publish date:

1. “The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital” by Robert Finkel, David Greising, and Tom Bouchard (2009)
2. “The Private Equity Playbook: Management’s Guide to Working with Private Equity” by Adam Coffey (2015)
3. “The Private Equity Edge: How Private Equity Players and the World’s Top Companies Build Value and Wealth” by Arthur B. Laffer, William J. Hass, and Shepherd G. Pryor IV (2012)
4. “Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation” by Benoît Leleux and Hans van Swaay (2014)
5. “The LBO Handbook: The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Leveraged Buyouts” by Michael E. Rees (2010)
6. “The Private Equity Firm: Creating Value and Influence” by Harry Cendrowski, Louis W. Petro, and James P. Martin (2012)
7. “Investing Private Capital in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses” by Lewis B. Cullman and Martha S. Seger (2011)
8. “The Art of Value Investing: How the World’s Best Investors Beat the Market” by John Heins and Whitney Tilson (2013)
9. “Private Equity in Action: Case Studies from Developed and Emerging Markets” by Claudia Zeisberger, Michael Prahl, and Bowen White (2017)
10. “King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone” by David Carey and John Morris (2011)

WordPress Development

Here are the top 10 highest reviewed books on WordPress Development on Amazon.com with their title, author, and publish date:

1. “Professional WordPress: Design and Development” by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern (2015)
2. “WordPress All-in-One For Dummies” by Lisa Sabin-Wilson (2020)
3. “WordPress: The Missing Manual” by Matthew MacDonald (2014)
4. “WordPress Development for Beginners: A WordPress for Beginners Guide to Learn How to Make WordPress Websites, Plugins and Themes with Simple Coding, Debugging, and Deployment Techniques” by Felix Alvaro (2019)
5. “WordPress For Beginners 2021: A Visual Guide to Building Your WordPress Site from Scratch” by Dr. Andy Williams (2021)
6. “WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner” by Sarah McHarry (2013)
7. “WordPress Theme Development – Beginner’s Guide” by Alexander Oni (2013)
8. “WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook: Create powerful plugins to extend the world’s most popular CMS” by Yannick Lefebvre (2012)
9. “Professional WordPress Plugin Development” by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard, and Justin Tadlock (2011)
10. “WordPress Security Made Easy: Visual Step-by-Step Guide from Zero to Hero, How to Install Secure WordPress Site and Maintain it Cost-Free and Without Turning into a Security Expert” by Dr. Andy Williams (2019)

Leadership and management

Here are the top 10 highest reviewed books on Leadership and Management on Amazon.com with their title, author, and publish date:

1. “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (2017)
2. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change” by Stephen R. Covey (2020)
3. “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t” by Jim Collins (2011)
4. “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t” by Simon Sinek (2017)
5. “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable” by Patrick Lencioni (2012)
6. “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You” by John C. Maxwell (2007)
7. “First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently” by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (2016)
8. “Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler (2011)
9. “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses” by Eric Ries (2011)
10. “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek (2011)

MBA

Here are the top 10 highest reviewed books on MBA (Master of Business Administration) on Amazon.com with their title, author, and publish date:

1. “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business” by Josh Kaufman (2012)
2. “HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself” by Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, and Clayton M. Christensen (2011)
3. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change” by Stephen R. Covey (2020)
4. “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses” by Eric Ries (2011)
5. “HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy” by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, and W. Chan Kim (2011)
6. “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman (2013)
7. “HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership” by Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, and John P. Kotter (2011)
8. “The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success” by William N. Thorndike (2012)
9. “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (2015)
10. “HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence” by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, and Richard E. Boyatzis (2015)