Books marked with * are recommended for first reading.

Real People Press, Meta Publications and Science and Behavior Books are several good sources. Some of these books are also available through Amazon.com. Others will probably need to be ordered through a bookstore.

For those interested in learning more about NLP in depth, I recommend the Practitioner Trainings at either NLP Institute of California or NLP Comprehensive, both run by experienced and knowledgable NLP folk. Beware of others--the quality of trainings can vary greatly, and there are quite a few people who represent themselves as master NLP trainers when they are in fact not.

I'm sorry that few of the books have direct links--try Real People Press first.

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Transforming Your Self: Becoming Who you Want to Be*
by Steve Andreas

My Lessons with Kumi*
by Michael Colgrass

Best Introductory Titles

These are some of the best books for introducing people to NLP. Some are also included in the extended booklist below.

NLP: The New Technology of Achievement*
edited by Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner

Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming*
by Joseph OConnor and John Seymour

Using your Brain For a Change*
by Richard Bandler (Connirae & Steve Andreas, editors)

Change your Mind and Keep the Change*
by Steve and Connirae Andreas

The Heart Of The Mind*
by Steve and Connirae Andreas

NLP Origins

These books cover some of the ideas that were at the foundation of the theory of NLP, or are related to the NLP concepts. The NLP procedures and processes were worked out by modeling Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir; these processes are described in the NLP Fundamentals section.

Plans and the Structure of Behavior*
by George Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl Pribram

Mind and Nature: a Necessary Unity*
by Gregory Bateson

Steps to an Ecology of Mind
by Gregory Bateson

Angels Fear: an Epistomology of the Sacred
by Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
by George Lakoff

NLP Fundamentals

These books cover the fundamental presuppositions and processes in NLP.

Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming*
by Joseph OConnor and John Seymour

Neurolinguistic Programming: The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience
by Robert Dilts, John Grinder, Richard Bandler, and Judith Delosier

The Structure of Magic, Volumes I and II*
by John Grinder and Richard Bandler

Using your Brain For a Change*
by Richard Bandler (Connirae & Steve Andreas, editors)

Change your Mind and Keep the Change*
by Steve and Connirae Andreas

The Heart Of The Mind*
by Steve and Connirae Andreas

Core Transformation*
by Connirae and Tamara Andreas

Frogs Into Princes*
TranceFormations*
Reframing*
by Richard Bandler and John Grinder (Andreas editors)

NLP and Belief Systems

Belief systems are often the foundation of certain behaviors, supportive and destructive; these books describe models of modifying belief systems to allow change.

Transforming Your Self: Becoming Who you Want to Be*
by Steve Andreas

Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Well-Being
by Robert Dilts, Tim Hallbom and Suzi Smith

Changing Belief Systems with NLP
by Robert Dilts

NLP, with focus on Internal States & Processes

These books cover a different perspective on NLP: internal states (emotions), how they come up, and how to change them.

The Emotional Hostage*
by Leslie Cameron-Bandler and Michael Lebeau

Solutions
by Leslie Cameron-Bandler

Know-How
by Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon, Michael Lebeau

The Emprint Method
by Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon, Michael Lebeau

NLP in Therapy

These books cover the application of NLP techniques to therapy.

Thinking, Changing, Rearranging: Improving Self-Esteem in Young People*
by Jill Anderson

Provocative Therapy
by Frank Farrelly and Jeff Brandsma

Practical Magic*
by Steve Lankton

Irresistable Communication
by King, Novik, and Citrenbaum

Family Therapy (related to NLP)

These cover Virginia Satir's work and methods.

Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her Magic
by Steve Andreas

Changing with Families*
by Richard Bandler, John Grinder, and Virginia Satir

Peoplemaking
by Virginia Satir

Conjoint Family Therapy
by Virginia Satir

Ericksonian Hypnosis

NLP processes are often delivered through hypnosis and hypnotic speech. Bandler and Grinder, as well as Gordon, developed models of Erickson which are presented in these books.

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson
by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, Vol II
by John Grinder, Judith DeLozier, and Richard Bandler

Phoenix: Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson
by David Gordon and Marybeth Meyers-Anderson

Other Books Related to NLP

NLP is more than a model of the mind: it's a completely new set of presuppositions and ways of looking at the world. These books present material that is of interest to NLP people, while not strictly NLP oriented.

New World, New Mind: Moving Towards Conscious Evolution*
by Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich

Multimind
by Robert Ornstein

The Healing Brain*
by Robert Ornstein and David Sobel

The Reenchantment of the World
by Morris Berman