- Highlighted - Books that have had a formative impact on my life.
- These are roughly in order. Top ones are the best (my opinion - for now) and bottom ones less so.
- Almost all of these I've read entirely. If I haven't, it's because I think you can learn something important from them without finishing.
- For a complete list - you'll have to talk to me :)
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Psychology
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Love
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Literature
Wuthering Heights
The Brothers Karamazov
Middlemarch
The Little Prince
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
East of Eden
Anne of Green Gables
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Anna Karenina
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
A Tale of Two Cities
Animal Farm
Notes From The Underground
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
2666
Shantaram
1Q84
The Scarlet Letter
The Wave - Todd Strasser
Redwall
Biography
Poor Charlie's Alamanack
Benjamin Franklin - Carl Van Doren
The Snowball - Alice Schroeder
Li Ka-Shing - Yan Qicheng
Walt Disney - Neal Gabler
The Ride of a Lifetime
Last Man Standing - Duff McDonald
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Principles - Ray Dalio
What It Takes - Stephen Schwarzman
Sam Walton: Made In America
Titan - Ron Chernow
When Breath Becomes Air
History
The Story of Civilization - Will and Ariel Durant
The Lessons of History - Will and Ariel Durant
Sapiens
The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
Conspiracy - Ryan Holiday
The Rational Optimist
Russia - Abraham Ascher
Philosophy
The Four Hour Workweek
The Alamanack of Naval Ravikant
Tools of Titans
On The Shortness of Life
Fallen Leaves - Will Durant
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Outwitting the Devil
Rebirth - Kamal Ravikant
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
How Proust Can Change Your Life
The Beginning of Infinity
Counsels and Maxims
This Is Water
We Learn Nothing
The Bed of Procrustes
Walden
The Book of Life - Jiddu Krishnamurti
God's Debris
The Story of Philsophy - Will Durant
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Dream of Reason - Anthony Gottlieb
The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb
Man's Search for Meaning
Night - Elie Wiesel
Invisible Cities
Psychology
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
Loserthink
Alchemy - Rory Sutherland
Civilization and Its Discontents
Talent - Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross
Folly of Fools
What Every BODY Is Saying
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading
Business
The Sovereign Individual
The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
Zero to One
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
The Cold Start Problem
My Life in Advertising
The Founders - Jimmy Soni
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Hackers and Painters
Economics in One Lesson
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Skin in the Game
Managing Oneself
Working Together - Michael Eisner
The One Thing
The Third Door
Where Are The Customers' Yachts
The Intelligent Investor
Travel
Vagabonding
Lands of Lost Borders
Love
Many Love
The Game - Neil Strauss
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
The Course of Love
The Passion Trap
For Men Only
Other
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Evolution of Everything
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Lost City of Z
The Shanghai Free Taxi