I’m trying to be helpful and listing books that changed peoples lives, sort them into categories and link to them.
Inspired by ch-ch-changes capital’s tweet. What’s one book that changed your life? Any genre.
Self Improvement / Philosophy / Psychology
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
- How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes
- Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
- Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
- Unf*ck Yourself by Gary John Bishop
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Classic Literature & Fiction
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Upstream by Mary Oliver
- The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
- The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Women by Charles Bukowski
- The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
- Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Physician by Noah Gordon
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
- Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Republic by Plato
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
History / Recollections
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Personal Finance / Investing / Business
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
- One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
- Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- Contrary Investing by Richard E. Band
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science and Tech
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Visions by Michio Kaku
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Perfect Theory by Prof. Pedro G. Ferreira
Sport
- Ball Four by Jim Bouton
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- The Bill James Baseball Abstract, 1982 by Bill James
Misc
- The Carrying by Ada Limon
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
- The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
- Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Travels by Michael Crichton
- Average is Over by Tyler Cowen
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