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.

What’s one book that changed your life? Any genre.

— ch-ch-changes capital (@special_sits) September 6, 2020

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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