You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind.” – Seneca

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Read this Book before everything else

1. Adler, Mortimer: How to Read a Book

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Literature / Philosophy

1. McKenna, Jed: Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
2. McKenna, Jed: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
3. McKenna, Jed: Spiritual Warfare
4. Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club
5. Irvine, William: A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
6. Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
7. Seneca: On the Shortness of Life
8. Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations
9. Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
10. Hadot, Pierre: The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
11. Millman, Dan: Way of the Peaceful Warrior
12. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
13. Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
14. Orwell, George: Animal Farm
15. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
16. Lee, Bruce: Striking Thoughts
17. Deida, David: The Way of the Superior Man
18. Suzuki, Shunryu: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
19. Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning
20. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
21. Musashi, Miyamoto: The Book of Five Rings

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Nonfiction

1. Bevelin, Peter: Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
2. Newport, Carl: Deep Work
3. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
4. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
5. Campbell, Joseph: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
6. Adams, Scott: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
7. Greene, Robert: The 48 Laws of Power
8. Greene, Robert: Mastery
9. Carnegie, Dale: How to Win Friends and Influence People
10. Gawande, Atul: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

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Psychology

1. Peterson, Jordan: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
2. Peterson, Jordan: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
3. Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
4. Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking, Fast and Slow
5. Peterson, Jordan: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
6. Jung, Carl: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
7. Skogemann, Pia: Where The Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation Of Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings
8. Cialdini, Robert: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

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Education

1. Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko: Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
2. Brown, Peter: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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Business

1. Jorgenson, Eric: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
2. Dalio, Ray: Principles: Life and Work
3. Ferriss, Timothy: The 4-Hour Work-week
4. Moesta, Bob: Demand Side Sales 101
5. Christensen, Clayton: Competing Against Luck
6. Sierra, Kathy: Badass: Making Users Awesome
7. Fried, Jason; Heinemeier Hansson, David: Rework
8. Willink, Jocko; Babin, Leif: Extreme Ownership

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Design

1. Alexander, Christopher: Notes on the Synthesis of Form
2. Papanek, Victor: Design for the Real World
3. Monteiro, Mike: Design is a Job
4. Hall, Erika: Just Enough Research
5. Krug, Steve: Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited
6. Gause, Donald: Are Your Lights On?

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Computer Science / Programming

1. Metz, Sandy: Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
2. Beck, Kent: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

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Biography

1. Urban, Tim: The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why

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Movement

1. Sommer, Christopher: Building The Gymnastic Body
2. Starrett, Kelly: Becoming a Supple Leopard

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Nutrition

1. Baker, Shawn: The Carnivore Diet
2. Saladino, Paul: The Carnivore Code
3. Keith, Lierre: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
4. Jeff S. Volek, Stephen D. Phinney: The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living

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Writing

1. Zinsser, William: On Writing Well
2. Strunk Jr., William: The Elements of Style
3. Goldberg, Natalie: Writing Down the Bones