Book Recommendations
First the list of books I highly recommend. No ranking. Mostly non-fiction.
Then the rest of the books I recently read.
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Last update: 28th of January 2025
Highly recommended
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Steal Like an Artist - Show Your Work! - Keep Going by Austin Kleon
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Antifragile and Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Practicing Stoic by Ward Farnsworth
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Principles by Ray Dalio
The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Discourses by Epictetus
L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Life Before Us by Romain Gary
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
The End of Your World by Adyashanti
How to Live by Derek Sivers
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Currently reading
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Read in 2024
Behave by Robert Sapolsky – abandoned: great insights, but too technical
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dune by Frank Herbert
Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Read in 2023
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson – abandoned: Mindblowing world, but the story did not click.
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Entheogenic Liberation by Martin W. Ball
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard