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Every book I'd ever recommend

Every book I'd ever recommend

Self-development:

  • Discipline is destiny (Ryan Holiday)
  • Stillness is the key (Ryan Holiday)
  • Ego is the enemy (Ryan Holiday) 
  • Courage is calling (Ryan Holiday) 
  • The almanak of Naval Ravikant (Naval Ravikant) 
  • 12 rules for life (Jordan Peterson)
  • 12 more rules for life (Jordan Peterson) 
  • Hell yeah or no (Derek Sivers)
  • The subtle art of not giving a fuck (Mark Manson 
  • Mindset (Carol Dweck) 
  • Self-reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • Manual of the warrior of light (Paulo Cohelo) 
  • The daily laws (Robert Greene)
  • The daily stoic (Ryan Holiday) 

Strategy:

  • The 33 strategies of war (Robert Greene)
  • The art of war (Sun Tzu) 
  • Decision time (Laurence Alison) 
  • Mastery (Robert Greene) 
  • The art of thinking clearly (Rolf Dobelli)

Social skills:

  • People skills (Robert Bolton PHD)
  • Rapport - the 4 ways to read people (Emily Alison & Laurence Alison) 
  • Culture map (Erin Meyer) 
  • Never split the difference (Chris Voss) 
  • On the art of conversation (Michel De Montaigne)  
  • Games people play (Eric Berne) 
  • The first minute - how to start conversations that get results (Chris Fenning)

Relationships:

  • How to not die alone (Logan Ury)

Wealth:

  • The psychology of money (Morgan Housel)

Masculinity: 

  • The way of the superior man (David Deida) 
  • Blue Truth (David Deida)
  • King warrior magician lover (Robert Moore)
  • Battlecry (Jason Wilson)
  • The comfort crisis (Michael Easter)

Productivity:

  • 4 thousand weeks (Oliver Burkeman) 
  • Ready for anything (David Allen) 
  • Deep work (Cal Newport) 
  • Indistractable (Nir Eyal)

Career:

  • So good they can’t ignore you (Cal Newport)
  • Mastery (Robert Greene)

Psychology:

  • Man’s search for meaning (Viktor Frankl) 
  • Why the fuck can’t I change? (Dr. Gabija Toleikyte) 
  • The divided brain and the search for meaning (Iain McGilchrist) 
  • Think again (Adam Grant) 
  • The examined life (Stephen Grosz) 
  • Why has nobody told me this before? (Dr. Julie Smith) 
  • Designing the mind (Ryan A Bush)
  • The laws of human nature (Robert Greene)
  • The 48 laws of power (Robert Greene)
  • Good reasons for bad feelings (Randolph Nesse) 

Neuroscience:

  • Never enough (Judith Grisel) 
  • Dopamine nation (Anna Lembke) 
  • No self no problem (Chris Niebauer) 
  • The molecule of more (Daniel Z. Lieberman)

Addiction:

  • Never enough (Judith Griesel) 
  • Dopamine nation (Anna Lembke) 
  • Recovery, freedom from our addictions (Russell Brand) 
  • Digital minimalism (Cal Newport)

Nutrition/physical performance:

  • Deep nutrition (Catherine Shanahan)

Philosophy:

  • Anecdotes of the cynics (Penguin) 
  • Fear and trembling (Soren Kierkegaard) 
  • Wanting; the power of mimetic desire and how to want what you ended (Luke Burgis) 
  • Essays and aphorisms (Arthur Schopenhauer)
  • On the art of conversation (Michel De Montaigne)  
  • On fear (Jiddu Krishnamurti) 
  • How to be a leader (Plutarch)
  • How to be content (Horace) 
  • Essays (Michel D Montaigne) 
  • Journey to Ixtlan (Carlos Castaneda) 
  • Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) 
  • Discourses and selected writings (Epictetus) 
  • Letters from a stoic (Seneca)
  • A guide to the good life (William Irvine) 

Spirituality: 

  • Out of your mind (Alan Watts) 
  • Three Japanese buddhist monks (Penguin great ideas) 
  • What is Zen? (Alan Watts)
  • Neti Neti meditation (Andrew Doshim Halaw) 
  • Fear (Thich Nhat Hanh)
  • The wisdom of insecurity (Alan Watts)
  • Freedom from the known (Jiddu Krishnamurti) 
  • The book of life (Jiddu Krishnamurti) 
  • The bhagavad gita (Easwaran version)
  • The bhagavad gita (Paramahansa Yogananda - chapters 1-18) 
  • The Upanishads (Easwaran version)
  • The Dhammapada (Easwaran version)
  • Intelligence (Osho)
  • Freedom (Osho)
  • The tao te ching (Lao Tzu) 
  • This is it (Alan Watts)
  • The tao of nature (Chuang Tzu) 
  • Become what you are (Alan Watts)

Fiction:

  • One flew over the cuckoo’s nest 
  • The old man and the sea (Ernest Hemmingway) 
  • Fathers and sons (Ivan Turgenev) 
  • Rudin (Ivan Turgenev) 
  • The same old story (Ivan Goncharov) 
  • Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov) 
  • The brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevksy)
  • The idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevksy)
  • Notes from underground (Fyodor Dostoyevksy)
  • Crime and punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevksy)
  • The eternal husband (Fyodor Dostoyevksy)
  • The dream of a ridiculous man (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
  • The meek one (Fyodor Dosotyevksy)
  • The double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) 
  • The Kreutzer Sonata (Leo Tolstoy) 
  • Family happiness (Leo Tolstoy)
  • The death of Ivan Illyich (Leo Tolstoy) 
  • Where love is God is (Leo Tolstoy)
  • How much land does a man need? (Leo Tolstoy)
  • The devil (Leo Tolsoty)
  • Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
  • The outsider (Albert Camus)
  • The fall (Albert Camus) 
  • The plague (Albert Camus)
  • Island (Aldous Huxley) 
  • 1984 (George Orwell)
  • The trial (Franz Kafka) 
  • One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)