While the natural intuition is that new, fresh information is the most valuable, it's often the opposite: fresh information often has too much noise to be useful.
I've read less than half of these! I highly recommend skimming and only completing books that really are good all the way through.
Books marked with ● were good
| Neal Ford | Software Architecture: The Hard Parts | |
| Saxon, Lynn | Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn | |
| Bhattacharya, Ananyo | The Man from the Future | |
| Lonergan, Bernard J. F. | Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan | |
| Peterson, Eugene H. | The Message | |
| Eckermann, Johann Peter | Conversations of Goethe | |
| Brehm, John | Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy | |
| Mumford, Lewis | The City in History | |
| Armstrong, Jeffrey | The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive: A Radical Translation | |
| King, Stephen | On Writing | |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | The Cairo Trilogy | |
| Collins, J | The Simple Path to Wealth | |
| Carr, Nicholas | The Shallows | |
| Ruden, Sarah | The Gospels | |
| McLuhan, Marhsall | Understanding Media The Extensions of Man | |
| ● | Postman, Neil | Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology |
| ● | Morgan, Edmund S | Benjamin Franklin |
| Bacon, Francis | The New Atlantis | |
| Galeson, David W. | Old Masters and Young Geniuses : The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity | |
| Stamets, Paul | Mycelium Running | |
| Roberts, Andrew | Churchill | |
| Nagarjuna | The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika | |
| Khun, Thomas | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
| Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan & Schutze, Hinrich | Introduction to Information Retrieval | |
| Spolsky, Joel | The Best Software Writing I | |
| Greenaway, Frank | John Dalton and the Atom | |
| Vinge, Vernor | A Deepness in the Sky | |
| Moon, Charles & Whateley, Michael & Evans, Anthony M. | Introduction to Mineral Exploration | |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | |
| Popper, Karl; Notturno, M.A.; | The Myth of the Framework | |
| Kleppmann, Martin | Designing Data-Intensive Applications | |
| R., Tufte Edward | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information | |
| Schuler, Lou & Cosgrove, Alwyn | The New Rules of Lifting | |
| Hitchens, Christopher | Letters to a Young Contrarian | |
| Steven Levy | Hackers | |
| Gil, Elad | High Growth Handbook | |
| Petzinger, Thomas | Hard Landing | |
| Bloom, Allan & Kirsch, Adam | The Republic of Plato | |
| Parfit, Derek | Reasons and Persons | |
| Deutsch, David | The Fabric of Reality | |
| Boswell, James | The Life of Samuel Johnson | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Moveable Feast | |
| Unknown | The Best of edw519 | |
| ● | Cajal, Santiago Ramon y | Advice for a Young Investigator |
| Mumford, Lewis | The Myth of the Machine | |
| Malcolm, Janet | The Journalist and the Murderer | |
| Eco, Umberto | Foucault's Pendulum | |
| Vinge, Vernor | A Fire Upon the Deep | |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose | |
| Suits, Bernard | The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia | |
| ● | Hitchens, Christopher | Mortality |
| Ziporyn, trans. Brook | Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings | |
| Tzu, Chuang | The Book of Chuang Tzu | |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | |
| Murakami, Haruki | Kafka on the Shore | |
| Olson, Mancur | The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities | |
| Kundera, Milan | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | |
| Herold, J. Christopher | Mind of Napoleon | |
| Egan, Kieran | The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding | |
| Krishnamurti | Think on These Things | |
| ● | Salter, James | The Hunters |
| Moitessier, Bernard | The Long Way | |
| Wills Garry | Nixon Agonistes | |
| ● | Morison, Elting E. | Men, Machines, and Modern Times |
| Goldacre, Ben | Bad Pharma | |
| Lee, Bruce | Striking Thoughts - Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living | |
| Founder, CEO & Chairman of Genentech, Inc., | Genentech Oral History | |
| Assange, Julian | Cypherpunks | |
| Mongan, John | Programming Interviews Exposed | |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Right Stuff | |
| Olson, Jeff | The Slight Edge | |
| Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott | Discovering, Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge | |
| Polya, G. | How to Solve It | |
| Koster, Raph | A Theory of Fun | |
| Egan, Greg | The Clockwork Rocket | |
| Lawrence, T.E. | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom | |
| ● | Tan, Shaun | The Arrival |
| Goldsmith, Marshall & Reiter, Mark | What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful | |
| Pema Chödrön | The Wisdom of No Escape | |
| ● | Klinkenborg, Verlyn | Several Short Sentences About Writing |
| Kushner, David | Masters of Doom | |
| McConnell, Steve | Code Complete | |
| Eggers, Dave | A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story | |
| Steves, Rick | Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2018 | |
| Klosterman, Chuck | But What If We're Wrong? | |
| McPhee, John | A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton | |
| Hardy, Godfrey Harold | A Mathematician's Apology | |
| ● | Frankfurt, Harry | On bullshit |
| ● | Finnegan, William | Barbarian Days |
| Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall | The Old Way | |
| Goldstein, Rebecca | Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel [Great Discoveries] | |
| Sillitoe, Alan | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | |
| ● | Foundatio, Point | Whole Earth Catalog |
| Aaronson, Scott | Quantum Computing since Democritus | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night | |
| Mumford, Lewis | Technics and civilization | |
| Osnos, Evan | Age of Ambition | |
| Basho, Matsuo | On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho (Classics) | |
| ● | Clarke, Larry | Tulsa |
| Hunt, Andrew;Thomas, David | The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master | |
| ● | Tsu, Lao | Tao Te Ching |
| Kenneth, Clark | The Nude, a Study in Ideal Form | |
| The American frugal housewife dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy by Child, Lydia Maria | American Frugal Housewife, The | |
| Karl Popper | The Open Society and Its Enemies | |
| Eghbal, Nadia | Working in Public | |
| Roth, Benjamin & Ledbetter, James & Roth, Daniel B. | The Great Depression: A Diary | |
| Miller, Madeline | Circe | |
| Eknath Easwaran | The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) | |
| ● | Mitchell Stephen | Bhagavad Gita |
| Cole, K. C | Something incredibly wonderful happens : an intimate biography of Frank Oppenheimer | |
| Feynman, Richard P. | The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | |
| Gordon, J.e. | Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down | |
| Caplan, Bryan | The Case against Education | |
| Newton, Sir Isaac | The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | |
| Hamilton, Edith | Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition | |
| ● | Wilde, Oscar,Frankel, Nicholas | The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Pueblo, Yung | Inward | |
| Plutarch & Stadter, Philip A. & Waterfield, Robin | Greek Lives | |
| Sacks, Oliver | On the Move | |
| Waldrop, M. Mitchell | The Dream Machine | |
| Mechner, Jordan | The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 | |
| Glass, Robert L. | Addison Wesley - Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering | |
| ● | Henri, Robert | The Art Spirit |
| Père, Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | |
| Alexander, Caroline | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | |
| Kidder, Tracy | The Soul of a New Machine | |
| Saavedra, Miguel De Cervantes & Grossman, Edith & Bloom, Harold | Don Quixote | |
| Kaufman, Josh | How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be | |
| ● | Crawford, Matthew B. | World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) |
| Richardson, Bailey & Huynh, Kevin & Sotto, Kai Elmer | Get Together: How to build a community with your people | |
| Larson, Will | Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track | |
| ● | Simmons, Dan | Hyperion |
| Desconocido | Heartstopper | |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails | |
| ● | Kuran, Timur | Private Truths, Public Lies. The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1997, Harvard University Press) |
| Dawkins, Richard | The Blind Watchmaker | |
| Unknown | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | |
| Unknown | Images of Organization | |
| Jackall, Robert | Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers | |
| Gallwey, W. Timothy | The Inner Game of Tennis | |
| Smart, Nigel | Cryptography: An Introduction | |
| Root-Bernstein, Robert | Sparks of Genius: The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People | |
| Lane, Nick | The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? | |
| Lansing, Alfred | Endurance | |
| Compilers | Principles, Techniques, and Tools 2nd Edition | |
| Henrich, Joseph | The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter | |
| Herlihy, Maurice | The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition | |
| Peterson, Jordan B. | Beyond Order | |
| Durant, Will | The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time | |
| ● | Yourcenar, Marguerite | Memoirs of Hadrian |
| Gawande, Atul | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | |
| Snyder, Timothy | Bloodlands | |
| Horowitz, Ben | The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | |
| Grant, Adam | Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World | |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | Discourses on Livy (Oxford World's Classics) | |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | |
| Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn | Human Anatomy and Physiology | |
| Psyd, Sally M. Winston & Seif, Martin N. Phd | Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts | |
| Brett Slatkin | Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python, 2nd Edition | |
| Ousterhout, John | A Philosophy of Software Design | |
| Batchelor, Stephen | Buddhism without Beliefs | |
| Silvera, Adam | They Both Die at the End | |
| Polya, G. | How to Solve It (Princeton Science Library) | |
| ● | Miller, Madeline | The Song of Achilles |
| Feynman, Richard P. | The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist | |
| Thiel, Peter & Masters, Blake | Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | |
| Unknown | The Carnivore Cookbook 1 1 | |
| Baker, Shawn | The Carnivore Diet | |
| Duke, Annie | Thinking in Bets | |
| Kleon, Austin | Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative | |
| Unknown | The Princeton Companion to Mathematics | |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince | |
| Dixit, Avinash | Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction | |
| Hazlitt, Henry | Economics in One Lesson | |
| Mello, Anthony de & Stroud, J. Anthony | The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello | |
| Bacon, Francis | The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral | |
| Zen, Presentation | Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (2nd ed) | |
| DeMarco, Tom | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) | |
| Demarco, Tom | Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency | |
| Lakoff, George | Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate | |
| Grove, Andrew S. | Only the Paranoid Survive | |
| Euclid | The first six books of the Elements of Euclid | |
| Pascarelli, Emil F. | Dr. Pascarelli's complete guide to repetitive strain injury: what you need to know about RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome | |
| Wong, Eva | Lieh-tzu | |
| Blofeld, John | The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind | |
| Osho | Osho, Books I have Loved | |
| Varian, Hal R | Intermediate Microeconomics | |
| Morris, Edmund | Edison | |
| Unknown | Your Brain on Porn | |
| Voltaire | Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) | |
| Huang, Taoist Master Alfred | The Complete I Ching - 10th Anniversary Edition | |
| Swartz, Aaron | The Boy Who Could Change the World | |
| Watts, Alan | The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are | |
| Unknown | The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation | |
| Owens, Delia | Where the Crawdads Sing | |
| Jaynes, E. T. | Probability Theory the Logic of Science | |
| Kim, Gene & Behr, Kevin & Spafford, George | The Phoenix Project | |
| Goldratt, Eliyahu M. | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement | |
| Larson, Will | An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management | |
| Kishimi, Ichiro | The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness | |
| Neil, Drew | Practical Vim, Second Edition | |
| Murakami, Haruki | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series) | |
| Ruhlman, Michael | Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, a Cook's Manifesto | |
| Rippetoe, Mark & Kilgore, Lon | Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training | |
| Jorgenson, Eric | The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness | |
| Homer & Powell, Barry B. | The Odyssey | |
| Abbott, Edwin A. | Flatland | |
| Feynman, Richard P. | Six Easy Pieces | |
| Kierkegaard, Soren | Either/Or: A Fragment of Life | |
| Jung, C. G. | The Red Book: A Reader's Edition | |
| Goggins, David | Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds | |
| Schopenhauer, Arthur | Counsels and Maxims | |
| Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | |
| Haidt, Jonathan | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | |
| Steven, Pressfield, | The War of Art | |
| Liu, Cixin | The Wandering Earth | |
| Gottlieb, Anthony | The Dream of Reason | |
| Descartes, René | Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences | |
| Design | Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994)-1 | |
| Schopenhauer, Arthur | Essays and Aphorisms | |
| Dalio, Ray | Principles | |
| Richardson, Robert D. Jr. | Emerson: The Mind on Fire | |
| Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Children of Time | |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha | |
| P.B.Osinga, Frans | Science, Strategy and War: The strategic theory of John Boyd | |
| ● | Mello, Anthony de | Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality |
| Pollan, Michael | How to Change Your Mind | |
| Palaver, Wolfgang | René Girard's Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture) | |
| Charan, Ram | What the CEO Wants You to Know, Expanded and Updated | |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa | Autobiography of a Yogi (The Complete Edition) | |
| Tufte, Edward | Envisioning Information | |
| Lewis, C.S. | Inner Ring | |
| ● | Deutsch, David | The Beginning of Infinity |
| Sivers, Derek | Hell Yeah or No | |
| Jaynes, Julian | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | |
| ● | Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark | Metaphors We Live By |
| Alexander, Christopher | Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) | |
| Language, A Pattern | A Pattern Language | |
| Christensen, Inger | alphabet (New Directions) | |
| Caro, Robert A | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York | |
| Franklin, Benjamin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | |
| Miller, Alice | The Drama of the Gifted Child | |
| Drucker, Peter Ferdinand | Managing Oneself | |
| Weinberg, Gerald M. | Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach | |
| Kreider, Tim | We Learn Nothing | |
| Ringer, Robert | Winning Through Intimidation | |
| ● | Sacks, Oliver | Gratitude |
| URSULA K, LE GUIN | The Left Hand Of Darkness | |
| Sedgewick, Robert & Wayne, Kevin | Algorithms: Part I | |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Blood Meridian | |
| ● | Hesse, Hermann | Narcissus and Goldmund |
| ● | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus | Moral Letters to Lucilius / Letters from a Stoic (Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium) |
| Stephenson, Neal | Snow Crash | |
| Brennan-Jobs, Lisa | Small Fry | |
| Kaufman, Josh | The Personal MBA | |
| Palmer, Ada | Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota) | |
| Seligman, Martin E. P. | What You Can Change ... And What You Can't* | |
| McDowell, Gayle Laakmann | Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions 6th Edition | |
| Postman, Neil | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (20th Anniversary Edition) | |
| ● | Davidson, James Dale & Rees-Mogg, William | The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age |
| Durant, Will | The Lessons of History | |
| Christian, Brian | Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | |
| Cuddy, Amy | Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges | |
| Sukel, Kayt | The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and Chance | |
| Rao, Venkatesh | Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making | |
| ● | Seng-ts'an & Clark, Richard B. | Hsin-Hsin Ming |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden and Civil Disobedience | |
| Rumelt, Richard | Good Strategy/Bad Strategy | |
| GIRARD, RENÉ | The Girard Reader | |
| Unknown | The Boron Letters | |
| Brown, Pierce | Golden Son | |
| Rao, Venkatesh | Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths | |
| Girard, Rene & Williams, James G. | I See Satan Fall Like Lightning | |
| Homer | The Iliad: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) | |
| ● | Brown, Pierce | Red Rising |
| Initiates, Three | The Kybalion | |
| Williams, John D. | The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat | The Art of Communicating | |
| Navarro, Joe | What Every BODY is Saying | |
| Maggio, Rosalie | How to Say It, Third Edition: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation | |
| Mack, Gary & Casstevens, David | Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence | |
| Unknown | Tao Te Ching Red Pine | |
| Brown, Peter C. | Make It Stick | |
| Greene, Robert | Mastery | |
| Trott, Dave | Predatory Thinking: A masterclass in out-thinking the competition | |
| Richards, Chet | Certain to Win | |
| Rinpoche, Sakyong Miphan | Turning the Mind Into an Ally | |
| Trungpa, Chögyam | The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Eight | |
| Siu, Ralph Gun Hoy | The Craft of Power | |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) | |
| Holiday, Ryan & Hanselman, Stephen | The Daily Stoic | |
| Iger, Robert | The Ride of a Lifetime | |
| Brooks, John | Business Adventures | |
| Gowers, Timothy | Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) | |
| ● | Rovelli, Carlo | The Order of Time |
| Susskind, Leonard | The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics | |
| Jiang, Jia | Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection | |
| Lutz, William | Doublespeak (Rebel Reads) | |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune: The Gateway Collection | |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune Messiah | |
| Suzuki, Shunryu | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | |
| thixson | Krishnamurti The Book Of Life.doc | |
| ● | Tokitsu, Kenji | Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings (Book of Five Rings) |
| Saint-exupery, Antoine de | Wind, Sand and Stars | |
| Deida, David | The Way of the Superior Man | |
| Ravikant, Kamal | Live Your Truth | |
| Gupta, Kapil | Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God. | |
| Heinrichs, Jay | Thank You for Arguing (Revised and Updated) | |
| Forsyth, Mark | The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase | |
| W.Hamming, Richard | The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn | |
| Gupta, Kapil | A Master's Secret Whispers: For Those Who Abhor the Noise and Seek the Truth About Life and Living | |
| Gupta, Kapil | Direct Truth | |
| Miyamoto, Musashi, 1584-1645 | Book of Five Rings (with commentary) | |
| Unknown | 1998 Collected Fictions | |
| Gray, Charles "Hornblower" | Labyrinths | |
| Chodron, Pema | When Things Fall Apart | |
| Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein | Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition | |
| Bernstein, Peter L. | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | |
| McIntyre Ph.D., Marie G. | Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at Work | |
| Wilczek, Frank | A Beautiful Question | |
| Sisson, Mark | The New Primal Blueprint | |
| Gracián, Baltasar | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | |
| McKenna, Jed | Spiritual Enlightenment - The Damnedest Thing | |
| Corey, James S.A. | Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse) | |
| Rippetoe, Mark | Practical Programming for Strength Training | |
| Chayka, Kyle | The Longing for Less | |
| Adyashanti | The Most Important Thing | |
| Unknown | Details Mens Style Manual | |
| Cialdini, Robert B. | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | |
| Feynman, Richard P. | "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character | |
| Flowers, Joseph Campbell; Bill D. Moyers; Betty S. | The power of myth | |
| McKeown, Greg | Essentialism | |
| Cowen, Tyler | Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals | |
| Coyne, Shawn | The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know | |
| Adyashanti | Falling into Grace Insights on the End of Suffering | |
| Ahrens, Sönke | How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers | |
| ● | Hard, Robin | Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life | |
| Gendlin, Eugene T. | Focusing | |
| Bennett, Arnold | How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | |
| Kyle, Sam | Playing the Long Game: How to Create Long Term Success in a "Right Now" World | |
| Bevelin, Peter | Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger | |
| Unknown | Poor Charlie's Almanack | |
| Enns, Blair | A Win Without Pitching Manifesto | |
| Gibran, Kahlil | The Prophet | |
| Cialdini, Robert | Pre-Suasion | |
| Livingston, Gordon | Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now | |
| Leslie, Ian | Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It | |
| Becky Chambers | To Be Taught, If Fortunate | |
| Parrish, Shane | The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts | |
| Carse, James | Finite and Infinite Games | |
| Clear, James | Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results | |
| Pink, Daniel H. | To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others | |
| Newport, Cal | Digital Minimalism | |
| NEWPORT, CAL | Deep Work | |
| Holiday, Ryan | Stillness Is the Key | |
| Holiday, Ryan | Ego Is the Enemy | |
| Adams, Scott | How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life | |
| Krishnamurti | Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti | |
| Cent, 50 | The 50th Law | |
| Tzu, Sun & trans.) | The Art of War | |
| ● | Pollan, Michael | Food Rules: An Eater's Manual |
| Heraclitus | Fragments | |
| Peterson, Jordan B. | 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | |
| Johnstone, Keith | Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre | |
| Storr, Will | The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better | |
| La Rochefoucauld, François duc de | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims | |
| Carnegie, Dale | How To Win Friends and Influence People | |
| Epstein, David | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | |
| Hägglund, Martin | This Life | |
| Spiegelhalter, David | The Art of Statistics: Learning From Data | |
| Marks, Howard | The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (Columbia Business School Publishing) | |
| James, William | Psychology / Briefer Course | |
| Brown, Cupcake | A Piece of Cake | |
| Leader, Darian | Why Can't We Sleep?: Understanding Our Sleeping and Sleepless Minds | |
| Sapkowski, Andrzej | The Last Wish (The Witcher Book 1) | |
| Hill, Napoleon & Gold, August & Fotinos, Joel | The Think and Grow Rich Success Journal | |
| Palmer, Ada | Seven Surrenders | |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | The Bed of Procrustes | |
| SUE JOHNSON, DR. | Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love | |
| Farnsworth, Ward | The Practicing Stoic | |
| Rovelli, Carlo | Reality Is Not What It Seems | |
| Review, Harvard Business | Emotional Intelligence | |
| Meadows | Thinking in Systems | |
| Stone, Douglas | Difficult Conversations | |
| Newport, Cal | So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love | |
| Larson, Rich | Tomorrow Factory | |
| Liu, Ken | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| ● | Chiang, Ted | Stories of Your Life and Others |
| Epictetus | Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions) | |
| Irvine, William B. | A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy | |
| Rovelli, Carlo | Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | |
| Greene, Robert | The Laws of Human Nature | |
| Ness, Patrick | Release | |
| Greer, Andrew Sean | Less | |
| Kalanithi, Paul | When Breath Becomes Air | |
| Camus, Albert | The Fall | |
| ● | Liu, Cixin | The Three-Body Problem |
| Frankl, Viktor | Man's Search for Meaning | |
| Irvine, Elizabeth | Consciousness as a Scientific Concept: A Philosophy of Science Perspective | |
| Hamid, Mohsin | Exit West | |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Anything Is Possible | |
| Saunders, George | Lincoln in the Bardo | |
| Nosrat, Samin | Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking | |
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| Sáenz, Benjamin Alire | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | |
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| Voss, Chris | Never Split the Difference | |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Fooled by Randomness | |
| Pink, Daniel H | When | |
| Schreier, Jason | Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | |
| Holiday, Ryan | The Obstacle Is the Way | |
| Aciman, André | Call Me by Your Name | |
| Duckworth, Angela | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: Angela Duckworth | |
| Speed, Harold | The Practice and Science of Drawing (Dover Art Instruction) | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Dandelion Wine | |
| Elffers, Robert Greene; Joost | The 48 Laws of Power | |
| Junger, Sebastian | Tribe | |
| Howey, Hugh | Wool | |
| Chambers, Becky | A Closed and Common Orbit | |
| Dasseos, Steven | On The Shortness of Life - Lucius Seneca | |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights | |
| Pigliucci, Massimo | How to Be a Stoic | |
| Smith, Emily Esfahani | The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters | |
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
| Wood, Alistair | Ukulele for Dummies | |
| Anders, Charlie Jane | All the Birds in the Sky | |
| Sonmez, John | Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual | |
| Camp, Jim | Start with No | |
| Zinsser, William | On Writing Well | |
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