Reading
I enjoy learning and I think reading books is one of the best ways to deepen
oneself into a topic. Many wise people have walked the Earth over thousands
of years and put their thoughts into writing for the next generations to
discover. It would be a waste not to take in some of that knowledge. For that
reason, I make an effort to read every day, even if it's only a couple of
pages. I mostly read non-fiction but I occasionally read works of fiction
too.
The list below enumerates all the books that I've read since July 2013, which
is when I started tracking my reading on Goodreads.
My favourite books are marked in bold.
Books read between 2013–today
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
Shane Parrish
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FInite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James Carse
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
Will Durant
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Lessons of History
Will Durant
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Bel-Ami
Guy de Maupassant
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Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Gabriel Weinberg
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Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Tom Eisenmann
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Vol de nuit
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Mystic Hand
Johan Van Overtveldt
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Sun & Steel
Yukio Mishima
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The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery
Emma Sibley
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
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Eli Schwartz
Product-Led SEO: The Why Behind Building Your Organic Growth Strategy
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida
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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
Robin Wigglesworth
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Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Sans famille
Hector Malot
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Adapative Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Andrew Lo
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Bronze Age Mindset
Bronze Age Pervert
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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham
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Sidekiq in Practice
Nate Berkopec
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Discours de la méthode
René Descartes
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
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Investing: The Last Liberal Art
Robert Hagstrom
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Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
John Micklethwait
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Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today
Andrew Berkin, Larry Swedroe
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The pmarca blog archives
Marc Andreessen
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace
Al Ries
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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William B. Irvine
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Content Chemistry: An Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing
Andy Crestodina
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Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Jim Collins
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss
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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rob Fitzpatrick
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
James E. Lovelock
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Relationships
Alain de Botton
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Eric S. Raymond
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Dans les forêts de Sibérie
Sylvain Tesson
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Production Ready GraphQL
Marc-Andre Giroux
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andy Hunt
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
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Le Joueur d'échecs
Stefan Zweig
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Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky
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The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
Peter Hook
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The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Ayn Rand
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac
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Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance
Cullen Roche
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In Europa
Geert Mak
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
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The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
Jonathan Franzen
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Solitude de la pitié
Jean Giono
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The Unabomber's Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
Theodore J. Kaczynski
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L'homme qui plantait des arbres
Jean Giono
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
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Investing Demystified: How to Invest Without Speculation and Sleepless Nights
Lars Kroijer
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
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Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos
Peter Freuchen
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
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Global Asset Allocation: A Survey of the World's Top Asset Allocation Strategies
Mebane Faber
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The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
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Big Debt Crises
Ray Dalio
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
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Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge-Fund Manager
Lars Kroijer
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Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk
Gary Antonacci
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
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The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek
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Competing Against Luck
Clayton M. Christenen
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
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Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque
René Girard
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Deep Risk: How History Informs Portfolio Design
William J. Bernstein
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Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
Ryan Singer
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Le Prince
Nicolas Machiavel
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What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul
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Le Moine et le Philosophe
Matthieu Ricard
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
Evan Ratliff
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L'Odyssée
Homère
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Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World
William J. Bernstein
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Het grote pensioenbedrog
Jef Vuchelen & Mark Scholliers
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The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution
Jonathan Hennessey
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
Michael E. Porter
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Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Ann Handley
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
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Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
Brian Lonsdorf
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The Ages of the Investor: A Critical Look at Life-cycle Investing
William J. Bernstein
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Daniel Goleman
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Domain-Driven Design Quickly
Floyd Marinescu
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Sit Like a Buddha: A Pocket Guide to Meditation
Lodro Rinzler
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L'Étranger
Albert Camus
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
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A Guide to Financial Regulation for Fintech Entrepreneurs
Stefan Loesch
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Essays of Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard Thaler
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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Howard Marks
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
Nick Bilton
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Economics: The User's Guide
Ha-Joon Chang
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Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football
Rob Smyth
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Normal Ohler
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Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
Sean Ellis
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The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
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La Chute
Albert Camus
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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The Growth Handbook
Intercom
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Mastery
Robert Greene
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Katie Hafner
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Le Nom de la rose
Umberto Eco
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The Undercover Economist
Tim Harford
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Enchiridion
Epictetus
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All about Asset Allocation
Richard A. Ferri
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
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Sur les chemins noirs
Sylvain Tesson
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Rework
Jason Fried
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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
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Race Against The Machine
Erik Brynjolfsson
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
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Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
Sandi Metz
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith (pseudonym of J.K. Rowling)
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk
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Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
Ulrich Boser
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The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
Nate Berkopec
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Growing Rails Applications in Practice
Henning Koch
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Les Particules Élémentaires
Michel Houellebecq
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The Undercover Economist
Tim Harford
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Selected Stories
Anton Checkhov
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Principles
Ray Dalio
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
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Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story
Peter Gruber
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
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Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
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Money: Master the Game - 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Anthony Robbins
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Katie Hafner
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
Callum Roberts
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark
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The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
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The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Epictetus
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Mr. Nice
Howard Marks
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
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Proof: The Science of Booze
Adam Rogers
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Richard Tarnas
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
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The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Todd Rose
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Peter Seibel
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
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Le Château
Franz Kafka
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The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson
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Inés of My Soul
Isabel Allende
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The Martian
Andy Weir
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Intercom on Product Management
Des Traynor
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Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Frédéric Laloux
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft
Gary Regan
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Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules
John Hegarty
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The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andy Hunt
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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Leonard Koren
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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan Watts
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The Giver
Lois Lowry
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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L'Écume des jours
Boris Vian
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The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
David Deida
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L'existentialisme est un humanisme
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sunset Park
Paul Auster
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Henry Hazlitt
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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
Mark Rippetoe
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coehlo
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
Robert Glover