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10% Happier
Dan Harris
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
All About Love
bell hooks
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Attached
Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Awareness
Anthony de Mello
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
Dacher Keltner
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Be Useful
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Becoming a Supple Leopard
Kelly Starrett and Glen Cordoza
Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad
Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Breakneck
Dan Wang
Breath
James Nestor
Build
Tony Fadell
Build the Life You Want
Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
Clarity and Connection
Yung Pueblo
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Draft No. 4
John McPhee
Educated
Tara Westover
Effortless
Greg McKeown
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Flow
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
From Strength to Strength
Arthur C. Brooks
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Good Energy
Casey Means, MD and Calley Means
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
Grit
Angela Duckworth
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Moneyball
Michael Lewis
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss
Open
Andre Agassi
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Pattern Breakers
Mike Maples Jr. and Peter Ziebelman
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
Runnin' Down a Dream
Bill Gurley
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Spark
John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
The Art of Asking
Amanda Palmer
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
The Art of Possibility
Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
The Confident Mind
Dr. Nate Zinsser
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
The Essential Kabbalah
Daniel C. Matt
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
The Power of Regret
Daniel H. Pink
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
The Road Less Traveled
M. Scott Peck
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Will of the Many
James Islington
The Worlds I See
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker, PhD
Zero to One
Peter Thiel and Blake Masters