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1. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
2. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
3. 1776 by David McCullough
4. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
5. A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg
6. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
7. A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
8. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
9. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
10. A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
11. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
12. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
13. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
14. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
15. Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
16. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
17. AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
18. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
19. An Immense World by Ed Yong
20. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
21. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
22. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
23. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
24. Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
25. Atomic Habits by James Clear
26. Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
27. Authentic Happiness by Martin E.P. Seligman
28. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
29. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
30. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
31. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
32. Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
33. Becoming by Michelle Obama
34. Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
35. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
36. Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
37. Being You by Anil Seth
38. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
39. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
40. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
41. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
43. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
44. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
45. Bittersweet by Susan Cain
46. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
47. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
48. Bold by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
49. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
50. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
51. Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
52. Breath by James Nestor
53. Build by Tony Fadell
54. Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey
55. Built to Last by Jim Collins & Jerry Porras
56. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
57. Burnout by Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
58. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
59. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
60. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
61. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
62. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
63. Chaos by James Gleick
64. Chatter by Ethan Kross
65. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
66. Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
67. Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey & Raj Sisodia
68. Contagious by Jonah Berger
69. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
70. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
71. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
72. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al.
73. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
74. Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
75. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
76. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
77. Dead Wake by Erik Larson
78. Decisive by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
79. Deep Work by Cal Newport
80. Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
81. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
82. Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
83. Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
84. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
85. Discourse on the Method by René Descartes
86. Discourses by Epictetus
87. Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
88. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
89. Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
90. Drive by Daniel H. Pink
91. Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
92. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
93. Educated by Tara Westover
94. Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
95. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
96. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
97. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
98. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
99. Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
100. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
101. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
102. Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson
103. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
104. Factfulness by Hans Rosling
105. Fast Like a Girl by Mindy Pelz
106. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
107. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
108. First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
109. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
110. Food Rules by Michael Pollan
111. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
112. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
113. Free to Learn by Peter Gray
114. Frida by Hayden Herrera
115. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
116. From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
117. Games People Play by Eric Berne
118. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
119. Genome by Matt Ridley
120. Getting Things Done by David Allen
121. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher & William Ury
122. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
123. Give and Take by Adam Grant
124. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
125. Good Energy by Casey Means
126. Good to Great by Jim Collins
127. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
128. Grit by Angela Duckworth
129. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
130. Gut by Giulia Enders
131. Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
132. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
133. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
134. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
135. Hooked by Nir Eyal
136. How Children Learn by John Holt
137. How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
138. How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
139. How Not to Die by Michael Greger
140. How to Change by Katy Milkman
141. How to Know a Person by David Brooks
142. How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
143. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
144. Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
145. Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey
146. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
147. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
148. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
149. I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
150. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
151. Ikigai by Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
152. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
153. In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters & Robert Waterman
154. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
155. Incognito by David Eagleman
156. Indistractable by Nir Eyal
157. Influence by Robert Cialdini
158. John Adams by David McCullough
159. Just Kids by Patti Smith
160. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
161. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
162. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
163. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
164. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
165. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
166. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
167. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
168. Lifespan by David A. Sinclair
169. Linchpin by Seth Godin
170. Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
171. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
172. Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
173. Lost Connections by Johann Hari
174. Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
175. Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger & Mark A. McDaniel
176. Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven
177. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
178. Mastery by Robert Greene
179. Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
180. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
181. Me by Elton John
182. Measure What Matters by John Doerr
183. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
184. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
185. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
186. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
187. Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
188. Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
189. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
190. Models by Mark Manson
191. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
192. Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
193. My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan
194. Never Finished by David Goggins
195. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
196. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
197. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
198. Night by Elie Wiesel
199. No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
200. Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass R. Sunstein
201. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
202. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton
203. Nudge by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
204. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
205. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
206. On Writing by Stephen King
207. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
208. Open by Andre Agassi
209. Originals by Adam Grant
210. Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
211. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
212. Outlive by Peter Attia
213. Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
214. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
215. Pensées by Blaise Pascal
216. Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
217. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries & Jack Trout
218. Postwar by Tony Judt
219. Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini
220. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
221. Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
222. Principles by Ray Dalio
223. Purple Cow by Seth Godin
224. Quiet by Susan Cain
225. Radical Candor by Kim Scott
226. Range by David Epstein
227. Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli
228. Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
229. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
230. Rising Strong by Brené Brown
231. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
232. Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
233. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
234. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
235. Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
236. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
237. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
238. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
239. Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
240. Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
241. So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
242. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
243. Spare by Prince Harry
244. Spillover by David Quammen
245. Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
246. Start with Why by Simon Sinek
247. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
248. Stiff by Mary Roach
249. Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
250. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
251. Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
252. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
253. Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
254. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
255. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
256. Switch by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
257. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
258. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
259. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
260. The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
261. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
262. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
263. The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma
264. The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
265. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
266. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
267. The Age of AI by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher
268. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
269. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
270. The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway
271. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
272. The Analects by Confucius
273. The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
274. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
275. The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
276. The Art of Living by Epictetus & Sharon Lebell
277. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
278. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
279. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
280. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
281. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
282. The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
283. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
284. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
285. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
286. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
287. The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
288. The Body by Bill Bryson
289. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
290. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
291. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
292. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
293. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
294. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
295. The China Study by T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell
296. The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
297. The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
298. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
299. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani
300. The Code of the Samurai by Yuzan Daidoji
301. The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
302. The Common Sense of Money and Investments by Merryle S. Rukeyser
303. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
304. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
305. The Confidence Code by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
306. The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
307. The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
308. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
309. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
310. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
311. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
312. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
313. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
314. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
315. The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett
316. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
317. The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
318. The Double Helix by James D. Watson
319. The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
320. The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
321. The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
322. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
323. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
324. The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
325. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
326. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
327. The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
328. The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins
329. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
330. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
331. The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy
332. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
333. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
334. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
335. The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
336. The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
337. The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
338. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
339. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
340. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
341. The Hacking of the American Mind by Robert Lustig
342. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
343. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
344. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
345. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
346. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
347. The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins
348. The Histories by Herodotus
349. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
350. The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
351. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
352. The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
353. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
354. The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
355. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
356. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
357. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
358. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
359. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
360. The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
361. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
362. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
363. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō
364. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
365. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
366. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
367. The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
368. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
369. The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
370. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
371. The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
372. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
373. The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
374. The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long
375. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
376. The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
377. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
378. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
379. The Obesity Code by Jason Fung
380. The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
381. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
382. The One Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
383. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
384. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
385. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
386. The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
387. The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
388. The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry
389. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
390. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
391. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
392. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
393. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
394. The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown
395. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
396. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
397. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
398. The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour
399. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
400. The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
401. The Republic by Plato
402. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
403. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
404. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
405. The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
406. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
407. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
408. The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
409. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
410. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
411. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman
412. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
413. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
414. The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
415. The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
416. The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
417. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
418. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
419. The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley
420. The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
421. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
422. The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
423. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
424. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
425. The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman
426. The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
427. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
428. The Tangled Tree by David Quammen
429. The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
430. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
431. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
432. The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel
433. The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
434. The Vital Question by Nick Lane
435. The Wager by David Grann
436. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
437. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
438. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
439. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
440. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
441. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
442. These Truths by Jill Lepore
443. Think Again by Adam Grant
444. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
445. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
446. Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
447. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
448. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
449. Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
450. Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
451. Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss
452. Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle
453. Truman by David McCullough
454. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
455. Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
456. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
457. Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins
458. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
459. Up the Organization by Robert Townsend
460. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
461. Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
462. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
463. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
464. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
465. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
466. Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
467. Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
468. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
469. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
470. Will by Will Smith
471. Working Backwards by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
472. You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
473. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
474. Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge
475. Zero to One by Peter Thiel