Bookshelf
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond
The Happiest Man On Earth
by Eddie Jaku
Algorithms to Live By
by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Ego Is The Enemy
by Ryan Holiday
The Defining Decade
by Meg Jay
The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
by Tom Phillips
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
The Art of Thinking Clearly
by Rolf Dobelli
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do Hard Things
by Steve Magness
Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
What's Our Problem?
by Tim Urban
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
American Prometheus
by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Ikigai
by Hector Garcia
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
The Mythical Man-Month
by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Babel
by R. F. Kuang
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
Waking Up
by Sam Harris
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
What If?
by Randall Munroe
Financial Freedom
by Grant Sabatier
The Why Axis
by Uri Gneezy & John List
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
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