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📚 Books and other readings
Books
Lists of good books
Collected from various sources
Websites to find books:
Books to improve mental model:
- The selfish gene - for understanding human behavior
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything by Bernardo Kastrup
- Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - for understanding how to be content
- Debt, the first 5,000 years - for understanding money and finance from the ground up
- Wright Brothers - for understanding how technological breakthroughs happen
- Snowball (Warren Buffet), Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller biographies - for understanding the mental mindset to win in business (it's not what you think)
- Hackers and painters - for understanding startups and how/why they work
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - for understanding beauty in the routine
- Essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less and Walden - for understanding how “stuff” gets in the way of happiness
- Les Miserables - for understanding love
- Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Books I've read
2017
- Murder at the Vicarage (1930), Agatha Christie, 288 pp
- The Magicians (2009), Lev Grossman, 402 pp
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck, 479 pp
- Life of Pi (2001), Yann Martel, 460 pp
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Arthur C. Clarke, 297 pp
- Fight Club (1996), Chuck Palahniuk, 218 pp
- Flowers for Algernon (1958), Daniel Keyes, 311 pp
- Unwind (2007), Neal Shusterman, 335 pp
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014), Claire North, 405 pp
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Ransom Riggs, 352 pp
- This is a book (2011), Demetri Martin, 269 pp
- Dandelion Wine (1957), Ray Bradbury, 239 pp
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pp
2016
- The Lord of Choas (1994), Robert jordan, 987 pp
- 20 Years of KDE (2016), Editor: Lydia Pintscher, 294 pp
- Rendezvous with Rama (1972), Arthur C. Clarke, 243 pp
- Rama II (1989), Arthur C. Clarke, 480 pp
- The Garden of Rama (1991), Arthur C. Clarke, 608 pp
- Rama Revealed (1993), Arthur C. Clarke, 512 pp
- The Shadow Rising (1992), Robert Jordan, 981 pp
- The Fires of Heaven (1993), Robert Jordan, 963 pp
- Ready Player One (2011), Ernest Cline, 386 pp
- Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea (1870), Jules Verne, 214 pp
- No Country for Old Men (2005), Cormac McCarthy, 322 pp
- The Princess Bride (1973), William Goldman, 465 pp
- The Man in the High Castle (1962), Philip K. Dick, 239 pp
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde, 254 pp
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2011), Marie Kondo, 226 pp
2015
- The Shepherd's Crown (2015), Terry Pratchett, 304 pp
- The Dragon Reborn (1991), Robert Jordan, 675 pp
- The Great Hunt (1990), Robert Jordan, 681 pp
- The Eye of the World (1990), Robert Jordan, 782 pp
Articles and misc
Collection of good articles/internet threads worth reading (maybe save a copy in case it disappears?)
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