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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Peter F. Drucker
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari
How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot
Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover
When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi
Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl
Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not

Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Rolling Stone
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Spencer Johnson
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman
The Secret

Rhonda Byrne
The Art of War

Sun Tzu
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Gary Chapman
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Marie Kondō
The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle
The Lean Startup

Eric Ries
Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Tim Ferriss
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Austin Kleon
We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou
A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Rachel Hollis
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Jen Sincero
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert
The Republic

Plato
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek
Daring Greatly

Brené Brown
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan Peterson
Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

Jim Collins
The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World

Hans and Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

David Goggins
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen
The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

Maxwell Maltz
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely
The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene
The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Michael Pollan
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink
The Art of Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth
The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
10% Happier

Dan Harris
The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel
The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

Steven Pressfield
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez
The Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz
Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life

Robin S. Sharma
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brené Brown
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Don Miguel Ruiz
I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman
How Not to Die

Michael Greger and Gene Stone
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

Marshall B. Rosenberg
How to Talk to Anyone

Leil Lowndes
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries and Jack Trout
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

Brianna Wiest
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

Olivia Fox Cabane
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

Mark Manson
Master Your Emotions

Thibaut Meurisse
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

David Richo
ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction

Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey
Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

William W. Li
The Relationship Cure

John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire
The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health

David J. Nutt

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