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Posted on Mar 21, 2023Read on Mirror.xyz

Some books I've enjoyed

Here are some books that I’ve enjoyed reading over the past few years. I hope you’ll find something interesting for yourself.

(If you have any recommendations, shoot me a message.)

Fiction

  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys (1959);

  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895);

  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866);

  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014).

Non-fiction

  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (2019);

  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (2000);

  • The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (1996);

  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (2008);

  • Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012);

  • The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1990);

  • Light of the Stars by Adam Frank (2018);

  • LSD, My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann (1980);

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004);

  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari (2011);

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (2020).

Spirituality

  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English);

  • Be Here Now by Ram Dass (1971);

  • Everything by Jiddu Krishnamurti;

  • Everything by Nisargadatta Maharaj;

  • Everything by Ramana Maharshi;

  • The Art of Living by Epictetus (Sharon Lebell, 2007);

  • Letting Go by David Hawkins (2012);

  • Ashtavakra Gita (translated by Thomas Byrom).

Biography

  • Night by Elie Wiesel (1956);

  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (2014);

  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996);

  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (2017);

  • If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (1947);

  • Eyewitness Auschwitz by Filip Müller (1979);

  • The Way Home by Mark Boyle (2019).

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