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
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys (1959);
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895);
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866);
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014).
Non-fiction
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How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (2019);
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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (2000);
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The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (1996);
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (2008);
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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012);
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The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1990);
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Light of the Stars by Adam Frank (2018);
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LSD, My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann (1980);
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2004);
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari (2011);
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (2020).
Spirituality
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Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English);
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Be Here Now by Ram Dass (1971);
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Everything by Jiddu Krishnamurti;
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Everything by Nisargadatta Maharaj;
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Everything by Ramana Maharshi;
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The Art of Living by Epictetus (Sharon Lebell, 2007);
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Letting Go by David Hawkins (2012);
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Ashtavakra Gita (translated by Thomas Byrom).
Biography
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Night by Elie Wiesel (1956);
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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (2014);
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996);
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Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (2017);
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If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (1947);
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Eyewitness Auschwitz by Filip Müller (1979);
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The Way Home by Mark Boyle (2019).