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Arno Vanheule's avatar

A barebell education - love this list; will definitely use it as a sneak peak if I need some refreshments :)

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Jeff Sullivan's avatar

That’s the idea

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Judy Playe's avatar

I appreciate your list ! I have a card catalogue of every book I’ve read since 1985. I love lists.

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Jeff Sullivan's avatar

A card catalogue, that is commitment

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Kahlil Corazo's avatar

overlaps

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It, Seneca

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J. R. R. Tolkien

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King

To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, Daniel Pink

Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang

Exhalation, Ted Chiang

Animal Farm, George Orwell

The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life, Paul Millerd

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, James Dale Davidson (I have not yet finished this)

The Elements of Style, E. B. White and William Strunk Jr.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss

The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It, Will Storr

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, Luke Burgis

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Taleb

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Nassim Taleb

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics, Michael Pollan

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield

The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (BUT I DID NOT READ EVERYTHING, JUST THE CHAPTER SUMMARIES FOR MOST, SO DAMN LONG!)

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch

I was gonna buy a kindle copy of this when I saw it but it turned out I already bought it in 2023! Novelist as a Vocation, Haruki Murakami

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Jeff Sullivan's avatar

That sure is a lot of overlap, and some damn good ones too.

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Kyle Shepard's avatar

Solid list 👊🏻

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Jeff Sullivan's avatar

Thank you sir

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