The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?
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#22In no particular order:
Ecclesiastes
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Prince
How To Win Friends and Influence People
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#23The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
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#24The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. It helped me be have more cohesion in my thinking in regards to my love for science and my very religious upbringing.
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#25The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck - great insight into the human condition
One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson - concise and pithy while containing lots of useful pointers
The Divine Center by Steven Covey - the spiritual grounding that informs his later more secular books and much more interesting if you don't mind religious thought mixed in with your motivation
The Foundation trilogy by Issac Asimov - Caused a huge detour in my life. Immersed myself in speculative fiction for decades due to the brain-quake caused by this material.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein - A detour of a different sort. Great introduction to alternative modes of thought to my uncultured religious teen mind.
LDS/Christian Scriptures - regardless of your belief level, the ideas/thoughts/stories/literature encompassed in scripture is enriching to the mind
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love The Master and Margarita. A lithuanian friend introduced me to it and she told me that it was censored back when Lithuania was still part of the Soviet Union and they used to share those parts in secret (copied on a typewriter).
true samizdat! I have the english translation by Burgin and O'Connor, which is excellent. https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/...
Ha, that was the word I was looking for, thanks :)
Ok, I'll have to read this version too then (only know a german one so far). And probably learn russian.
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#27The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
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#28Antifragile - Nicholas Nassim Taleb Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut Pavarotti: My World - Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
The Hardcore History podcast's coverage of Genghis Khan/the Mongols is additionally a wonderful resource.
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#29Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
Came here to say this.
The squel "Lila" is also quite profound.
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#30I don't read very much, but:
1984
2001