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Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus

How To Think Like A Roman Emperor
Donald J. Robertson

Letters From a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William Braxton Irvine

A Mind for Numbers
Barbara Oakley

Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Atomic Habits
James Clear

Born to Run
Christopher McDougall

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens

Influence
Robert Cialdini

Indistractable
Nir Eyal

Lessons in Stoicism
John Sellars

Make It Stick
Peter C. Brown

Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Peter Bevelin

Stillness is the Key
Ryan Holiday

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson

The Obstacle Is The Way
Ryan Holiday

This Is Water
David Foster-Wallace

Tiny Habits
B.J Fogg

Total Recall
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson

The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli

$100M Offers
Alex Hormozi

12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship
Robert C. Martin

Composing Programs
John DeNero

Courage is Calling
Ryan Holiday

Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink

Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
Jon Acruff

Grit
Angela Duckworth

Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams

How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck

Mastery
Robert Greene

Principles
Ray Dalio

Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon

Siddhartha
Herman Hesse

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

The Everything Store
Brad Stone

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
Shane Parrish

The Lean Startup
Eric Ries

The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger

Will
Will Smith

Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It
Gary Taubes

Range
David Epstein

Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon

Start With Why
Simon Sinek

Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat

The Art of War
Sun Tzu

Ultralearning
Scott Young

A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Donald Miller

Anything You Want
Derek Sivers

Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor
Erik Dietrich

Factfulness
Hans Rosling

Lying
Sam Harris

Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek

Loserthink
Scott Adams

On The Shortness Of Life
Seneca

Reality Is Not What It Seems
Carlo Rovelli

Scrum: A revolutionary approach to building teams, beating deadlines and boosting productivity
Jeff Sutherland

The Art and Business of Online Writing
Nicolas Cole

The Complete Guide to Fasting
Dr. Jason Fung

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber

The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth
James Altucher

The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Shane Parrish

The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey

The Little Book That Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt

The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman

The Third Door
Alex Banayan

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee

As Man Thinketh
James Allen

Ca$hvertising
Drew Whitman

Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Invent and Wander
Jeff Bezos

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
George Leonard

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings

So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport

Tao Te Ching
Lao-Tzu

The 1% Rule
Tommy Baker

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz

The Road to Character
David Brooks

The Slight Edge
Jeff Olson

The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason

The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim

The War of Art
Steven Pressfield

Work Clean: The Life-changing Power of Mise-en-place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind
Dan Charnas

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney

Make Your Bed
William H. Mcraven

Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks

The 10X Rule
Grant Cardone

The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz

The Power of Agency
Anthony Rao

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
Seth Godin

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke

Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Patrick Bet-David

A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy

Economy of Truth
Vizi Andrei

Just Fucking Ship
Amy Hoy

Living With A SEAL
Jesse Itzler

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

The First 20 Hours
Josh Kaufman

Understanding How We Learn
Yana Weinstein, Megan Sumeracki, Oliver Caviglioli

Gateless
Sebastian Marshall & Kai Zau

You are a Badass
Jen Sincero

Originals
Adam Grant

The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy