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  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
  • Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover
  • When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter
  • The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rolling Stone
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
  • Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Spencer Johnson
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
  • The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
  • The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.D. Vance
  • A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
  • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts - Gary Chapman
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - Marie Kondō
  • The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
  • Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle
  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
  • Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Tim Ferriss
  • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Austin Kleon
  • We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
  • Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
  • A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
  • Girl, Wash Your Face - Rachel Hollis
  • You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life - Jen Sincero
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
  • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Christopher McDougall
  • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Republic - Plato
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
  • Daring Greatly - Brené Brown
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson
  • Walden; or, Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - Jim Collins
  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - Hans and Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
  • The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
  • Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
  • The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
  • Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life - Maxwell Maltz
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
  • The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
  • The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
  • In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto - Michael Pollan
  • The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama XIV
  • Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ - Daniel Goleman
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
  • The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
  • The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy - Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
  • 10% Happier - Dan Harris
  • The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
  • The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle - Steven Pressfield
  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Pérez
  • The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - Adam Grant
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High - Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
  • The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life - Robin S. Sharma
  • This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - Daniel J. Levitin
  • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience - Brené Brown
  • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - Don Miguel Ruiz
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi
  • The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman
  • How Not to Die - Michael Greger and Gene Stone
  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson
  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships - Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • How to Talk to Anyone - Leil Lowndes
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction - William Zinsser
  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk - Al Ries and Jack Trout
  • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery - Brianna Wiest
  • The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism - Olivia Fox Cabane
  • Models: Attract Women Through Honesty - Mark Manson
  • Master Your Emotions - Thibaut Meurisse
  • How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving - David Richo
  • ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction - Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey
  • Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself - William W. Li
  • The Relationship Cure - John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire
  • The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness - Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
  • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn - Daniel Gordis
  • Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health - David J. Nutt

Upcoming Books

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M. Pirsig
  • The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - Adam M. Grant
  • Rework - Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
  • Cosmos - Carl Sagan
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink
  • The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  • Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self - Nicole LePera
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
  • Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan
  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love - Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World - Cal Newport
  • The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
  • The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink
  • Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Todd Gilbert
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
  • Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life - Emily Nagoski
  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
  • Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time - Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
  • The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You - Elaine N. Aron
  • Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
  • Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
  • Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself - Melody Beattie
  • Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity - Kim Malone Scott
  • The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - Jonathan Haidt
  • Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy - David D. Burns
  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
  • The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health - T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert - John M. Gottman and Nan Silver
  • The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer - Harvey Karp
  • The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less - Richard Koch
  • The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - Steven Pinker
  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Max Tegmark
  • How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren
  • Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love - Sue Johnson
  • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
  • A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton
  • Getting the Love You Want : A Guide for Couples - Harville Hendrix
  • The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest - Dan Buettner
  • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking - Saifedean Ammous
  • Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food - Catherine Shanahan and Luke Shanahan
  • The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order - Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
  • Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects - Weston A. Price
  • Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking - Mehdi Hasan
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