I think reading is key to learning, and learning is key to living a good life because it enables us to make better decisions. I sometimes get asked what books I read or like, so below is an ongoing list. My Goodreads page has ratings/reviews. I’ve bolded the books I thought are most worthwhile.
| The Untethered Soul | Michael Singer |
| 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Jordan B. Peterson |
| Models: Attract Women Through Honesty | Mark Manson |
| Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions | Johann Hari |
| Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | Eric Schlosser |
| Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle |
| Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging | Sebastian Junger |
| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality | Christopher Ryan |
| River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life | Richard Dawkins |
| Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson |
| Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer |
| The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence | Gavin de Becker |
| The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam | Douglas Murray |
| 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works | Dan Harris |
| A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy | William B. Irvine |
| How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life | Scott Adams |
| Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday |
| 24 Assets: Create a Digital, Scalable, Valuable and Fun Business That Will Thrive in a Fast Changing World | Daniel Priestley |
| The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World | David Deutsch |
| Lying | Sam Harris |
| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall |
| The Magic of Thinking Big | David J. Schwartz |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl |
| Building Wealth One House at a Time: Making it Big on Little Deals | John W. Schaub |
| Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable | Seth Godin |
| Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality | Max Tegmark |
| Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success | Adam M. Grant |
| The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) | Seth Godin |
| The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles | Steven Pressfield |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Enchiridion | Epictetus |
| Mindfulness in Plain English | Henepola Gunaratana |
| Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport |
| Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference | William MacAskill |
| The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph | Ryan Holiday |
| The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty | Peter Singer |
| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea | Bob Burg |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! | M.J. DeMarco |
| I Will Teach You to Be Rich | Ramit Sethi |
| How Proust Can Change Your Life | Alain de Botton |
| Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us | Seth Godin |
| The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys | James Fadiman |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt |
| The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej | Paul M. Handley |
| Anything You Want | Derek Sivers |
| Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith | Jon Krakauer |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz |
| Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything | Joshua Foer |
| Free Will | Sam Harris |
| World Order | Henry Kissinger |
| How to Get Rich: The Nine Ways to Wealth Explained | David Tschabitscher |
| Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | Jon Krakauer |
| The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists | Neil Strauss |
| What Do You Care What Other People Think? | Richard Feynman |
| Waking Up: Becoming a Conscious Human | Steve Pavlina |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini |
| Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell |
| A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing | Lawrence M. Krauss |
| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg |
| Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World | Peter H. Diamandis |
| Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel |
| Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs | Johann Hari |
| The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason | Sam Harris |
| Letter to a Christian Nation | Sam Harris |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins |
| Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion | Sam Harris |
| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | Carol S. Dweck |
| 7 Habits of highly effective people | Stephen R. Covey |
| The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values | Sam Harris |
| Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters | Richard P. Rumelt |
| Think Like a Freak | Steven D. Levitt |
| The Art of Thinking Clearly | Rolf Dobelli |
| Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? | Seth Godin |
| Bad Science | Ben Goldacre |
| Rich Dad, Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Stumbling on Happiness | Daniel Todd Gilbert |
| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely |
| Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think | Peter H. Diamandis |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Timothy Ferriss |
| A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Burton G. Malkiel |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) | Steven D. Levitt |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman |
