Books that outlast empires.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
49k
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
29k
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
24k
The Republic
Plato
24k
1984
George Orwell
23k
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
20k
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
19k
The Odyssey
Homer
17k
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
17k
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
16k
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
16k
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
15k
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
15k
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
14k
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
14k
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
14k
The Iliad
Homer
14k
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
14k
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
13k
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
13k
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
13k
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
13k
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
13k
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
12k
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
12k
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
12k
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
11k
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
11k
Dune
Frank Herbert
11k
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
11k
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
10k
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
9.8k
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
9.7k
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
9.7k
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
9.3k
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
9.2k
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
8.9k
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
8.9k
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
8.8k
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
8.8k
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
8.8k
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
8.6k
On Writing
Stephen King
8.6k
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
8.5k
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
8.3k
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
8.1k
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
8.1k
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
8.0k
Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
7.9k
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
7.9k
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
7.9k
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
7.6k
Principles
Ray Dalio
7.6k
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
7.6k
The Principia
Isaac Newton
7.6k
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
7.6k
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
7.5k
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
7.3k
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
7.3k
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
7.3k
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