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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

49k

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

29k

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The Art of War

Sun Tzu

24k

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The Republic

Plato

24k

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1984

George Orwell

23k

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Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

20k

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The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

19k

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The Odyssey

Homer

17k

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Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

17k

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On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

16k

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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

16k

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The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

15k

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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

15k

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

14k

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

14k

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Zero to One

Peter Thiel

14k

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The Iliad

Homer

14k

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The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

14k

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

13k

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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

13k

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Foundation

Isaac Asimov

13k

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The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

13k

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

13k

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

12k

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

12k

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

12k

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The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

11k

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

11k

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Dune

Frank Herbert

11k

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The Lessons of History

Will Durant

11k

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Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

10k

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert Cialdini

9.8k

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Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

9.7k

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The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

9.7k

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The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

9.3k

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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

9.2k

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Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove

8.9k

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

8.9k

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

8.8k

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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

8.8k

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Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky

8.8k

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Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

8.6k

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On Writing

Stephen King

8.6k

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Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

8.5k

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Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

8.3k

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Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

8.1k

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman

8.1k

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The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

8.0k

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Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

7.9k

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charles T. Munger

7.9k

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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

7.9k

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Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

7.6k

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Principles

Ray Dalio

7.6k

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Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

7.6k

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The Principia

Isaac Newton

7.6k

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

7.6k

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

7.5k

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The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

7.3k

59

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

7.3k

60

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

7.3k

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