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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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Principles
Ray Dalio
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
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Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
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Meditations
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The Alchemist
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Atomic Habits
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
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The Innovator's Dilemma
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High Output Management
Andrew Grove
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How To Win Friends and Influence People
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
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Dune
Frank Herbert
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
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Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
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1984
George Orwell
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Range
David Epstein
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Essentialism
Greg McKeown
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
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Skin in the Game
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson
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Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
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How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
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The Three-Body Problem
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
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The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
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Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
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The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
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The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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The Courage to Be Disliked
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The Checklist Manifesto
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Fooled by Randomness
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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Creativity, Inc.
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The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
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Animal Farm
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Anna Karenina
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Why We Sleep
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The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
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The Effective Executive
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Made to Stick
Chip & Dan Heath
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High Growth Handbook
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How Not to Die
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Digital Minimalism
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Seeking Wisdom
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Can't Hurt Me
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