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Why We Sleep

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Fooled by Randomness

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The Overstory

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Bird by Bird

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Cryptonomicon

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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The Black Swan

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Levels of the Game

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Stories of Your Life and Others

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The Blade Itself

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The Healing Journey

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The Work

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Blue Ocean Strategy

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Cat's Cradle

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Competitive Strategy

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Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Greg McKeown

Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

I Don't Want to Talk About It

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On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

Six Thinking Hats

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The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal

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The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory

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The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

The Well of Being

Jean-Pierre Weill

Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Zorba the Greek

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Man's Search for Meaning

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The Immortality Key

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Coyote America

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Outlive

Peter Attia

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

Mastery

Robert Greene

On Writing

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Snow Crash

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The Obstacle Is the Way

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Antifragile

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Born Standing Up

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Conscious Loving

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Influence

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The Lessons of History

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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

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American Buffalo

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Blood Meridian

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Built to Move

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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

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From Strength to Strength

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Getting Things Done

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

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The Alchemist

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The Art of Learning

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

The Power Broker

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A Brief History of Time

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A Guide to the Good Life

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Black Box Thinking

Matthew Syed

Crucial Conversations

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink

Fierce Intimacy

Terry Real

Getting the Love You Want

Harville Hendrix

Japanese Death Poems

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Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

Letters from a Stoic

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Losing My Virginity

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Perspectives on Strategy

Carl Stern and George Stalk

PiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Rediscovering Life

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Spark

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The Bear

Andrew Krivak

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

The Man Who Solved the Market

Gregory Zuckerman

The Name of the Wind

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The Purpose Driven Life

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

TiHKAL

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Trust Me, I'm Lying

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1,000 True Fans (essay)

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A Complaint Free World (21-day no complaint experiment)

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A Moral Man (Amoral Man)

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A Mortal Man

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A Pickpocket's Tale: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins

Adam Green

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

Alice in Wonderland

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Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

Anything You Want

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Art & Arcana: A Visual History (Dungeons & Dragons)

Autobiography of a Face

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Awaken the Giant Within

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Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins

Biocentrism

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Black Swan Green

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Boone: A Biography

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Breakfast of Champions

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Calvin and Hobbes

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Chimpanzee Politics

Frans de Waal

Coming into the Country

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Consider This

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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

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Easy Strength

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eBoys

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Ed Coan: The Man, The Myth, The Method

Ed Coan

Empty Mansions

Bill Dedman

ESPD 50 box set (Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs)

Dennis McKenna

Everything Is Its Own Reward

Paul Madonna

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Guerilla Financing

Guerrilla Financing

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review

Healing Back Pain

John Sarno

How to Get Rich

Felix Dennis

How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

Seneca

How to Lie With Statistics

Darrell Huff

I Feel Love

Rachel Nuwer

If This Is a Man

Primo Levi

Joy on Demand

Chade-Meng Tan

Ka

John Crowley

Lateral Thinking

Edward de Bono

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Ted Koppel

Masterpieces of Fantasy Art

Medicine Quest

Mark Plotkin

Mental Toughness Training for Sports

Jim Loehr

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa

My Early Life

Winston Churchill

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

On Anger (De Ira)

Seneca

On Writing Well

William Zinsser

One Piece

Eiichiro Oda

One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work

Stephen Key

Passages

Gail Sheehy

Pattern Breakers

Mike Maples Jr.

Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh

Picnic, Lightning

Lawrence Scott

Positioning

Al Ries and Jack Trout

Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide

O.T. Oss and O.N. Oeric (Dennis and Terence McKenna)

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Real Life Korean Conversations for Beginners

Talk To Me In Korean

Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez

Remote

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Save the Cat Goes to the Movies

Blake Snyder

Scientific Advertising

Claude C. Hopkins

Secrets of Power Negotiating

Roger Dawson

Selling to the Affluent

Thomas J. Stanley

Shogun

James Clavell

Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

Bo Burlingham

Socrates in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern

Son of the Morning Star

Evan S. Connell

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

Stories of Your Life and Others / Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

Erik Vance

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

Mark Plotkin

Talk to Me in Korean Level 1

Talk To Me In Korean

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

The Collected Poems of Hafez

Hafez

The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller

The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine

Allen Carr

The Effective Executive (Ozymandias note)

Percy Shelley

The Fellowship of the River

Joseph Tafur

The Five Love Languages

Gary Chapman

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

The High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

The Last Good Kiss

James Crumley

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

The Man Who Quit Money

Mark Sundeen

The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Donald Robertson

The Poems of Hafez

Hafez

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell

The Price of Everything

Russ Roberts

The Scientists

John Gribbin

The Screwtape Letters

C.S. Lewis

The Secret Chief

MAPS

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

David Epstein

The Story Grid

Shawn Coyne

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall

The Surrender Experiment

Michael Singer

The Tail End

Tim Urban

The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity

Daniel Reid

The Third Door

Alex Banayan

The Top Idea in Your Mind

Paul Graham

The Triangle Fire

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives

David B. Yaden

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Wade Davis

The Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Work (Byron Katie worksheets)

Byron Katie

The Work (Byron Katie's worksheets)

Byron Katie

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Tuxedo Park

Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces

Kawase Hasui

Waking the Tiger

Peter Levine

What's Our Problem?

Tim Urban

Words That Work

Frank Luntz

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Robert Caro

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

Joel Greenblatt