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2023
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
2022
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Nick Offerman
The Clever Guts Diet
Michael Mosley
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Johann Hari
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl
2021
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Jon Krakauer
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
Frank Herbert
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
Brandon Sanderson
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay
Bertrand Russell
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Robert Wright
2020
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
Brandon Sanderson
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman
The Laws of Human Nature: Robert Greene
Robert Greene
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Pete Walker
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Dune (Dune, #1)
Frank Herbert
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Joe Hill
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William B. Irvine
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
2019
Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)
Brandon Sanderson
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Mark Manson
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
Todd Herman
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Martin Robert C.
Happy: Why more or less everything is absolutely fine
Derren Brown
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
2017
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
Gary Taubes
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Eric Barker
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Oliver Burkeman
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
Seneca
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche