My All-Time Recommended Reading Lists

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To Understand Life

War and Peace

graf Leo Tolstoy, 2008

Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway, 2003

The Republic (The Republic of Plato)

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Aurelius Marcus, 2017

This Life

Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund, 2020

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Immanuel Kant, 2009

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker, 1997

Man's Search For Meaning

Viktor E Frankl, 2008

Thinking in Bets

Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke, 2019

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2008

To Understand the World

The Origins of Political Order

From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Francis Fukuyama, 2011

The Lessons of History

Will Durant, Ariel Durant, 2010

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari, 2015

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari, 2017

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond, 1999

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

The Riddles of Culture

Marvin Harris, 2011

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo, 2014

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo, 2020

Debt

The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber, 2014

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 2014

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud, SBP Editors, 2018

Marriage, a History

How Love Conquered Marriage

Stephanie Coontz, 2006

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt, 2011

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker, 2012

The Dictator's Handbook

Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, 2011

Democracy for Realists

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels, 2017

To Understand Human Nature

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins, 2016

The Blank Slate

The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker, 2003

The Evolving Self

Robert KEGAN, 2009

The True Believer

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer, 2011

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert, 2009

Influence

The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD, 2009

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman, 2011

Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck, 2006

Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell, 2019