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Looking for your next read? Here are the top 100 most recommended books on Read This Twice. These are the must read books in the opinion of the thought leaders of today.
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
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Bill GatesHrithik RoshanAshton KutcherChris EvansRichard BransonPewDiePieMark ZuckerbergJessica AlbaJoe RoganKarlie KlossMelinda GatesHelen ZilleWhitney CummingsNaval RavikantJames CameronReid HoffmanVinod KhoslaBryan CallenDan SnowMarcellus Wiley Derek SiversSimon MayoLex FridmanTrevor NcubeDemis HassabisDaniel EkPeter AttiaNir EyalMitch JoelTed HopeGreg SiskindSebastian JungerAkshay MRyan SheaMan's Search for Meaning
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with re...
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Jimmy FallonEmma WatsonPewDiePieCory BookerTony RobbinsTerry CrewsJordan PetersonAmanda PalmerMaria PopovaDavid BlaineSimon SinekDaniel PinkDavid Heinemeier HanssonJim KwikRyan HolidayDerek SiversJames AltucherCharlie BilelloTom BilyeuEsther PerelJeffrey ShawJordan Vogt-RobertsMike ShellenbergerSusan J. FowlerFedor HolzDustin MoskovitzSusan SuehrMichael GervaisStuart McMillanSven GatzChip ConleyTuria PittBryan JohnsonDave ElitchThe instant New York Times bestseller. Over 1 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad o...
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, ...
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise t...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fas...
A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, b...
Meditations
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The Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful ...
Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. What starts out as a journey to find...
A deluxe hardcover edition of Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. This deluxe hardcover edition of Dune includes: - An iconic new cover- Stained edges and fully illustrated endpapers- A beautifully designed poster on the interior of the jacket- A redesigned wo...
The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—one of the most influential business books of all time—innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding com...
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Give and Take by Adam Grant
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
The Martian by Andy Weir
Range by David Epstein
She Said by Jodi Kantor
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter D. Kaufman
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Quiet by Susan Cain
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Educated by Tara Westover
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Mastery by Robert Greene
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
The Lessons of History by Will Durant
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Titan by Ron Chernow
Originals by Adam Grant
Good To Great by Jim Collins
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
These Truths by Jill Lepore
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
On Writing by Stephen King
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley