What’s one book that changed your life?

Compiling ch-ch-changes capital’s tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing books that changed peoples lives, sort them into categories and link to them. 

Inspired by ch-ch-changes capital’s (@special_sits) since deleted tweet. What’s one book that changed your life? Any genre.

Self-Improvement / Philosophy / Psychology

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger

• How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes

• Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

• Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

• The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

• Unf*ck Yourself by Gary John Bishop

• Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

Classic Literature & Fiction

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Upstream by Mary Oliver

• The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham

• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

• Women by Charles Bukowski

• The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

• Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Physician by Noah Gordon

• Redwall by Brian Jacques

• Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Republic by Plato

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

History / Recollections

• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

• The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Personal Finance / Investing / Business

• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• The One Thing by Gary Keller

• Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan

• One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

• Contrary Investing by Richard E. Band

• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science and Tech

• Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

• Visions by Michio Kaku

• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

• The Perfect Theory by Prof. Pedro G. Ferreira

Sport

• Ball Four by Jim Bouton

• Moneyball by Michael Lewis

• The Bill James Baseball Abstract, 1982 by Bill James

Misc

• The Carrying by Ada Limon

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

• The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche

• Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

• The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz

• Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

• Travels by Michael Crichton

• Average is Over by Tyler Cowen

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