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What’s one book that changed your life?

Compiling ch-ch-changes capital’s tweet replies

Kalani Scarrott
Sep 6, 2020
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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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