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What's on my bookshelf
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Adventure
Classics
Art and inspirations
Personal growth and psychology
Business
Adventure
Adventure books
When people think all classics are dull, they clearly haven't picked up this book. I can assure you that I was flipping pages like there was no tomorrow. It's a fun adventure story with some of the most memorable characters in literature.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Classics
Classics books
The story follows the narrator as he journeys through a series of episodic encounters. It begins at the bus station in a grim, gray city which is Hell. One figure who stands out is the shaggy poet, consumed by selfpity. Then comes the arrival in Heav...selves.In Lewis’s Heaven, the rule is not “Be perfect and sinless on your own” (something no one can achieve), but rather “Allow God to heal you.” The ghosts who remain in Hell are not there because they were exceptionally great sinners, but because they are ...
The Great Divorce - C.S Lewis
Animal Farm is a masterfully compact allegory that turns a simple barnyard rebellion into a chilling warning against totalitarianism and the corruption of power. Through sharp satire, George Orwell reveals how easily idealistic revolutions can be hij...
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The story follows Dana, a 26-year-old Black woman living in 1976 California with her new white husband, Kevin. On her birthday, Dana is suddenly and violently wrenched through time to an antebellum Maryland plantation. She discovers she has been summ...
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
Art and inspirations
Creative?
Legendary music producer Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being is not a step-by-step how-to guide, but a beautiful, philosophical meditation on unlocking artistic potential. Readers praise its calming, zen-like approach to overcoming self-dou...
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Personal growth and psychology
How are you?
The Origins of You by Vienna Pharaon offers a practical guide to healing childhood wounds in order to break repetitive, destructive patterns in adult relationships. The book is praised for categorizing trauma into five clear, relatable categories, pr...
The Origins of You: Breaking Family Patterns
This Is Body Grief by Jayne Mattingly offers deeply validating support for anyone struggling with physical changes due to chronic illness, aging, or disability by reframing that pain as a legitimate form of grief. Readers praise its compassionate jou...
This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with Loss
This book offers a compassionate yet highly practical roadmap to help you break free from the cycle of over giving and chronic guilt. Magee provides actionable strategies for identifying your true needs and setting firm boundaries without losing your...
Stop People Pleasing: And Find Your Power
Business
How to build business
The Psychology of Money is a brilliant, highly accessible guide that proves financial success is driven by human behavior rather than mathematical intelligence. Through engaging, short stories, author Morgan Housel shifts the focus from chasing high ...
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Wealth Lessons
Empire of AI by Karen Hao offers a critical examination of the AI industry, exposing the human exploitation and environmental costs hidden behind Silicon Valley's marketing narratives. The book portrays major AI firms as digital empires dependent on ...
Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in OpenAI
Thiel’s manifesto acts as a severe intellectual slap to the modern startup cult, arguing that chasing trendy collaboration and safe competition is a guaranteed path to failure. It demands you abandon the comfort of crowd pleasing imitation to build a...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups & Building Future
DotCom Secrets acts as a blueprint for engineering online sales systems that systematically convert passive traffic into high value repeat buyers. Unlike academic marketing texts, Brunson treats web traffic as a predictable science by prioritizing ps...
DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook
Mark Manson delivers a refreshing, profanity-laced reality check that completely rejects the toxic positivity of traditional selfhelp books. By blending core principles of Stoic philosophy with blunt modern humor, he argues that a meaningful life is ...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck