“Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
“Antifragile” by Nassim Taleb (and “The Black Swan” and “Fooled by Randomness” by him)
“Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed
“Master of Love” by Don Miguel Ruiz
“Anything You Want” by Derek Sivers
“Mindset” by Carol Dweck
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari.
“The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz
“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
“Jesus’ Son” by Denis Johnson (a collection of short stories, not a religious book)
“The Rational Optimist” by Matt Ridley (and the Evolution of Everything by him)
“Bold” by Peter D. and Steven Kotler
“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Peak” by Anders Ericsson
“The Surrender Experiment” by Michael Singer (along with The Untethered Soul by him)
“Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” by Stephen Batchelor
“Mastery” by Robert Greene
“Zero to One” by Peter Thiel
“War of Art” by Stephen Pressfield (and “Turning Pro“)
“Post Office” by Charles Bukowski
“Purple Cow” by Seth Godin
“Maus” by Art Spiegelman
“On Writing” by Stephen King
“How We Got to Now” by Stephen Johnson (and his book on ideas)
“Creativity, Inc” by Ed Catmull
“Sick in the Head” by Judd Apatow
“Born Standing Up” by Steve Martin
“The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle (and “Practicing the Power of Now” by him)
“5 Love Languages” by Gary Chapman
“How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” by Harry Browne
“Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey
“To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“What I Talk About When I talk about Running” by Haruki Murakami
“The Stranger” by Albert Camus
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo
“The Blue Zones” by Dan Buettner
“The New Evolution Diet” by Art Devany
“Poking the Dead Frog” by Mike Sacks
“Socrates” by Paul Johnson
“Small Victories” by Anne Lamott
“Meet Your Happy Chemicals” by Lorette Breuning
