Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, and podcaster.
Renowned for his bestselling "The 4-Hour Workweek" book, he has shaped contemporary views on work, productivity, and lifestyle management. His publications, emphasizing efficient living, propelled Ferriss to the forefront of thought leadership in self-optimization.
His influence extended into digital media with "The Tim Ferriss Show", a trailblazing podcast that features insights from experts across various sectors.
Additionally, Ferriss also marked his presence in the tech industry as an early investor and advisor for companies like Uber and Facebook.
Books recommended by Tim Ferriss
Man’s Search For Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss
4.0
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The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
4.0
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Tao Te Ching
by Stephen Mitchell
4.5
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Naval Ravikant & 1 other
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
by George Leonard
4.0
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
4.0
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Finite and Infinite Games
by James P. Carse
4.0
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The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
4.5
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The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
4.0
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Tools of Titans
by Timothy Ferriss
4.0
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
4.0
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The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
by William Ury
4.0
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl R. Popper
4.0
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The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil
4.0
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
4.5
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
4.0
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Requiem for a Dream
by Hubert Selby Jr.
4.0
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Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
by Gail Sheehy
4.0
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Sugar Blues
by William Dufty
4.0
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5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System for Raw Strength
by Jim Wendler
4.0
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The Passion Trap: How to Right an Unbalanced Relationship
by Dean C. Delis & Cassandra Phillips
4.5
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
3.5
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
4.0
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Brave Enough
by Cheryl Strayed
4.0
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One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism
by Rodney Stark
3.5
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The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman
4.0
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Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
by Harriet Lerner
4.0
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Why Won't You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts
by Harriet Lerner
4.5
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Touchpoints
by T. Berry Brazelton
4.0
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Thinking Body, Dancing Mind
by Chungliang Al Huang
4.0
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
4.5
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The Baroque Cycle
by Neal Stephenson
4.5
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Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
4.0
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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
4.0
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Shame
by Salman Rushdie
4.0
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No Logo
by Naomi Klein
4.0
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A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
4.5
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Peter Pan
by J M Barrie
4.0
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The Master Key System
by Charles F. Haanel
4.0
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
4.5
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You Are Not So Smart
by David McRaney
4.0
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Getting the Love You Want
by Harville Hendrix PhD
4.0
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The Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine
4.0
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The Lessons of History
by Will Durant & Ariel Durant
4.0
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
by Richard Dawkins
4.0
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Wooden
by John Wooden
4.5
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The Champion's Mind
by Jim Afremow
4.0
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Making Sense of People
by Samuel Barondes
3.5
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In Over Our Heads
by Robert Kegan
4.0
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Changing on the Job
by Jennifer Garvey Berger
4.0
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The Biology of Desire
by Marc Lewis
4.0
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Scarcity
by Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
4.0
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
by Daniel C. Dennett
4.0
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The Minefield Girl
by Sofia Ek
3.0
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Black Box Thinking
by Matthew Syed
4.5
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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
4.0
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Ryan Holiday & 1 other
The Monster at the End of This Book
by Jon Stone
4.5
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The Rise of Superman
by Steven Kotler
4.0
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Seeking Wisdom
by Peter Bevelin
4.0
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The Heart of a Champion
by Bob Richards
4.0
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Superforecasting
by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
4.0
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How to Measure Anything
by Douglas W. Hubbard
4.0
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Decisive
by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
4.0
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Mind Gym
by Gary Mack
4.0
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Inch and Miles
by John R. Wooden
4.5
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Remix
by Lawrence Lessig
4.0
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Musicophilia
by Oliver Sacks
4.0
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The Doctor and the Soul
by Viktor E. Frankl
4.0
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Rhinoceros Success
by Scott Alexander
4.0
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Superintelligence
by Nick Bostrom
4.0
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
4.0
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Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
4.5
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Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
4.5
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Propaganda
by Edward Bernays
4.0
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The Scientist In The Crib
by Alison Gopnik
4.0
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Ready Player One: A Novel
by Ernest Cline
4.0
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Out of Control
by Kevin Kelly
4.0
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
by Ray Kurzweil
4.0
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Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke
4.0
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Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
4.0
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
4.0
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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The Ultimate Resource
by Julian Lincoln Simon
4.0
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
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Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero
by Frank Graham
4.0
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami
4.0
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The Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
4.0
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Awaken the Giant Within
by Tony Robbins
4.0
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City of Thieves
by David Benioff
4.5
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Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins
by Jerome Charyn
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The Happiest Baby on the Block
by Harvey Karp
4.0
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The Sleepeasy Solution
by Jennifer Waldburger & Jill Spivack
4.0
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
4.5
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit
4.0
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James Baldwin: Collected Essays
by James Baldwin
4.5
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The Price of the Ticket
by James Baldwin
4.5
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The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
by Bronnie Ware
4.0
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
4.0
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Hope for the Flowers
by Trina Paulus
4.5
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Living Forward
by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy
4.0
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clayton M. Christensen
4.0
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Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
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The Scourge of the Swastika
by Edward Frederick Langley Russell
4.0
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The Drama of the Gifted Child
by Alice Miller
4.0
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Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes
4.0
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
4.5
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
4.0
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The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie
4.0
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The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
3.5
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How to Fly a Horse
by Kevin Ashton
4.0
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Deep Survival
by Laurence Gonzales
4.0
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The Voice That Is Great Within Us
by Hayden Carruth
4.5
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
by Jim Dethmer & Diana Chapman
4.0
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The Four Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz
4.0
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Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen
4.0
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
4.0
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior
by Dan Millman
4.0
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On China
by Henry Kissinger
4.0
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The Way of the Shark
by Greg Norman
3.5
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
4.0
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
3.5
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A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
4.5
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Oprah Winfrey & 1 other
The Meaning of Culture
by John Cowper Powys
4.0
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The Enigma of Anger
by Garret Keizer
4.0
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The Stars
by H. A. Rey
4.5
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Quiet
by Susan Cain
4.0
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Wait
by Frank Partnoy
3.5
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The Power of Nice
by Linda Kaplan Thaler
3.5
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The Power of Small
by Linda Kaplan Thaler
3.5
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Weapons of Math Destruction
by Cathy O'Neil
4.0
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Retail Superstars
by George Whalin
3.0
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Small Giants
by Bo Burlingham
4.0
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Simply Brilliant
by William C. Taylor
4.0
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Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century
by Hermann Simon
4.0
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The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester
4.0
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Born to Run
by Christopher McDougall
4.5
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The Barefoot Investor
by Scott Pape
4.5
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History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
4.0
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Ryan Holiday & 1 other
Total Freedom
by Jiddu Krishnamurti
4.5
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Naval Ravikant & 1 other
The Evolution of Everything
by Matt Ridley
4.0
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The Double Helix
by James D. Watson PhD
4.0
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32 Yolks
by Eric Ripert
4.0
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A Plea for the Animals
by Matthieu Ricard
4.5
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Zen in the Art of Archery
by Eugen Herrigel
4.0
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards
4.0
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The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
4.0
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The Act of Creation
by Arthur Koestler
4.5
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes
4.5
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A Pattern Language
by Christopher Alexander
4.5
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
4.0
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The Paleo Solution
by Robb Wolf
4.0
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Leadership on the Line
by Martin Linsky
4.0
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The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
by Joel ben Izzy
4.0
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
4.0
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
by James Dale Davidson
4.0
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
by Samin Nosrat
4.5
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The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity
by Daniel Reid
4.0
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
4.0
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The Second Tree from the Corner
by E. B. White
4.0
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Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
4.0
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The Jaws Log
by Carl Gottlieb
4.0
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
4.0
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Under Saturn's Shadow
by James Hollis
4.5
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Iceland Small World
by Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson
4.0
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The Wisdom of the Enneagram
by Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson
4.0
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle
4.0
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The Nightingale's Song
by Robert Timberg
4.5
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Mae West on sex, health, and ESP
by Mae West
4.0
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It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken
by Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt
4.0
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Your Beauty Mark
by Dita Von Teese
4.0
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
3.5
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M Pirsig
4.0
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Ernest Hemingway on Writing
by Larry W. Phillips
4.0
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The Emperor of All Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.5
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How to Cook Everything
by Mark Bittman
4.0
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Nonstop Metropolis
by Rebecca Solnit
4.0
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The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
4.0
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
by Gary Taubes
4.0
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared M. Diamond
4.0
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
4.0
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Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
4.0
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About Face
by Colonel David H. Hackworth
4.5
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
4.0
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Influence
by Robert B. Cialdini
4.0
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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
4.0
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The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande
4.0
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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
4.0
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
by Richard P. Feynman
4.5
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
by Ben Horowitz
4.0
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
4.5
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Zero to One
by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
4.0
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch
4.0
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
4.5
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The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
4.0
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
4.0
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
by Charles T. Munger
4.5
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
by Shunryu Suzuki
4.0
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10% Happier
by Dan Harris
4.0
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The Fantasy Bond: Structure of Psychological Defenses
by Robert W. Firestone
4.5
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Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
4.0
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The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
by Alvin Toffler
4.0
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