Practical & Stoic Wisdom
Handbooks for living well and acting deliberately — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Siddhartha.
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Books in this theme
- Meditations
- Manual for Living
- A Brief History of Time
- The War of Art
- Influence
- Siddhartha
- Fooled by Randomness
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Into Thin Air
- Impro
- Principles
- This Is Water
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Alchemist
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Candide
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Just Mercy
- The Practicing Mind
- Ignore Everybody
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Breakthrough Advertising
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- The Power of Full Engagement
- Business Adventures
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
- Titan
- The New New Thing
- Not Fade Away
- Seeking Wisdom
- Decisive
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Nudge
- Predictably Irrational
- Drive
- The Power of Fifty Bits
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- The Lean Startup
- The Millionaire Fastlane
- Margin of Safety
- The Art of Profitability
- Switch
- Start with Why
- Tribes
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- First, Break All The Rules
- The Goal
- Made to Stick
- The ONE Thing
- Getting Things Done
- Essentialism
- The 80/20 Principle
- SPIN Selling
- The Ultimate Sales Machine
- The Art of War
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Outliers
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- A Game of Thrones
- The Little Prince
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Stillness Is the Key
- Ultralearning
- Americanah
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Namesake
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Kite Runner
- All the Light We Cannot See
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Poisonwood Bible
- 1984
- Lord of the Flies
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Hobbit
- Great Expectations
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Stranger
- Don Quixote
- The Person and the Situation
- The Power of Habit
- The Art of Possibility
- The 10X Rule
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
- The Compound Effect
- 10% Happier
- A Short Guide to a Happy Life
- Superhuman by Habit
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- The Art of Learning
- Miracle Morning
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
- Dream Teams
- Everything I Never Told You
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential
- State of Wonder
- The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- The Book Thief
- The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management
- The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
- The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
- The Three Musketeers
- Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
Authors
- Marcus Aurelius
- Epictetus
- Stephen Hawking
- Steven Pressfield
- Robert B. Cialdini
- Hermann Hesse
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Paul Kalanithi
- Richard P. Feynman
- Jared Diamond
- Jon Krakauer
- Keith Johnstone
- Ray Dalio
- David Foster Wallace
- Alexandre Dumas
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Paulo Coelho
- Harper Lee
- Voltaire
- Daniel Gilbert
- George S. Clason
- Bryan Stevenson
- Thomas M. Sterner
- Hugh MacLeod
- Michael E. Gerber
- Eugene M. Schwartz
- Dale Carnegie
- Al Ries
- Jim Loehr
- John Brooks
- Marshall Goldsmith
- Ron Chernow
- Michael Lewis
- Laurence Shames & Peter Barton
- Peter Bevelin
- Chip & Dan Heath
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Daniel Kahneman
- Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
- Dan Ariely
- Daniel Pink
- Bob Nease
- Tim Ferriss
- Eric Ries
- M.J. DeMarco
- Seth Klarman
- Adrian Slywotzky
- Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- Simon Sinek
- Seth Godin
- Patrick Lencioni
- Marcus Buckingham & Gallup Organization
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
- David Allen
- Greg McKeown
- Richard Koch
- Neil Rackham
- Chet Holmes
- Sun Tzu
- W. Chan Kim
- Mohsin Hamid
- George R.R. Martin
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Stieg Larsson
- Ryan Holiday
- Scott H. Young
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Khaled Hosseini
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Anthony Doerr
- Betty Smith
- Barbara Kingsolver
- George Orwell
- William Golding
- Mark Twain
- Charles Dickens
- Ernest Hemingway
- J.D. Salinger
- Albert Camus
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Richard Nisbett & Lee Ross
- Charles Duhigg
- Rosamund Stone & Benjamin Zander
- Grant Cardone
- Kamal Ravikant
- Darren Hardy
- Dan Harris
- Anna Quindlen
- Tynan
- Spencer Johnson
- Josh Waitzkin
- Hal Elrod
- John C. Bogle
- G. Richard Shell
- Shane Snow
- Celeste Ng
- Greg Crabtree
- Ann Patchett
- Andrew Carnegie
- Markus Zusak
- Peter F. Drucker
- Shawn Achor
- Howard Marks
- John Wooden