I'm putting together a reading list for 2024. What was the one book that changed your life?
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- Demian - Herman Hesse
- The Kinfolk Entrepreneur
- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
- The Encounter Petru Popescu
- Sapiens - Yual Noah Harari
- Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution By Wendy Brown. Read during uni & was a insight into how government leaders are wired.
- Emotional agility by Susan David
- Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindBy Yuval Noah Harari
- Pip as a fellow dyslexic I know how critical not choosing the wrong book is. But Digital MinimalismKing, Warrior, Magician Loverand Ego is The Enemy were all pretty good!
- Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm ReichI would say an absolute must!!
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit changed my life perspective in a positive way
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.Essentially teaches a great tool to remove the stress and anxiety and just do what you can, at any given point while you can.
- Hi Pip, I'm dyslexic like you and book reading has always been a struggle. I do suggest this podcast - Under the Skin by Russel Brand. Fantastic!in love and gratitude cx
- Without a shadow of a doubt, two main books:- The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks (mindblowing, insightful, utterly humane)- Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman (everything one would want to know about the mind and its weird ways)
- Patty Smith - Just Kids. So inspirational, creative and loving.
- Back in 2011 was Steve Jobs biography. Now, Sapiens from Yuval Noah Harari.
- « many years later, as he faced the firing squad, colonel aureliano buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. »[ one hundred years of solitude / gabriel garcía márquez ]
- the little prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
- Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson
- I wanted to become a writer after reading To Kill A Mockingbird by the late great Harper Lee. I remember the day my mom swooped into a used books bin, plucked it out, and said to me, "You'll like this." I read it six times that summer.Another book, decades later, that changed my life is the innocuously titled "Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom To Inspire Your Life's Work." I was stuck in a rut and knew I needed to make a career shift. This is the one book that really helped because it had specific questions the reader had to think about and answer about purpose. I now read it every 18-24 months.
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