I love reading. This is my list of essential reading, grouped by category.
What Everyone Should Read
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Health & Nutrition
- Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
- The UltraMind Solution by Dr. Mark Hyman
- The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson
- The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz
- The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth by Jonny Bowden
- Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
Personal Development
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
Business, Entrepreneurship, & Finance
- Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Fiction
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Stories
- The Egg by Andy Weir
- Guts by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Necklace by Guy de Maupaissant