Books
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How to choose books to read
What should I read next
How to determine if we should add a book to the “to read” list?
Look at the ratings in LibraryThing.com in addition to looking in goodreads.com.
Sometimes, the ratings are way off.
Book recommendations
- https://fs.blog/category/books/book-recommendations/
- Stop looking at Steve Job’s reading list or Elon Musk’s reading list or any other reading list when you have a book to read. The research about what book to read next can be a rabbit hole and take up a lot of your time. Just stop wasting time on those and keep focusing on reading the book that you started.
- Ryan Holiday book recommendations
- Books that every man should read
- Jordan Peterson book recommendations
- Elon Must book recommendations
- Book recommendations by Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger
- Cal Newport Book recommendations
- Robert Greene Book recommendations
- Daniel Kahneman Book recommendations
- Books on Persuasion, Influence, and Understanding Human Behavior
- The will to change
- Free Books that Are More Important than a University Degree
- Self help books
- Classic Books Every Modern Gentleman Needs To Read
- Books that every student should read
- Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction
- Historic mysteries
- Books that enable and ennoble a national reexamination
- Paradigm Shifting Books for The Curious Mind
- Books that expand our mind
- Leadership mentality
- Books about Immigrant Experience
- Brighter Futures
- Business Ideas, Entrepreneurship and Marketing
- Books about Cyber Security
- General Knowledge
- Mythology
- Science Fiction
- Miscellaneous suggestions
- Niche nonfiction books to read
- Books for when life gets hard or when it feels like the world is falling apart
Articles to read
- Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/books/books-disinformation-fake-news.html
- Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/
- Warsaw Ghetto’s defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book recently rediscovered on a library shelf - http://theconversation.com/warsaw-ghettos-defiant-jewish-doctors-secretly-documented-the-medical-effects-of-nazi-starvation-policies-in-a-book-recently-rediscovered-on-a-library-shelf-182726
- Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favorites - https://apnews.com/article/2022-fall-books-top-upcoming-releases-6c10c462139bffbfd4d3584d2069ffb4
- The Miraculous Salman Rushdie - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/salman-rushdie-victory-city-book-review/672779/
- David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral - https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/david-foster-wallaces-final-attempt-to-make-art-moral
- https://www.inc.com/john-rampton/25-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books-this-year.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/20/we-all-read-like-hell-how-ireland-became-the-worlds-literary-powerhouse?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew
- https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/5-books-to-read-if-you-want-to-understand-how-money-really-works-according-to-harvard-economists.html
Re-discovering books
Sometimes, we rediscover books that we already read as a teenager or a long time ago. We would be amazed to see that our perception of and reaction to the books is completely different now. And that we have find ideas in them that we hadn’t known were there in our teens!