Books

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How to choose books to read

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.

ToRead list

Book recommendations

  1. https://fs.blog/category/books/book-recommendations/
  2. 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.
  3. Ryan Holiday book recommendations
  4. Books that every man should read
  5. Jordan Peterson book recommendations
  6. Elon Must book recommendations
  7. Book recommendations by Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger
  8. Cal Newport Book recommendations
  9. Robert Greene Book recommendations
  10. Daniel Kahneman Book recommendations
  11. Books on Persuasion, Influence, and Understanding Human Behavior
  12. The will to change
  13. Free Books that Are More Important than a University Degree
  14. Self help books
  15. Classic Books Every Modern Gentleman Needs To Read
  16. Books that every student should read
  17. Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction
  18. Historic mysteries
  19. Books that enable and ennoble a national reexamination
  20. Paradigm Shifting Books for The Curious Mind
  21. Books that expand our mind
  22. Leadership mentality
  23. Books about Immigrant Experience
  24. Brighter Futures
  25. Business Ideas, Entrepreneurship and Marketing
  26. Books about Cyber Security
  27. General Knowledge
  28. Mythology
  29. Science Fiction
  30. Miscellaneous suggestions
  31. Niche nonfiction books to read
  32. Books for when life gets hard or when it feels like the world is falling apart

Articles to read

  1. 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
  2. Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/
  3. 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
  4. Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favorites - https://apnews.com/article/2022-fall-books-top-upcoming-releases-6c10c462139bffbfd4d3584d2069ffb4
  5. The Miraculous Salman Rushdie - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/salman-rushdie-victory-city-book-review/672779/
  6. 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
  7. https://www.inc.com/john-rampton/25-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books-this-year.html
  8. 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
  9. 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!

Self help books and videos

Physical books vs ebooks

Authors

  1. Authors to follow
  2. Daniel Kahneman

Tags

  1. Catalog
  2. How to get free ebooks
  3. Liar’s Poker - content
  4. Note to self - about the time it takes to read a book
  5. Taking notes from physical books
  6. Some History books to read

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