books that have changed my life

over the last 5 years, i've read 348 books - that's an average of 1.3 books per week.

of the 348 books i've read, below (categorized) are the most impactful. books i return to time and time again, and can recommend with full confidence:

business

	- mastery
	- deep work
	- influence
	- antifragile
	- the hard thing about hard things
	- zero to one
	- crucial conversations

philosophy

	- meditations
	- total freedom (by krishnamurti)
	- a guide to the good life
	- things hidden since the foundations of the world

motivation / inspiration

	- the war of art
	- turning pro
	- tuesdays with morrie
	- the alchemist

evolutionary psychology

	- the moral animal
	- the red queen
	- the selfish gene
	- the mating mind
	- the rational animal
	- the adapted mind

other non-fiction

	- [losing the war](http://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm) (not a book, but an incredibly long piece of writing. probably my favorite piece of writing ever)
	- cannery row
	- godel, escher, bach (difficult, long but entirely worth the read)
	- why nations fail
	- the sovereign individual
	- seeing like a state
	- sapiens
	- the last lion
	- 33 strategies of war

sci-fi / fantasy

	- ender's game
	- red rising (series - just incredible)
	- wool (and the entire silo series)
	- anathem
	- cryptonomicon
	- the entire "the name of the wind" series by patrick rothfuss
	- seven eves

other fiction

	- fight club
	- jitterbug perfume
	- the prince of tides (really anything by pat conroy)
	- the entire noble house series
	- atlas shrugged and fountainhead. if you have to read just one, make it atlas shrugged
	- the lies of locke lamora (series)
	- the rosie project
	- the martian
	- pillars of the earth
	- fall of giants (book 1 in series by ken follet. the whole series is fantastic)
	- a man called ove
	- stories of your life and others
	- ant farm (short story collection by simon rich)
	- zorba the greek