A list of books to read in your lifetime

Personal development
1. The Seven Habits of highly effective people - Stephen Covey
2. The Analects of Confucius
3. The Art of Virtue - Benjamin Franklin
4. As A Man Thinketh (Omul devine ceea ce gandeste) - James Allen
5. Creierul si inteligenta emotionala - Daniel Goleman
6. The Collected Dialogues of Plato
7. The Essential Gandhi
8. Biblia
9. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
10. The Power of Positive Thinking - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
11.Habit Stacking - Steve Scott
12. Awaken the Giant Within - Tony Robbins
13. The Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
14. Quiet: The Power of Introverts - Susan Cain
15. How To Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
16. The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
17. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
18. Acres of Diamonds - Russell H. Conwell
19.The Seasons of Life - Jim Rohn
20.The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
21.The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz
22.Start with Why - Simon Sinek
23. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
24.Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
25.Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela
26. Spark - John Ratey
27.Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck– Seth Godin
28.The Attention Revolution – Alan Wallace
29.Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy– David D. Burns
30.Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
31.The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
32.The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
 33.Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It – Kamal Ravikant
34.The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to
Your Mate - Gary Chapman

Fiction
1. Citizens of London - Lynne Olson
2. Essays in love – Alain de Botton
3. Pavane for a Dead Princess – Park Min Gyu

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4. The unbearable lightness of being – Milan Kundera

5. Demian – Hermann Hesse
6. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
7. Almost transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami
8. The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
9. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
10.Breaking out of the man box – Tony Porter
11.The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
12.The catcher in the rye – J D Salinger
13.Sky, Wind and Stats – Yun Dong Ju
14.Confessions of a Mask – Yukio Mishima
15.Justice: What’s the right thing to do? – Michael Sandel
16.Me before you – Jojo Moyes
17.The Stranger – Albert Camus
18.Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
19.1984 – George Orwell
20.1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Recommended by Daniel Radcliffe

1- The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It might be the only book
I’ve read more than once, to be honest. I’m really bad. I don’t generally reread
things or rewatch stuff very often. But it’s amazing.

2- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling. I think it’s fair to
say that if we’re talking about the five books that have most influenced my life, I
think it would be pretty churlish of me not to say Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone for giving me everything that I have and everything that I
will have.

3- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. This collection of short stories by a master

of magical realism blew my mind. The fact that Borges could start with such an
idea—an infinite library, what would that involve?—and then take it to a logical
conclusion is remarkable.

4- Germinal by Emile Zola. It amazes me how deftly Zola captures the

idiosyncrasy, the mundanity, and the scale of life among all these different
classes of people. Every character feels fully formed and real.

5- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I have friends who never
read books, and so when they ask me what they should pick up first, I always
give them this one. I tell them there are some books that are like drugs, and will
give you a quick hit, but if you want something that will stay with you and
resonate for a long while afterward, then try this