📖 book collection
a running shelf of what's shaped how i think, play, and cook
top 3, all time
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1. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius pretty much talking to himself, but it’s so impactful because 2,000 years later it’s still relevant. When I can’t get someone to read it, I at least get them to watch Michael Sugrue's lecture on it.
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2. Atomic Habits — might be the holy grail of personal development books. Helped me understand how to change my mentality and increase my agency in how I live.
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3. Greenlights — a fun ride, probably mostly embellished (hard to tell with Matthew McConaughey). Love his movies and voice though, so for this one I had to listen the audiobook.
memoirs
- 🍽️Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
- 🎤Based on a True Story — Norm Macdonald
- 🚦Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
- 🏀The Mamba Mentality — Kobe Bryant
fiction
- ⚔️Vagabond, Vol. 1–7 — Takehiko Inoue (VIZBIG)
- 🗡️Berserk, Vol. 1–3 — Kentaro Miura
- 🦇Batman: Year One — Frank Miller
personal development
- 🎯Essentialism — Greg McKeown
- 🧘How to Stop Worrying and Start Living — Dale Carnegie
- 🌪️Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 👑The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene
- 🏛️Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- 🗣️The Next Conversation — Jefferson Fisher
- 🔁Atomic Habits — James Clear
- 🧹The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — Marie Kondo
- ♟️Winning Chess Openings — Yasser Seirawan
- ♞How to Win at Chess — Levy Rozman
- 💰The Intelligent Investor (Revised Ed.) — Benjamin Graham
- 🍳The Food Lab — J. Kenji López-Alt