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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
by: Marie Kondo
Review
The Total Money Makeover
by: Dave Ramsey
The Miracle Morning
by: Hal Elrod
Your Money or Your Life
by: Viki Robin and Joe Dominguez
Poke the Box
by: Seth Godin
Review
Practice Makes Purpose
by: C. Paul Schroeder
Man’s Search For Meaning
by: Viktor Frankl
The Tao of Pooh
by: Benjamin Hoff
Think Like Da Vinci
by: Michael J. Gelb

The Best Books Collection:

The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking
The Happiness of Persuit by Chris Guillebeau
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
The Art of Learning By Josh Waitzkin
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
The Botany of`Desire by Michael Pollan
Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
Siddhartha’s Brain by James Kingsland
Poke the Box by Seth Godin
Tribes by Seth Godin
Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Amsterdam: Gebouwd op Palen by Herman Janse 
The Maker Movement Manifesto by Mark Hatch
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael J. Gelb
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Chaos: making a new science by James Gleick
Everything and More by David Foster Wallace
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Godel, Escher, Bach; An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Candide by Voltaire
The Phenomenon Of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Books by Year:

2021
The Killer Across the Table by
The Stranger in the Woods by
Don’t Panic by Neil Gaimen
Burnout by
The Biggest Bluff by Anna Konnikova
The Path
American Cosmic by
But What if We’re Wrong? By Chuck Klosterman
Manage Your Day to Day by
Deadliest Enemy by Michael…
2020
Our House is on Fire by …
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
Creative Personal Branding by JĂĽrgen Salenbacher
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel
Living Simple, Free & Happy by Cristin Frank
Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins
Principles for Success by Ray Dalio
Happy Money by Ken Honda
Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier
Playing with FIRE by Scott Rieckens
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Why the Dutch are Different by Ben Coates
The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
German Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners
Summer/Fall 2019
Unshakeable by Tony Robbins  
Ms. Bethany’s School of Cooking by Bethany Storey 
Joy on Demand by Chade-Meng Tan 
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson 
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller 
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou  
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy 
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell  
The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann 
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose 
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 
Summer 2018
Collapse by Jared Diamond 
Your Money or Your Life by Viki Robin and Joe Dominguez 
Vagabonding by Rolf PottsReview
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans 
The Big Short by Michael Lewis 
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 
Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang 
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (again) 
Practice Makes Purpose by C. Paul Schroeder 
A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh  
The Last Season by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans  
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales 
Spring 2018
The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking 
The Dip by Seth Godin  
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer  
The Happiness of Persuit by Chris Guillebeau 
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest  
A Brief History of Vice by Robert Evans  
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod 
Winter 2017
Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan 
The Art of Learning By Josh Waitzkin 
The Botany of`Desire by Michael PollanReview
The Origins of Creativity by E. O. Wilson 
Lights Out by Ted Koppel  
Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier 
Fall 2017
Siddhartha’s Brain by James Kingsland 
The Legacy Journey by Dave Ramsey  
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi  
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg  
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley  
Summer 2017
Poke the Box by Seth GodinReview
The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs  
Tribes by Seth Godin 
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson  
Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff 
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin  
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows 
Spring 2017
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff 
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov  
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins  
Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner  
The Dutch Windmill by Fredrick Stokhuyzen  
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking  
The Last of his Kind by David Roberts  
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov  
Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami  
Wildwood by Colin Meloy  
Fall/Winter 2016
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor 
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz  
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot  
Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins  
the Book of Joy by Douglas Abrams  
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut  
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman  
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert 
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck  
Math and the Mona Lisa by Bulent Atalay  
Inventive Engineering: Knowledge and Skills for Creative Engineers by Tomasz Arciszewski  
Amsterdam: Gebouwd op Palen by Herman Janse  
La viajera del tiempo by Lorena Franco  
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett  
The Maker Movement Manifesto by Mark HatchReview
A Mathematician’s Apology by G H Hardy  
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra  
Content Rules by Handley and Chapman  
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 
Summer 2016
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael J. Gelb 
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank  
Both Flesh and Not: Essays by David Foster Wallace  
Not so Happily Ever After by Susan Barnett Braun  
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell ShortoReview
Spring 2016
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoyevskyReview
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche Haruki Murakami 
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin 
The Road to Character by David Brooks  
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams  
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein  
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonReview
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard 
Fall/Winter 2015
Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016 
Poverty of Spirit by Johannes Baptist Metz  
The Samurai by Shusaku Endo  
No Place to Hide by Glen Greenwald  
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman 
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides  
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande  
The Human Element by Thomas Cleary  
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks  
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondoReview
Spring/Summer 2015
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 
Defining Creativity: The Art and Science of Great Ideas by Wouter Boon  
Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner  
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (Again) 
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee  
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky  
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami  
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace  
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 
Fall/Winter 2014
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe  
Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson  
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami  
Spring/Summer 2014
The Information by James Gleick  
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World  
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi  
Summer/Fall 2013
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 
A Big Heart Open to God  
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot 
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants  
The Joy of x: a guided tour of math, from one to infinity  
Descartes’ Secret Notebook  
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering  
The Four Loves  
Exploring Chaos: A guide to the new science of disorder  
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton 
Chaos: making a new science by James Gleick 
The Neon Bible  
Everything and More by David Foster Wallace 
Fall 2012 and Winter 2013
Crimes Against Logic  
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 
Night  
Spring and Summer 2012
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace 
Fall 2011 and Winter 2012
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace 
Proust Was a Neuroscientist  
The World According to Garp  
Ten Universal Principles  
Freedom  
Choke  
Group Theory in the Bedroom  
Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem*  
White Noise  
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace 
Spring and Summer 2011
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Again) 
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto  
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance  
The Lost City of Z  
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 
Rant  
The Age of Wonder  
Godel, Escher, Bach; An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (again) 
Winter 2010-2011
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (volume I)  
100 Essential things you didn’t know you didn’t know  
Biocentrism  
The Grand Design  
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 
Fall 2010
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell 
Food Rules  
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin  
The Call of the Wild  
Kafka on the Shore  
The China Study  
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 
Fearful Symmetry  
Sputnik Sweetheart  
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 
Summer 2010
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell 
The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao  
Justice  
On The Road  
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 
Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior  
Orthodoxy  
One Hundred Years of Solitude  
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish  
Mostly Harmless  
Albert Einstein: the life and times  
Godel, Escher, Bach; An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 
Winter and Spring 2010
The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav 
An Anthropologist On Mars  
Life, the Universe, and Everything…  
Walden  
Hiroshima  
The Journey Of Self-Discovery  
The Way Of Chuang Tzu  
The Conscious Universe  
Summer 2009
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
Irresistible Revolution  
Flow  
Hard Boiled Wonderland  
Catcher In The Rye  
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 
House Of Leaves  
Ishmael  
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff 
Mere Christianity  
Loaves and fishes  
The Alchemist  
Existentialism: A short Introduction  
Born To Run  
The Pilgrimage  
Conversations With God Book 1  
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe  
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 
Candide by Voltaire 
Snuff  
The Phenomenon Of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin