Self-Improvement
The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
The 33 Strategies of War – Robert Greene
The Art of Seduction – Robert Greene
The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason
Classic Literature
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe
An Introduction to Tagore – Viswa Bharati
Essay Collections
Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
Brief interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace
The Art of the Publisher – Roberto Calasso
Poetry
The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993 – Charles Bukowski
Collected Poems of Robert Frost – Vintage Classics
First Four Books of Poems – Louis Glück
The Hatred of Poetry – Ben Lerner
Philosophy
The Art of Communication – Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
Think Like a Monk – Jay Shetty
The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
Chess
Karpov on Karpov – Anatoly Karpov
Grandmaster Repertoire (series) – Boris Avrukh
100 Endgames You Must Know – Jesus de la Villa
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