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Books That Changed Me
The ones that shifted my thinking and stayed with me.
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Paper Towns by John Green
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Non-Fiction I Recommend
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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World by David Epstein
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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Cultish by Amanda Montell
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
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YA Fiction
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Fiction I Loved
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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Books I Read Between 2018 - 2020 (I've had this list hidden somewhere, so I might as well share it?)
A. DYSTOPIAN STUFF
1. Divergent Series (1-4) by Veronica Roth
2. The Hunger Games (1-4) by Suzanne Collins [I only read the first book though so...]
B. MENTAL HEALTH (For most part books on anxiety and depression)
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. Looking for Alaska by John Green
3. Saving June by Hannah Harrington
4. Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
5. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green [this one's about obsessive compulsive disorder/OCD]
6. Madness by Zac Brewer
7. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
8. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
9. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman [this....this was just weird. I'm still mindfucked til this day😂]
THRILLERS/CRIME FICTION/ACTION
1. Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown [I mean from Angels and Demons to Origin]
2. The Wallflower by William Bayer
3. All the books about Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
5. American Assassin by Vince Flynn
6. Deception Point by Dan Brown
7. Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
LGBTQIA+ NOVELS
1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green [gay dudes]
2. Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Gavin [gender fluid characters]
3. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli [gay dudes]
4. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli [I think she's bi or something]
BOOKS THAT MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD
1. My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
2. Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella
3. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
4. (basically any book by Sophie Kinsella)
ROMANCE? KINDA
1. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
2. By Your Side by Kasie West
3. Let It Snow by John Green et al
4. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
5. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
6. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jennifer Han
7. Losing It by Carmack Cora
8. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
GRAPHIC NOVELS
ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN (NONFICTION)
1. Persepolis 1&2 by Marjane Satrapi**
ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST (NONFICTION)
1. Maus 1&2 by Art Spiegelman**
TRAVEL
1. I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski**
BOOKS ON RAPE, DRUG ABUSE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING etc.
1. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
2. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
3. Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
4. Glass by Ellen Hopkins
HORROR
1. Carrie by Stephen King
COOL BOOKS (FICTION) I COULDN'T CATEGORISE
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury**
2. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
BLACK CHARACTERS
1. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
3. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
4. Dear Martin by Nic Stone
YA FICTION
1. Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
2. Bone Gap by Lauren Ruby
3. Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
5. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
6. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
7. Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro
8. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
10. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
11. The Blood Between Us by Zac Brewer
NEW ADULT FICTION
1. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
3. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
4. Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
5. Queenie by Candice Carry-Williams
6. The Circle by Dave Eggers
7. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
8. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
1. The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
2. I Steve by George Beahm
3. Screw It, Let's Do It by Richard Branson
4. In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
5. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
NON-FICTION
1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
2. Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
3. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
4. Yes, my accent is real by Kunal Nayaar
5. I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
6. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
7. The Space Barons by Christian Davenport
8. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
9. The Art of Creativity by John Adair
10. Brutal Simplicity of Thought by M & V Saatchi
11. Leadership Lessons by Will Peters
12. Brotopia by Emily Chang
13. You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
14. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
AI STUFF
1. Our Final Invention by James Barrat
2. The Fourth Age by Byron Reese
3. Will Computers Revolt by Charles Simon
4. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
5. Deep Medicine by Eric Topol
SCIENCY THINGS
1. She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer
2. Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
3. Biopunk by Marcus Wohlsen
4. Regenesis by George Church and Ed Regis
5. Sapiens by Yuuval Noah Harari
6. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
POETRY
1. Her 1 & 2 by Pierre Jeanty
HISTORICAL FICTION
1. The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
FANTASY
1. The Curse of Salamander Street by G.P. Taylor
SCI-FI
1. Synapse by Steven James
2. Hacker: The Outlaw Chronicles by Ted Dekker
3. Infinity Lost by Harrison, S.