​​​​40 books to get through before your 40th birthday

1. “1984” by George Orwell — novel.
2. “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee — novel.
3. “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger — novel.
4. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald — novel.
5. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley — novel.
6. “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller — novel.
7. “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding — novel.
8. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams — science fiction.
9. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — magical realism.
10. “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov — romance/novel.
11. “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte — gothic romance/novel.
12. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell — allegorical novella/fable.
13. “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut — dark comedy/sci-fi satire/war novel.
14. “Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen — romantic comedy/novel.
15. “Beloved" by Toni Morrison— literary fiction/gothic horror.
16. “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe — novel.
17. “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini - novel.
18. “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden — novel.
19. “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky — novel.
20. “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy — novel.
21. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley — novel.
22. “Heart Of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad — novella.
23. “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens — novel.
24. “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville — novel.
25. “The Iliad” by Homer — epic poem.
26. “Dangerous Liaisons” by Glibieux De Laclos — epistolary novel.
27. “Guliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift — satirical fictional travelogue.
28. “War And Peace” by Leo Tolstoy — realist novel.
29. “Don Quixote” by Miguel De Cervantes — picaresque novel
30. “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll — fantasy/children's literature.
31. “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho — novel.
32. “Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde — novel.
33. “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse — novel.
34. “Cry, the beloved Country” by Alan Paton — novel.
35. “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison — novel.
36. “The Godfather” by Mario Puzo — novel.
37. “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare — play.
38. “For Whom The Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemmingway — novel.
39. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque — novel.
40. “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemmingway — novel.

​​10 books that provide an education in human psychology and behavior

1. "Ikigai" provides insights into the Japanese concept of finding purpose and joy in life.
2. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is an exploration of the two systems that govern human intuition and decision-making.
3. "Flow" examines how people can achieve a state of total immersion in activities for maximum psychological reward.
4. "Atomic Habits" offers strategies to transform behavior through small changes that lead to big outcomes.
5. "On the Shortness of Life" is a Stoic guidebook written by Seneca on how to make the best use of one's life and time.
6. "Surrounded by Idiots" offers tips on how to read people and work better with them.
7. "The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant" shares advice on how to create a life of comfort, purpose, and impact.
8. "The Psychology of Money" examines how our emotions can guide financial decisions.
9. "Meditations" provides timeless wisdom from the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
10. “Everything Is F*cked” takes an honest and humorous look at the current state of the world and what needs to be done to make it better.

​​​​7 books that will blow your mind

1. "Fight Club" follows an unnamed narrator who creates and leads a secret fight club for men to explore their masculinity.
2. In "The Midnight Library", Nora discovers an extra-dimensional library, in which she can explore alternative versions of her life, before making the ultimate decision of which life to choose.
3. “Fingersmith” is a historical novel that follows the plan of a pickpocket and thief to con an heiress out of her inheritance.
4. “This Book Will Blow Your Mind” uses brain science to explain how the mind works, providing insight into understanding ourselves and our thought processes better.
5. "The Shape of a Life" is a fascinating exploration of the renowned mathematician's journey to uncover geometry's hidden order and its implications for understanding the universe.
6. “The Physics of God” covers topics such as matter, energy, cosmology, scientific laws and their impact on religious beliefs and faith systems in our world today.
7. In “Hyperspace”, physicist Michio Kaku proposes that there are higher dimensions that exist beyond our own reality as part of a dynamic universe capable of superseding physical laws.

​​50 best books ever written

1. Miguel de Cervantes' “Don Quixote” — novel.
2. Homer's “The Odyssey” — epic poem.
3. Emily Brontë's “Wuthering Heights” — novel.
4. J. D Salingers′s "The Catcher in the Rye" — novel.
5. Marcel Proust's “In Search of Lost Time” — novel.
6. Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" — novel.
7. Mark Twains "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — novel.
8. Leo Tolstoy's “War and Peace” — novel.
9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's “Crime and Punishment” — novel.
10. Jane Austens "Pride and Prejudice" — novel.
11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — fiction/magic realism.
12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's “The Brothers Karamazov” — novel.
13. William Shakespeare's “Hamlet” — play.
14. James Joyce's "Ulysses" — novel.
15. Lewis Carrolls Alice′s “Adventures in Wonderland" — fantasy.
16. Vladimir Nabokov's “Lolita” — novel.
17. Dante Alighieri's “The Divine Comedy” — epic poem.
18. Herman Melville's “Moby Dick” — novel.
19. F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” — novel.
20. Leo Tolstoys "Anna Karenina" — novel.
21. Virginia Woolf′s "To the Lighthouse" — novel.
22. Stendhal's “The Red and the Black” — novel.
23. Hanan Al-Shaykh's “One Thousand and One Nights” — frame story.
24. George Orwell's “Nineteen Eighty Four” — novel\dystopia.
25. Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird" — novel.
26. Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness" — novella.
27. George Eliot's “Middlemarch” — realist novel.
28. Homer’s “The Iliad” — epic poem.
29: Franz Kafka's “The Trial” — novella.
30 John Steinbeck's “The Grapes of Wrath” — novel.
31. William Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury" — novel.
32. William Faulkner's “Absalom, Absalom!” — novel.
33. Ralph Ellison's “Invisible Man” — novel.
34. Charles Dickens' “Great Expectations” — novel.
35. Joseph Heller’s "Catch-22" — novel.
36. Virgil’s “The Aeneid” — epic poem
37. Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass” — poem.
38. Charles Dickens' “David Copperfield” — novel.
39. Albert Camus' “The Stranger” — novel.
40. Charlotte Bronte's “Jane Eyre” — novel.
41. Ernest Hemingway's “The Sun Also Rises” — novel.
42. Jonathan Swift's “Gulliver's Travels” — novel.
43. Salman Rushdie's “Midnight's Children" — novel.
44. Toni Morrison's “Beloved” — novel.
45. Anton Chekhov’s “The Stories of Anton Chekhov” — short stories.
46. Laurence Sterne's “Tristram Shandy” — novel.
47. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” — novel.
48. Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" — novel.
49. James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" — novel.
50. Jorge Luis Borges’ “Ficciones” — fiction/speculative fiction.

​​5 books to master communication skills

1. "The Art of Public Speaking" provides guidance in terms of how to structure and deliver effective speeches.
2. "Skill With People" is a book aimed at helping readers understand human behavior and how to enhance relationships with others.
3. "Crucial Conversations" covers techniques for navigating difficult conversations in order to achieve desired outcomes.
4. "Just Listen" teaches the skills necessary for successful listening, understanding, and responding to conversations.
5. "Everyone Communicates, Few Connect" explains the importance of connecting on an emotional level with others in order to create meaningful relationships.

​​​​9 must read books you can read in a day

1. “The Art of War” is a ancient Chinese tome on strategy and military tactics by Sun Tzu.
2. “Eat That Frog” is a book by Brian Tracy which encourages readers to tackle their biggest, most important tasks first in order to maximize productivity.
3. “As a Man Thinketh” discusses how beliefs, thoughts, and actions shape a man's character and destiny.
4. “Who Moved My Cheese” is a parable about business people facing changes outside of their control with the goal of learning to adapt and accept them.
5. “Think Straight” provides advice on how to use critical thinking skills to make better decisions and think rationally instead of emotionally when problem-solving.
6. “And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer” is an autobiographical novel by Frank Overs containing stories from his childhood during World War II in Germany and Poland.
7. “Exactly What to Say” explores the psychological power of language for persuasion, influence and negotiation through 50 different conversation scenarios.
8. “How to Attract Money” focuses on debunking what society teaches us about money management and provides tried-and-tested methods for creating wealth using visualization, affirmations, and other techniques.
9. “Anything You Want” tells the inspiring story of Derek Sivers as he grew his music business into a profitable internet entrepreneur venture without ever taking outside investments or sacrificing his principles along the way.

​​​​5 books on decision making

1. “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)” examines how our brains are wired such that we often cannot accept blame for our mistakes.
2. “Predictably Irrational” explores how emotions, social norms and other psychological factors can influence our decision-making process and lead to irrational choices.
3. “Smart Choices” provides detailed guidance on how to make decisions in complex settings, helping readers build successful strategies for navigating them.
4. “Thinking in Bets” explains how to use probabilistic thinking and sound logic when making important decisions, even when the future is uncertain.
5. “The Paradox of Choice” investigates why too many options can cause confusion and paralysis, leading us to feel satisfied with less than the best decision possible.