Sahil's List of Books
Processed plants that I would highly recommend you lay eyes on
DISCLAIMER
These books have helped me learn about some big chunk of life in some sense or the other. They are listed in rough order of importance/foundationality.
- Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter
- Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
- The Bobiverse series - Dennis E. Taylor
- Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
- Garbology - Edward Humes
- Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
- The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
- Everybody Lies - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- The Things We Do - Gary Cziko
- The Art of Being - Erich Fromm
- The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
- The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
- Maps of Meaning - Jordan B. Peterson
- Language in Thought and Action - S. I. Hayakawa
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
- A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
- Principles - Ray Dalio
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
- Originals - Adam Grant
- How People Change - Allen Wheelis
- Mindf*ck - Christopher Wylie
- Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
- The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
- Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson
- Chaos - James Gleick
- The Strange Order of Things - Antonio Damasio
- The Reality Bubble - Ziya Tong
- The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
- Who Am I and If So How Many? - Richard David Precht
- Demian - Hermann Hesse