The Best Books: Recommended Reading List

The page is a reading list sharing the best books to read in various categories based on many hours of reading and research. You’ll find more than 100 good books to read, organized by category.

This is a reading list for people who don’t have time for unimportant books — which should be everyone. I only list the best books I've read, excluding the rest, in each category. You can be sure that each will be worth your time.

Start Here: The Best Books of All-Time

Looking for the best books, speeches, talks, and letters of all-time? I've spent the last decade collecting the best writing from history so that you can browse it here.

The Best Books by Category

These are the best books to read, listed by category.

Book Summaries

For the best books that I read, I go through the painstaking effort to put together and publish my personal notes including highlights, excerpts, and takeaways. You can read all of these notes on my book summaries page.

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