Best Books to Read
Whether you’re a fiction lover, a business-minded reader, or someone looking to improve personally, here’s a categorized list of the best books to read across different genres.
📖 Fiction
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
📘 Non-Fiction
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
🧠 Self-Help & Personal Growth
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
💼 Business & Entrepreneurship
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
🔬 Science & Technology
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
💭 Philosophy & Psychology
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Republic by Plato
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
📚 History & Politics
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
🐉 Fantasy & Sci-Fi
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
🕵️ Mystery & Thriller
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
🧑🎓 Biographies & Memoirs
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Open by Andre Agassi
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