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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