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Book Club 19h
Book recommendations to read in your early 20s
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Anonymous 17h

I recommend Anxious People for all ages. It’s so profoundly human and will make you both laugh and cry pages apart. Very hopeful and aching.

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Anonymous 16h

Get the classics done Iliad, Odyssey, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Quran, Baghavad Gita, Bible, Augustin’s Confessions, Plato’s Rhetoric, The Tao, Art of War, etc. it will give you a broad and solid base more than any “buy my book and fix your problems” self help ever will. It will set you up

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Anonymous 18h

The alchemist by Paulo ceohlo

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Anonymous 7h

Highly recommend the 5 people you meet in heaven

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Anonymous 4h

The Chaos Machine !!!!!!!!! 1000%.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16h

Was gonna comment that book, I agree

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 15h

Def read Odyssey. Iliad not quite as good essential, but read an overview. Shakespeare I’d go for Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It, 12th night, Romeo and Juliet, much ado about nothing, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Antony & Cleopatra. Do your best to see them onstage or in film form — the comedies esp shine onstage, while the tragedies are excellent as films. There are great versions of all of these. Antigone by Sophocles. Dostoyevsky read the Brothers + C&P but you can save or take them slow.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15h

Religious texts you can skim — learn overviews, pillars, the history of when & how they were written, importance to history. Only need to analyze a few passages if you have limited time.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15h

Plato is also quite dense and if you are time limited, focus on his best works only. Odyssey before Plato

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 15h

Art of War is great. Haven’t read Augustin’s or Tao yet, but I would add What the Buddha Thought as a solid primer.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15h

Try also: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), How To Talk to Anyone (Leil Lowndes).

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15h

I was onboard until those, you can get those main points in any overview video (hint: its ask questions and active listen, thats 90% of any of these)

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15h

Pop culture everyone has read: Harry Potter or the films. Hunger Games is awesome. In the HG prequel series — the first book is bad but the second one is great. Ready Player One is fun.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 15h

Current modern book of the month is The Wedding People for women. It’s decent so far. To round a few more classics: Easier: call of the wild, gatsby, The Outsiders, picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein Harder: Beowulf, Vinland saga, Gilgamesh, Moby Dick, Virginia woolf And more: Beloved, Dracula, Things Fall Apart, Grapes of Wrath. I would skip 100 Years of Solitude

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14h

Sure. Carnegie and Lownes are — to my mind — the best of the books in that genre, so I don’t mind recommending them. And they’re both got a good sense of humor.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4h

Like social media algorithms run our lives so you neeeeed to understand all the shit behind them and their societal consequences

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