John Erik Metcalf

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Books I've loved

Pre-university

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (series) by Robert C. O'Brien
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

University and just after

Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Positive Addiction by William Glasser
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Ender's Game (series) by Orson Scott Card
The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

2010's

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything by Gordon Bell
Consider Phlebas (The Culture Series) by Ian M Banks
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
Becoming by Michelle Obama

2020's

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Traction by Gino Wickman
Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker

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