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title: Books
tags: journal
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# **Books**

Below is a list of books and essays that have impacted me deeply:

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## **History**

- _History_ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

### Ancient Greece

- _The Life of Greece_ by Will Durant

### Ancient Rome

- _Caesar and Christ_ by Will Durant
- _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ by Edward Gibbon

### America

- _John Adams_ by David McCullough
- _Washington: A Life_ by Ron Chernow
- _Hamilton_ by Ron Chernow
- _Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power_ by Jon Meacham

### Russia

- _The Gulag Archipelago_ by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

### Medicine

- _Awakenings_ by Oliver Sacks

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## **Biography**

- _Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!_ by Richard Feynman

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## **Philosophy**

- _Self-Reliance_ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

### Politics

- _The Open Society and its Enemies_ by Karl Popper
- _Beauty_ by Roger Scruton

### Roman

- _Meditations_ by Marcus Aurelius
- _On the Shortness of Life_ by Seneca
- _On Friendship_ by Cicero

### Christian

- _A Confession_ by Lev Tolstoy
- _Fear and Trembling_ by Kierkegaard
- _Answer to Job_ by Carl Jung

### Cognition

- _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ by Douglas Hofstadter

### Morality

- _Beyond Good and Evil_ by Friedrich Nietzsche
- _Man’s Search for Meaning_ by Viktor Frankl
- _The Genealogy of Morals_ by Friedrich Nietzsche

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## **Novels**

- _The Brothers Karamazov_ by Dostoevsky
- _Crime and Punishment_ by Fyodor Dostoevsky

## **Technology**

- _The Sovereign Individual_ by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg

### Bitcoin

- _Mastering the Lightning Network_ by Andreas Antonopoulos
- _Programming Bitcoin_ by Jimmy Song
- _Mastering Bitcoin_ by Andreas Antonopoulos

### Privacy

- _Extreme Privacy_ by Michael Bazzell

## **Psychology**

- _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_ by Carl Jung