Classic & Timeless Books
The books that have stood the test of time and shaped generations
Jia Jiang
How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible. Harmony, 2015.
Dale Carnegie
Simon & Schuster, 1981 (revised by Dorothy Carnegie, originally published in 1936).
Andrew W. Lo
Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. Princeton, 2019.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Dan Harris
A 10% Happier How-to Book. Harmony, 2017.
Will Storr
Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Lisa Mosconi
A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Adam Rutherford
The eye-opening and sometimes controversial tale of humanity that interweaves a geneticist’s hard data with stories from history, asking questions we’re still learning the answers to while transforming the way we think about evolution.
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