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Currently Reading: The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa
Current Audiobook: Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
I take pleasure from the fact that I can enjoy books whenever it pleases me to do so. Books are, I find the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.
— Michel de Montaigne
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Favorite Books on Writing, Creativity, and Inspiration:

Mastery, by Robert Greene
To Have or To Be, by Erich Fromm
The Wealthy Gardener, by John Soforic
Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter And How to Make the Most of Them Now, by Meg Jay
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, by Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
The Practice, by Seth Godin
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual, by Ward Farnsworth
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave, by Ryan Holiday
Ego Is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein
Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, by Austin Kleon
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
The Artist’s Journey, by Steven Pressfield
If You Want to Write, by Brenda Ueland
The Buddha and the Badass, by Vishen Lakhiani
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, by Phillip Lopate
Think Like a Monk, by Jay Shetty
Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury
Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy, by Sadhguru
Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

Favorite Nonfiction on Travel and Place:

To Shake the Sleeping Self, by Jedidiah Jenkins
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
Iberia, by James A. Michener
The World Is My Home, by James A. Michener
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
The Lady and the Monk, by Pico Iyer
The Pilgrimage, by Paulo Coelho
Shark Drunk, by Morten Stroksnes
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, by Anthony Bourdain

All-time Favorite Nonfiction Books: 

Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
The Heart of Emerson’s Journals, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Immortality Key, by Brian C. Muraresku
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey
Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow
The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf 
The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Maps of Meaning, by Jordan B. Peterson
12 Rules for Life, by Jordan B. Peterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, by Jordan B. Peterson
The My Struggle Series, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Autumn, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins
Sapiens, Homo Deus, & 21 Lessons for the 21st-Century, by Yuval Noah Harari
Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson
The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Stefan Zweig
Montaigne, by Stefan Zweig
The Surrender Experiment, by Michael A. Singer
The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
The Greatest Empire, by Emily Wilson

All-time Favorite Fiction Books: 

Dune, by Frank Herbert
The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
Siddhartha: a Novel, by Hermann Hesse
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
The Source, by James Michener
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
Inferno, by Dan Brown
The Odyssey, by Homer
The Aeneid, by Virgil
A Time for Everything, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Morning Star, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa
Tai-Pan, by James Clavell
Shogun, by James Clavell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel, by Amor Towles
Spring Snow, by Yukio Mishima
The Magus, by John Fowles
Shibumi, by Trevanian
The Pillars of the Earth Series, by Ken Follett
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, & Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley