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The following is a list of some of the books I’ve read cover to cover that I would recommend.

The list:

• The Call of The Wild
• "And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him."
• Steve Jobs
• The Lonely Victory: Mt. Everest '78
• "After our return, Reinhold and I were hailed as victors over Everest, but this is false. Everest was neither conquered nor overcome by us--it simply tolerated us. And if we can talk about a victory at all, then it is at the most a victory over our own bodies, over fear. It was a very personal, lonely victory in a struggle that each of us fought alone, and the victory was not achieved in the last feet that still lay before us. It had already been achieved at the moment when we took the first step out into the unknown. And it was secured and documented when we returned alive from the kingdom of the dead."
• Elon Musk
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Do No Harm
• The Emperor of All Maladies
• Burmese Days
• "Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. If he had one person, just one, to halve his loneliness!"
• "He was too young to realize what this life was preparing for him. He did not see the years stretching out ahead, lonely, eventless, corrupting."
• Homage to Catalonia
• "One of them told me with an air of authority that the bullet had missed the artery by 'about a millimetre'. I don't know how he knew. No one I met at this time—doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients—failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."
• The Willpower Instinct
• Karpov on Karpov: Memoirs of a Chess World Champion
• "It was time to go. I told him: 'Hang in there, Papa; I'll return soon, and then you'll see - you'll get better with the warm weather.' He nodded, opening his eyes with difficulty, all the time holding my hand. Then he said, 'Don't worry, I promise I'll hang on...' Only then did his fingers relax their grip on me."
• Managing Humans
• Proof
• Liar's Poker
• "'Buy potatoes', he said. 'Gotta hop.' Then he hung up."
• The Big Short
• Flash Boys
• Waiting for Eden
• Places and Names
• Make Your Bed
• Men in Green Faces
• The Defining Decade
• Zero to One
• "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself."
• "To believe yourself invested with divine self-sufficiency is not the mark of a strong individual, but of a person who has mistaken the crowd’s worship—or jeering—for the truth."