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+# Mind Expanding Books
+
+[](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [](https://books.zulipchat.com)
+
+
+> Curated list of mind expanding books.
+
+
+## Table of Contents
+* [Startups and Business](#startups-and-business)
+* [Philosophy and Psychology](#philosophy-and-psychology)
+* [Autobiographies and Biographies](#autobiographies-and-biographies)
+* [History](#history)
+* [Evolution, Science and Medicine](#science-and-medicine)
+* [Logic and Problem Solving](#logic-and-problem-solving)
+* [Politics](#politics)
+* [Economics](#economics)
+* [Gender](#gender)
+* [Sexuality](#sexuality)
+* [Education](#education)
+* [Writing](#writing)
+* [Theater and Film](#theater-and-film)
+* [Fiction](#fiction)
+* [Health](#health)
+* [Design](#design)
+* [Travel](#travel)
+* [Language](#language)
+* [Nature](#nature)
+
+# Books
+
+## Startups and Business
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike | Phil Knight | [4.46](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog) | 2016 |
+| The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | [4.40](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect) | 2010 |
+| High Output Management | Andy Grove | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management) | 1995 |
+| Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success | Napoleon Hill | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10713286-outwitting-the-devil) | 2011 |
+| How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success | Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) | 2007 |
+| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Michael Lewis | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) | 2015 |
+| The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership | Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself) | 2009 |
+| The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things) | 2014 |
+| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich) | 1937 |
+| Outliers: Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) | 2008 |
+| The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable | Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing) | 2005 |
+| Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Simon Sinek | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why) | 2009 |
+| Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children | John Wood | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World) | 2006 |
+| Hackers and Painters | Paul Graham | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters) | 2004 |
+| Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't | Jim Collins | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great) | 2001 |
+| The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses | Eric Ries | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup) | 2011 |
+| The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal | Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement) | 2005 |
+| The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right | Atul Gawande | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) | 2009 |
+| Where Good Ideas Come From | Steven Johnson | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) | 2010 |
+| Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose | Tony Hsieh | [4.01](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) | 2010 |
+| The Innovator's Dilemma | clayton m. christensen | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) | 1997 |
+| Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change | Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer) | 2007 |
+| The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It | Michael E. Gerber | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited) | 1995 |
+| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) | 2001 |
+| Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way | Richard Branson | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity) | 1998 |
+| SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance | Steven D. Litt | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics) | 2009 |
+| The Ten Faces of Innovation | Tom Kelley | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) | 2005 |
+| Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't | Robert T. Kiyosaki | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad) | 1997 |
+| Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days | Jessica Livingston | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work) | 2007 |
+| The Paypal Wars | Eric M. Jackson | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) | 2010 |
+| Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | [3.94](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in) | 2013 |
+| ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever | David Heinemeier Hansson | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework) | 2010 |
+| The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding | Laura Ries and Al Ries | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding) | 1998 |
+| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics) | 2006 |
+| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) | 2002 |
+| The Four Steps to the Epiphany | Steve Blank | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany) | 2005 |
+| The Curse of the Mogul | Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) | 2009 |
+| David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath) | 2013 |
+| Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto | Adam Werbach | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) | 2009 |
+| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | [3.88](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) | 2007 |
+| Contagious: Why Things Catch On | Jonah Berger | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious) | 2013 |
+| Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change | Louis V Gerstner, Jr | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_) | 2003 |
+| Linchpin: Are You Indispensable | Seth Godin | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin) | 2010 |
+| The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future | Chris Guillebeau | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup) | 2012 |
+| Too Big to Fail | Andrew Ross Sorkin | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) | 2011 |
+| The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less | Barry Shwartz | [3.84](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice) | 2005 |
+| The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start) | 2004 |
+| Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business | Jeff Howe | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) | 2008 |
+| Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age | Clay Shirky | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) | 2010 |
+| Zero to One | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one) | 2014 |
+| One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com | Richard Brandt | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) | 2011 |
+| Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think | Kenneth Cukier | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data) | 2013 |
+| The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich | Timothy Ferriss | [3.61](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) | 2012 |
+| The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal | Ben Mezrich | [3.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6326920-the-accidental-billionaires) | 2009 |
+
+## Philosophy And Psychology
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion | Gregory Boyle | [4.41](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) | 2010 |
+| Education and the Significance of Life | Krishnamurti | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) | 2008 |
+| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | [4.33](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) | 2006 |
+| Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits) | 2018 |
+| The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size | Tor Norretranders | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) | 1999 |
+| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run) | 2009 |
+| Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28597.Prometheus_Rising) | 2010 |
+| The Concise 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) | 2011 |
+| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) | 1972 |
+| Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) | |
+| The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present | Eric Kandel | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight) | 2012 |
+| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations) | |
+| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) | 2006 |
+| Gifts of Imperfection | Brene Brown | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) | |
+| Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern | Douglas Hofstadter | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) | 1996 |
+| The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations | Matthew Stewart | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything) | 1997 |
+| Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah | Richard Bach | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29946.Illusions) | 1977 |
+| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | [4.14](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) | 1998 |
+| Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life | Shakti Gawain | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization) | 2002 |
+| Bulfinch's Mythology | Thomas Bulfinch | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology) | 1998 |
+| Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) | 2016 |
+| Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! | Anthony Robbins | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within) | |
+| The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now) | 1997 |
+| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) | 2008 |
+| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) | 1990 |
+| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) | 2011 |
+| Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy | William Barrett | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) | |
+| Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine | Derren Brown | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy) | 2016 |
+| The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World | David Deutsch | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) | |
+| Metaphors We Live By | George Lakoff, Mark Johnson | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) | 2003 |
+| Grit | Angela Duckworth | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit) | 2016 |
+| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) | 2008 |
+| The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Steven Pinker | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) | 2003 |
+| The History of Western Philosophy | Bertrand Russell | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) | 2008 |
+| Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them | Joshua Greene | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) | 2013 |
+| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) | 2012 |
+| The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind | Michio Kaku | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind) | 2014 |
+| Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized | James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) | 2007 |
+| Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile) | 2012 |
+| Mindset: The new psychology of success | Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D. | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset) | 2006 |
+| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business | Charles Duhigg | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit) | 2012 |
+| The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic | Dan Ariely | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) | |
+| Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence | David Perkins | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) | 1995 |
+| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War) | 2005 |
+| Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength | Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104933-willpower) | 2011 |
+| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future | Daniel H. Pink | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) | |
+| Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel | Rolf Potts | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) | |
+| Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities | Dean Radin | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) | 2013 |
+| Prisoner's Dilemma | William Poundstone | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) | 1993 |
+| The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature | Steven Pinker | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) | 2007 |
+| Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge | Edward O. Wilson | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience) | 1999 |
+| Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average | Joseph T. Hallinan | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) | 2009 |
+| You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation | Deborah Tannen | [3.86](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) | 2007 |
+| Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy | Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments) | 2011 |
+| What the Dog Saw: and other adventures | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures) | 2009 |
+| Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior | Geoffrey Miller | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) | |
+| Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis | Eric Berne. | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) | |
+| This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking | John Brockman | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter) | 2012 |
+| Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel C. Dennett | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking) | 2014 |
+| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull) | |
+| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story | Jim Holt | [3.77](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist) | 2012 |
+| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) | |
+| The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas | Michael S. Gazzaniga | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) | 2006 |
+| Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid | Robert J Sternberg | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid) | 2003 |
+| Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others | Sherry Turkle | [3.62](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) | 2011 |
+| How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic | Madsen Pirie | [3.55](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument) | 2006 |
+| Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher | Winifred Gallagher | [3.54](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) | |
+| The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression | Debra Fine | [3.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) | 2005 |
+| Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling | Sam Gosling | [3.33](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) | |
+
+## Autobiographies and Biographies
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | [4.39](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) | 2010 |
+| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | [4.31](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom) | 1995 |
+| My Life and My Work | Henry Ford | [4.29](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work) | |
+| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman | [4.29](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_) | 1997 |
+| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X, Alex Haley | [4.29](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X) | |
+| The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers | Alex banayan | [4.28](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739769-the-third-door) | 2018 |
+| Elon Musk: Inventing the Future | Ashlee Vance | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk) | 2015 |
+| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | [4.25](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture) | 2008 |
+| Freedom in Exile | Dalai Lama XIV | [4.24](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile) | 1991 |
+| Madame Curie: A Biography | Marie Curie | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie) | 2001 |
+| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | [4.20](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire) | 2011 |
+| The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan | Robert Kanigel | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106139.The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity) | 1991 |
+| An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth | Chris Hadfield | [4.14](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth) | 2013 |
+| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | [4.10](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl) | 1993 |
+| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10884.Einstein) | 2007 |
+| Steve Jobs | Walter Issacson | [4.09](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs) | 2011 |
+| My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth) | 1993 |
+| The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life) | 1990 |
+| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks?ac=1&from_search=true) | 2010 |
+| Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography | Richard Branson | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity) | 1999 |
+| Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker | Kevin Mitnick | [3.95](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires) | 2011 |
+| An Autobiography: Toward Freedom | Jawaharlal Nehru | [3.85](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography) | 1989 |
+| iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It | Steve Wozniak | [3.82](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz) | 2007 |
+
+## History
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | [4.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens) | 2014 |
+| How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone | Brian McCullough | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38212134-how-the-internet-happened) | 2018 |
+| The Discoverers | Daniel J. Boorstin | [4.34](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers) | 2012 |
+| Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus) | 2017 |
+| One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Michael Dobbs | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight) | 2008 |
+| The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet | David Kahn | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers) | 1996 |
+| From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present | Jacques Barzun | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence) | 2001 |
+| Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future | Ian Morris | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now) | 2010 |
+| The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide | Robert Jay Lifton | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors) | 1986 |
+| God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History | Stephen Hawking | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers) | |
+| Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II | Madhusree Mukerjee | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war) | 2010 |
+| El Tiempo Entre Costuras | María Dueñas | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7502166-el-tiempo-entre-costuras) | 2009 |
+| Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies | Jared M. Diamond | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel) | 2005 |
+| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | [3.98](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India) | |
+| The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) | Matt Ridley | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist) | 2010 |
+| Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground | Kevin Poulson | [3.96](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin) | 2011 |
+| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World | Steven Johnson | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) | |
+| The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | Lawrence James | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire) | 1997 |
+| The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires | Tim Wu | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch) | 2010 |
+| Spycraft | Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger | [3.81](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) | |
+| Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson | Niall Ferguson | [3.78](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization) | 2011 |
+| The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate | Robert D. Kaplan | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography) | 2012 |
+| The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman | [3.66](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat) | 2006 |
+
+## Science and Medicine
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky | [4.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave) | 2017 |
+| Asimov's New Guide to Science | Isaac Asimov | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science) | 1985 |
+| Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things | Christopher Williams | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16255011-origins-of-form) | 2013 |
+| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) | 1979 |
+| The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) | 1995 |
+| Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science | Dean Keith Simonton | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) | 1988 |
+| Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Kevin Kelly | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) | 1995 |
+| The Brain: The Story of You | David Eagleman | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25776132.the-brain) | 2015 |
+| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) | |
+| The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain | Terrence W. Deacon | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species) | 1998 |
+| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time) | 1998 |
+| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | [4.11](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) | |
+| Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind | Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) | 2009 |
+| The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World | Elkhonon Goldberg | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain) | |
+| The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene | Richard Dawkins | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) | 1999 |
+| Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe | Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) | 2003 |
+| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff) | 2004 |
+| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales | Oliver Sacks | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat_and_Other_Clinical_Tales) | 1998 |
+| Darwin's Dangerous Idea | Daniel C. Dennett | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) | |
+| The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | Kevin Kelly | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable) | 2016 |
+| The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us | Noson S. Yanofsky | [4.00](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason) | 2013 |
+| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition | Thomas S. Kuhn | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) | 1996 |
+| At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity | Stuart Kauffman | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe) | 1996 |
+| The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom | Yochai Benkler | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks) | 2006 |
+| Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence | Hans Moravec. | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) | 1990 |
+| How to Find a Habitable Planet | James Kasting | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) | 2010 |
+| The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution | Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion) | |
+| Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives | David Sloan Wilson | [3.90](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone) | 2007 |
+| Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life | J. Craig Venter | [3.87](www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674969-life-at-the-speed-of-light) | 2013 |
+| The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | Nicholas Carr | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) | 2011 |
+| Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Richard Wrangham | [3.83](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) | 2009 |
+| Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age | Bart Kosko | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip) | 2000 |
+| The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex | Murray Gell-Mann | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) | |
+| Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact | Steven Kotler | [3.80](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland) | 2015 |
+| Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity | Dean Keith | [3.74](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius) | 1999 |
+| Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense | Jonathan D. Moreno | [3.45](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars) | 2007 |
+
+## Logic and Problem Solving
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles | Raymond M. Smullyan | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) | 2011 |
+| A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra | Barbara Oakley | [4.22](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693655-a-mind-for-numbers) | 2014 |
+| How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method | George Polya | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) | 2015 |
+| Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge | William Poundstone | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) | 1989 |
+| Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected | Clifford A. Pickover | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1986400.Mazes_for_the_Mind) | 1992 |
+
+## Politics
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | [4.49](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow) | 2010 |
+| Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? | Michael J. Sandel | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) | |
+| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) | 2012 |
+| Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land) | 2016 |
+| Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime | John Heilemann, Mark Halperin | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) | 2010 |
+| Bolo'bolo | P.M. | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12395170-bolo-bolo) | 1984 |
+| The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies | Bryan Caplan | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) | 2007 |
+| The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security | Kevin D. Mitnick | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18160.The_Art_of_Deception) | 2003 |
+| Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict | Michael Klare | [3.73](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) | |
+| The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) | 2006 |
+
+## Economics
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Origin of Wealth | Eric D. Beinhocker | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) | 2006 |
+| Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy | Mark Broadie | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts) | 2014 |
+| Economic Facts and Fallacies | Thomas Sowell | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) | 2008 |
+| Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) | 2011 |
+| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | [4.01](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century) | 2014 |
+| 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism | Ha-Joon Chang | [3.97](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism) | |
+| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't | Nate Silver | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise) | |
+| Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis | James Rickards | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) | 2011 |
+| The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | Niall Ferguson | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money) | |
+| The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Paul Collier | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) | 2007 |
+| The Thank You Economy | Gary Vaynerchuk | [3.83](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) | 2011 |
+| Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart | Ian Ayres | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) | |
+| A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World | Gregory Clark | [3.67](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms) | 2007 |
+
+## Gender
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference | Cordelia Fine | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8031168-delusions-of-gender) | 2010 |
+
+## Sexuality
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern | Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) | 2010 |
+| The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities | Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt. | [3.90](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true) | 2004 |
+| The Sex Myth | Brooke Magnanti | [3.51](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) | 2015 |
+
+## Education
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas | Seymour A. Papert | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms) | 1993 |
+| How Children Fail | John Holt | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail) | 1995 |
+| Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning | Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267.make-it-stick) | 2014 |
+| Teaching as a Subversive Activity | Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) | 1971 |
+| Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood | A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill) | 1995 |
+| The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance | Josh Waitzkin | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning) | 2016 |
+| Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture | Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school) | 2009 |
+| Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist | John Brockman | [3.72](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) | 2005 |
+
+## Writing
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim | [4.77](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) | |
+| On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing) | 2002 |
+| Clear and Simple as the Truth | Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth) | 1996 |
+| The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century | Steven Pinker | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style) | 2014 |
+
+## Theater and Film
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh | Mike Alfreds | [4.69](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) | 2008 |
+| Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre | Keith Johnstone | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro) | |
+| The Actor and the Target | Declan Donnellan | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target) | 2006 |
+| In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing | Walter Murch | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye) | 1995 |
+| Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair | Frank Hauser, Russell Reich | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) | |
+| How to Stop Acting | Harold Guskin | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting) | 2003 |
+| A Practical Handbook for the Actor | Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor) | 1986 |
+
+## Shakespeare
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard | Barry Edelstein. | [4.62](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) | |
+| Hamlet and Revenge | Eleanor Prosser | [4.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) | 1971 |
+| Shakespeare's Metrical Art | George T. Wright | [4.39](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) | 1991 |
+| Hamlet in Purgatory | Stephen Greenblatt | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory) | 2002 |
+
+## Fiction
+
+### Classics
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) | 1996 |
+| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest) | 1995 |
+| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) | 2002 |
+| Pride And Prejudice | Jane Austen | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) | 2000 |
+| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany) | 1990 |
+| Letters From The Earth | Mark Twain | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth) | 2004 |
+| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) | 1963 |
+| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment) | 2002 |
+| 1984 | George Orwell | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984) | 1949 |
+| Steppenwolf: A Novel | Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf) | 1999 |
+| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game) | 2002 |
+| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) | 1998 |
+| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre) | 1847 |
+| Germinal | Emile Zola | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal) | 2004 |
+| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino and William Weaver | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler) | 1982 |
+| The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories | Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall) | 2010 |
+| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility) | 2003 |
+| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) | 1998 |
+| Watership Down: A Novel | Richard Adams | [4.05 ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down) | 1975 |
+| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) | 2003 |
+| The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoy | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) | |
+| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) | 2012 |
+| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) | 2006 |
+| J'accuse | Emile Zola | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse) | 1998 |
+| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22) | 2004 |
+| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth) | 2006 |
+| Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask) | 1998 |
+| De L'esprit Des Lois | Montesquieu | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition) | 1995 |
+| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Marquéz | [3.9](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera) | 1985 |
+| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | [3.85](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) | 2003 |
+| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | [3.84](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032) | 2003 |
+| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights) | 2002 |
+| Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot) | 1997 |
+| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) | 2002 |
+| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | [3.79](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) | 2001 |
+| Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | [3.79](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet) | 2003 |
+| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | Robert M. Pirsig | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance) | 1974 |
+| Candide | Voltaire | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide) | 1991 |
+| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9365.Atlas_Shrugged) | 1957 |
+| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | [3.65](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary) | 2004 |
+| Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | [3.61](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions) | 2003 |
+| Lettres persanes | Montesquieu | [3.54](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters) | |
+| The Director | David Ignatius | [3.43](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director) | 2015 |
+
+### Fantasy
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| The Kingkiller Chronicle | Patrick Rothfuss | [4.55](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle) | 2007 |
+| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | [4.47](https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings) | 1954 |
+| A Song of Ice and Fire | George R.R. Martin | [4.45](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire) | 2005 |
+| Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling | [4.44](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) | 1997 |
+| Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | [4.43](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40910-mistborn) | 2006 |
+| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality) | 2015 |
+| Discworld | Terry Pratchett | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld) | 2001 |
+| The Dark Tower | Stephen King | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower) | |
+| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials) | |
+| The Chronicles of Narnia | Clive Staples Lewis | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia) | 2002 |
+| The Last Wish - Saga | Andrzej Sapkowski | [4.2](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128434.The_Last_Wish) | 1993 |
+| The Wheel of Time | Robert Jordan | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time) | 1990 |
+| The City & The City | China Mieville | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) | 2009 |
+| The Broken Empire | Mark Lawrence | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire) | 2011 |
+
+### Historical Fiction
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | [4.47](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) | 1999 |
+| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | [4.45](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help) | |
+| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief) | |
+| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) | 2014 |
+| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | [4.29](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true) | 2002 |
+| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | [4.27](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel) | 2004 |
+| Emma | Jane Austen | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) | 2003 |
+| Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy | Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World) | 1996 |
+
+### Humor
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell | Tucker Max | [3.51](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) | 2006 |
+
+### Mystery
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes) | 1998 |
+| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | [4.20](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd) | 2006 |
+| The Eight | Katherine Neville | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight) | |
+| Memory Man | David Baldacci | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man) | 2015 |
+| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train) | 2015 |
+| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | [3.79](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code) | 2006 |
+
+### Science Fiction
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| The Martian | Andy Weir | [4.40](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian) | 2012 |
+| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | [4.38](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) | 1979 |
+| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one) | 2011 |
+| Ender's Game - Saga | Orson Scott Card | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on) | 1994 |
+| The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) | 1997 |
+| The Fifth Sacred Thing | Starhawk | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) | 1994 |
+| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion) | 1989 |
+| Cosmicomics | Italo Calvino | [4.2](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59780.Cosmicomics) | 1965 |
+| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | [4.19](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) | 2000 |
+| Dune Chronicles | Frank Herbert | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune) | 2006 |
+| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) | 2004 |
+| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) | 2000 |
+| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) | 2006 |
+| Little Brother | Cory Doctorow | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother) | 2008 |
+
+### Horror
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | [4.13](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) | 2000 |
+| Dracula | Bram Stoker | [3.98](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula) | 1986 |
+| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle | [3.75](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein) | 2003 |
+
+### Miscellaneous
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| The Queen's Gambit | Walter Tevis | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) | |
+| The Bone People | Keri Hulme | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People) | 1986 |
+| Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye) | 1998 |
+| Xeelee Sequence | Stephen Baxter | [3.69](http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence) | 1992 |
+| Ghost Fleet | P.W. Singer and August Cole | [3.62](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749719-ghost-fleet?from_search=true) | 2015 |
+| Future Crimes | Marc Goodman | [3.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true) | 1990 |
+
+## Health
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease | Michael Greger, M.D. | [4.54](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961-how-not-to-die) | 2015 |
+| Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (2nd edition) | Steven Low | [4.3](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33293328-overcoming-gravity) | 2016 |
+| Convict Conditioning | Paul Wade | [4.13](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning) | 2012 |
+| Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness | Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run) | 2012 |
+| 8 Weeks to Optimum Health | Andrew Weil | [3.86](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) | |
+
+## Design
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction | Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) | 1977 |
+| How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built | Stewart Brand | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38310.How_Buildings_Learn) | 1995 |
+| Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | Steve Krug | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited) | 2014 |
+| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald Norman | [4.18](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things) | 2002 |
+| The Art of Looking Sideways | Alan Fletcher | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15778.The_Art_of_Looking_Sideways) | 2001 |
+
+## Travel
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders | Joshua Foer | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28110891-atlas-obscura) | 2016 |
+
+## Language
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language | Douglas R. Hofstadter | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248193.Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot) | 1997 |
+
+## Nature
+| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
+|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
+| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek) | 1974 |
+
+## Credits
+
+
+## License
+[](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
+
+To the extent possible under law, [Vishnu Ks](https://github.com/hackerkid) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
diff --git a/app/src/components/categorydescription.js b/app/src/components/categorydescription.js
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/components/categorydescription.js
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+import React from "react";
+
+
+export default ({categoryName}) => {
+ return (
+
+
+ Mind expanding books on {categoryName}
+
+
+ )
+}
diff --git a/utils/books.json b/utils/books.json
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/books.json
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+[
+ {
+ "author": "Phil Knight",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.46",
+ "title": "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog",
+ "year": "2016"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Darren Hardy",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.40",
+ "title": "The Compound Effect",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect",
+ "year": "2010"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Andy Grove",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.38",
+ "title": "High Output Management",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management",
+ "year": "1995"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Napoleon Hill",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.38",
+ "title": "Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10713286-outwitting-the-devil",
+ "year": "2011"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.26",
+ "title": "How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles",
+ "year": "2007"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Michael Lewis",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.26",
+ "title": "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short",
+ "year": "2015"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.21",
+ "title": "The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself",
+ "year": "2009"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Ben Horowitz",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.20",
+ "title": "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things",
+ "year": "2014"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Napoleon Hill",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.17",
+ "title": "Think and Grow Rich",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich",
+ "year": "1937"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Malcolm Gladwell",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.11",
+ "title": "Outliers: Story of Success",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success",
+ "year": "2008"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.09",
+ "title": "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing",
+ "year": "2005"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Simon Sinek",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.07",
+ "title": "Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why",
+ "year": "2009"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "John Wood",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.07",
+ "title": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World",
+ "year": "2006"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Paul Graham",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.06",
+ "title": "Hackers and Painters",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters",
+ "year": "2004"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Jim Collins",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.05",
+ "title": "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great",
+ "year": "2001"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Eric Ries",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.04",
+ "title": "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup",
+ "year": "2011"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.03",
+ "title": "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal",
+ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement",
+ "year": "2005"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Atul Gawande",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.03",
+ "title": "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right",
+ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto",
+ "year": "2009"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Steven Johnson",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.03",
+ "title": "Where Good Ideas Come From",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from",
+ "year": "2010"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Tony Hsieh",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.01",
+ "title": "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose",
+ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness",
+ "year": "2010"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "clayton m. christensen",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "4.00",
+ "title": "The Innovator's Dilemma",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma",
+ "year": "1997"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.98",
+ "title": "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer",
+ "year": "2007"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Michael E. Gerber",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.98",
+ "title": "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited",
+ "year": "1995"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "David Allen",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.98",
+ "title": "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done",
+ "year": "2001"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Richard Branson",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.97",
+ "title": "Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity",
+ "year": "1998"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Steven D. Litt",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.96",
+ "title": "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics",
+ "year": "2009"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Tom Kelley",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.96",
+ "title": "The Ten Faces of Innovation",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation",
+ "year": "2005"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Robert T. Kiyosaki",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.95",
+ "title": "Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad",
+ "year": "1997"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Jessica Livingston",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.94",
+ "title": "Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work",
+ "year": "2007"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Eric M. Jackson",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.94",
+ "title": "The Paypal Wars",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars",
+ "year": "2010"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Sheryl Sandberg",
+ "category": "Startups and Business",
+ "rating": "3.94",
+ "title": "Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead",
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+ "author": "Steve Krug",
+ "category": "Design",
+ "rating": "4.24",
+ "title": "Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited",
+ "year": "2014"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Donald Norman",
+ "category": "Design",
+ "rating": "4.18",
+ "title": "The Design of Everyday Things",
+ "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things",
+ "year": "2002"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Alan Fletcher",
+ "category": "Design",
+ "rating": "4.10",
+ "title": "The Art of Looking Sideways",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15778.The_Art_of_Looking_Sideways",
+ "year": "2001"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Joshua Foer",
+ "category": "Travel",
+ "rating": "4.24",
+ "title": "Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28110891-atlas-obscura",
+ "year": "2016"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Douglas R. Hofstadter",
+ "category": "Language",
+ "rating": "4.22",
+ "title": "Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248193.Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot",
+ "year": "1997"
+ },
+ {
+ "author": "Annie Dillard",
+ "category": "Nature",
+ "rating": "4.11",
+ "title": "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek",
+ "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek",
+ "year": "1974"
+ }
+]
diff --git a/utils/config-sample.py b/utils/config-sample.py
index fb6d300..cc6b7c0 100644
--- a/utils/config-sample.py
+++ b/utils/config-sample.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
# save this file as 'config.py' and then, fill it with you api key
-GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY = 'write here your goodreads public API key'
\ No newline at end of file
+GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY = "write here your goodreads public API key"
diff --git a/utils/gooodreads.py b/utils/gooodreads.py
index 53d3cca..cb1646a 100644
--- a/utils/gooodreads.py
+++ b/utils/gooodreads.py
@@ -8,46 +8,53 @@ from config import GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY
def get_details(book_object):
- url = "http://www.goodreads.com/book/title.xml?key={}&title={}".format(GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY,
- urllib.parse.quote_plus(book_object['title']))
+ url = "http://www.goodreads.com/book/title.xml?key={}&title={}".format(
+ GOODREADS_PUBLIC_API_KEY, urllib.parse.quote_plus(book_object["title"])
+ )
try:
tree = ET.ElementTree(file=urllib.request.urlopen(url))
root = tree.getroot()
- book = root.find('book')
- book_object['year'] = book.find('publication_year').text or ''
- book_object['lang'] = book.find('language_code').text
- book_object['rating'] = book.find('average_rating').text
- book_object['pages'] = book.find('num_pages').text
- book_object['image_url'] = book.find('image_url').text
+ book = root.find("book")
+ book_object["year"] = book.find("publication_year").text or ""
+ book_object["lang"] = book.find("language_code").text
+ book_object["rating"] = book.find("average_rating").text
+ book_object["pages"] = book.find("num_pages").text
+ book_object["image_url"] = book.find("image_url").text
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
- print('Error getting book details from GoodReads for book: {}. \nGot error: '.format(book_object['title']))
- print(str(e.getcode()) + ' ' + e.msg)
+ print(
+ "Error getting book details from GoodReads for book: {}. \nGot error: ".format(
+ book_object["title"]
+ )
+ )
+ print(str(e.getcode()) + " " + e.msg)
def get_goodread_info(library, force):
import sys
- print('')
- print('Getting GoodReads data...')
+
+ print("")
+ print("Getting GoodReads data...")
processed = 0
total_book_count = 0
for key in library:
total_book_count += len(library[key])
-
for category in library:
book_list = library[category]
for book in book_list:
# do not call the api again if we already have the infomation
- if not force and 'rating' in book and book['rating']:
+ if not force and "rating" in book and book["rating"]:
processed += 1
continue
get_details(book)
processed += 1
- print('{}/{} records processed.'.format(processed, total_book_count), end="\b")
- sys.stdout.write('\r')
+ print(
+ "{}/{} records processed.".format(processed, total_book_count), end="\b"
+ )
+ sys.stdout.write("\r")
sys.stdout.flush() # <- makes python print it anyway
# need to wait a second between the requests, to not abuse the API
diff --git a/utils/housekeep.py b/utils/housekeep.py
index 5cc5fb6..fb8803c 100644
--- a/utils/housekeep.py
+++ b/utils/housekeep.py
@@ -7,65 +7,62 @@ import simplejson
# ARGUMENT HANDLING
try:
import argparse
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Process file.')
+
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Process file.")
+ parser.add_argument("--in_file", help="File to process, defaults to ./../README.MD")
parser.add_argument(
- '--in_file',
- help='File to process, defaults to ./../README.MD')
- parser.add_argument(
- '--out_file',
- help='File to save to, defaults to ./../README-NEW.MD')
- parser.add_argument(
- '--input_file_type',
- choices=['old', 'new'],
- help='old if links are displayed in a list, new if in a table')
- parser.add_argument(
- '--sort_by',
- choices = ['rating', 'title', 'author', 'year'],
- help='defaults to rating')
- parser.add_argument(
- '--force',
- dest='force',
- action='store_true',
- default=False
+ "--out_file", help="File to save to, defaults to ./../README-NEW.MD"
)
parser.add_argument(
- '--store-json',
- dest='store_json',
- action='store_true',
- default=False
+ "--input_file_type",
+ choices=["old", "new"],
+ help="old if links are displayed in a list, new if in a table",
+ )
+ parser.add_argument(
+ "--sort_by",
+ choices=["rating", "title", "author", "year"],
+ help="defaults to rating",
+ )
+ parser.add_argument("--force", dest="force", action="store_true", default=False)
+ parser.add_argument(
+ "--store-json", dest="store_json", action="store_true", default=False
)
flags = parser.parse_args()
except ImportError:
flags = None
-def sort(library, key_to_sort_on, reverse = False):
+def sort(library, key_to_sort_on, reverse=False):
new_library = {}
for key in library:
books = library[key]
- new_library[key] = sorted(books, key=lambda k: k[key_to_sort_on], reverse=reverse)
+ new_library[key] = sorted(
+ books, key=lambda k: k[key_to_sort_on], reverse=reverse
+ )
return new_library
+
def format_library(library):
formated_library = []
for category in library:
for book in library[category]:
- book["category"] = category[len("## "):]
+ book["category"] = category[len("## ") :]
formated_library.append(book)
return formated_library
+
def main():
from read_file import load
from gooodreads import get_goodread_info
from write_file import render
- in_file = flags.in_file or './../README.md'
- out_file = flags.out_file or './../README-new.md'
- input_file_type = flags.input_file_type or 'new'
- sort_by = flags.sort_by or 'rating'
+ in_file = flags.in_file or "./../README.md"
+ out_file = flags.out_file or "./../README-new.md"
+ input_file_type = flags.input_file_type or "new"
+ sort_by = flags.sort_by or "rating"
force = flags.force
store_json = flags.store_json
- reverse = True if sort_by == 'rating' else False
+ reverse = True if sort_by == "rating" else False
library = load(in_file, input_file_type)
get_goodread_info(library, force)
@@ -74,5 +71,7 @@ def main():
if store_json:
with open("out.json", "w") as f:
f.write(simplejson.dumps(format_library(library), indent=4, sort_keys=True))
-if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
diff --git a/utils/pyvenv.cfg b/utils/pyvenv.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7c42a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/pyvenv.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+home = /usr
+implementation = CPython
+version_info = 3.8.2.final.0
+virtualenv = 20.0.20
+include-system-site-packages = false
+base-prefix = /usr
+base-exec-prefix = /usr
+base-executable = /usr/bin/python3
diff --git a/utils/read_file.py b/utils/read_file.py
index 42744d6..707eba3 100644
--- a/utils/read_file.py
+++ b/utils/read_file.py
@@ -8,24 +8,24 @@ def read_file_content(file):
# old (list)
def parse_book_string(book_string):
book = {}
- book['title'] = book_string.split('[')[1].split(']')[0]
- book['url'] = book_string.split(']')[1].split('(')[1].split(')')[0]
- book['author'] = book_string.split(' by ')[-1]
- book['rating'] = ''
- book['year'] = ''
+ book["title"] = book_string.split("[")[1].split("]")[0]
+ book["url"] = book_string.split("]")[1].split("(")[1].split(")")[0]
+ book["author"] = book_string.split(" by ")[-1]
+ book["rating"] = ""
+ book["year"] = ""
return book
# new (table)
def parse_book_string_new(book_string):
book = {}
- book_split = book_string.split('|')
+ book_split = book_string.split("|")
# print(book_split)
- book['title'] = book_split[1].strip()
- book['author'] = book_split[2].strip()
- book['url'] = book_split[3].strip().split('[')[1].split('(')[1].split(')')[0]
- book['rating'] = book_split[3].strip().split('[')[1].split(']')[0]
- book['year'] = book_split[4].strip()
+ book["title"] = book_split[1].strip()
+ book["author"] = book_split[2].strip()
+ book["url"] = book_split[3].strip().split("[")[1].split("(")[1].split(")")[0]
+ book["rating"] = book_split[3].strip().split("[")[1].split("]")[0]
+ book["year"] = book_split[4].strip()
return book
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ def load(file, file_type):
file = read_file_content(file)
# we start one line after tilte # Books
- line_to_start = file.index('# Books') + 1
- current_title = ''
+ line_to_start = file.index("# Books") + 1
+ current_title = ""
books_under_current_title = []
library = {}
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def load(file, file_type):
line = file[i]
# we have a title
- if line.startswith('##'):
+ if line.startswith("##"):
if len(current_title) == 0:
current_title = line
else:
@@ -52,12 +52,16 @@ def load(file, file_type):
continue
# we have a book
- if file_type == 'old':
- if line.startswith('*'):
+ if file_type == "old":
+ if line.startswith("*"):
book = parse_book_string(line)
books_under_current_title.append(book)
else:
- if line.startswith('|') and not line.startswith('| Name') and not line.startswith('|---'):
+ if (
+ line.startswith("|")
+ and not line.startswith("| Name")
+ and not line.startswith("|---")
+ ):
book = parse_book_string_new(line)
books_under_current_title.append(book)
diff --git a/utils/requirements.txt b/utils/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..279687b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+appdirs==1.4.4
+attrs==20.1.0
+black==19.10b0
+click==7.1.2
+pathspec==0.8.0
+regex==2020.7.14
+toml==0.10.1
+typed-ast==1.4.1
diff --git a/utils/update_json_files.py b/utils/update_json_files.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90a3781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/update_json_files.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import json
+
+from read_file import load
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ library = load("../README.md", "new")
diff --git a/utils/write_file.py b/utils/write_file.py
index af19e58..972c68e 100644
--- a/utils/write_file.py
+++ b/utils/write_file.py
@@ -4,14 +4,12 @@ import os
def render_book_line(book_object):
book = book_object
- book['rating'] = '?' if not 'rating' in book else book['rating']
- book['url'] = '' if not 'url' in book else book['url']
- book['year'] = '' if not 'year' in book else book['year']
- return '| {} | {} | [{}]({}) | {} | \n'.format(book['title'],
- book['author'],
- book['rating'],
- book['url'],
- book['year'])
+ book["rating"] = "?" if not "rating" in book else book["rating"]
+ book["url"] = "" if not "url" in book else book["url"]
+ book["year"] = "" if not "year" in book else book["year"]
+ return "| {} | {} | [{}]({}) | {} | \n".format(
+ book["title"], book["author"], book["rating"], book["url"], book["year"]
+ )
# TODO: refine this logic
@@ -21,32 +19,37 @@ def render(in_file, out_file, library):
savig the new file to tmp_file location, the copying it to out-file and deleting tmp_file
this is done to prevent issues if the in and the out file are the same
"""
- tmp_file = './.tmp-file.md'
- open(tmp_file, 'a').close()
+ tmp_file = "./.tmp-file.md"
+ open(tmp_file, "a").close()
books_not_reached = True
- with open(tmp_file, 'w') as out_file_tmp:
+ with open(tmp_file, "w") as out_file_tmp:
with open(in_file) as original_file:
for line in original_file:
if line.strip() in library:
- if not books_not_reached: out_file_tmp.write('\n')
+ if not books_not_reached:
+ out_file_tmp.write("\n")
books_not_reached = False
# render chapter and start of the table
out_file_tmp.write(line)
if len(library[line.strip()]) > 0:
- out_file_tmp.write('| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | \n')
- out_file_tmp.write('|------|--------|------------------|----------------| \n')
+ out_file_tmp.write(
+ "| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published | \n"
+ )
+ out_file_tmp.write(
+ "|------|--------|------------------|----------------| \n"
+ )
# render books
for book in library[line.strip()]:
out_file_tmp.write(render_book_line(book))
elif books_not_reached:
out_file_tmp.write(line)
- elif line.startswith('## License'):
- out_file_tmp.write('\n')
- out_file_tmp.write('\n')
+ elif line.startswith("## License"):
+ out_file_tmp.write("\n")
+ out_file_tmp.write("\n")
out_file_tmp.write(line)
books_not_reached = True
copyfile(tmp_file, out_file)
- os.remove(tmp_file)
\ No newline at end of file
+ os.remove(tmp_file)