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In 2020 I got the chance to explore more into the non-fiction category of books. I went from personal improvement and explorative genre to more philosophical genre. I found the bolded book titles below to be very profound in how they resonate with my thinking, so much so that I read them twice at times. The book titles are listed in the order I read them. 

  1. 22 Immutable laws of marketing – Al Ries & Jack Trout
  2. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Did not finish)
  3. The 5 Second Rule – Mel Robbins
  4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** – Mark Manson
  5. You are a bad ass – Jen Sincero (Read twice)
  6. The power of your subconscious mind – Joseph Murphy
  7. The life changing magic of tidying up – Marie Kondo (Did not finish)
  8. The Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
  9. How to talk to anyone – Leil Lowndes
  10. The 5 love languages – Gary Chapman
  11. Make your bed – Admiral William H. McRaven
  12. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  13. Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
  14. The power of Now – Elkhart Tolle
  15. Don’t sweat the small stuff – Richard Charlson
  16. The factfulness – Hans Rosling
  17. A new earth – Elkhart Tolle
  18. Heal your body – Louise Hay
  19. The art of living – Thich Nhat Hanh (Read Twice)
  20. The man who sold his ferrari – Robin Sharma
  21. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  22. Peace is every step – Thich Nhat Hanh
  23. The art of happiness – Dalai Lama
  24. Tame the tiger – Thich Nhat Hanh
  25. The heart of Buddhas teachings – Thich Nhat Hanh
  26. Bury my heart at wounded knee – Dee brown (Did not finish)
  27. Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  28. Chakra healing – Margarita Alcantara (Did not finish)
  29. 21 lessons for 21st century – Yuval Noah Harari
  30. Why buddhism is true – Robert Wright
  31. AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
  32. Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
  33. Quite: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking – Susan Cain
  34. Home Deus: A brief history of tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari

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