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Everything I've highlighted, annotated, and returned to — strategy, history, stoicism, and the occasional thriller.
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
Tamim Ansary
147 highlightsLiterature & History
★ Recommended
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
93 highlightsLiterature & History
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
76 highlightsLiterature & History
Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Ryan Holiday
61 highlightsLiterature & History
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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Ryan Holiday
Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Ryan Holiday
55 highlightsLiterature & History
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
Roger Crowley
55 highlightsLiterature & History
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Roger Crowley
52 highlightsLiterature & History
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
Seneca
46 highlightsLiterature & History
Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon
Barry Hatton
27 highlightsLiterature & History
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Donald L. Miller
23 highlightsLiterature & History
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
21 highlightsLiterature & History
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
20 highlightsLiterature & History
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson
20 highlightsLiterature & History
The Overstory: A Novel
Richard Powers
20 highlightsLiterature & History
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
20 highlightsLiterature & History
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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Viktor E. Frankl and Daniel Goleman
★ Recommended
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Viktor E. Frankl and Daniel Goleman
20 highlightsLiterature & History
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Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
Epictetus
Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
Epictetus
20 highlightsLiterature & History
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Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
Epictetus
Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
Epictetus
20 highlightsLiterature & History
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy #2)
Rick Atkinson
20 highlightsLiterature & History
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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
20 highlightsLiterature & History
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
20 highlightsLiterature & History
★ Recommended
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
Marcus Aurelius
20 highlightsLiterature & History
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon
20 highlightsLiterature & History
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
18 highlightsLiterature & History
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Budapest
Victor Sebestyen
15 highlightsLiterature & History
The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
Wright Thompson
15 highlightsLiterature & History
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)
Rick Atkinson
12 highlightsLiterature & History
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The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
Emma Marriott
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
Emma Marriott
11 highlightsLiterature & History
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Neil Strauss
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Alexandre Dumas and Robin Buss
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Alexandre Dumas and Robin Buss
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
Elaine Sciolino
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
Michael Lewis
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II
Matthew Black
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
John Julius Norwich
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life
Ryan Holiday
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Killing Rommel: A Novel
Steven Pressfield
10 highlightsLiterature & History
Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
Thomas F. Madden
10 highlightsLiterature & History
That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
Musonius Rufus, Cora E. Lutz, and Gretchen Reydams-Schils
10 highlightsLiterature & History
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
Mark Kurlansky
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco and William Weaver
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco and William Weaver
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino
The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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Tyll (German Edition)
Daniel Kehlmann
Tyll (German Edition)
Daniel Kehlmann
10 highlightsLiterature & History
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A Man at Arms: A Novel
Steven Pressfield
A Man at Arms: A Novel
Steven Pressfield
10 highlightsLiterature & History
★ Recommended
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
Paul Kix
10 highlightsLiterature & History
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt
10 highlightsLiterature & History
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Alex Kershaw
10 highlightsLiterature & History
The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
Steven Pressfield
10 highlightsLiterature & History
A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, and Sean Hemingway
10 highlightsLiterature & History
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
10 highlightsLiterature & History
The Land Beyond the Sea
Sharon Kay Penman
9 highlightsLiterature & History
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Roger Crowley
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Roger Crowley
8 highlightsLiterature & History
All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker
5 highlightsLiterature & History
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Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Penguin Classics)
Maurice Leblanc and Michael Sims
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Penguin Classics)
Maurice Leblanc and Michael Sims
3 highlightsLiterature & History
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky
2 highlightsLiterature & History
A Short History of the World
Christopher Lascelles
1 highlightsLiterature & History
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The Dostoyevsky Collection – Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler and The Brothers Karamazov (Illustrated)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, and Charles James Hogarth
The Dostoyevsky Collection – Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler and The Brothers Karamazov (Illustrated)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, and Charles James Hogarth
1 highlightsLiterature & History
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Dan Jones
1 highlightsLiterature & History