
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish is the founder and CEO of Farnam Street, a website sharing timeless ideas for life and business. Prior to starting Farnam Street, Shane was a cybersecurity expert at Canada's top intelligence agency.
82 Book Recommendations

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Applied Minds
Guruprasad Madhavan

Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz

Bet With the Best
Andrew Beyer

Brave Enough
Cheryl Strayed

Buffett
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Charlie Munger
Tren Griffin

City of the Century
Donald Miller

Dataclysm
Christian Rudder

David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace

Diaminds
Mihnea Moldoveanu

Different
Youngme Moon

Dying Every Day
James Romm

Filters Against Folly
Garrett Hardin

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Get Smarter
Seymour Schulich

Goethe's Poems and Aphorisms
Goethe

Happiness
Frederic Lenoir

How to Get Lucky
Max Gunther

How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler

Immortality
Stephen Cave

In Praise of Slowness
Carl Honore

Information
Luciano Floridi

Letters to a Young Scientist
Edward Wilson

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius

Living Within Limits
Garrett Hardin

Maestro
Roger Nierenberg

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl

Managing Oneself
Peter Drucker

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Mess
Barry Yourgrau

Mindfulness in Plain English
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Mindware
Richard Nisbett

Montaigne's Essays
Michel de Montaigne

Obvious Adams
Robert Updegraff

Pebbles of Perception
Laurence Enderson

Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger

Posterity
Dorie Lawson

Powers of Two
Joshua Wolf Shenk

Primed to Perform
Neel Doshi

Rework
Jason Fried

Sam Walton
Sam Walton

Same As Ever
Morgan Housel

Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin

Shortcut
John Pollack

Simple Rules
Donald Sull

Sit Like a Buddha
Lodro Rinzler

Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon

Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock

The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
Dan Ariely

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
Michael Sims

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson

The Art of Stillness
Pico Iyer

The Art of Scientific Investigation
W. I. B. Beveridge

The Back of the Napkin
Dan Roam

The Creative Society
Lars Tvede

The Devil's Financial Dictionary
Jason Zweig

The Emotionally Intelligent Investor
Ravee Mehta

The Essential Wooden
John Wooden

The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish

The Laws of Thermodynamics
Peter Atkins

The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant

The Letters of William Godwin
William Godwin

The Power Broker
Robert Caro

The Power of Full Engagement
Jim Loehr

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
David Quammen

The Soul of the World
Roger Scruton

The Stopwatch Gang
Greg Weston

The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership
M. Soupios

The Three Marriages
David Whyte

The Unquiet Grave
Cyril Connolly

The Utopia of Rules
David Graeber

Think Twice
Michael Mauboussin

Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton

Trump
Donald J. Trump

Walden
Henry David Thoreau

Walter Benjamin
Howard Eiland

When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
Louis Gerstner
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