Reading Lists

Below are some recommended books by category. You are encouraged to make your own reading list categories and edit the categories below. 

 All wanderers must find and assimilate new information at all chapters in life. A diversity of information mediums is recommended. This is the information assimilation tenet. 

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 How to get books 

 You can buy books through Amazon, although it is better to buy books from a local business to support your community. Used books are just as valuable, if not more, than new books. 

 You can get books from the library. If you don’t have the money for books, the library is the best place to go. If your library does not have the book you want, you can request an interlibrary loan from your local librarian. 

 You can always reach out to the author/publisher directly to request a low-cost or complimentary copy. 

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 Add books you want to read into their proper categories. You can also add your favorite books to your reading list. 

 Aim to assimilate a minimum of one book a month, a tenet of the mind domain. That’s 60 books every 5 years. This is okay; more learning is better. 

 Reading Lists   

 Bushido Philosophy 

 

  The Book of Five Rings | Miyamoto Musashi 

 The Unfettered Mind | Takuan Soho 

 Hagakure | Yamamoto Tseunetomo 

 The Hundred Rules of War | Tsukahara Bokuden 

 Bushido The Soul Of Japan | Inazo O. Nitobe 

 The Life-Giving Sword | Yagyu Munenori 

 Budoshoshinshu | Daidoji Yuzan  

 

 Stoic Philosophy 

 

   Meditations | Marcus Aurelius 

 Letters From a Stoic | Seneca 

 On The Tranquility Of The Mind | Seneca 

 On The Shortness of Life | Seneca 

 Lectures And Fragments | Musonius Rufus 

 

 Body 

 

   The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding | Arnold Schwarzenegger 

 Sun And Steel | Yukio Mishima 

 Starting Strength | Mark Rippetoe 

 The Westside Barbell Book of Methods | Louie Simmons 

 Bigger Leaner Stronger | Michael Matthews  

 

 Sexuality 

 

 Your Brain on Porn | Gary Wilson 

 The Way of The Superior Man | David Deida 

 Cupid's Poisoned Arrow | Marnia Robinson 

 No More Mr. Nice Guy | Dr Robert Glover 

 

 Mind 

 

 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity | Carlo M. Cipolla 

 The Art of War | Sun Tzu 

 Amusing Ourselves to Death | Neil Postman 

 Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman 

 Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

 

 Finance 

 

 Learn to Earn | Peter Lynch (The Capitalist Manifesto: How to function in a market system) 

 Poor Charlie's Almanack | Charlie Munger 

 Capital in The 21st Century | Thomas Piketty 

 The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham 

 A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Burton Malkiel 

 The Millionaire Next Door | Thomas J Stanley 

 

 Business 

 

 The Lean Startup | Eric Ries 

 Zero to One | Peter Thiel 

 Ogilvy on Advertising | David Ogilvy 

 The Personal MBA | Josh Kaufman 

 The E-Myth Revisited | Michael E Gerber 

 High Output Management | Andrew S. Grove 

 

 History 

 

 The Histories | Herodotus 

 The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon 

 The Second World War Book 1 | Winston Churchhill 

 The Rise And Fall of The Third Reich | William L. Shirer 

 Guns, Germs, And Steel | Jared Diamond 

 A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson 

 A People’s History of The United States | Howard Zinn 

 

 Spirit 

 

  Man’s Search For Meaning | Viktor Frankl 

 The War of Art | Steven Pressfield 

 Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche 

 The Inner Game of Tennis |  W. Timothy Gallwey 

 The Courage to Be Disliked | Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga 

 

 Fiction 

 

   Musashi | Eiji Yoshikawa 

 The Lord of The Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien 

 The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho 

 The Old Man And The Sea | Ernest Hemingway 

 Dune | Frank Herbert 

 Shogun | James Clavell 

 The Island | Aldous Huxley 

 The Stand | Stephen King 

 On The Road | Jack Kerouac 

 Post Office | Charles Bukowski 

 The Expanse | James S. A. Corey 

 Gates of Fire | Steven Pressfield