Bruce's booklist (Last update: 2025.7)

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Western Classics:

1. Alexandra Dumas (most rec to least rec):

   1. The count of mount cristo

   2. The three musketeers

   3. 20 years after

2. Gabriel García Márquez:

   1. One hundred years of solitude

   2. Love in the time of cholera

3. Dystopian novels

   1. 1984

   2. Animal farm

   3. We

   4. Brave new world

4. Zweig:

   1. Letter from an unknown women

   2. Decisive moments of history

5. Charles Dickens:

   1. David Copperfield

   2. Great Expectations

   3. A tale of two cities

6. Maugham:

   1. The moon and the sixpence

   2. The razor's edge

   3. Of human bondage

   4. Then and now (a glance into Machiavellianism)

   5. The painted veil

7. War and peace

8. Pride and prejudice

9. Fall of giants

10. Wuthering heights

11. O Henry short story collections

12. And Then There Were None

13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

14. Crime and punishment

15. The Lady of the Camellias

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Chinese literature:

1. 明朝那些事

2. 北京折叠

3. 目送

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Japanese classics:

1. 解忧杂货店

2. 挪威的森林

3. 白夜行

4. 嫌疑人x的献身

5. 世界尽头与冷酷仙境

6. 人间失格

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Sci-fi novels:

1. Asimov:

   1. Foundation series (12 books - 7 empire + 5 robots)

   2. The gods themselves

   3. The end of eternity

   4. 3 additional novels that took place the galactic empire

   5. Basically anything he wrote

2. Arthur clarke:

   1. Space odyssey series (4 books)

   2. The city and the stars

   3. Childhood's end

   4. Rendezvous with rama

   5. Earthlight

   6. The songs of distant earth

   7. A fall of moon dust

   8. Fountains of paradise

3. Hyperion series (4 books)

4. Ender's game series (3 books)

5. Dune (1-4, 5 is mid)

6. The three-body problem (3 books)

7. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series (5 books)

8. The moon is a harsh mistress

9. The man who sold the moon

10. Flowers for Algernon

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Non-fiction:

1. The republic

2. A brief history of time

3. Brief answers to big questions

4. The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis (US Federal Reserve)

5. Alexander Hamilton (the man who founded the federal reserve)

6. Atomic habit

7. Steve Jobs

8. Elon Musk

9. The interpretation of dreams

10. From 0 to 1

11. What if (2 books)

12. The almanac of Naval Ravikant

13. Excellent sheep

14. Evolutionary dynamics

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