7 Books That Make Me

I often get book recommendations or people asking me if I’ve read such and such book, and while I am ALWAYS here for fiction recommendations (srsly, keep them coming) I notice that I feel complete with my nonfiction canon.

It’s my experience that there’s just the one truth, and these are the sources that point me (personally) most potently to that truth.

Rather than consuming new content, I find myself reading these texts again and again, refining myself via tried and true sources that taught me the wisdom I’ll spend the rest of my life applying.

(yes, two of these are still fiction.)

1. Tao Te Ching, Ursula Leguin and Lao Tzu

2. Loving What Is, by Byron Katie

3. The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

4. The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss

5. Never Split The Difference, by Chris Voss

6. The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran

7. The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander