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Books Worth Getting Lost In
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items This collection is full of reads that kept me up way past my bedtime, thought about long after finishing, and would happily recommend to a friend. Enjoy 📖✨
Sections
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Classics about Society
Bitcoin & Finance
Classic Literature
Self Development
Murakami
Dostoevsky
Classics about Society
A chilling classic about a world where the government watches everything, controls truth, and punishes independent thought. 1984 follows Winston Smith as he quietly rebels against a system built on fear, surveillance, and lies—raising the terrifying ...
1984 | George Orwell
The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, a woman forced into servitude in a totalitarian society where women’s rights have been stripped away and fertility is controlled by the state. As she quietly resists, the story explores power, freedom, and what it ...
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
A group of farm animals overthrow their human owner, dreaming of equality and freedom. But as the pigs take control, power slowly corrupts, rules quietly change, and the revolution turns into something eerily familiar. Animal Farm is a sharp, darkly ...
Animal Farm | George Orwell
A powerful coming-of-age story set in the racially divided American South. Through young Scout Finch’s eyes, we watch her father, Atticus, defend a Black man falsely accused of a crime—challenging prejudice, injustice, and small-town hypocrisy. It’s ...
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee
Bitcoin & Finance
A deep dive into money, Bitcoin, and why sound money matters. Saifedean Ammous connects history, economics, and Bitcoin to explain how monetary systems shape society and why Bitcoin offers a radically different alternative.
The Bitcoin Standard: Decentralized Banking
This book argues that history moves in predictable generational cycles (periods of growth, rebellion, decline, and crisis) and that we’re currently in a major societal crisis phase that started around 2008. Using Strauss‑Howe’s generational theory, a...
The Fourth Turning Is Here | Neil Howe
The Big Print takes a clear, no‑nonsense look at how America’s monetary system went off track, arguing that decades of money printing and debt have weakened the economy, fueled inflation, and widened wealth inequality. Lepard traces the history from ...
The Big Print: What Happened To America | Lawrence Lepard
Fiat Food dives into how modern money and power shaped what we eat and how it’s hurting our health. Lysiak argues that once governments abandoned the gold standard and embraced fiat currency, economic incentives shifted toward cheap, processed foods ...
Fiat Food | Matthew Lysiak
Ray Dalio breaks down why nations fall into financial trouble, using history as a guide. He explains how debt cycles, overspending, and poor economic policies can lead countries to default, devalue their currencies, and lose global influence. The boo...
How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle
Classic Literature
A timeless tale of endurance and quiet strength. The Old Man and the Sea follows an aging fisherman who sets out alone to prove his worth after a long streak of bad luck. His struggle against the sea and a massive marlin becomes a powerful meditation...
Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway Ernest
To the Lighthouse follows the Ramsay family and their guests during visits to a seaside home, where small moments, thoughts, glances, unfinished conversations, carry enormous emotional weight. As years pass and life changes, the novel explores how pe...
To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf
A dark, stormy tale of obsession and revenge. Wuthering Heights follows the intense, destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine: one that warps generations, blurs the line between passion and cruelty, and refuses to fade even after death. Wild...
Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë
"Lolita" tells the controversial and haunting story of Humbert Humbert, a literature professor whose obsessive infatuation with a young girl, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, drives him into a dark and morally complex journey. Nabokov’s novel is a masterful bl...
Lolita | Nabokov Vladimir
A man named Josef K. wakes up one morning to find he’s arrested for a mysterious crime he doesn’t know. As he navigates an absurd, nightmarish legal system, nothing makes sense, authority feels unreachable, and every attempt to defend himself only en...
The Trial | Kafka, Franz
"Little Women" follows the lives of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, as they grow up during the American Civil War. Full of heart, humor, and sisterly bonds, it’s a timeless story about family, dreams, and finding your own path in the ...
Little Women | Alcott
Self Development
Unlock the extraordinary within. Becoming Supernatural blends science and spirituality to show how meditation, mindset, and energy work can help you heal, transform, and create the life you truly want. Practical, inspiring, and mind-opening.
Becoming Supernatural | Joe Dispenza
A thought-provoking collection that challenges how you see yourself, your habits, and the world, perfect for anyone ready to rethink, reflect, and grow.
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think | Brianna West
Murakami
Needs his own collection as one of my favourite writers
A surreal, dreamlike novel that follows two seemingly separate journeys: a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape a dark prophecy, and an elderly man who can talk to cats. As their paths slowly intertwine, the story blends reality with the str...
Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 follows Aomame and Tengo, two lonely souls in Tokyo whose lives slowly begin to intertwine in a strange alternate reality. Aomame, a fitness instructor with a secret double life as an assassin, realizes she has slipped into a s...
1Q84. (1&2) | Haruki Murakami
A nostalgic, emotionally raw story about love, loss, and growing up. Set in 1960s Tokyo, it follows Toru Watanabe as he navigates grief, fragile relationships, and the quiet loneliness of early adulthood. Tender, melancholic, and deeply introspective...
Norwegian Wood (Tokyo Blues) | Haruki Murakami
A quiet, nostalgic story about Hajime, a man whose comfortable adult life is upended when he reconnects with his childhood love. Murakami explores memory, longing, and the bittersweet ache of choices we can’t undo, showing how the past quietly shapes...
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Murakami
A collection of introspective, subtly surreal stories told from the perspective of a reflective narrator. Each tale explores memory, love, loss, and the strange twists of everyday life, blending the ordinary with moments of quiet wonder and melanchol...
First Person Singular | Murakami, Haruki
A man’s ordinary life unravels when his wife mysteriously disappears, sending him into Tokyo’s surreal underworld. Blending mystery, dreams, and the uncanny, this novel explores love, loss, and the hidden depths of human experience, where reality and...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami
Dostoevsky
Needs his own collection as one of my favourite writers
A lonely dreamer wanders the streets of St. Petersburg and meets a young woman caught in her own struggles. Over four magical nights, they share hopes, confessions, and fleeting romance, but reality intrudes, leaving a bittersweet, unforgettable impr...
White Nights | Dostoevsky, Fyodor
A gripping exploration of faith, doubt, and morality, The Brothers Karamazov follows the lives of the troubled Karamazov family. As the passionate brothers, Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, grapple with love, jealousy, and their father’s murder, Dostoevsky...
The Brothers Karamazov | Dostoevsky, Fyodor
A gripping dive into guilt, morality, and the human psyche. When impoverished student Raskolnikov commits a murder, he sets off a psychological battle with his conscience, society, and fate. Dostoevsky explores crime, punishment, and the blurry line ...
Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky
Beneath the bustling streets lies a world most people never see: a labyrinth of tunnels, hidden corners, and fleeting moments. This collection captures the stories, faces, and memories that exist quietly in the shadows: the laughter, the struggles, t...
Notes from the Underground | Dostoevsky
A gripping tale of obsession, risk, and the highs and lows of human desire. The Gambler follows Alexei, a young tutor consumed by his addiction to roulette, as he navigates love, wealth, and the dangerous allure of chance. A thrilling dive into passi...
The Gambler | Dostoevsky
Prince Myshkin, a kind-hearted and naïve man, returns to Russian high society after years in a Swiss sanatorium. His innocence and honesty clash with the deceit, ambition, and passion around him, sparking love, jealousy, and tragedy. A deeply human s...
The Idiot | Dostoevsky