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All In: An Autobiography

Billie Jean King

? on Amazon

5 HN comments

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: Transform Your Body Forever Using the Secrets of the Leanest People in the World

Tom Venuto

4.7 on Amazon

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My Family and Other Animals

Nigel Davenport, Gerald Durrell, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

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What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

Scott Carney and Foxtopus Ink

4.7 on Amazon

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

H.G. Bissinger

4.7 on Amazon

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The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

4.7 on Amazon

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The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

Michael Matthews

4.6 on Amazon

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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty

4.7 on Amazon

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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Jon Krakauer

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40

Jonathon M Sullivan , Andy Baker, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid

Willie Mays , John Shea, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Art of Peace: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido

Morihei Ueshiba and John Stevens

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

4.1 on Amazon

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derangedHorseonDec 13, 2018

How was The Autobiography of Gucci Mane? Was it interesting, inspiring, funny, etc? It seems like a huge change of pace from the other books haha. I’ve also read Letters to a Young Mathematician and it honestly one of the reasons I was able to survive my math classes (mentally) when I was in school.

cahonMay 24, 2012

- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Growing a Business
- Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. (The original death-march)
- The Entrepreneur and Small Business Problem Solver
- Web and Software Development by Nolo Press

PietertjeonDec 23, 2015

I'll skip some mentioned already by others. Books I really enjoyed this year:

The Wright Brothers, David McCullough - wonderful book on the Wright Brothers, easy to read, shows that persistence and logic thinking pays out. 5/5

The autobiography of Malcom X, Malcolm X - Nice bio, a bit repetitive sometimes. 3/5

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - Although the book has more than 1200 pages it really kept me going. I read this book to get a better understanding of the ideology of some republicans. Fun read. 4.5/5

Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt - Levitt studies all kind of different everyday questions using economics. 4/5, short, easy to read

Guantanamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Diary of a Guantanamo prisoner who has been imprisoned since 2002. The US has never charged him with a crime. Profound and disturbing. 5/5

No place to hide, Glenn Greenwald - Story on Edward Snowden, probably read by most of HN. Enjoyed it, that's it. 4/5

How to lie with statistics, Darrel Huff - Short book on statistics, easy to read and fun. 4/5

jmzacharyonFeb 24, 2007

This book and "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Baltasar Gracian (http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/) are my two favorite books I've read repeatedly for over 20 years. It sounds very cheesy, but they are both like a road map for my life. Everyone knows about "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" but few have heard of Gracian. Paul, based on your essays that I've read, I think you would enjoy reading Gracian.

fduranonDec 27, 2011

"The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life"

"The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

"The toilet paper entrepreneur"

"The lean startup"

"Anything you want"