"Obstacle is the Way": Basically a collection of motivational stories that pretends to be related to stoicism.

A better books is: "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy"

Met Ryan in person when he was on a book tour for Obstacle is The Way. Predominantly he is the one to introduce me to Aurelius and Stoicism in general. What do you think of Ego is The Enemy, a worthwhile read?

Why do you think you need to be "okay" with life being unfair?

People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it, people who weren't okay with dying of smallpox found a way to cure it, and made life a little fairer. And there were a bunch of people who weren't okay with things but couldn't do anything about it, so they didn't.

Some things are unfair for no reason and there's nothing we can do about them, and it's not okay.

You don't have to warp your mind with convoluted philosophy to become okay with things and "accept" life as it is. Life can be awesome and beautiful, life can be shitty and painful. These things don't cancel each other out. You can enjoy awesome things, you can hate and be angry at bad things. You and me and everyone we love will die some day - there's nothing that can make it okay. And yet sunsets are still beautiful and ice cream still tastes good.

You don't have be okay with bad things, you can hate/resent/fear them and still enjoy the good things at the same time. These two are not mutually exclusive. Fix what you can fix, endure and persevere through things that you can't(because you have no choice), find as much joy as you can in the good things.

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Also read "Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday - extremely well writen summary of stoic philosophy, I'm sure you will find it very useful and interesting.

Few suggestions that didn't make that list:
The Innovator's Dilemma (and everything by) - Clayton M. Christensen
Measure What Matters - John Doerr
Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Factfulness - Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
Grit - Angela Duckworth