Five chimneys
Memoir of a Hungarian woman who was imprisoned for several years in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.
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- Some titles I've recently read or at least have placed on my reading list.
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Philosohpy
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium - Seneca
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (must read)
The Republic - Plato
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History
Five Chimneys - Olga Lengyel
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (must read)
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
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Fiction
(particularly dystopian) 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451
(crime/action) Child 44, The Secret Speech, Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith
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Economics
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Banerjee, Duflo
Why Nations Fail - Robinson
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Economics/Decision making/Psychology
Undercover Economist, Freakonomics, Nudge, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Random titles
The Selfish Gene, Self-Reliance, The Elements of Style (about writing), Slaughterhouse-Five
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Some links to inspire your reading (though you may want to checkout the websites first to get an idea of the topics they cover)
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books
http://bookpickings.brainpickings.org/
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/reading/
http://www.ryanholiday.net/reading-newsletter
I’m just a working-class guy trying to take part in the conversation that all the smart people are having. What books should I read? - http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/03/im-just-a-working-cl...
- I've been reading Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel, a Holocaust survivor who went through the most terrible of ordeals. She became suicidal and a Frenchman who got her involved in the camp resistance told her that if there were just one reason not to do it, it was so she could do little things to make the lives of people around her better. She took this to heart and it pushed her through to eventual liberation and living till her 90s. I appreciate words are cheap, but I found this inspiring and a good way to think about life when all else seems lost.
