My top 100 books – an ongoing list
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Introduction: Inspired by Naval Ravikant’s philosophy on rereading the same 100 books again & again.
Naval ravikant quote
Naval Ravikant
The list
- Mahabharat
- Ramayan
- Arthashastra
- Chanakya Neeti
- Manu Smriti
- Kamasutra
- Rati Rahasya
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Illiad
- Odyssey
- Bible
- Art of War – Sun Tzu
- Tao te Ching
- Talmud
- Torah
- Panchatantra
- Jataka tales
- Hitopadesha
- Tao of Seneca
- Book of Wisdom / Wisdom of Solomon
- Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (earliest greek translation of the Hebrew Bible)
- The analects of Confucius
- Aesop’s fables
- Dharmasastra, Yājñavalkya Smṛti, Naradasmriti
- Shatkhandagama (Jainism)
- Kasayapahuda (Jainism)
- Mitaksara, Dayabhaga
- Upanishads
- Puranas
- The effective executive
- Tools of Titans
- Dune
- Lord of the Rings
- Mastery
- Quran
- Indian constitution
- Plato’s Republic
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- Conversations of Socrates – Xenophon
- Indika – Megasthenes
- …