Top 1% of books I have read so far that I remember

Maximilian Rehn
1 min readFeb 9, 2023

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The Gutenberg Bible, one of the first books to be printed using the printing press

Sci-fi/fantasy:

A fire upon the deep (Vinge)
Player of Games (Banks)
Hydrogen Sonata (Banks)
Hyperion trilogy (Dan Simmons)
Excession (Banks)
Dune trilogy (Frank Herbert)
Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)
The Gods Themselves (Asimov)
Metamorphis of prime intellect (Roger Williams)
The Riftwar Saga (Raymond E. Feist)

Spirituality:

Untethered soul (Singer)
Awareness (de Mello)
Awakening of intelligence (Krishnamurti)
The first and last Freedom (Krishnamurti)
No Boundary (Ken Wilber)

General

The creative act (Rick Rubin)
Where is my flying car? (Hall)
Impro: Improvisation and Theatre (Keith Johnstone)
Black Swan (Taleb)
Homo Prospectus (Seligman)
Sapiens (Harari)
How To Fail at Almost Everything And Still Win Big (Scott Adams)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Rilke)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid (at least read the intro)
Antifragile (Taleb)
The World After Capital (Wenger)
Writing that works (Kenneth Roman)
How to have a good day (Caroline Webb)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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Thanks for reading.

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Maximilian Rehn
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