Which books should men in their 20s/30s read?

gabriel-kornilov · 2024-06-29T16:06:47+00:00

Everything from Marcus Aurelius, Senecca and Epictetus.

Miyamoto Musashi's "Dokkōdō".

Ecclesiastes.

Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot."

Schopenhauer's "Aphorisms".

Esther Vilar's "The Manipulated Man".

Robert Greene's "The Laws of Human Nature" & "The 33 Strategies of War".

Sun Tzu's "The Art of War".

Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha"

Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus".

Sinister_Saiyans · 2024-06-29T14:58:04+00:00

Atomic habits

TrentIguess · 2024-06-29T15:10:23+00:00

Jurassic park

ChromeBadge · 2024-06-29T15:27:09+00:00

The Hazards of Being Male

https://www.amazon.com/Hazards-Being-Male-Surviving-Masculine/dp/0965762874

Accomplished_Gene176 · 2024-06-29T15:31:33+00:00

The unplugged alpha and no more mr nice guy

Equivalent_Parking_8 · 2024-06-29T16:41:13+00:00

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Animal Farm 1984 Ready Player one.

mrkpxx · 2024-06-29T16:54:32+00:00

Book list

The Rational Male - Rollo Tomassi
Practical Female Psychology - David Clare, Joseph W. South, Franco
The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
No More Mr. Nice Guy - Robert A. Glover
The Way of Men - Jack Donovan
The Book of Numbers: Analyzing the ROI on the Pursuit of Women - Aaron Clarey

porcelainfog · 2024-06-29T15:43:57+00:00

All quiet on the western front,

the gulag archipelago,

the end of the world is just the beginning (Peter Zaihan),

12 rules for life

the singularity is nearer (Ray Kurzweil)

Edit: Determined (Robert Sapolsky)

Bonus points for Termination Shock by Stephenson. It teaches you that a man can do anything if he puts his mind to it. And that the problems we are bombarded with are solvable (it’s about climate change and geoengineering a man single handedly solves the climate crisis by shooting dust into the atmosphere and how the world might react to that. It’s not that these problems have no solutions like it often feels, but we are trying to find the optimal solution. So don’t quit your day job because of global warming and AI, things will work out just fine in the end)

Asatmaya · 2024-06-29T16:01:50+00:00

Some of these should be read earlier, but most people still haven't done so:

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers is excellent as well, if nothing like the movie)

A Theory of Justice John Rawls

The Relativity of Wrong Isaac Asimov

The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan

The Utopia of Rules David Graeber

aBlackKing · 2024-06-29T16:59:11+00:00

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 48 laws of power How to win friends and influence people Atomic habits The Bible

2024-06-29T15:45:18+00:00

Most men are being raised by women - schools, at home etc and become people pleasers. A book I would recommend is a disease to please and iron John.

ThomassPaine · 2024-06-29T15:58:18+00:00

The Moral Animal

It will save you some time. Priceless.

The-MatrixAgent · 2024-06-29T16:36:55+00:00

Cant hurt me

pr4ise_th3_sun · 2024-06-29T18:07:33+00:00

The necronomicon

DifficultPapaya3038 · 2024-06-29T18:11:56+00:00

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

Stovepipe-Guy · 2024-06-29T19:39:08+00:00

Can’t Hurt me by David Goggins

PhysicsDue9688 · 2024-06-29T20:20:23+00:00

I recommend "capitalism realism" by mark fisher

Helps a lot with understanding one of the causes of our loneliness.

Also let me warn you, it is openly left leaning

Hw-LaoTzu · 2024-06-29T20:32:07+00:00

The Prince by Machiavelli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Bible - (Exodus, Ecclesiates, Job, Proverbs[must read and apply]
The Art of Dealing with Woman by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Book of the 5 Rings by Miyamoto Muzashi
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Disclaimer:

These books are manuals for live if you read them and does not apply them consider that you have no learned a single thing.

Naraksama · 2024-06-29T15:31:51+00:00

Winnie the Pooh

le_Swedishchef · 2024-06-29T15:27:23+00:00

The anarchists cookbook.

Le Guide Culinaire.

The Bible and the Qu'Ran.

theoriginalsly · 2024-06-29T15:43:58+00:00

Quiet - Susan Cain
The Case Against The Sexual Revolution - Louise Perry
Four Thousand Weeks, and The Antidote - Oliver Burkeman
The Sapiens Trilogy - Yuval Noah Harari
The Madness of Crowds - Douglas Murray

Just a few I'd recommend

aigars2 · 2024-06-29T16:12:57+00:00

You Are Not So Smart 🤓

unfoldedmite · 2024-06-29T16:57:51+00:00

"A Man's Search For Meaning" - Viktor Frankl

Self-insubordinate · 2024-06-29T17:51:02+00:00

Something related to digital technology

IcyZookeepergame7626 · 2024-06-29T19:16:54+00:00

"How To Be A 3% Man" by Coach Corey Wayne

procion1302 · 2024-06-29T20:38:04+00:00

"Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers" by Miya Kinojo

docterspring · 2024-06-29T20:48:10+00:00

The bible

DissociativeRuin · 2024-06-29T21:22:33+00:00

Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

A brief history of time

2024-06-29T15:39:48+00:00

The bible

freesid · 2024-06-29T17:45:47+00:00

For 20s: Atlas Shrugged

Title	Which books should men in their 20s/30s read?
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