Books That Have Influenced How I View the World

Turned 26 recently, reflecting on the books that actually impacted my worldview as a man, or at least challenged it.

Fiction:

• The Illiad/The Oddyssey - Homer
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
• Hatchet/Brian's Winter - Gary Paulson
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
• Berserk - Kentaro Miura
• Conan The Barbarian (Collected) - Robert E Howard
• Dragon Ball - Akira Toriyama
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Macbeth - Shakespeare

Non-Fiction:

Self Improvement:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli
• The Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
• Bobby Fishcer Teaches Chess - Bobby Fishcer
• Toxic Parents - Dr. Susan Forward
• Permission to Feel - Marc Brackett
• Starting Strength - Mark Rippletoe
• Collected Drawing Guides - Andrew Loomis

History:

• Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
• The Autobiography of Malcom X - Alex Haley
• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women - Susan Faludi
• Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
• The Holy Bible - KJV or NIV
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• War is a Racket - Smedley Butler
• The Nature of Alexander - Mary Renault

Philosophy:

• Meditations - Marcus Aerulis
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
• Sun and Steel - Yukio Mishima
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• The Ethical Slut - Janet Hardt
• The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
• Ideas and Opinions - Albert Enstein
• Of Human Freedon - Epictetus
• Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
• The Right Way to do the Wrong Thing - Harry Houdini

Economy: