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Dec 12, 2021, 24 tweets

I asked, "What's the best SHORT book you’ve ever read?"

I received 300+ replies.

Here are 20 amazing books under 150 pages:

1/

The Lessons of History

by Will & Ariel Durant

2/

As a Man Thinketh

by James Allen

3/

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

4/

Tao Te Ching

by Laozi

5/

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach

6/

The Go-Giver

by @BobBurg & @JohnDavidMann

7/

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

8/

The Dip

by @ThisIsSethsBlog

9/

On the Shortness of Life

by Seneca

10/

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

11/

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

12/

Who Moved My Cheese?

by Spencer Johnson

13/

Do The Work

by @SPressfield

14/

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

15/

The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

16/

Managing Oneself

by Peter Drucker

17/

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

18/

This Is Water

by David Foster Wallace

19/

The Four Agreements

by @donMiguelRuiz

20/

The Richest Man In Babylon

by George S. Clason

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