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Dec 12, 2021 • 24 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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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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