[Reading Week]44 timeless books you should read in your lifetime | Business Insider Japan

Find your favorite place and choose a book.

Do you admire people who know a lot of things? A shortcut to achieving this is to read a variety of books.

It’s also a good idea to stick to mystery novels, anthologies, and biographies that you’ve always loved. However, if you want to expand your knowledge a little more, you may need to try exploring areas you don’t normally reach.

Business Insider has compiled a list of 44 timeless books you should read in your lifetime, covering a variety of topics including politics, science, history, and culture.

Harper Lee “Alabama Story”

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George Orwell “1984”

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Henry D. Thoreau “Walden”

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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

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Chinua Achebe “Crumbling Bonds”

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Jennifer Egan, “The Devil is Coming”

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Haruki Murakami “1Q84”

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J.R.R. Tolkien “The Lord of the Rings”

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Toni Morrison “Beloved”

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Howard Zinn, A People’s History of America

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Anne Frank “Anne Frank’s Diary”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates “Between the world and me”

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Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel

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John Heilman, Mark Halperin, “This is How President Obama Was Made”

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Doris Kearns Goodwin “Lincoln”

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Stephen Hawking “Hawking talks about the universe — from the big bang to black holes”

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Bill Bryson, A Short History of Everything Known to Mankind

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William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White『The Elements of Style』

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Walter Kaufmann編『Existentialism from Dostoevsky to to Sartre』

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Victor Frank “Night and Fog”

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Nigel Warburton, A History of Philosophy for Young Readers

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William Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Americana”

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Walter Isaacson “Steve Jobs”

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Stephen Levy “Hackers”

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David McCraney, “Thought Traps: 48 Ways Your Brain Trick You”

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Sun Wu “grandson”

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Allie Brosh『Hyperbole and a Half』

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Dale Carnegie “Moving People”

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Jim Collins “Visionary Company 2 —— The Law of Leap”

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Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko, The Millionaire Next Door: Seven Rules for Success

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Benjamin Graham “The Intelligent Investor”

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Julia Child『Mastering the Art of French Cooking』

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Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Natural History of Four Diets

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Judith Butler, “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Disturbance of Identity”

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Louise Glück『A Village Life』

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Matthew Desmond, “Homeless People: A Sociologist’s Record of Over a Year in the Poorest Neighborhoods”

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Anthony Bourdain “Kitchen Confidential”

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Brené Brown: “True courage is admitting weakness”

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Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451”

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Douglas Adams “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

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Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”

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J.K. Rowling “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”

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Robert M. Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair

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*This article is a repost of an article published on March 29, 2020.