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Romance

The Great Gatsby

“He throws the biggest parties in New York. Nobody knows who he really is.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 196 episodes · full original text
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Strategy

The Art of War

“Win the war before the first battle. A 2,500-year-old playbook for beating any rival.”

Sun Tzu · 35 episodes · full original text
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Mystery & Crime

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“He can tell where you’ve been just by looking at your shoes.”

Arthur Conan Doyle · 403 episodes · full original text
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Biography & Memoir

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“He arrived in Philadelphia with a dollar and three bread rolls. He ended up on the $100 bill.”

Benjamin Franklin · 226 episodes · full original text
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Horror & Gothic

Dracula

“The Count is a perfect host. The doors only lock from the outside.”

Bram Stoker · 589 episodes · full original text
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Business & Money

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“He made a fortune betting on Wall Street. Then he lost it all. Then he did it again.”

Edwin Lefèvre · 414 episodes · full original text
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Romance

Pride and Prejudice

“She hated him at first sight. That was her first mistake.”

Jane Austen · 472 episodes · full original text
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Biography & Memoir

My Inventions

“He saw his inventions in visions before he built them. Then he lit up the world.”

Nikola Tesla · 91 episodes · full original text
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Mystery & Crime

Crime and Punishment

“He's sure he's above the law. Then he picks up the axe.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 786 episodes · full original text
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Self-Help & Philosophy

Meditations

“The most powerful man on Earth, talking himself out of anger.”

Marcus Aurelius · 213 episodes · full original text
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Pick Your Poison

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Get Rich or Die Reading

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
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Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
John D. Rockefeller
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The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles
▶ Read
Acres of Diamonds
Russell H. Conwell
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The Art of Money Getting
P. T. Barnum
▶ Read
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
George Horace Lorimer
▶ Read
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Scientific Advertising
Claude C. Hopkins
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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My Life and Work
Henry Ford
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Famous Readers’ Picks

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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📣 Bill Gates
“The novel I reread the most”
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
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📣 Steve Jobs
Reread it every year; copies were handed out at his memorial
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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📣 Bill Clinton
His most influential book after the Bible
The Aeneid
Virgil
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📣 Mark Zuckerberg
His favorite book, which he quotes in interviews
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
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📣 Tupac
Named his Makaveli persona after its author
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
▶ Read
📣 Steve Jobs & Barack Obama
A teenage favorite of Jobs, on Obama's list of favorites
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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📣 Charlie Munger
On the reading list of Buffett's partner
My Inventions
Nikola Tesla
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📣 Elon Musk
The inventor he named Tesla after
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
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📣 Paul Tudor Jones
The billionaire trader wrote its foreword
King Lear
William Shakespeare
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📣 Steve Jobs
“I loved King Lear”
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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📣 Jordan Peterson
A Dostoevsky he says changed how he sees the world
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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📣 Jordan Peterson
His go-to example of how bitterness destroys a person
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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📣 Tupac
Studied as an influence on his work

Bite-Sized Plots (1 min each)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Short story
▶ 1 min
The Yellow Wallpaper
Short story
▶ 1 min
The Monkey's Paw
Short story
▶ 1 min
The Tell-Tale Heart
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
▶ 1 min
The Black Cat
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Red-Headed League
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
▶ 1 min
The Cask of Amontillado
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Cabuliwallah
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
▶ 1 min
The Masque of the Red Death
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
▶ 1 min
The Oval Portrait
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Hungry Stones
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
▶ 1 min

Clue-ly Addictive

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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Main Character Energy

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Enchiridion
Epictetus
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As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
▶ Read
Self-Help
Samuel Smiles
▶ Read
The Art of Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein
▶ Read
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn
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My Inventions
Nikola Tesla
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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Do Not Read at 3 a.m.

Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
▶ Read
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
▶ Read
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
▶ Read
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
▶ Read
Tales of Mystery & Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
▶ Read
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
▶ Read
Dracula
Bram Stoker
▶ Read
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
▶ Read

Are We There Yet?

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
▶ Read
The Odyssey
Homer
▶ Read
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
▶ Read
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
▶ Read
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
▶ Read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
▶ Read
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
▶ Read
The Aeneid
Virgil
▶ Read

Swoon-ward Bound

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
▶ Read
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
▶ Read
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
▶ Read
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
▶ Read
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
▶ Read

Star-Spangled Stories

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
▶ Read
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
▶ Read
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
▶ Read
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
▶ Read
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
▶ Read
Tales of Mystery & Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
▶ Read
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
▶ Read

Big Brain Energy

The Crowd
Gustave Le Bon
▶ Read
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
▶ Read
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
▶ Read
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
▶ Read
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
▶ Read
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
▶ Read
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
▶ Read

Name-Drop Worthy

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
▶ Read
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
▶ Read
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
▶ Read
The Odyssey
Homer
▶ Read
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
▶ Read
King Lear
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
▶ Read
The Aeneid
Virgil
▶ Read
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
▶ Read
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
▶ Read
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
Rabindranath Tagore
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
▶ Read
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
▶ Read
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
▶ Read
Tales of Mystery & Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
▶ Read
Dracula
Bram Stoker
▶ Read
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
▶ Read
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
▶ Read
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
▶ Read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
▶ Read
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
▶ Read
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
▶ Read
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
▶ Read
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
Rabindranath Tagore
▶ Read
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
▶ Read
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
▶ Read
My Life and Work
Henry Ford
▶ Read
The Art of Money Getting
P. T. Barnum
▶ Read
Scientific Advertising
Claude C. Hopkins
▶ Read
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
▶ Read
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
▶ Read
My Inventions
Nikola Tesla
▶ Read
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett
▶ Read
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
▶ Read
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
▶ Read
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
▶ Read
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
▶ Read
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
▶ Read
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
▶ Read
The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles
▶ Read
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
▶ Read
The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn
▶ Read
The Art of Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein
▶ Read
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
▶ Read
King Lear
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
The Aeneid
Virgil
▶ Read
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
▶ Read
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
▶ Read
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
▶ Read
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
▶ Read
The Odyssey
Homer
▶ Read
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
▶ Read
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
▶ Read
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
▶ Read
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
▶ Read
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
▶ Read
The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
▶ Read
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
▶ Read
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
John D. Rockefeller
▶ Read
Acres of Diamonds
Russell H. Conwell
▶ Read
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
George Horace Lorimer
▶ Read
Self-Help
Samuel Smiles
▶ Read
Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
▶ Read
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
▶ Read
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
▶ Read
The Crowd
Gustave Le Bon
▶ Read
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
▶ Read
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
▶ Read
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