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The 4 Best Books I’ve Read So Far This Year
And how these works on Stoicism, mortality, and the neurochemistry of addiction have changed my life
100 books. That’s the goal I’ve set for myself. But what’s even more important than that expectation of how much I’ll be able to read in a year, is my intent to read a vast majority of different things.
I don’t want to get pigeonholed into a genre and then miss out on learning something because I was afraid to branch out.
“Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works[…]Everywhere means nowhere.” — Seneca, on reading
So far this year, I’ve read around ten books — but four have stood out to me in particular, all four of which I was reading for the first time.
Two of them are very different takes on Stoic philosophy, one is what I’d call an anti-time management book, and one is a book on addiction.
