Guest on Lenny's Podcast
2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“One book I really recommend to people is Barbarian Days by William Finnegan. I don't know if you've read it. It's about a life of a man who is a New Yorker reporter,…”
Why: It teaches that one can be deeply passionate and dedicated to a life purpose without necessarily being good at it, focusing on the art of striving for excellence.
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
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“Another book that I might recommend as a book that people should read, I really love Anna Karenina. I've been rereading the classics lately.”
Why: She values it as a book of layers that can be understood through different lenses as one grows older.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Named without an opinion attached.
“So he did one of War and Peace and he's doing one of Wolf Hall, I think, or he did one of Wolf Hall, which is the Hilary Mantel book, like take it chapter by chapter.”
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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“And I also felt like it was very long, but now I'm reading The Power Broker, which has set the new precedent for a long, been reading it for half my life at this point.”
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
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