1) Tao te ching - what better work to show the balance of life. A beautiful metaphor for life.
2) book of 5 ring- great work of fight strategy, but deeper metaphors to be applied to
life.
3) art of war- also fight strategy and life metaphor that can be applied to everything In Your life. The first 3 books all get a yearly read from me, each time I find new things to apply to my life.
4) Atlas shrugged- known as the capitalist bible, I was homeless my senior year, and this book lit a fire under my ass, especially Francisco’s money speech.
5) and so many could make slot 5, (anything from machiavelli’s the prince to Brent week’ night angel and light bringer series) but it’s actually T.S. Elliots poem “the love song of j Alfred prufrock” a perfect use of English lansguage and it‘a ability to paint a scene and suck you in. A perfect example of what I want to avoid in life: existing but never
going for it. Don’t be prufrock, make sure you live, live, live!