BONUS | Books You Can Finish In One Sitting (And Actually Remember)

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Amazing books you can read in a single sitting. The War of Art. This is a book you can read in one

“sitting and then you should read it again and again and again. I tried to read it before I”

start any creative project. Seneca's essay on The Shortness of Life. One of the greatest pieces of philosophy ever written. It's not that life is short. He says it's that we waste a lot of it. Zen in the art of artory. Another amazing philosophy book from the other side of the world. This is the new Walter Isaacson book. The greatest sentence ever written about the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are

created equal that they're in doubt by their creator with certain unaliable rights and then among these are life-library in the pursuit of happiness. When the 250th anniversary of our country he does, a nice was this 70 page or so meditation on a wonderful sentence and what it means.

84 Charlie Cross Road. This doesn't seem like an amazing book but it is the series of letters

between a screenwriter in the US and a antique bookseller in the UK right after World War II. But you will fall in love with all of the characters in this book and devour it in one setting.

“So this little book I loved it so much I bought a thousand copies of it. I think we're one of the”

only bookstores in the country that has it. This is a little book by Stefan's wife who wrote the world of yesterday and it's just a short biography of Montaine. He's writing as the world is falling apart and he's writing about a guy Montaine who is writing and thinking when his world is falling apart it is a lovely book that you can read very quickly. This is Gip from the sea by Ann Moral Lindbergg. It's a lady walking along a beach riffing on modernity, quietness, stillness

writing on youth age love and marriage peace, solitude and contentment. She writes this on a communication and it's kind of a vacation of a book to be actually read this flying through the beach on vacation on a two hour flight or so. It's perfect. Oh and then I have one of the one. The boy the fox, the horse and the mole. This is one I read to my kids. It's just the right length. Sometimes we'll do it in two settings but it is a lovely moving allegory. It's odd. You will very much like.

This one's almost too short to be a book but it is in fact a book. This is Stockdale's courage under fire. This is a man testing the doctrines of Epictetus in the Hanoy Hilton as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Okay 21 pages. So you can do this in less than one sitting. I think it like this one now. Meditations is technically 170 pages. You can read it in one sitting. You're not supposed to. I prefer to flip through it. Actually when you take out the intro

and that's in lessons. You're talking 150 pages. So I think this is a one sitting book but this

“is a book you should be sitting with over and over and over again over the course of your life.”

This is Claire Keegan's small things like these. I'll get one novel in here. This book is

114 pages but it is incredible. The ending is going to fuck you up but it's very good.

There's some more really amazing books that you can sit down and read in one sitting. This one is very relevant today. It's written by General Smedley Butler. This is war is a racket. The anti war classic by one of the most decorated marines in US history. This is the best sciences. A racket is best described. I believe as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the

benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many and out of war a few people make huge fortunes. This is a guy who knows what he's talking about. Not just some anti war activist or whatever

Okay. This book is only 79 pages but boy it'll hit you very hard. And this series novel

“Catherine Crestman Taylor brings vividly to life. The insidious spread of Nazis and the”

series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and Martin his friend and former business partner who has returned to Germany in 1932 just as Hitler is coming to power. To me it's a fascinating look at how people accommodate themselves to things rationalized things deny what's obviously happening and lose their humanity. So gender truth one of the pioneers of both the anti slavery movement and the women's rights movement she gives this famous speech

called "antiah woman" although she actually didn't. One of the interesting things about her as she was a formerly enslaved woman in New York. The only accent she would have had was would have been a Dutch accent because she also spoke Dutch but she gave this famous speech about how she says "I am a woman's rights" but it gets translated into slave dialect to have more resonance of the time. So she's actually a very articulate person but there's a great

track on equality and feminism that everyone should read. Okay this is the classic text on great samurai warrior Musashi. The book of five rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture was composed in 1643 by the famedulist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. It's a great little translation you can read

“this if you haven't read the art of warrior you should also read that but this is like sort of”

an equivalent text to the art of war. I want to read that. All right so this is a letter 120 pages. This is a letter that Kafka wrote to his father. He had this overbearing imperialist judgmental

father. They never got along. He never understood his son and so one day Kafka sits down and he says

I'm going to write him a letter just sort of pouring out all my thoughts on emotions and that's what this book is. He sends it to his mother who of course never gives it to his father but this to me is a great parenting book. It's also a great book if you had difficult parents yourself. I like constantly on books. Steel like an artist is great. You could probably do all three of these books on a plane. Steel like an artist is great. Show your work is great. Keep going is great. To be more creative

you want to be more inspired. You want to do better work. You want to build an audience for your work. I can these three books are great and they've got lovely little drawings and doodles in them too. You can definitely read these in one sitting. This is a book my editor gave me once. This is the journalist and the murderer. Joe McGinnis was a famous best-selling author. He's writing a book about a man who's on trial for murder and then that man sues him for liable. It's this fascinating

crazy book. It has the most famous line in probably all of journalism here at the beginning. Every journalist who is too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, praying on people's vanity ignorance or loneliness gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Every journalist's book. Timothy Snyder is a short book on tyranny, very apropos of this moment,

clocks in at a hundred and twenty six pages. People could just read these pages. We would be in better faith. This is one of the greatest sports books ever written. I would not have guessed that it was so short. It is exactly one hundred and fifty pages about the famous match between

Arthur Ashton and Clark Grayner just an incredible exquisite piece of sports writing and character

study and psychology. It's so stuck in my mind and so riveting. I would have guessed it's 250 or 300 pages but it obviously reads extra faster than that. This is the way of love by Anthony Demo not only is it only it's a hundred and ninety pages or so but these are very little pages.

“If you want to put this on a normal size it's going to get way smaller. That's about coach”

gave me this book one time and it changed my life just absolutely beautiful right here. If you want more book recommendations I send these out in my reading list newsletter which I've sent out every month for 15 years and you can sign up at RyanHalliday.net/reelist. (gentle music)