Ask HN: Books Worth Rereading Periodically?

20 points·adityar··11 comments

I read "the intelligent investor" once a year or so to reinforce the value mindset. Are there any other books like that worth reading periodically?

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Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich One-Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich On Liberty - J. S. Mill The Annals - Tacitus The Histories - Tacitus

Business & work : Deep Work - Cal Newport, Anti fragile - Nassim Taleb CNV : Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Marshall Rosenberg "spiritual" or wisdom related : Tao Te King, Marcus Aurelius, the Gospel, Meditation on the Tarot classics : Plato, Homer, and Peloponese's war by Thucydides. And I couldn't explain why but I re-read Into thin air by Krakauer every year.

I also re-read Into Thin Air every so often. No idea why either.

Given my username:

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

The Enchiridion

Be sure to get modern translations of both. Reading these is not an academic exercise, it is a practical exercise.

Which Modern editions would you suggest?

Gregory Hays’s “Meditations: A New Translation”

“Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings” from penguin classics

Thanks for the suggestion. Just ordered along with Psycho Cybernetics which also gets a lot of recommendations

- Never Split The Difference

- 365 Tao: Daily Meditations

- How to win friends and influence people

Peopleware, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Difficult Conversations, On Writing Well

The subtle art of not giving a fuck, Mark Manson

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

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