Blackout Reading List (2024-2025)

During a 156-day news and social media blackout, we focused on reading history, philosophy, classics, spiritual texts, and more.

Here’s what I read, categorized by theme.

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📚 Eternal Books

classics, timeless stories

• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• Middlemarch — George Eliot
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
• The Prince — Machiavelli
• The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
• Don Quixote — Cervantes
• The Odyssey — Homer
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Divine Comedy — Dante

🙏 Heavenly Books

scripture and spiritual literature

• Bhagavad Gita
• Romans
• Job
• Ecclesiastes
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse

🧠 Worldly Books

modern times, history, business

• The Cold War — John Lewis Gaddis
• Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman
• Never Enough — Andrew Wilkinson
• Founding Sales — Peter Kazanjy
• A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn
• 100M Offers — Alex Hormozi
• 100M Leads — Alex Hormozi
• Outlive - Peter Attia

💫 Other

fiction, children’s books, etc

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery
• The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
• Harry Potter 1 to 4 — J.K. Rowling
• Winnie the Pooh — A. A. Milne
• The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton
• Butcher’s Crossing — John Williams
• The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
• A Simpler Life — The School of Life
• The Art of Asking — Amanda Palmer