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Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?

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  1. The power of the mind 1 mention

    Josef Morphy

    The power of the mind — Josef Morphy: 1 mentions, rank 1
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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 13 Arts and letters 28 Politics and public life 9 Business and finance 19 Technology 8 Sport 4
Read by age Any age Before thirty 3 In their thirties 7 In their forties 10 In their fifties 21 In their sixties 14 Seventy and beyond 8
Larry King Broadcaster; host of Larry King Live on CNN, 1985–2010
I guess, through life, it’s Catcher in the Rye . I love that book. I read it at four different times in my life. Teenager and later.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗

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