I have been asked for book recommendations enough times that an enduring list is overdue.

Those with (*) I re-read approximately annually.

Interpersonal Effectiveness

• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)*
• High Output Management (Groves)*
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Gracian, Jacobs trans.)*
• Other ‘courtier manual’ literature:
  • Maxims and Reflections, ‘Ricordi’ (Guicciardini, Domandi trans.)
  • Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (la Rochefoucald, Blackmore trans.)

Equanimity

• The Mind Illuminated (Yates)
• On the Shortness of Life (Seneca)*
• Other ‘Stoic’ literature:
  • Enchiridion (Epictetus)*
  • Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)*
  • Ecclesiastes *

Historical Perspective

• Tuxedo Park (Conant)
• The Last Warrior (Krepinevich)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Rhodes)
• Bury the Chains (Hochschild)
• The Box (Levinson)