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Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations: The Annotated Edition

Marcus Aurelius

384 pages • first pub 180 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction classics history philosophy informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Hardship and Happiness by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hardship and Happiness

Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

318 pages • first pub 64 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction classics philosophy challenging slow-paced
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy

Antony and Cleopatra

Adrian Goldsworthy

470 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction biography history informative tense slow-paced
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control by Ryan Holiday

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

Stoic Virtue Series

Ryan Holiday

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz

Led Zeppelin: The Biography

Bob Spitz

688 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction informative medium-paced
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness

Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

Steve Magness

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.5wryanmelson's review
nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood

Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic

Josiah Osgood

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction history
Seneca Six Pack - On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic (Illustrated) (Six Pack Classics Book 4) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Aubrey Stewart, Richard Mott Gummere, Francis Caldwell Holland, Ella Isabel Harris

Seneca Six Pack - On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic (Illustrated) (Six Pack Classics Book 4)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Aubrey Stewart, Richard Mott Gummere, Francis Caldwell Holland, Ella Isabel Harris

missing page info • first pub 55 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine

The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient

William B. Irvine

192 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0wryanmelson's review
nonfiction philosophy psychology self help informative reflective slow-paced
The Pocket Stoic by John Sellars

The Pocket Stoic

John Sellars

64 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.5wryanmelson's review
nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced