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“I cannot live without books”
-Thomas Jefferson

I'm a 25 year old man. Lots of my friends have asked me for a list of damn good books. I have chosen these books because I love to learn about life through stories. In compiling this list, I asked myself which books had the most lasting effects, what books have I reread multiple times and discovered something new on each read, what books have helped shaped my mind and given me morsels of truth and inspiration. These are books I could not live without.

One of the amazing things about life however, is that even though we share some of the same experiences, we have taken unique paths and each seek our own truths. These books have spoken to me differently than they will to you. Maybe you won’t even like some of them, and that’s fine, this list is infinitely important to me but mere suggestions to you. That is why I tried to breakdown some of the main lessons with the “are you looking for” description for each story. There is also no way to rank these books, they all simply fit into the indispensible category. In the same way that sometimes you need to listen to a folksy girl singer and other times you need to get pumped up to a rock song at full volume, at different times in our lives, we need to experience different lessons. I hope that some of these novels touch your soul and inspire your thoughts. Perhaps some will move from just a book you’ve heard about into the very fabric of your soul through reading. Good luck. I ultimately hope that someday you send me your own list of books you could not live without. In the meantime, enjoy and keep on rockin’ in the free world.
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