there’s a few repeats in here but you get the gist. read these and you might as well call yourself enlightened. top book on here imo is gervais principle. followed by beyond good and evil.

The 48 Laws of Power
36 Stratagems
Craft of Power
Power (J. Pfeiffer)
Biocentrism
50th Law
Art of Manipulation
Might is Right
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Book of Five Rings
The Way of the Superior Man
The Art of War
Art of War (Machiavelli)
On War
Chet Richards - Certain To Win
33 Strategies of War
The Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant
The Prince
JD Unwin books
The Republic
The Communist Manifesto
Rules for Radicals
Discourses on Livy
Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
The Art of Deception
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Charisma Myth
Social Intelligence
What Every Body is Saying
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading
You Can Read Anyone
Get Anyone to Do Anything
The Art of Seduction
The Mystery Method
Strangers To Ourselves - Timothy Wilson
Bang
The Natural
Models
the soul of man under socialism
Brainfluence
Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation
Influence: Science and Practice
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
Invisible Influence: The Power to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Made to Stick
Return on Relationship
Winning the Story Wars
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive
The Social Animal
Red Queen
Thinking Fast and Slow
Predictably Irrational
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Person and the Situation
The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence
Strangers to Ourselves
Sleights of Mind
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Without Conscience
The Psychopath Inside
The Mask of Sanity
A Psychopath's Guide to Success
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Snakes in Suits
NLP - the new technology of achievement
The will to meaning — victor frankl
How i raised myself from failure to success in selling — book
Peter Levine - awaken the tiger
Watch Children of the Corn movie
kurtz - heart of darkness
Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour by Helmut Shoeck
a mind for numbers - barbara oxley
NLP for dummies
michael ellsworth - the education of millionaires
talib naseem - the black swan
talib naseem - in the bed of precrusties
talib naseem — antifragile
anthony robbins - unlimited power
michio kaku - the future of the mind
Inner engineering yoga
Victor frankl - man search for meaning
Alexander The Great
steven pinker - enlightenment now
steven pinker - better angles of our nature
game of thrones
i and brain
watch dark knight and deadwood
watch glegory glenn ross
ryan holiday - all
nasim taleb - antifragile
charles duhigg - the power of habit
tucker max - all
foundation by asimov
the connector - malcom gladwell
the creature from jekyll island
1984
Think and grow rich
The way of the peaceful warrior
Animal farm
psycho cybernetics
Robert Coram - Boyd, the fighter pilot who changed the art of war
chet richard’s — certain to win
yes minister — yes prime minister
Red queen
predictably irrational
black red necks and white liberals
Faust
benjamin franklin autobiography
chimp paradox
Plato's Gorgias
Milton’s paradise lost
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
Augustine's Confessions
Descarte's Meditations
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
Spinoza's Ethics
Nietzche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
Steven M Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy.
For drama read the Greeks and things from Shakespeare's era:
7 habits of highly effective people
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
the craft of power
brian green fabric of the cosmos
Aeschylus' Oresteia
Sophocles' Theban Plays
Aristophanes' The Clouds
Sophocles' Theban Plays
Aristophanes' The Clouds
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man.
Shakespeare (read what interests you... I like the history plays)
Don't forget Ben Jonson and others
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
In God’s Underground
martin heiteger - being in time
the chimp paradox
power vs force
the evolution of civilizations - Caroll Quigley
Date with destiny - Tony Robbins
subliminal - how your unconscious mind runs your behavior
inner game - getting laid like a warlord
slave morality - nietzsche
The End of History and the Last Man.
The old man and the sea
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The brothers Karamazov
Thomas E. Gaddis: Panzram- a journal of murder
Napoleon hill - think and grow rich
george orwell: road to wigan pier
The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success
master morality - nietzsche
HG Wells - World Brain
Johnny got his gun — book
No campus for white men
tribal leadership — dave logan
Never Split The Difference, Negotiate As If your Life Depended On It
Let’s get drinks - the New Yorker
RooshV - return of the kings
the charisma myth
why men are the way they are
Trust Me I'm Lying Confessions of a Media Manipulator
vanketesh rao blog
Steve mconnel - software management book
The obstacle is the way — book
wilhelm reich — all
33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene
Tempo, Venkatesh Rao
The Joy of Selling, Steve Chandler
Propaganda, Edward Bernays
Influence: the Pyschology of Persuasion, Robert B Cialdini
How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie
Battle Leadership, Captain Adolf Von Schell
The soldiers load and the mobility of a nation, USMC
FMFM1, Warfighting, USMC
Tao Te Ching, any translation
The Prince, Machiavelli
Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara
on Guerrilla Warfare, Mao Tse-Tung
Soft Power, Joseph Nye
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
Rules for Radicals, Saul D Alinksy
Understanding Power: the indespensable Chomsky, Noam Chomsky
End The Fed, Ron Paul
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Ugly American, William J Lederer
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson
My Early Life, Winston Churchill
Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, Justice Abe Forbes
MoneyBall, Micheal Lewis
The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Ceasar
First to Fight, Krulak
Eagle Against the Sun, ???
Making the Future, Noam Chomsky
Imperial America, Gore Vidal
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Think and Grow Rich
As a Man Thinketh
The Science of Getting Rich
Revolution 2.0, Wael Ghonim
good strategy, bad strategy, ???
the redemptive self - william whyte
roush - pussy paradise
dan harris - 10% happier
neil gaymen - make good art
waking up on sam harris
the master and his emissary - book
tara brock
Sapiens - Yuval Harari
what you say when you talk to yourself
the power of your subconscious mind
7 day mental diet
walter isaacson — ben franklin
james fodaman - microdosing
Don’t shoot the dog - book
Modern romance - book
Fantasyland - book
The drama of the gifted child - book
a wandering mind is an unhappy mind - paper
zero to one - peter thiel
paradise lost - john milton
walter isaacson — innovators
joseph epstein - ambition
rich dad poor dad — book
Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity - book
influence — book
power vs force - freedik dodson
levels of energy - david dodson
the slight edge - jeff olson
spark — book
eric braverman - younger you
ultramind solution - mark hymand
transurfing — vadim zeland
restoring pride — richard taylor
Gorilla Mindset - Mike Cernovich
Without Conscience' by the famous Robert D.
50th law
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
No Excuses, The Power Of Self Discipline
dumbing us down - john taylor gatto
practical female psychology
napoleon hill - think and grow rich
the believing brain - book
Bhagavad Gita - book
paul stossman — the business value of computers
tribe - book DONE
from good to great - book
anti fragile - book
meditations - marcus aurelius
obstacle is the way - ryan holiday
thinking fast and slow - book
high output management - andy grove
the origins and history on consciousness
noyman - jung
10/10
briffault’s law
hold on to your nuts
the manual w anton
naked david wygant
the art of seduction
the natural by richard loverina
crowser pua
daorock rational male
the little prince
elliott hulse — mental prison
the red queen — ridley
Ernest Becker's — Denial of Death
tribe — book
my secret garden
raising kanye — donda west
the myth of male power
the virtue of selfishness by Ayn rand
the winner effect
extreme ownership
improvement of the mind - watts
joseph campbell - heroes journey
Enchiridion
Gates of Fire
War of Art
Other special case books I've seen:
When I say no I feel guilty
Iron John (roots of masculine rites of passage)
Wild at heart (for Christian men)
Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Tom bilyeu - impact theory
the power of myth
The hero with a thousand faces
BF Skinner Books
built to last
"What everybody is saying", Joe Navarro
Impro, Keith Johnstone
Reframing, Richard Bandler and John Grinder
Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
Impro By Keith Johnstone
The great leveler - Walter shydel
sell or be sold - grant cadone
games people play - eric berne
The Organization Man
Images Of Organization
asimov foundation series
kicksss copywriting secrets of a marketing rebel
rich dad poor dad
bachelor pad economics
Ordinary men - Robert browning
Steven pinker - blank slate
Asimov - zeroth law
22 immutable laws of marketing - the law of category the blue ocean strategy
Small giants - bo burningham
nietzche - all
Kierkegaard - all
adler - all
niconamchean ethics - aristotle
maslow - all
Power, Freedom and Grace by Deepak Chopra.
king warrior magician lover
girl logic - book
shortness of life by seneca
Tom Day - Who We Want to Be"
AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN
Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Hero's Journey
john stuart mill - on liberty
illimitable man
Ben greenfield
Victor Hugo
the black swan - n taleb
Karen Horney - neurosis and human growth
the subtle art of not giving a fuck
ride the tiger and revolt against the modern world
The way of the superior man
genius of the modern world - nietzsche netflix
letters from a stoic
extreme ownership - jock
fuck your feelings - michael bennet
gorilla mindset
faster than normal
donovan
think and grow rich
outwitting the devil - napoleon hill
the willpower instinct
wild at heart
how i found freedom in an unfree world - harry browne
the undefeated mind - alex lickerman
a guide to the good life - the ancient art of stoic joy
emotional intelligence 2.0
verbal judo
essentialism - gregg mckewoen
what women want when they test men
benefits of colds showers youtube - comfort zone killer
the way of the iceman - wim hof
how to talk to anyone - 92 tricks
The secret - movie
Good to great - Jim collins
pomodoro technique
total money makeover - dave ramsey
mindset - carol dweck
Matthew Walker - Why We Sleep
nicholas carr - the shallows
the art of worldly wisdom
Keith simmenton - origins of genius
le bon - psychology of the masses
the power of intention
the mentalist - tv show
compelling people
war and peace
How to Say What You Mean & Get What You Want
Gustave Le Bob - The Crowd
virus of the mind
the essential drucker - peter drucker (especially chapter 3)
mastery robert greene
the game
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Power: Why Some People Have It - and Others Don't by David Drummond and Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Nine Laws Book by Ivan Throne
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Book by Gustave Le Bon
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements Book by Eric Hoffer
Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want by Rintu Basu
Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship Book by Steve Cohen
Ikigai by Sebastian Marshall
The Craft Of Power
33 Strategies of War
7 habits of effective people
the 36 stratagems
words that work
art of war
the crowd a study of the popular mind
Pre-Suasion" and "Influence: The science of Persuasion"
The Forbidden keys to persuasion"
The Crowd
group psychology and the analysis of the ego
Methods of Persuasion
the happiness trap
the gift of fear
illimitable man blog
power of habit by charles duhigg
BAADER-MEINHOF PHENOMENON
Ender’s game
Extreme Ownership - book
art of manipulation
sun tzu — death ground
gonzo - hunter s thompson
Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman