What is the best book you've ever read?

Ulysses by James Joyce

not a self help book, not about investing, but it will improve the quality of your life more than either of those.

Do The Work by Steven Pressfield

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour

Well that is a pretty broad question. Since you are into Black Medicine and self help, I would suggest looking for books on performing witchcraft or a guide to being a warlock.

Black Med Student wrote:

Figure I might as well do a little reading before school starts back. I'm not into romance or fantasy, but self help books for young men and books about investing are interesting. Any suggestions?

I don't read these type of books, but my favorite Fiction books are "Catcher In The Rye", "On The Road" and "Last of the Mohicans"

Your title question asks my opinion of my reading yet the question in the body of the post asks for suggestions in a well defined range: self help for young men.

as it happens I have one that is spot on on for you.

Sexual Health for Men: Your A to Z Guide by Dr. Michael A. Carrera -Thomas Hunter Professor Emeritus of Health Sciences at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York

A real enjoyable book that I loved was Kane and Abel. I loved many of the shorter works by Melville.

The best self-help investment book ever written is "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir and the first investor and effective father of Facebook.

Crime and Punishment

But for those with less time on their hands. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

To Kill a Mockingbird. By Harper Lee. Read it. You'll thank me.

Six Wives of Henry VIII -Alison Weir

He epitomized everything unjust with the patriarchy

1984. Orwell. Take a look around.

Heart of Darkness. Conrad.

Black Med Student wrote:

Figure I might as well do a little reading before school starts back. I'm not into romance or fantasy, but self help books for young men and books about investing are interesting. Any suggestions?

The Money Game by Adam Smith ( A.K.A. George Goodman).

Life Outside the Oval Office:

The Track Less Traveled

by the great Nick Symmonds.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Neither romance nor fantasy, very entertaining and some of the best writing I have ever seen. It is pretty long though, but definitely worth it.

I have a few clear choices for books on investing. They do not all agree with one another on everything, but they are all worth reading, and you will see common themes among them. Make sure to get the most recent editions. (They should be readily available on amazon.com.)

-A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton Malkiel (2014 ed.)

-Irrational Exuberance, by Robert Shiller (2015 ed.)

-Stocks for the Long Run, by Jeremy Siegel (2014 ed.)

John C. (Jack) Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard Funds and the father of the index fund, has also written a number of very good books, including Common Sense on Mutual Funds and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing. Again, get the most recent edition if possible.

Among self-help books, a simple and timeless classic is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.

I'm not big on fiction, but that merely reflects my own limitations. Someone else mentioned James Joyce's Ulysses, which is quite a challenge. I generally prefer Joyce's earlier and shorter works, Dubliners (a collection of short stories, including The Dead) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I recently returned to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, which I first read many years ago.

This may seem like an odd choice, but I have really enjoyed a number of Roger Ebert's books on films, including his several collections of essays on "the great movies." I also enjoyed his autobiography "Life Itself," which was published about a year before he died.

If you're not familiar with any popular writing on economics (particularly the burgeoning field of behavioral economics), consider something like Freakonomics, by Levitt and Dubner.

Lastly, although his work has been the subject of some criticism, I feel obliged to mention one of Letsrun.com's best-known fans, Malcolm Gladwell, a very good writer who provides much food for thought in his various bestsellers, such as Blink and Outliers.

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse

The Awakening of Intelligence by Krishnamurti

Black Med Student wrote:

Figure I might as well do a little reading before school starts back. I'm not into romance or fantasy, but self help books for young men and books about investing are interesting. Any suggestions?

When Life's Not Working: 7 Simple Choices For A Better Tomorrow by Bob Merritt. Wonderful, practical advice for building a great life. Finances, career, relationships, health. I wish I'd read it when I was 20. It is written from a Biblical/Christian perspective, so take that as you wish. I even think an unbeliever would benefit from reading it.

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Black Med Student wrote:

but self help books for young men

The Sun Also Rises