During my first semester as a bachelor’s student, I started a personal habit of reading outside my academic field to avoid becoming too narrowly focused. Over time, I challenged myself to read one book per week, and this practice stayed with me for over six years. Along the way, I explored more than 200 books on various topics, from literature to psychology and philosophy.
Later, during my master’s program, I began reading books in English to improve my language skills and access original texts. This allowed me to engage more directly with the material without depending on translations.
Below are some of the books I’ve read that left a lasting impression on me. For those I read in translation before switching to English, I’ve noted them accordingly.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in…
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between…
The Psychology of Money: Timeless…
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to…
The 1% Rule: How to…
It’s not working.
Not only is it not working with our ability to achieve our goals, we’ve never been…
Eat Move Sleep: How Small…
Eat Move Sleep will help make good decisions automatic – more than a book – this is a new way…
One Small Step Can Change…
Improve your life fearlessly with this essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady…
Hidden Potential: The Science of…
We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and…
The Seven Principles for Making…
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman’s unprecedented…
The 5 Love Languages: The…
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge! How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid…
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art…
An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer’s yearlong quest to improve his memory under…
The Art of the Good…
A simple path to happiness doesn’t exist. Rolf Dobelli, businessman and founder of the TED-style conference World Minds, has synthesized…
The Art of Thinking Clearly…
Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it? Or continued doing something you knew…
The Consolations of Philosophy (Persian…
Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The ancient Greek Epicurus has the wisest,…
Counsels and Maxims (Persian Translation)
So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the…
Sapiens: A Brief History of…
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo…
A Philosophy of Loneliness (Persian…
For many of us it is the ultimate fear: to die alone. Loneliness is a difficult subject to address because…
The Stranger (Persian Translation)
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus’s first novel, The Stranger (L’etranger), has had a profound impact…
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Persian Translation)
Winston Smith spends his days rewriting history to fit the narrative that his government wants citizens to believe. But as…
Mindset: The New Psychology of…
After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power…