What are some books every young man should read by 30? Or non gender specific. Needing some wholistic wisdom for my basic white kid ass.

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Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Blood Done Sign My Name - Timothy Tyson
Tribe - Sebastian Junger

^ there are many, many more. These, however, are an incredibly valuable core set that anyone in America should read. They are powerful explorations of the topics of practical wisdom, race, meaning, suffering, and belonging. All made a tremendous impact on me.

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The Bible. Also DU booklets.

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The constitution of the United States of America🇺🇸

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Oldies but should still be required reading: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Invisible Man, Native Son. Anything by Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes.

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I hate the idea of using Asia as a catalyst to reflect about life.

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Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The subtle art of not giving a fuck

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Op - travel to Asia and spend some time with people very different from you. No book can beat those experiences.

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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

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Exit West. It's about why immigrants immigrate.

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Heart of Darkness. Atlas Shrugged. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

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Playboy.

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Mowgli - rudyard kipling

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Second that. Also add Quran

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Between the World and Me - Coates

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To kill a mockingbird, if you haven't read it already.

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This Side of Paradise - F Scott Fitzgerals. The Magus - John Fowler. Red Notice - Bill Browder (to remind you how money isnt everything)

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The Bluest Eye by Morrison. Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee.

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