9 must-read classics books like The Art of War/The Book Of Lord Shang by Sun Tzu

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The Art of War/The Book Of Lord Shang

By: Sun Tzu

4.02

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese his…

If you liked the classics plot in The Art of War/The Book Of Lord Shang by Sun Tzu , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The One Minute Manager

By: Spencer Johnson , Kenneth H. Blanchard

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"ضع الأهداف، امدح، انتقد السلوكيات، شجّع الناس، قل الحق، اضحك، اعمل، استمتع"

-Spencer Johnson, The One Minute Manager

"الناس تحتاج أن ترتبط بمن يهتمون بهم، ليشعروا بأنهم مقبولون وذوو قيمة لمجرد أنهم بشر (..) أيضاً أن الناس يحتاجون إلى معين ليجدوا من يهتم بهم، عندما يجانبهم الصواب ص 91"

-Spencer Johnson, The One Minute Manager

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2. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • classics
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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3. The 33 Strategies of War

By: Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 L… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"Life has more meaning in the face of Death."

-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

"Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it."

-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

"12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it."

-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

"The key to staying unintimidated is to convince yourself that the person you're facing is a mere mortal, no different from you-- which is in fact the truth. See the person, not the myth. Imagine him …"

-Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

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4. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • china
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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5. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

By: Stephen King

4.28

Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more

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"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"Ending is just another word for goodbye."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

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6. Song of Susannah

By: Stephen King , Darrel Anderson

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannahis at once a boo… read more

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7. The Drawing of the Three

By: Stephen King

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has be… read more

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8. Wizard and Glass

By: Stephen King , Dave McKean

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Roland of Gilead and his fellow pilgrims determine to reach the Dark Tower, but their quest is rife… read more

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9. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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10. The Wind Through the Keyhole

By: Stephen King , Jae Lee

5.00

Format: 160 pages,

Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Towe… read more

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11. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics

12. The Waste Lands

By: Stephen King , Ned Dameron

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as h… read more

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13. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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14. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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15. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history

16. Think and Grow Rich

By: Napoleon Hill , None , Bill Hartley , Ann Hartley

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This is the original 1937 version of Napoleon Hill's Classic Book: "Think and Grow Rich". To the gr… read more

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  • nonfiction

17. The Art of Always Being Right

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Which are the logical tricks that will let you slip through the net when faced with awkward questio… read more

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18. The Dogs of War

By: Frederick Forsyth

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Knocking off a bank or an armored truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I fe… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

"… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

"The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know wha…"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

19. Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca , Robin Campbell

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more

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20. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

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"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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21. The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more

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  • classics
"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

22. The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles… read more

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23. Metamorphosis and Other Stories

By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he t… read more

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24. Thinner

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more

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"Purpurfargade ansiktet"

-Stephen King, Thinner

"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

-Stephen King, Thinner

25. Wolves of the Calla

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Roland Deschain and his ka-tetare bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest… read more

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26. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

27. Snuff

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.35

Format: None pages,

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where n… read more

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28. Permanent Record

By: Edward Snowden

4.30

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

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29. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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30. Elevation

By: Stephen King

3.64

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confid… read more

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"adwawd"

-Stephen King, Elevation

"the past is history, the future's a mystery"

-Stephen King, Elevation

"The past is history, the future's a mystery."

-Stephen King, Elevation

"The town motto seems to be if you can't keep it on the down-low, then out you must go."

-Stephen King, Elevation

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31. The Art of War/The Book Of Lord Shang

By: Sun Tzu

4.02

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese his… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • leadership

9 Best history books like The Art of War/The Book Of Lord Shang by Sun Tzu

Transform Your Habits

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

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13 Best philosophy books like A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris, Lew Hartman

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Mastery

Robert Greene

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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