Books You Should Read Before Dying (Updated March 2025)

The title says it all, let’s get straight to it.

Photo by Ying Ge on Unsplash

I’ve read a few books throughout my short lifetime of 24 years, here are the top books that changed my life’s perspective. New books will be added when I get the time to finish reading them.

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Enchiridion by Epictetus
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Unexplored Self by Carl G. Jung
• The Four Archetypes by Carl G. Jung
• Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Knight in Rusty Armor by Robert Fisher
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia, and Francesc Miralles
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Douglas Gillette and Robert L. Moore
• Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Shinoda Bolen