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Mahatma Gandhi Recommended Books
Mahatma Gandhi has recommended 9 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist.
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The Bhagavad Gita
"[This book] became an infallible guide of conduct. It became my dictionary of daily reference." - Mahatma Gandhi (Source)
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recommended this bookAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recommended this book on Twitter.
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Wim Hof recommended this bookWim Hof
Wim Hof's answer to "What do you give to people as gifts?"
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Naval Ravikant recommended this bookNaval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.
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Paulo Coelho recommended this bookPaulo Coelho
"A book that everybody should read." - Paulo Coelho
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Unto This Last
by John Ruskin
"I could not get any sleep that night. I was determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals of [this book]." - Mahatma Gandhi (Source)
The Kingdom of God is Within You
by Leo Tolstoy
"Reading [this book] cured me of my scepticism and made me a firm believer in Ahimsa." - Mahatma Gandhi (Source)
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Mahatma Gandhi read this book. (Source)
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J.K. Rowling recommended this bookJ.K. Rowling
A literary discovery that may have influenced [J.K. Rowling's] alleged intention to kill off Harry Potter at the end of book seven.
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Amelia Boone recommended this bookAmelia Boone
"Remains one my favorites to this day." - Amelia Boone
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Oprah Winfrey recommended this bookOprah Winfrey
"Such a beautiful book. I love this book." - Oprah Winfrey
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Christopher Hitchens recommended this bookChristopher Hitchens
"[The author] essentially recast his friend Thomas Carlyle’s pessimistic version of the French Revolution in fictional form in [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens
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Maya Angelou recommended this bookMaya Angelou
"[This author], I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely." - Maya Angelou
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
by Plato
Mahatma Gandhi read this book. (Source)
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
"Effective condemnation of modem civilization, written in an ironic vein." - Mahatma Gandhi (Source)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson recommended this bookNeil deGrasse Tyson
"To learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Mark Twain recommended this bookMark Twain
Mark Twain recommended this book in a letter.
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Alice Walker recommended this bookAlice Walker
"I was 11 when I read it and it encouraged me to believe the world was large, fascinating, and with incredibly interesting creatures in it!" - Alice Walker
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Winston Churchill recommended this bookWinston Churchill
"One of the books I would like to take with me to Purgatory." - Winston Churchill
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Ethical Religion
by William Mackintire Salter
Mahatma Gandhi read this book. (Source)
India
What Can It Teach Us?
by Max F. Muller
Mahatma Gandhi read this book. (Source)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
"Portrays a mass of facts in his own imitable style." - Mahatma Gandhi (Source)
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Elon Musk recommended this bookElon Musk
"[The author]'s famous book." - Elon Musk
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Stewart Brand recommended this bookStewart Brand
Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
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