What are some books that actually helped you out?
Be it self-help, fiction or guides.
I used to hate reading all my life but I've come to a point where I require knowledge about different things.
Mainly on how to overcome mental issues, finances and finding oneself (no book will show me the way but definitely give insights).

I've been suffering from social anxiety and depression for as long as puberty has started. I have a degree which lets me go to uni but I've never done so since I have no idea on what I want to do.

Leave some of your suggestions here so I can legally acquire them in a bookstore near me.

>>33273061 (OP)
The manga "Real" by Takehiko Inoue genuinely made me un-NEET myself and care about life.
I would recommend that :)

In terms of other books, there is a collection of teal blue books by Pelican that cover a range of topics - most of these are pretty good.
There is also the "Teach yourself" series of books - normally yellow or formerly white with the teach yourself in a yellow box. These are sort of like the pelican books above but can be more structured introductions to topics. I know there are some from these series that cover mental illnesses, psychology and financial stuff.

If you want a general comprehensive reading list, Harvard has a series of books called the Harvard classics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics) and Encyclopedia Britannica has a similar thing called Great Books of the Western world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World). Both of these are lots of classics, or books which they felt were worth reading.

>>33273061 (OP)
reading won't help. You can read as many books as you like and larp any philosophy and religion but in the end you'll realize you only fooled yourself and it was only cope

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>>33274931
I didn't expect manga to pop up but since I like reading that will gladly take it.
The rest seem not to be my type but trying won't hurt.

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>>33275114
These helped you overcome social anxiety?

>>33275052
I know that much, hence I seek practical knowledge

>>33273061 (OP)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
one of the classics, can mean a lot of things to different people, and you should already have a general idea of the story and characters from cultural osmosis. also just a fun read

>>33273061 (OP)
I haven't read The Art of Lifting but I've consumed so much fitness content and can see that everything in it is good. Just don't take creatine (unless you're already bald).
I haven't read Hagakure but I recently watched a MDE video on it and found the lines inspiring.
I haven't read People Skills but I feel like it's probably quite good. More concise than textbooks on interpersonal skills, focuses on the universal basics of communication.

>>33273061 (OP)
I don't know. I used to be obsessed with reading but it never affected my life in any way beyond entertainment.

Brave New World
Elementary Particles
Industrial Society And Its Future
Never Split The Difference
Discipline And Punish
The 4-Hour Work Week
Traction
Technological Slavery
Zero to One


I realize this list seems heavily contradictory but if you take the information in the books and not their ideological message ("ideological" meaning pro-capitalist as much as techno-skeptical or postmodern) you have what feels like a crystal ball into the future and maybe not recurring but rhyming historical patterns. If you're intellectually brave enough, this allows the dispelling of moral and cultural detritus that weighs like a nightmare on our lives.

Feeling Good.
Goodbye, Things.
Reverend Insanity.
Helped in the sense I’m still trying and not killing myself. But effectively a NEET.

>>33276972
I ~~downloaded~~ bought some of them and checked them out, I especially like "Goodbye, Things" since it has many images and gets straight to the point.
Always been interested in Minimalism since I'm somewhat of an emotional hoarder.
Thanks.

>>33276194
These are useful too. NotRelated xyz has a few good episodes on Gigerenzer and Feyerabend's books.

Marcus Aurelius Meditations.
Marie Kondo’s magic of tidying up, unironically.

>>33277354
I literally cleaned my room because of that book.