I see entrepreneur types reading (or at least recommending) books which are visibly “beneficial”. As in the premise of the book is that you’ll get some kind of immediate “profit” out of it. Those books are always on the lines of “Do X in Y way”, or “Best X” or something that’s just typical self-help book but dressed in philosophy and that “deep thinking” thingie (whateverthat means; as if fiction writers wrote thinking shallow).

Anyway such lists are very depressing to look at. Feels like you were expecting a diverse spread at the meal table and all you got was make believe chips, and biscuits made of pure plastic which you’re maybe just supposed to chew on for sometime and then spit out — you do that because others do that and well it’s the fashion. Most of this list just feels like that.

It could have been just one shelf at an airport bookshop listed top to bottom with few exceptions.