New Books to read in spare time??

I got my offer, now I have got nothing to do. Never did I think that I would be asking for books to read, but here I am. Someone recommended that I read Monkey Business, which honestly was pretty good and informative. If anyone has any other book recs, or honestly anything else I should be doing as well that would be great. I am honestly so bored now that I have my next summer offer, I have no idea how to waste time after my current internship ends. 

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Red Notice is a financial-esque book, about a south side Chicago kid who ends up running his own hedge fund out of the UK. All his investments and most of the book takes place in Russia. Extremely interesting and sheds some light on what happened in the Russian equity market when Lenin brought Communism to Russia. 

The Shining is an extremely good book if you like horror (plot is pretty well known). 

 Fearless by Eric Blehm is extremely good. All about a Navy SEAL (Adam Brown) who faced extreme adversity, which started pre-SEALS. Part of the reason the book is so interesting is because he tries to join the SEALS later in life after failing at almost everything else (really strikes a cord if you've ever felt like you fucked up your own life). I like reading about SEALs a lot and imho this topped both Lone Survivor and American Sniper. It was truly gut wrenching to read about Adam's ups and downs. 

 

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