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Contribution Guidelines

What is the criteria for adding a new book?

The mission of this list is to curate books that can change the life of people for better after reading them.

So you should add a book that have changed your life for better!!

Here are some questions that you can potemtially ask to help make this descion. If the answer is yes to most of them feel free to create a pull request!

  1. If you have the money to gift a book to the entire college graduates of this year would you gift this book?
  2. Would you gift this book to your children at any point in their life?
  3. If there are only 3 books that you can keep a physical copy of in your life, would this book be one of them?
  4. Would your life would have been better off have you read this book 10 years back?
  5. Would this book be relevant 1000 years from now?

How to create a pull request?

  • Search existing books in README.md and make sure that you are not adding a duplicate.
  • Insert the book in the following format in README.md. Don't change any other files. | Book name | Author | [Goodreads rating](Goodreads url) | Year published |
  • Make sure that the book is inserted in the correct order according to the Goodreads rating.
  • Mention in pull request clearly why you think the book deserve to be in the list.

Thank you!