Soman Chainani
Soman Chainani is an acclaimed American author and filmmaker, best known for his bestselling fantasy series, "The School for Good and Evil."
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The Neverending Story
An amazing book. - Soman Chainani
Michael Ende
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Tao Te Ching
I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it. - Soman Chainani
Lao Tzu
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Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Soman Chainani referenced this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Ebenezer Howard
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The Little Mermaid
You look at The Little Mermaid [movie]. Arielle should die brutally in that movie because she’s an idiot, a complete idiot. [...] To read the original [book], where she dies at the end, suddenly made sense. - Soman Chainani
Hans Christian Andersen
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The Velvet Rage
Ostensibly about if you grow up a gay man, [how] to deal with it in the world. But I think it’s more about modern masculinity and about what it means to be a man in America. - Soman Chainani
Alan Downs
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The War of Art
Half drill sergeant, half Zen voodoo master, [the author] shot me out of my stupor and taught me the meaning of creative discipline. - Soman Chainani
Steven Pressfield
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Cirque du Soleil
One of my favorite books. - Soman Chainani
John U. Bacon
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The Graveyard Book
Soman Chainani referenced this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Neil Gaiman
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Peter Pan
Featured a title character who was at once charming and also a complete narcissistic, pathological demon. It was that ambiguous space between good and evil that I sparked to as a kid. - Soman Chainani
J. M. Barrie
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A Little Life
The greatest work of fiction I’ve ever read, with the simplest theme: All of us come with baggage and wounds and pain; all of us. - Soman Chainani
Hanya Yanagihara
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Exposed me to the original Grimm’s stories, which are horrific and dark and insane. And half the time, the evil character wins and half the time the good character wins. - Soman Chainani
Maria Tatar
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