From an email conversation with Tyler Cowen:
My reading was much different when I was younger. I would more likely intensively engage with some important book totally full of new ideas. Hayek. Parfit. Plato. And so on. There just aren't books like that left for me anymore. So I read many more, to learn bits, but haven't in years experienced a "view quake." That is sad, to me at least, but I don't know how to avoid how that has turned out. So enjoy your best reading years while you can!
Post your quake books in the comments.
Edit: Some of mine--
Meditations
Epictetus
Atlas Shrugged
Fight Club
War of Art
Great Gatsby
Rules for Radicals
The Power Broker
Posted by ryanholiday at 8:48 PM