Jared Leto is an American actor and musician, known for his roles in movies like "Requiem for a Dream" and "Dallas Buyers Club," for which he won an Academy Award. He is also the lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
4 books on the list
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Recommended by: Jared Leto, Bill Gates
Jared LetosourceYou'll be incredibly moved by the book
In his novel "Mountains Beyond Mountains," Kidder describes the life and reasons run through which a man like Dr. Paul Farmer is quote, "committed to improving health care in some of the world's poorest regions." The author's articulation does show a picture of a man powerfully striving to find solutions to global health crises and, by extension, other travails, in so doing, providing an encouraging glimpse at how the efforts of just one person can make very substantial differences in the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Recommended by: Jared Leto
This novel reinvents the life of a renowned American president, reimagining his life in some historical event but with some concealed supernatural angle that looks at him as a secret hunter of the undead. Including every historical fact with fantasy, this astonishing novel presents an imaginative and riveting view of history's most famous figure.
The Way Out
Recommended by: Jared Leto
Jared LetosourceHighly recommend this great book for anyone that is dealing with chronic pain
An exciting approach to chronic pain, The Way Out offers versions of mind-body cures that have set thousands on the road to freedom from suffering. Combining the latest in insights to brain science from both areas of neuroscience and psychology with practical strategies, Gordon and Ziv demonstrate how it is possible to retrain the brain to drop senseless pain and forge a recovery path without medicine.
Finn
Recommended by: Jared Leto
Jared LetosourceOn the plane re-reading one of the best American novels ever written called FINN by @jonclinch
This is a novel that plunges into the dark and turbulent life of a man born and made by violence and retaliation. It is an immersion into the dark and turbulent life. The story gives a deep look at the forces of heritage and environment, drawing a grim painting of familial legacy and personal destiny.
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