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Best Books To Frame Thinking
Books from various genres that help shape and contour how to conceive reality in the 21st Century.
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Marx and Satan
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Liberalism and Social Action (Great Books in Philosophy)
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3.79 avg rating — 226 ratings
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New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Killer Angel: A Short Biography of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret Sanger
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George Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Islamic medicine
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4.27 avg rating — 314 ratings
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How to skate a 10k
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4.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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De mechanisering van het wereldbeeld
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4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Plague Of Liberalism
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Now You are a Mother
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4.02 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Doktor Erich Kästners Lyrische Hausapotheke
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4.30 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Whole Child, Whole Parent
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4.28 avg rating — 109 ratings
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சே குவேரா [Che Guevara]
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4.37 avg rating — 434 ratings
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O God: A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah's Spirituality
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3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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LOVING OUR PARENTS
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4.47 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession
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3.35 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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4.05 avg rating — 131,150 ratings
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Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches
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4.15 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,447 ratings
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The Valley Came Alive - Vol III
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4.44 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Updated Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It - And Use It to Better Your Life (TWO) (Volume 2)
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
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4.09 avg rating — 9,862 ratings
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
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4.14 avg rating — 39,789 ratings
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Quran and Modern Science
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4.43 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
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3.93 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
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3.84 avg rating — 51,136 ratings
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion (Oxford Handbooks)
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John Corrigan (Editor)
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Sunan An-Nasa'i
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4.62 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
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3.92 avg rating — 832 ratings
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The Genius of Muhammad
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4.13 avg rating — 9,256 ratings
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Salman Al-Farsi May Allah be Pleased with Him
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Darussalam (Editor)
4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 42,
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Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
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4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Mountain People
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3.80 avg rating — 677 ratings
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Atlas of the Islamic conquests Part I
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3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century World
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Leonard Sweet (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Honorable Wives of the Prophet
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4.27 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
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3.96 avg rating — 2,762 ratings
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How to invite people to Allah
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4.40 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Don't Become Angry
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4.51 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
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3.75 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Egyptian Mysteries: An Account of an Initiation
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4.10 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction
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Diogenes Allen (Editor)
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Bubbles: Spheres I
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4.30 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire: Western Influence, Local Institutions, and the Transfer of Knowledge
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn
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3.70 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
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4.02 avg rating — 4,543 ratings
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Strategies of Prophet Muhammad
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4.35 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church
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3.91 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
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4.30 avg rating — 7,034 ratings
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Golden Stories of Sayyida Khadijah
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4.50 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens
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3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings
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End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture , Volume III
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4.05 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Fortress of the Muslim
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4.70 avg rating — 2,926 ratings
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
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James K.A. Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II
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4.10 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry
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4.14 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
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3.97 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Het civilisatieproces. Sociogenetische en psychogenetische onderzoekingen
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4.24 avg rating — 977 ratings
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Gravity's Rainbow
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4.01 avg rating — 47,228 ratings
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Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work (The Pastoral series, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,416 ratings
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Cultural Resistance Reader
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Stephen Duncombe (Editor)
4.07 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Sferen
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The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings
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4.27 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Het kristalpaleis: Een filosofie van de globalisering
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3.95 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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Democracy in America
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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
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3.92 avg rating — 5,942 ratings
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science & Spirituality
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Golden Stories of Accepted Prayers
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4.60 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Science and Islam: A History
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Excellent. I've read all of the top twenty five save the exact Chomsky titles (though I've read plenty of his work, and his key points tend to be stable), "Green Illusions," and "Hot Flat and Crowded" -- though I confess that I started the book, but never finished. Not sure why...
Great list! Thank you, Charles, for starting it and everyone else for building it up. I'm tempted to put every one of 'em on my to-read list, except for the mere half dozen or so I've read.
Leo wrote: "Excellent. I've read all of the top twenty five save the exact Chomsky titles (though I've read plenty of his work, and his key points tend to be stable), "Green Illusions," and "Hot Flat and Crowd..."So what would it look like for these top titles to actually shape the thinking of leaders?
Lacewing wrote: "Great list! Thank you, Charles, for starting it and everyone else for building it up. I'm tempted to put every one of 'em on my to-read list, except for the mere half dozen or so I've read."You are welcome! How are you coming on the reading?
Maybe add Nassim Taleb's Black Swan as a complement to the Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Fantastic list. I've added a few of these to my To Read list.
Awesome list!! Thanks for creating it. Definitely reading some of these for my 2016 reading challenge :)
Too much Pinker, but this is a f*ing good list
Great list! I think I'll contribute a few books to this list too.
Gotta say, this is the best list I've ever seen on the goodreads. Thank you
commenting so I can remember where this list is
Valerie wrote: "This is like, ALL white men"If for some reason you don't want to read European authors, just in the top 100: Jared Diamond, Naomi Klein, Viktor Frankl, Howard Zinn, Daniel Kahneman, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens, Saul Alinsky, Yuval Noah Harari, Franz Kafka, Douglas Hofstadter, Carl Sagan, Thomas Kuhn, Jared Diamond, M. Scott Peck, Dan Ariely, David Graeber, Charles Murray, William Deresiewicz, Steven Levitt, Thomas Friedman, Jonathan Haidt, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jonathan Safran Foer are Jewish (plus the Bible, obviously), Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daron Acemoğlu, and Edward Said are also Near Eastern but not Jewish, Malcolm Gladwell, Paulo Freire, and Gustavo Gutierrez are Hispanic, Mohandas Gandhi is Indian, and Martin Luther King, Jr. is African.
It seems like much more of a Judeocentric than a Eurocentric list to me, but I agree that it's totally androcentric.
It is still mostly white men. and one Nazi person (Martin Heidegger)
The list is so race-blind that I am guessing the author probably thought Gandhi and Martin Luther King ,Jr are also white.
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