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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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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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Manifesto of the Free People's Union
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Jakub Lasak (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 899,
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| 103 |
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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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3.74 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
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4.07 avg rating — 4,788 ratings
score: 840,
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| 105 |
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The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
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4.12 avg rating — 4,902 ratings
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| 106 |
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Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 80,272 ratings
score: 771,
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| 107 |
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,400,326 ratings
score: 761,
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,013 ratings
score: 745,
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| 109 |
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 112,125 ratings
score: 744,
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| 110 |
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
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4.06 avg rating — 4,576 ratings
score: 739,
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| 111 |
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 212,538 ratings
score: 725,
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| 112 |
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.28 avg rating — 116,091 ratings
score: 719,
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| 113 |
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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4.02 avg rating — 8,567 ratings
score: 718,
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| 114 |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 771,040 ratings
score: 710,
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| 115 |
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 696,
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| 116 |
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 695,
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| 117 |
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 214,166 ratings
score: 694,
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| 118 |
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,707 ratings
score: 681,
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| 119 |
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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4.12 avg rating — 281,740 ratings
score: 672,
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
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4.15 avg rating — 5,451 ratings
score: 670,
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| 121 |
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.24 avg rating — 23,490 ratings
score: 650,
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After Virtue
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4.18 avg rating — 6,227 ratings
score: 648,
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,538 ratings
score: 644,
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| 124 |
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,349,378 ratings
score: 642,
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The Glass Bead Game
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4.10 avg rating — 41,597 ratings
score: 637,
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| 126 |
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 119,956 ratings
score: 634,
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| 127 |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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3.78 avg rating — 242,536 ratings
score: 630,
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| 128 |
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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4.03 avg rating — 4,196 ratings
score: 624,
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 73,049 ratings
score: 624,
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Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
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3.89 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 621,
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The China-America Alliance: East Asian and American Cultural Values Promote Global Harmony
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4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 599,
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| 132 |
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The Prophet
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4.23 avg rating — 323,172 ratings
score: 584,
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,465,978 ratings
score: 574,
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| 134 |
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Nowhere Boulevard
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 564,
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A Secular Age
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4.27 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
score: 555,
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,103,286 ratings
score: 551,
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 221,656 ratings
score: 543,
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| 138 |
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Cornel West Reader (Basic Civitas Book)
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4.27 avg rating — 862 ratings
score: 540,
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| 139 |
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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4.06 avg rating — 2,530 ratings
score: 532,
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| 140 |
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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
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Peter Singer (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 6,769 ratings
score: 527,
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| 141 |
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Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer
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3.81 avg rating — 4,839 ratings
score: 522,
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| 142 |
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 31,425 ratings
score: 518,
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| 143 |
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The Art of Seduction
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 40,635 ratings
score: 509,
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FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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Jeremy Griffith (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 403 ratings
score: 500,
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A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
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Jakub Lasak (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 500,
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Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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Richard Meadows (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 406 ratings
score: 500,
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
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Colin Kaepernick (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 177 ratings
score: 500,
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| 148 |
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
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3.97 avg rating — 190,028 ratings
score: 495,
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Tempus Unbound
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 495,
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Arguably: Selected Essays
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4.20 avg rating — 9,861 ratings
score: 493,
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MindCrowd: Group Mentality
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4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 490,
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 275 ratings
score: 489,
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The Dreaming
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Amanda Sheridan (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 489,
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Philosophical Investigations
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4.26 avg rating — 15,592 ratings
score: 485,
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 286,815 ratings
score: 483,
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 178,639 ratings
score: 482,
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| 157 |
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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3.91 avg rating — 14,845 ratings
score: 480,
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القرآن الكريم
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4.38 avg rating — 71,570 ratings
score: 477,
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The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
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Dean Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 241 ratings
score: 476,
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Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do
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4.08 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 471,
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The Pendulum has Swung too far
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 469,
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| 162 |
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A Question of Sanity
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 112 ratings
score: 468,
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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4.24 avg rating — 5,765 ratings
score: 467,
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Leverage
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 111 ratings
score: 466,
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,267,916 ratings
score: 463,
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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4.27 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
score: 462,
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 25,821 ratings
score: 461,
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| 167 |
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Pedigree Crush with a Twisted Gene
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Katherine Black (Goodreads Author)
4.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 461,
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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4.16 avg rating — 27,383 ratings
score: 459,
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| 169 |
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Animal Liberation
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Peter Singer (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 11,141 ratings
score: 459,
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Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
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3.92 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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4.27 avg rating — 20,351 ratings
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
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4.32 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
score: 447,
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.03 avg rating — 110,593 ratings
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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4.11 avg rating — 6,344 ratings
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The Jefferson Bible [Illustrated]
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3.88 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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3.51 avg rating — 4,864 ratings
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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3.98 avg rating — 5,787 ratings
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Mastery
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 47,494 ratings
score: 426,
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The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction
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3.50 avg rating — 2,483 ratings
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
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Chris Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 29,980 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 124,171 ratings
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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 8,498 ratings
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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
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Jim Wallis (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 3,558 ratings
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Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
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Kenneth C. Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 8,963 ratings
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Meditation on Space-Time
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Leonard Seet (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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3.78 avg rating — 6,048 ratings
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A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
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Ralph Webster (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 382 ratings
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A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots
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Marcel Heerink (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
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4.02 avg rating — 9,733 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,177 ratings
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The Russian Sleep Experiment
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Holly Ice (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
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4.29 avg rating — 3,705 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
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John Perkins (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 39,158 ratings
score: 392,
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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 992 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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3.85 avg rating — 8,087 ratings
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Jihad vs. McWorld
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3.57 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 403,929 ratings
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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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