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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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American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
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Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution
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Ante Tractatum Φιλοσοφικές Σημειώσεις
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The Hope Handbook for Mentors and Coaches: The Search for Personal Growth
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Germany Kent (Goodreads Author)
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
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NIV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Brown
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The Soul of the World
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)
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Raja-Yoga
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Swastikas, Nazis, Pledge of Allegiance Lies Exposed by Rex Curry and Francis & Edward Bellamy
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe
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Christus Victor
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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Barack Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
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When Breath Becomes Air
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The Order of Time
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Won by Love: Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade, Speaks Out for the Unborn As She Shares Her New Conviction for Life
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The Network of Thought
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Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important—and Most Unexpected—Questions
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Ian Olasov (Goodreads Author)
3.15 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Some Answered Questions
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Nothing You Don't Already Know
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Caste Matters
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Slave: My True Story
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Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
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Samuel Miller McDonald (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Discourse on Winning and Losing
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The Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterious Unconscious Knowledge
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Ramzi Najjar (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Toothpaste of Immortality: Self-Construction in the Consumer Age
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Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
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Adam Kahane (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
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Massimo Pigliucci (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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Jacqueline Novogratz (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 7,093 ratings
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Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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Tim Wu (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 7,949 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
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Nancy Duarte (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 6,982 ratings
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The Law
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Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
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Existentialism is a Humanism
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It Can Happen Here
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Eugenics and Other Evils
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The Federalist Papers
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FORTUNE TELLER TOLD ME
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Seeing Things as They Are: G. K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning (Veritas Book 18)
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Duncan Reyburn (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Reasons to Stay Alive
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 109,911 ratings
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The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom
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Miracles & Merits of Allah's Messenger - Al Bidayah VI
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The Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude
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Not a Chance: God, Science, and the Revolt against Reason
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TWAS The Year 2020
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Overton Window (Overton Window, #1)
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The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
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Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
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Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
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Deepak Malhotra (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 2,558 ratings
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To Hell And Back: Humans of COVID
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Hitler
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The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
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Samuel Miller McDonald (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Eros the Bittersweet
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Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
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The Pursuit of God
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Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
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Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords: How World's Fairs and Trade Expos Changed the World
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Charles Pappas (Goodreads Author)
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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Bloodlands + Black Earth: Stalin, Mao, Hitler: Red Flags as History and Warning
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Cosmos
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,169,695 ratings
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Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author)
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Race-Baiting In America: How the Left Use Race as a Means to Keep Power, Drive the Narrative, & Tear This Country Apart
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How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
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History of Makkah
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Forces of Our Time: The Dynamics of Light and Darkness
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Christianity and Liberalism
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The Sign
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Raymond Khoury (Goodreads Author)
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The Covenant Names of God
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Richard Sones (Goodreads Author)
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
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Donald J. Robertson (Goodreads Author)
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This is Vegan Propaganda
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The Art Of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World
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Shivam Shankar Singh (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 87 ratings
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author)
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Encyclical on Capitalism and Inequality
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A Step Farther Out
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Der Teil und das Ganze : Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik
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12 Big Lies and the Prairies of Heaven: Or, the Curse of the Ceteris Paribus
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Filosofia para a Vida e outras situações perigosas
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Jules Evans (Goodreads Author)
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The Slight Edge
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Tricks of the Mind
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Art of 4 Elements (AoL Mindfulness, #2)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
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Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications
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I Am Your Negro: ADOLF HITLER
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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Unobservable Universe: A Paradox-Free Framework for Understanding the Universe
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
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The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
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How to Simplify Your Life : Seven Practical Steps to Letting Go of Your Burdens and Living a Happier Life
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He's Just Not That Into You
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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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