The Thinker's Bookshelf

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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,735 ratings
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The Woman in the Dunes
The Woman in the Dunes 3.89 avg rating — 37,521 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
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The Human Condition
The Human Condition 4.20 avg rating — 9,181 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 3.78 avg rating — 241,453 ratings
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The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness 4.17 avg rating — 123,027 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,211 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
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The Concept of the Political
The Concept of the Political 3.96 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,605 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating — 7,316 ratings
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The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,299 ratings
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,852 ratings
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Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival 4.25 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
by: Suki Kim
3.93 avg rating — 21,798 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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Firestarter
Firestarter 3.92 avg rating — 242,165 ratings
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Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K 3.87 avg rating — 20,651 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,225 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,024 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 779,776 ratings
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White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,848 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 1,449,747 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,733,130 ratings
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Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,380 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
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The Complete Quotations of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Complete Quotations of Friedrich Nietzsche 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,790 ratings
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The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy 4.15 avg rating — 17,692 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow 4.19 avg rating — 278,887 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,725 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,774 ratings
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes 4.21 avg rating — 467,010 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,059 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,681 ratings
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The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story 4.18 avg rating — 215,960 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics 4.27 avg rating — 82,444 ratings
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Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,351 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,847 ratings
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The Panopticon
The Panopticon 3.72 avg rating — 5,901 ratings
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The Stand
The Stand 4.35 avg rating — 814,330 ratings
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The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading 3.67 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace
Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace 4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book 3.71 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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101 Philosophy Problems
101 Philosophy Problems 3.46 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Sane Polity: A Pattern Language
Sane Polity: A Pattern Language 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Wealth Of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
The Wealth Of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Be God To Yourself
Be God To Yourself 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism 3.87 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Pantheisticon: A Modern English Translation
Pantheisticon: A Modern English Translation 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Globalocity: The Adventures of Raymond
Globalocity: The Adventures of Raymond it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Bomb
The Bomb 4.28 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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A Course in Chinese Astrology: Reveal Your Destiny, Harness Your Luck with Four Pillars
A Course in Chinese Astrology: Reveal Your Destiny, Harness Your Luck with Four Pillars 4.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death 4.05 avg rating — 15,168 ratings
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God, the Evolver: A Secular Approach to the Divine
God, the Evolver: A Secular Approach to the Divine
by: Faiz King
4.50 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace
Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius 4.35 avg rating — 14,164 ratings
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Turn Can't Into Next: Leadership
Turn Can't Into Next: Leadership really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight
Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight 3.89 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism 4.30 avg rating — 13,914 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Existentialist Thinkers and Thought
Existentialist Thinkers and Thought
by: F. Patka
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Facing death: A novel
Facing death: A novel 3.86 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays 4.22 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path
Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path 3.98 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important—and Most Unexpected—Questions
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important—and Most Unexpected—Questions 3.16 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 1
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 1 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book 4.06 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
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Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti 4.37 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 3.85 avg rating — 20,389 ratings
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How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World 4.16 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Neothink: Superpuzzle
Neothink: Superpuzzle 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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As a Man Thinketh
As a Man Thinketh 4.24 avg rating — 93,577 ratings
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Brave New World Revisited
Brave New World Revisited 3.94 avg rating — 21,794 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating — 550,590 ratings
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All the World's a Simulation
All the World's a Simulation 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,724 ratings
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Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? 4.19 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on Philosophy
Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on Philosophy 3.90 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
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The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest 4.23 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,445 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society 3.98 avg rating — 7,345 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain 4.09 avg rating — 33,995 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself 4.18 avg rating — 9,959 ratings
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Anathem
Anathem 4.17 avg rating — 74,554 ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic 4.12 avg rating — 33,987 ratings
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If the Stars Are Gods
If the Stars Are Gods 3.42 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Toward a Psychology of Being
Toward a Psychology of Being 4.17 avg rating — 5,946 ratings
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Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games 3.74 avg rating — 7,343 ratings
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Of Things Gone Astray
Of Things Gone Astray 3.78 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life 3.97 avg rating — 8,133 ratings
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 3.79 avg rating — 37,707 ratings
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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger 4.22 avg rating — 4,758 ratings
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Seed
Seed 3.21 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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The Sane Society
The Sane Society 4.25 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
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