Sam Harris - Recommended Reading
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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David Deutsch
4.17 avg rating β 9,239 ratings 5. 
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
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Thomas Metzinger
4.10 avg rating β 3,210 ratings 6. 
The Conservative Soul: The Politics of Human Difference
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Andrew Sullivan
3.75 avg rating β 438 ratings 7. 
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
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Lawrence Wright
4.03 avg rating β 1,567 ratings 
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror 3.82 avg rating β 2,012 ratings
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
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Zeynep Tufekci
4.08 avg rating β 1,428 ratings 12. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating β 89,935 ratings 
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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Kevin Kelly
3.89 avg rating β 11,884 ratings 16. 
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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Geoffrey B. West
4.11 avg rating β 5,360 ratings 17. 
HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
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Mark Bowden
4.33 avg rating β 7,778 ratings 
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
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Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating β 49,297 ratings 20. 
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Max Tegmark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 26,832 ratings 
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
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Mark Lilla
3.83 avg rating β 2,518 ratings 23. 
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives 3.74 avg rating β 4,067 ratings
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#republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
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Cass R. Sunstein
3.34 avg rating β 322 ratings 26. 
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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Robert Wright
4.02 avg rating β 25,758 ratings 27. 
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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Kurt Andersen
4.09 avg rating β 8,698 ratings 28. 
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
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Frank Ostaseski
4.46 avg rating β 3,827 ratings 29. 
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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David Benatar
4.01 avg rating β 797 ratings 30. 
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters 3.82 avg rating β 9,699 ratings
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
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Daniel Goleman
3.91 avg rating β 5,680 ratings 32. 
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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Tom Holland
3.90 avg rating β 5,311 ratings 33. 
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating β 44,513 ratings 37. 
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
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Adrian Raine
3.96 avg rating β 1,937 ratings 
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
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Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating β 5,642 ratings 
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating β 381,763 ratings 
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating β 7,712 ratings
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Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
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Peter Singer
3.93 avg rating β 4,794 ratings 55. 
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Eric Schlosser
4.27 avg rating β 14,178 ratings 56. 
Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
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Lawrence Wright
3.64 avg rating β 2,526 ratings 
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
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Douglas Murray
4.14 avg rating β 12,283 ratings 
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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
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Jerry A. Coyne
4.12 avg rating β 1,778 ratings 65. 
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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Jocko Willink
4.25 avg rating β 95,695 ratings 67. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating β 63,329 ratings 68. 
Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home
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Juliette Kayyem
3.82 avg rating β 108 ratings 69. 
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
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Peter Singer
3.80 avg rating β 3,721 ratings 70. 
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
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Shadi Hamid
3.79 avg rating β 487 ratings 73. 
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
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Garry Kasparov
4.04 avg rating β 3,437 ratings 74. 
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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James Barrat
3.72 avg rating β 3,847 ratings 79. 
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life 3.60 avg rating β 3,433 ratings
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating β 12,074 ratings
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Max Tegmark
4.18 avg rating β 8,243 ratings 82. 
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The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
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James Fallon
3.50 avg rating β 5,986 ratings 
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
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Tyler Cowen
3.64 avg rating β 2,195 ratings 
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating β 30,330 ratings
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Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
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Richard Rhodes
3.84 avg rating β 531 ratings 92. 
The Nonsense of Free Will: Facing Up to a False Belief
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Richard Oerton
4.31 avg rating β 72 ratings 
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Holy Madness: Spirituality, Crazy-Wise Teachers, and Enlightenment
by:
Georg Feuerstein
3.70 avg rating β 73 ratings 
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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
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Matthew White
4.15 avg rating β 1,160 ratings 
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Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,385 ratings
