Ideas


Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Outliers: The Story of Success
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Man's Search for Meaning
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Meditations
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Little Prince
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. NashThe Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
105 books — 18 voters
Magic America by C.E. MedfordThe Sacred Band by Janet E. MorrisThe Secret of Excalibur by Sahara FoleyIt Lives in The Basement by Sahara FoleyAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Best Creative Novels
46 books — 48 voters

1984 by George OrwellOne Deadly Souk by Oscar  OrtizLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Powerful/influential books
222 books — 159 voters
The Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraThe Connected Company by Dave  GrayWhere Good Ideas Come From by Steven JohnsonEmergence by Steven JohnsonGive and Take by Adam  Grant
cooperation
30 books — 10 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Novels of ideas
93 books — 35 voters
Ethereal by Phillip BainbridgeSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
255 books — 29 voters

Oscar Wilde
“ An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”
― Oscar Wilde

Ayn Rand
“ Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. ”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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