Big Books of Spring

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Ian Curtin (12 Lists)



Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
417 books — 514 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 364 voters

Hitch 22 by Christopher HitchensArguably by Christopher HitchensAnimal Farm / 1984 by George OrwellGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensWhy Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
You don't know Christopher Hitchens until you've read
127 books — 106 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion by Richard DawkinsWhy Buddhism Is True by Robert WrightMeditations by Marcus AureliusDarwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
Sam Harris' Recommended Reading
190 books — 66 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,267 books — 8,080 voters
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCloud Atlas by David MitchellPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Oulipo,etc.
254 books — 250 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
443 books — 579 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
92 books — 34 voters

This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinEnough Said by Mark John ThompsonThe Liberal Record by Marcelo Brazzi
Mainstream Political and Economic Commentary
154 books — 40 voters
The Story of Philosophy by Will DurantLudwig Wittgenstein by Ray MonkMartin Heidegger by Rüdiger SafranskiNietzsche by Walter KaufmannKilling Time by Paul Karl Feyerabend
Biographies of Philosophers
151 books — 56 voters

1984 by George OrwellDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Philosophical Science Fiction
459 books — 446 voters
Einstein by Walter IsaacsonGenius by James GleickThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnTesla by Margaret CheneySurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other... by Richard P. Feynman
Scientists and Philosophers
235 books — 159 voters


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