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Books that explore the edge of what humans can actually know: quantum physics, the sublime, time, God.

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1		When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut 4.09 avg rating — 69,744 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton 4.24 avg rating — 1,777 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy 3.57 avg rating — 39,448 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4		Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) by Cormac McCarthy 3.84 avg rating — 24,551 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5		Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 4.39 avg rating — 82,847 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Greatest Physicists by Ken Wilber (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 659 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7		The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek 3.99 avg rating — 1,373 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8		The Waves by Virginia Woolf 4.14 avg rating — 56,288 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

8 books · 1 voter · list created October 9th, 2025 by Emmet Byrne (votes) .

Tags: borges, heisenberg, infinity, kant, language, mccarthy, noumena, quantum-physics, time

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