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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 — 72,114 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
1		Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words by Christina Donnell (Goodreads Author) 4.98 avg rating — 127 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
3		The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton 4.24 avg rating — 1,836 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		Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential by Christina Donnell (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 25 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
5		The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy 3.57 avg rating — 40,158 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
6		Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) by Cormac McCarthy 3.83 avg rating — 25,041 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
7		Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 4.39 avg rating — 84,428 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
8		Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Greatest Physicists by Ken Wilber (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 660 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
9		The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek 3.99 avg rating — 1,377 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
10		The Waves by Virginia Woolf 4.14 avg rating — 57,447 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

10 books · 2 voters · list created October 9th, 2025 by Emmet Byrne (votes) .

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

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