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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,072 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,010 ratings — published 2009
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.24 — 992 ratings — published 2013
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
by (shelved 7 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,898 ratings — published 2015
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,998 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,646 ratings — published 2022
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,227 ratings — published 2020
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 196,957 ratings — published 1976
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,800 ratings — published 2024
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.84 — 56,909 ratings — published 2003
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,531 ratings — published 1975
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,314 ratings — published 2016
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.65 — 293 ratings — published 2012
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.11 — 75,173 ratings — published 2000
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,675 ratings — published 2009
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,273 ratings — published 1957
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.01 — 149 ratings — published 2015
Kama Sutra: The Book of Sex Positions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.80 — 74 ratings — published
For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.37 — 282 ratings — published 2009
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,219 ratings — published 2017
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,326 ratings — published 2020
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,343 ratings — published 1972
Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,059 ratings — published 2011
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,031 ratings — published 2006
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.48 — 366,019 ratings — published 1971
The Possibility of Altruism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.71 — 174 ratings — published 1970
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,196 ratings — published 2003
Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour {Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed} (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.81 — 412 ratings — published 2011
Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (Foundational Questions in Science)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.74 — 220 ratings — published 2015
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,613 ratings — published 1979
Pathological Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.14 — 91 ratings — published 2011
I Am the Messenger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 172,202 ratings — published 2002
Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2010
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,257 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 29,953 ratings — published 2010
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 25,612 ratings — published 2002
The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 4,639 ratings — published 2024
Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 292 ratings — published
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 789,749 ratings — published 2025
The Spirit of Hope (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,334 ratings — published 2024
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 526,851 ratings — published 2023
Giving Without Taking: My Why: Unlocking the Power of Selfless Generosity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
We Are Human Angels, We Inspire Change: A Complete Course for Angelic Humans (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2016
Altruismo racional: Por qué podemos ayudar más y cómo hacerlo mejor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.52 — 44 ratings — published
How to Live a Good Life: Choosing the Right Philosophy of Life for You (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,005 ratings — published 2020
Moral Sentiments And Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning And Social Evolution Series)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.10 — 31 ratings — published 2005
Call Me Brother: The Story of a New Zealand Doctor in Bangladesh (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published
The Happiness Experiment: A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.15 — 85 ratings — published
“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.”
― Jane Eyre
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.”
― Jane Eyre
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Roderick Hudson
― Roderick Hudson
