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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,105 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,052 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 — 993 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 — 3,907 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 — 3,007 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,698 ratings — published 2022
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,275 ratings — published 2020
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,039 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 — 14,310 ratings — published 2024
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.84 — 57,019 ratings — published 2003
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,361 ratings — published 1972
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,579 ratings — published 1975
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,395 ratings — published 2016
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.65 — 295 ratings — published 2012
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.11 — 75,293 ratings — published 2000
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,218 ratings — published 1957
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.01 — 148 ratings — published 2015
Kama Sutra: The Book of Sex Positions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.80 — 75 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 — 283 ratings — published 2009
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,226 ratings — published 2017
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,429 ratings — published 2020
Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — 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 — 25,204 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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.48 — 368,023 ratings — published 1971
The Possibility of Altruism (Paperback)
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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 — 90,488 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 — 413 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 — 221 ratings — published 2015
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,629 ratings — published 1979
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,687 ratings — published 2009
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 — 172,670 ratings — published 2002
Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 3.38 — 52 ratings — published
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 91,712 ratings — published 2025
Science of Love: The Wisdom of Well-Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 3.95 — 19 ratings — published 2004
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)
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avg rating 4.26 — 5,310 ratings — published 2013
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,013 ratings — published 2010
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 25,674 ratings — published 2002
The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.61 — 4,859 ratings — published 2024
Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.16 — 332 ratings — published
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 910,125 ratings — published 2025
The Spirit of Hope (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,409 ratings — published 2024
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 637,859 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)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2016
Altruismo racional: Por qué podemos ayudar más y cómo hacerlo mejor (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 46 ratings — published
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― The Way of Kings
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― The Way of Kings
“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”
― Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
― Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
