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================================
=== Awards to keep an eye on ===
================================
PROSE Awards for books on Science and other Academic Fields
Bread and Roses Awards for Political Books
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Books
Nebula / Hugo Award for Sci-fi / Fantasy
=============================
=== Philosophy of Science ===
=============================
https://perception.yale.edu/Brian/misc/musings/bjs-suggested-reading.html
Polya.
Math and Plausible Reasoning.
Platt.
The Excitement of Science.
===========================
=== Human Scale Physics ===
===========================
- Richard Feynman.
Feynman Lectures in Physics.
- Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford.
Modern Classical Physics.
- Aydin Tozeren.
Human Body Dynamics: Classical Mechanics and Human Movement.
- John G. Papastravridis.
Analytical Mechanics.
- Brain Douglas.
Control Theory Lectures.
<https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures/playlists>
- Peter Davidson.
Introduction to Electrodynamics.
- John David Jackson.
Classical Electrodynamics.
- Paul Horowitz and Winfried Hill.
The Art of Electronics.
- Paul Scherz and Simon Monk.
Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition.
- Robert Jaffe and Washington Taylor.
The Physics of Energy.
================================
=== Relativity and Astronomy ===
================================
- Charles W. Misner and Kip S. Thorne.
Gravitation.
- Eric Poisson and Clifford M. Will.
Gravity: Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic.
- Steven Weinberg.
Lectures on Astrophysics.
- Govert Schilling.
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy.
- Daniel Baumann.
Cosmology.
====================================================================
=== Molecular Physics, Quantum Physics, and Even Smaller Physics ===
====================================================================
- Michael L'Annunziata.
Radioactivity: Introduction and History, from the Quantum to Quarks.
- Linus Pauling.
General Chemistry.
- Walter D. Loveland.
Modern Nuclear Chemistry.
- Ramamurti Shankar.
Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction.
- Hans Christian von Baeyer.
Qbism: The Future of Quantum Physics.
- Mark Wilde.
Quantum Information Theory.
- Roberto M. Unger and Lee Smolin.
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy.
- Elliot Lieb.
Physics in One Dimension.
=========================
=== Computing Science ===
=========================
- Donald Knuth.
The Art of Computer Programming.
- Rick Parent.
Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques.
- Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Golfeder.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction.
==================
=== Psychology ===
==================
https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/8051/what-books-should-i-study-to-have-a-decent-understanding-of-psychology
https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/map/prospective-students/suggested-reading-list/
- Gyorgy Buzsaki.
The Brain from Inside Out.
- Peter Ulric Tse.
The Neural Basis of Free Will.
- Nick Chater.
The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain.
- Marianne Legato.
The Plasticity of Sex: The Molecular Biology and Clinical Features of Genomic Sex, Gender Identity and Sexual Behaviour.
- Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin.
Principles of Neural Design.
- David M. Pena-Guzman.
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness.
- George William Domhoff.
The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming.
- Mercier and Sperber.
The Enigma of Reason.
=======================
=== Mystery Fiction ===
=======================
- Rex Stout.
The Next Witness.
- James Ellroy.
The L.A. Quartet.
The Black Dahlia.
- Robert Kurvitz.
Sacred and Terrible Air.
- Jean Patrick Manchette.
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n10/alex-harvey/desperado-as-commodity>
- John le Carre.
- Paul Auster.
The New York Trilogy.
- Jean Van Hamme.
XIII Series.
- Girgio de Maria.
The Twenty Days of Turin.
- Masakazu Ishiguro.
Heavenly Delusion.
- Josephine Tey.
The Daughters of Time.
- T.A. Critchley.
The Maul and the Pear Tree.
- Volker Kutscher.
Babylon Berlin.
- The Wayward Pines Trilogy.
======================
=== Horror Fiction ===
======================
- Books by Brian Lumley.
- Ray Bradbury.
The October Country (Short Story Collection).
- Theodore Sturgeon.
Some of Your Blood.
- Thomas Ligotti.
Teatro Grottesco.
- Norman Partridge.
Dark Harvest.
- Ducornet.
The Complete Butcher's Tales (Short Story Collection).
- Clive Barker.
The Books of Blood Vol 4-6 (Short Story Collection).
- Agustina Bazterrica.
Tender is the Flesh.
- Kim Newman.
Anno Dracula.
- Jackson.
The Haunting of Hill House.
- Ramsey Campbell.
- Robert W. Chambers.
The King in Yellow.
- Peter Ackroyd.
Hawksmoor.
- Iain Sinclair.
Lud Heat.
- William Blatty.
The Exorcist.
- Alan Moore.
The Courtyard.
- Alan Moore.
Necronomicon.
- Alan Moore.
Providence.
- ETA Hoffman.
The Sandman (Short Story).
- Walter de la Mare.
Seaton's Aunt.
All Hallows (Short Story).
- JP Priestley.
Benighted.
- Toru Yamazaki.
Octopus Girl.
- Books by Edogawa Ranpo.
- Bret Ellis.
The Shards.
- Angela Carter.
The Bloody Chamber.
- Washington Irvin Books.
Sleepy Hollow (The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.)
- Kim Newman.
Anno Dracula.
===================================
=== Fantasy and Science Fiction ===
===================================
- Fritz Leiber.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
- L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt.
The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
- Zelazny.
Lord of Light.
- Nora Keita Jemisin.
The City We Became and The World We Make.
- Terry Prachett.
Discworld Series
- Tade Thompson.
Rosewater.
- William Gibson.
The Spawl Trilogy.
- Joe Hill.
The Fireman.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky.
The Incal.
- Neil Gaiman.
Marvel 1602.
- Hayao Miyazaki.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Comic)
- Robert Rath.
The Infinite and the Divine
Assassinorium.
- Gav Thorpe.
Luther: First of the Fallen.
- Peter Fehervari.
Fire Caste.
- Nate Crowley.
Ghazghull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh!
- Susan Cooper.
The Dark is Rising and Other Books.
- Rebecca Kuang.
- Kentaro Miura.
Berserk.
- Buronson.
Fist of the North Star.
- William S. Burroughs
The Soft Machine.
- Yong, Holmwood.
A Hero Born.
<https://www.tor.com/2020/05/12/a-guide-to-condor-heroes-the-martial-arts-epic-that-influenced-all-your-faves/>
- Tom Parkinson-Morgan.
Kill Six Billion Demons
<https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-3-48/>
- R. Scott Bakker.
<https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3758722>
- Ursula K. Le Guin.
Earthsea.
- Mervyn Peake.
Gormenghast.
- Richard Morgan.
Altered Carbon.
- Kurt Busiek.
Astro City.
Kingdom Come.
- Jeph Loeb.
Batman: Dark Victory.
- Jeph Loeb.
Catwoman: When in Rome.
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Series.
- Kay Dick.
They.
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n09/blake-morrison/prowled-and-yowled>
- The Radium Age Books.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/series/radium-age/
- Grant Morrison's Batman
https://thegothamarchives.com/grant-morrisons-batman-reading-order/
- Batman: The Court of Owls.
- Gantz.
- Elfen Lied.
- Tenjho Tenge
- Scott Westerfield.
Leviathan.
- Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
This is How You Lose the Time War.
- Pierre Christin.
Valerian and Laureline.
- Yuri Herrara.
Ten Planets (Short Story Collection).
- Julio Cortazar.
Casa Tomada (Short Story)
- Jonah Hex.
https://comiconlinefree.net/jonah-hex-two-gun-mojo/issue-1
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Lost World and Other Stories.
- Annalee Newitz.
The Terraformers.
- Kim Stanley Robinson.
The Mars Trilogy.
- EG Conde.
Sordidez.
- Ken Liu.
- Xia Jia.
- Chen Qiufan.
- Hao Jingfang.
- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
THe Illuminatus Trilogy.
- Bill Watterson.
The Mysteries.
- Etsushi Ogawa
Chuka Ichiban!
- Jack Vance.
Dying Earth.
- Bernard Cornwell.
The Warlord Chronicles.
- Tom Godwin.
The Cold Equations.
- Scott Lynch.
The Lies of Locke Lamora.
- H. Rider Haggard.
King Solomon's Mines.
- Stanislaw Lem.
The Invincible.
- A Catalogue For the End of Humanity (Short Story Collection).
- Yael Goldstein-Love
The Possibilities.
- Diverse Futures (Short Story Collection).
- John Wyndham.
The Kraken Wakes.
- Wayne Barlowe.
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials.
- Amal Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
This Is How You Lose The Time War.
- Rafael Sabatini.
Captain Blood.
- Jack Vance.
The Last Castle.
- Various Authors.
In Universe GW Books.
Blood on the Reik.
Grudgelore: A History of Grudges and the Great Realms of the Dwarfs.
Libra Chaotica.
The Loathsome Ratmen.
Liber Necris.
Empire at War.
Xenology: Notes and Research from the Alien Bestiary of Biegel.
The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer.
The Life of Sigmar: Being the Epic Tale of the Warrior-God Sigmar, and the Founding of The Empire.
- Asa Drake.
Warrior Witch of Hel.
- Kirill Yeskov.
The Last Ringbearer.
- Books by Robert E. Howard.
The Tower of the Elephant.
- Books by Clark Ashton Smith.
- Fritz Lieber.
Swords Against Death.
- Books by Michael Moorcock.
e.g. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate.
- Manly Wade Wellman.
Who Fears the Devil?
- Abraham Grace Merritt.
The People of the Pit.
- GH Scithers.
The Leopard of Poitain.
- Henry Kuttner.
The Citadel of Darkness.
- Simon Stahlenhag
The Electric State.
- Dan Abnett and Marc Gascoigne.
Riders of the Dead.
- Books that Inspired "Blades in the Dark":
The Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust
The stories of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, by Fritz Lieber
The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
Best Served Cold, by Joe Abercrombie
- The Book of the New Sun.
- The Book That Wouldn't Burn.
- The Prince of Nothing Series.
- Steven Erikson.
Malazan Book of the Fallen.
and
- Ian Esslemont.
Novels of the Malazan Empire.
- Josiah Bancroft.
The Books of Babel.
- Ryo Mizuno.
Record of Lodoss War.
- Books by David Mitchell.
Cloud Atlas.
- Becky Chambers.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
- Kazuo Koike
Lone Wolf And Cub.
- Nicolas Lietzau.
Dreams of the Dying.
- Mike Mignola
Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others..
Hellboy: Darkness Calls.
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt.
Hellboy: The Storm and the Fury.
===========================
=== 'New Weird' Fiction ===
===========================
- Michael Cisco.
The Divinity Student.
- Mark Danielewski.
House of Leaves.
- China Mieville.
The City and the City.
- Stepan Chapman.
The Troika.
- HP Lovecraft.
Perhaps <https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Weird-Tales-Lovecraft-Commemorative/dp/0575081570>
- Charles Hinton.
What is the Forth Dimension?
- Graham Harman.
Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy.
=======================
=== Surreal Fiction ===
=======================
- David Connor.
Oh God, The Sun Goes.
- Kobo Abe.
- Haruki Murakami.
- Thomas Pynchon.
- David Foster Wallace.
- Infinite Jest.
- David Foster Wallace.
- The Pale King.
- Guido Crepas.
==========================
=== General Literature ===
==========================
- Daniel Mason.
North Woods.
- Paulo Coelho.
The Alchemist.
- Andrzej Sapkowski.
The Tower of Fools.
- Colm Toiban.
The Master and The Magician.
- Sylvia Warner.
Lolly Willowes.
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n12/david-trotter/the-ultimate-socket>
- Aleksandr Tisma.
Kapo.
- Benjamin Labatut.
When We Cease to Understand the World.
Fiction book about scientific understanding, that Rajula recommended this to me.
- Luis Sagasti.
A Musical Offering.
- Hermann Hesse.
Steppenwolff.
- Philip Jose Farmer.
- Hideyuki Kikuchi.
Vampire Hunter D.
- Thomas Mann.
The Magic Mountain.
- Robert Stone.
- Jayne Phillips.
- Richard Powers.
Galatea 2.2.
- Michael Morpurgo.
Kensuke's Kingdom.
- Armstrong Sperry.
Call It Courage.
- Jack London.
The Call of the Wild.
- Orwell.
Homage to Catalonia.
- Nabakov.
Pale Fire.
- Erickson.
Arc d'X
- Chinua Achebe.
Things Fall Apart.
- Jerome K. Jerome.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
- Angela Carter.
- Jose Pacheco.
Battles in the Desert.
- Kathryn Scanlan.
Kick The Latch.
The Dominant Animal: Short Stories.
- Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.
Asterix and Obelisk.
- Italo Calvino.
Invisible Cities.
The Watcher and Other Short Stories.
Our Ancestors Trilogy.
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n12/james-butler/infinite-artichoke>
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino>
<https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/11/21/on-italo-calvino/>
- Steve Erickson.
The Sea Came In At Midnight.
- Vladimir Nabokov.
The Defence.
- Leon Forest.
Divine Days.
- Gerda Blees.
We Are Light.
- Ana Menendez.
The Apartment.
- Mona Simpson.
Commitment.
- Ken Liu.
The Paper Menagerie.
- John Swartzwelder.
The Time Machine Did It.
- Robert Westall.
The Machine Gunners.
- Genzaburo Yoshino.
How Do You Live?
- Ralph Ellison.
Invisible Man.
- Roberta Bolano.
Nazi Literature In the Americas.
- Jean Giono.
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n15/michael-wood/honest-lies>
- Khaled Hosseini.
The Kite Runner.
- Han Kang. Greek Lessons.
- Jean Genet.
- James Baldwin.
- Toni Morrison.
- Fernanda Melchor.
This is not Miami.
<https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lying-archiving-surviving-on-fernanda-melchors-this-is-not-miami/>
- Ethel Voynich.
The Gadfly.
- Lynne Tillman.
The Complete Madame Realism.
- Underground Comix.
- Hernan Diaz
In The Distance
Trust
- Vladimir Nabakov.
- Jorge Luis Borges.
- An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain.
- Stanislaw Lem.
A Perfect Vacuum.
- Stefan Zweig.
- JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst.
S.
- Sarah Rose Etter.
The Book of X.
Ripe.
- Peter Ackroyd.
Hawksmoor.
- John Steinbeck.
- Keiji Nakazawa.
Barefoot Gen.
- George Eliot.
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life.
- Marcel Proust.
In Search of Lost Time.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Ivy Compton Burnett.
- Henry James.
- Ivan Turgenev.
- Honore de Balzac.
- Phillip Roth.
- Samuel Beckett.
- Rose Tremain.
- Ian McEwan.
- Salman Rushdie.
- Vikram Seth.
- Virginia Woolf.
- John Cowper Powys.
- Thomas Hardy.
- Graham Greene.
- JP Priestley.
The Good Companions.
- Gilbert Sorrentino.
Mulligan Stew.
- Nikolai Gogol.
Dead Souls.
- Milan Kundera.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- Books by James Mitchell.
- Virginia Woolf.
Orlando: A Biography.
- Flannery O'Connor.
Wise Blood.
- Thomas Mann.
Death in Venice.
- Joaquim de Assis
One of the most renowned Brazilian authors. Realist literature.
- William Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
- William Golding.
The Spire.
- Margaret Atwood.
The Blind Assassin.
- Books by Roberto Bolano.
The Savage Detectives.
2666.
<https://londonreviewbookbox.co.uk/collections/books-for-the-next-twenty-years>
SA Book Club Has Some Interesting Recommendations:
<https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3711478>
<https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3239632&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1>
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=== Poetry ===
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- Phillis Wheatley.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
Heaney Bogland.
Agard Half-Caste.
Chambers Casilda's Song.
Rosseti In the Bleak Midwinter.
Li Bai Invitation To Wine
Zhang Zai Four Sentences of Hengqu
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=== Travel Literature ===
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- Books by William Least Heat-Moon.
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=== Classics and Mythology ===
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- Oxford World Classics.
The Poetic Edda.
- William Morris.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs.
- JRR Tolkein.
The History of Middle Earth.
- Stanley Lombardo.
The Aeneid.
- JRR Tolkein.
Kullervo.
- JRR Tolkein.
Beowulf.
- JRR Tolkein.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Maria Dahvana Headley.
Beowulf.
- John Milton.
Paradise Lost.
- Ann Dooley.
Tales of the Elders of Ireland.
- Sioned Davies.
The Mabinogion.
- Margeret Atwood.
The Penelopiad.
- The Three Great Western Story Titles
- The Matter of Britain (Legends of Brittany, Great Britain, and Arthur).
- The Matter of France (Legends of Charlemagne).
- The Matter of Rome (Legends of the Classics).
- Miranda Green.
Caesar's Druids: Story of an Ancient Priesthood
- Clive Ruggles.
Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland.
- Ronald Hutton.
Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain.
- Patrick E. Mcgovern, Robert G. Mondavi.
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture.
- Judith Barringer.
Olympia: A Cultural History.
- Mary Beard.
The Religions of Rome: A History (Vol 1 + 2).
- Robert Parker.
On Greek Religion
- Kyle Karper.
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.
- Wouter Hanegraaff.
Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity.
- Sarah Derbew.
Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity.
- Jeffrey Spier (Editor)
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World.
- Simon Schama.
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words.
- Karen Armstrong.
Muhammed: A Prophet for Our Time.
- Fred Donner.
Muhammed and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam.
- Marine Warner.
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary.
- Tom Holland.
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World.
- Amira Bennison.
The Great Caliphs.
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=== Choose Your Own Adventure ===
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- Kim Newman
Life's Lottery.
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=== General Nonfiction ===
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- Vanessa Springora.
Consent.
- Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling.
A Libertarian Walks into a Bear.
- Stanchfield, Hahn.
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes.
- Michael Wilcox.
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: How to Mix the Color You Really Wa-Every Time.
- Raymond Chandler.
The Simple Art of Murder.
- David Kushner.
Masters of Doom.
- Johan Huizinga.
Homo Ludens.
- Caillois.
Man, Play, and Games.
- Mary Flanaghan.
Critical Play: Radical Game Design.
- Various Authors.
Boss Fight Books.
- David Kushner.
Masters of Doom.
- Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer.
- Aldous Huxley.
The Doors of Perception.
- PC Gamer Magazine Archive
<https://archive.org/details/UneditedPCGamer_marktrade>
- Andrew Harding.
These Are Not Gentle People.
- Naomi Klein.
Doppelganger.
- Tara Kangarlou.
The Heartbeat of Iran.
- Naomi Klein.
Doppelganger.
- Susan Sontag.
On Photography.
- Benjamin Ginsberg.
The Fall of the Faculty.
- Adam Gopnik.
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.
- Michael S Roth.
Student A Short History.
- Samuel R. Delany.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.
- Steven Conn.
The Lies of the Land.
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=== Anthropology ===
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- Various Authors.
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
- Claude Levi Strauss.
Wild Thought.
- David Graeber.
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams.
- TM Luhrmann.
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others.
- Peter Bellwood.
The Five-Million Year Odyssey: The Human Journey From Ape to Agriculture.
- Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.
Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class.
- Peter Bellwood.
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies.
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=== Biology ===
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- Stephen Gould.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.
- Sterelny.
Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest.
- Gould and Lewontin.
The Spandrels of San Marxco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme.
- Cormier and Jones.
The Domesticated Penis.
- Shugart, White, Saatchi, Chave.
The World Atlas of Trees and Forests.
- Stuart Kauffman.
Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution.
- Levins and Lewontin.
The Dialectical Biologist.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/evolution/wiki/recommended/reading/
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=== Psychology ====
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- Paul Bloom.
Psych.
- Owen Flanaghan.
The Really Hard Problem.
- Oliver Sack.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
- Daniel Kahneman.
Thinking Fast and Slow.
- Daniel Denicola.
Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know.
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=== General Philosophy ===
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- Fredric Jameson.
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Critique of Late Capitalism.
- Terry Eagleton.
The Illusions of Postmodernism.
- Fredric Jameson.
The Seeds of Time.
- Larry Alan Busk.
The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt Oakeshott Hayek Strauss and Rand.
- Terry Eagleton.
After Theory.
- Paul Fry.
Theory of Literature.
- Umberto Eco (Editor)
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce (Advances in Semiotics)
- Dorrien and Ross.
Kantian Reason and Hegalian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology.
- Immanuele Kant.
Prolegomena To any Future Metaphysics.
- Antonio Damasio.
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain.
- Terry Pinkard.
Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason.
- Condorcet.
Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind.
- Umberto Eco.
History of Beauty.
- Italo Calvino.
Six Memos for the Next Millenium.
- Colin McGinn.
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained.
- Edmund Fawcett.
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea.
- Harry Frankfurt.
The Reasons of Love.
- David Luban.
Torture, Power, and Law.
- Julian Go.
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory.
- Kyle Devine.
Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music.
- Jane Ward.
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.
- Errol E. Harris.
Formal, Transcendental, and Dialectical Thinking: Logic and Reality.
- Ross, Cahn, Shapshay.
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology
- Bull.
Anti-Nietzsche.
- Frantz Fanon.
The Wretched of the Earth.
- Mark Fischer.
Exiting the Vampire Castle.
- Doughlas Rushkoff.
Team Human.
- The University of Oxford Podcasts.
Critical Reasoning.
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/critical-reasoning-beginners
- Bertell Ollman.
Dialectical Investigations.
- Alain Badiou.
An Essay On The Understanding of Evil.
- Susan Sontag.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays.
Styles of Radical Will.
- Philip Kittcher.
What's the Use of Philosophy.
- Oscar Wilde.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
- Victoria Nelson.
Gothika: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural.
- Jennifer Banks.
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth.
- Leo Rosten.
A Trump For Reason.
- Todd Gitlin.
Letters to a Young Activist.
- Christopher Hitchens.
Letters to a Young Contrarian.
- Judith Butler.
Who's Afraid of Gender.
- Mercier and Sperber.
The Enigma of Reason.
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=== Ethics ===
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- Sidgwick.
The Methods of Ethics
Clearest and most accessible book on classical Utilitarianism.
- Parfit.
Reasons and Persons
Argues that it is often rational to act against our own best interests, and that most of us have self-defeating worldviews.
(From an Amazon Review) Reasons and Persons is divided into four sections. The first two systematically show that ethical egoism and common-sense intuitions about morality are incoherent and that consequentialism solves all the problems these two bases of morality contain. The third section is on personal identity and shows that the two classic western conceptions of identity have fatal flaws. He instead advocates for a reductionist picture of personal identity as a series of relationships to other people and things that wither and change over time. He then discusses the ethical implications of the view. The fourth section is maybe my favorite single section of any philosophy book I've read. It discusses four serious problems in population ethics -- The Nonidentity Problem, the Repugnant Conclusion, the Absurd Conclusion, and the Mere Addition Paradox -- that he thinks any good moral theory must solve. The only problem is that none of the traditional conceptions, most alarmingly deontology and consequentialism, are up to the task. Deontology can't explain the Nonidentity Problem, and Utilitarianism fails to avoid the Mere Addition Paradox. Therefore, no moral theory as of yet is perfectly satisfying. This fourth book has spawned its own industry in professional ethics, and mountains of papers can been written attempting to solve these problems. Thus far, no Deontological solutions to the Nonidentity Problem nor Consequentialist solutions to the Mere Addition Paradox have satisfied people.
- Shelly Kagan.
The Geometry of the Desert.
- Kwame Appiah.
The Ethics of Identity.
- Andrew Fleischer.
Moral Evil.
- Neil Levy:
Bad Beliefs, Why They Happen to Good People.
- Howard J Curzer.
Virtue Ethics for the Real World.
- Peter Singer.
Animal Liberation Now.
- Cora Diamond.
Eating Meat and Eating People.
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=== Economic and Political Theory ===
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- Allan Drazen.
Political Economy in Macroeconomics.
- Chang and Lee.
Economics: The User's Guide.
- Kenneth Rogoff.
The Curse of Cash.
- David Romer.
Advanced Macroeconomics.
- Thomas Pilketty.
Capital in the 21st Century.
- George Blackford.
A Guide to Thomas Pilketty's "Capital in the 21st Century
<https://rweconomics.com/Piketty.htm> (Plus an expanded Amazon book)
- IRLE's Five Prisms.
https://vimeo.com/user18219794
- Anton Jaeger and Daniel Zamora Vargas.
Welfare For Markets: A Global History of Basic Income.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why We Can't Wait.
- Reference of Tweets Describing Arguments on Idealism and Realism
https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1700491881916801288
- Galbraith.
History of Economics.
- Robert Heilbroner.
The Worldly Philosophers. The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
- Aachen, Bartels.
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government.
- Ganesh Sitaraman.
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens our Republic.
- Maxine Eichner.
The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored).
- Jason Stanley.
How Propaganda Works.
- Terry Smith.
Whitelash: Umasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box.
- Brian Tamanaha.
A Realistic Theory of Law.
- Sasha Costanza-Chock.
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
- Acemoglu, Robinson.
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.
- Peter Schuck.