my top 40 book recommendations:
Of course, you can't read everything and everyone you might ask would recommend different books. But, take these recommendations from me on the authority of someone who has read extensively (over 1,500 books) across a wide range of subjects, teaches critical thinking, and has developed a course of study for homeschooled children.
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1. A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine
2. How Should We Live by Roman Krznaric 3. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely 4. The Stoic Art of Living by Tom Morris 5. Plato, not Prozac! by Lou Marinoff 6. Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos 7. Physics for the Rest of Us by Roger Jones 8. How to Think About Weird Things by Theodore Schick 9. The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels 10. The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef 11. Insight by Tasha Eurich 12. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 13. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins 14. Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee 15. The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke 16. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell 17. Classical Music by Phil Goulding 18. Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton 19. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore 20. Creative Thinkering by Michale Michalko 21. To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink 22. The Nametag Principle by Scott Ginsberg 23. What to do When It’s Your Turn by Seth Godin 24. The More of Less by Joshua Becker 25. Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath 26. The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley 27. Practical Wisdom by Barry Schwartz 28. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 29. Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot 30. Curious by Ian Leslie 31. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael Gelb 32. Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz 33. The Nature Fix by Florence Williams 34. The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama 35. Stumbling On Happiness by Dan Gilbert 36. The Stoic Challenge by William Irvine 37. A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger 38. Obliquity by John Kay 39. Essentialism by Greg Mckeown 40. 30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer 40 More Books I recommend40 Books for Teens
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