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Philosophy » How to Live

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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

“What’s interesting about his account, which I found absolutely fascinating, is the way he explores the importance of meaning in life as the key to survival.”

Mary Fulbrook,

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A Guide to the Good Life

A Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine

“It’s a sort of philosophical judo, what Bill practises. As a result, he’s been a much happier person.”

Massimo Pigliucci, Philosopher

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The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

“What makes Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book different is that it’s actually based on scientific research on what makes people happy.”

Paul Thagard, Philosopher

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau

“The beginning is hard going. Once you get past that, then suddenly you’re into these beautiful and inspiring descriptions of nature.”

Emily Thomas,

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Welcome to our best books on how to live.

One criticism of modern philosophy is that is divorced from the ultimate questions of how to live and navigate our world. Far from the original questions that dominated the ancient Greek mindset, philosophy became ivory-tower speculation. Here we try to redress the imbalance.

Interviews include distinguished philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists grappling with how we are to live. In so doing, they recommend the best books on topics ranging from happiness, humanism, ancient Stoicism, to 20th-century existentialism.

Among the books that are eternally popular in this section include Thoreau's Walden, Viktor Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning, and—perhaps unexpectedly—the fiction of George Eliot.

    Life-Changing Philosophy Books, recommended by Eric Weiner

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    Life-Changing Philosophy Books - The Enchiridion by Epictetus

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    The Enchiridion
    by Epictetus

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    Life-Changing Philosophy Books - Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot

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    Philosophy as a Way of Life
    by Pierre Hadot

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    Life-Changing Philosophy Books - Waiting for God by Simone Weil

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    Waiting for God
    by Simone Weil

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    Life-Changing Philosophy Books - The Heart of Philosophy by Jacob Needleman

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    The Heart of Philosophy
    by Jacob Needleman

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    Life-Changing Philosophy Books - Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee

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    Ultimate Questions
    by Bryan Magee

Life-Changing Philosophy Books, recommended by Eric Weiner

Can philosophy change your life? Yes, says bestselling author Eric Weiner, though partly by making it more complicated. Here, he picks five works of life-changing philosophy, from Epictetus to Jacob Needleman, a professor (emeritus) at San Francisco State University.

    The best books on Stoicism, recommended by Massimo Pigliucci

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    The best books on Stoicism - The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus

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    The Discourses of Epictetus
    by Epictetus

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    The best books on Stoicism - A Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine

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    A Guide to the Good Life
    by William B Irvine

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    The best books on Stoicism - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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    Meditations
    by Marcus Aurelius

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    The best books on Stoicism - Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius by Seneca

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    Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius
    by Seneca

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    The best books on Stoicism - A New Stoicism by Laurence Becker

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    A New Stoicism
    by Laurence Becker

The best books on Stoicism, recommended by Massimo Pigliucci

The Stoics offer us valuable strategies of thinking about and dealing with hardships that remain relevant for modern society, Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York and practising Stoic, told us in 2016. We were interviewing him about the best books to read to get a better idea of what Stoicism is all about and why some people find the ancient philosophy, famously practised by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, comforting today. This week our philosophy editor, Nigel Warburton, caught up with Massimo and asked him about new Stoicism books that have come out since they first spoke–and why the philosophy remains so popular in 2020.

    The Best Books by Albert Camus, recommended by Jamie Lombardi

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    The Best Books by Albert Camus - The Fall by Albert Camus

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    The Fall
    by Albert Camus

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    The Best Books by Albert Camus - The Plague by Albert Camus

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    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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    The Best Books by Albert Camus - Notebooks 1935-1942: Volume 1 by Albert Camus

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    Notebooks 1935-1942: Volume 1
    by Albert Camus

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    The Best Books by Albert Camus - Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus

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    Lyrical and Critical Essays
    by Albert Camus

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    The Best Books by Albert Camus - The Rebel by Albert Camus

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    The Rebel
    by Albert Camus

The Best Books by Albert Camus, recommended by Jamie Lombardi

Albert Camus was born in northern Algeria in extreme poverty, but went on to become one of the best-known French philosophers of the 20th century. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for illuminating “the problems of the human conscience in our times.” Here, Camus expert Jamie Lombardi talks us through the books that best capture his work and the moral dilemmas he sought to explore.

    The best books on The Epicureans, recommended by James Warren

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    The best books on The Epicureans - Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)

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    Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
    Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)

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    The best books on The Epicureans - On the Nature of the Universe Lucretius (trans. Ronald Melville)

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    On the Nature of the Universe
    Lucretius (trans. Ronald Melville)

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    The best books on The Epicureans - The Library of the Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum by David Sider

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    The Library of the Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum
    by David Sider

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    The best books on The Epicureans - Epicureanism by Tim O'Keefe

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    Epicureanism
    by Tim O'Keefe

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    The best books on The Epicureans - The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas

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    The Morality of Happiness
    by Julia Annas

The best books on The Epicureans, recommended by James Warren

For most of us, an Epicurean means someone devoted to pleasure and enjoying themselves. But the real Epicureans had a very different philosophy of how to live. Cambridge University professor James Warren talks us through the philosophy of Epicurus and explains how it’s still relevant today—particularly when it comes to facing death.

    Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau

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    Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau - Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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    Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau - The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau

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    The Maine Woods
    by Henry David Thoreau

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    Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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    Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau - Stress and Freedom by Peter Sloterdijk

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    Stress and Freedom
    by Peter Sloterdijk

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    Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

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    Annihilation
    by Jeff Vandermeer

Laura Dassow Walls on Henry David Thoreau

Again and again we return to the question: how should we live? To Henry David Thoreau, the 19th-century author, philosopher and naturalist, the answer was simplicity itself. Here his biographer Laura Dassow Walls selects five key texts that explore the Thoreauvian way of thinking.

    Underrated Existentialist Classics, recommended by Jonathan Webber

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    Underrated Existentialist Classics - When Things of the Spirit Come First: Five Early Tales by Simone de Beauvoir

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    When Things of the Spirit Come First: Five Early Tales
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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    Underrated Existentialist Classics - Pyrrhus et Cinéas by Simone de Beauvoir

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    Pyrrhus et Cinéas
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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    Underrated Existentialist Classics - Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Underrated Existentialist Classics - Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

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    Black Skin, White Masks
    by Frantz Fanon

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    Underrated Existentialist Classics - Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer

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    Charlotte Sometimes
    by Penelope Farmer

Underrated Existentialist Classics, recommended by Jonathan Webber

As questions of identity become a focus of political debate, interest in existentialism has been booming once more. Here, the philosopher Jonathan Webber discusses five classic books dealing with existentialist themes that deserve a bigger audience.

    The best books on Midlife Crisis, recommended by Kieran Setiya

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    The best books on Midlife Crisis - In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age by Patricia Cohen

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    In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age
    by Patricia Cohen

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    The best books on Midlife Crisis - The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

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    The Summer Before the Dark
    by Doris Lessing

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    The best books on Midlife Crisis - The Information by Martin Amis

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    The Information
    by Martin Amis

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    The best books on Midlife Crisis - How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

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    How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
    by Sarah Bakewell

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    The best books on Midlife Crisis - Middle Age by Christopher Hamilton

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    Middle Age
    by Christopher Hamilton

The best books on Midlife Crisis, recommended by Kieran Setiya

It’s an observable phenomenon that the gap in life satisfaction between the very young and the very old with those in their 40s is equivalent to that associated with getting a divorce. Kieran Setiya, the MIT philosopher and author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, chooses the best books to counsel you through this difficult period.

    The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living, recommended by Emrys Westacott

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    The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living - A Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine

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    A Guide to the Good Life
    by William B Irvine

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    The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living - The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Walter Kaufmann)

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    The Gay Science
    Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Walter Kaufmann)

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    The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living - The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

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    The Happiness Hypothesis
    by Jonathan Haidt

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    The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living - Middlemarch by George Eliot

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    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

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    The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living - The Forest People by Colin M Turnbull

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    The Forest People
    by Colin M Turnbull

The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living, recommended by Emrys Westacott

Philosophy is sometimes assumed to be a dry, academic subject but it also has much to say about how we live, love and relate to each other. Emrys Westacott chooses the best books on philosophy and everyday living.

    The best books on Humanism, recommended by Andrew Copson

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    The best books on Humanism - Two Cheers For Democracy by E M Forster

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    Two Cheers For Democracy
    by E M Forster

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    The best books on Humanism - Adam Bede by George Eliot

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    Adam Bede
    by George Eliot

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    The best books on Humanism - On Humanism by Richard Norman

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    On Humanism
    by Richard Norman

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    The best books on Humanism - His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

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    His Dark Materials
    by Philip Pullman

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    The best books on Humanism - Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries by Mengzi

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    Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
    by Mengzi

The best books on Humanism, recommended by Andrew Copson

Humanist ideas are not a recent phenomenon, but have been around for millennia, says Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK. He explains why it’s worth making a positive choice to be a humanist and recommends a great humanist reading list.

    The best books on Virtual Living, recommended by Aleks Krotoski

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    The best books on Virtual Living - Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle

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    Life on the Screen
    by Sherry Turkle

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    The best books on Virtual Living - My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell

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    My Tiny Life
    by Julian Dibbell

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    The best books on Virtual Living - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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    Snow Crash
    by Neal Stephenson

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    The best books on Virtual Living - Neuromancer by William Gibson

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    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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    The best books on Virtual Living - Six Degrees by Mark Lynas

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    Six Degrees
    by Mark Lynas

The best books on Virtual Living, recommended by Aleks Krotoski

‘There was a research study done in the 1960s that identified that people will open themselves up to a stranger on a train and tell them deep personal information they would never tell their closest friends, partially because they have this sense that they can confess.’

    The best books on Existentialism, recommended by Sarah Bakewell

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    The best books on Existentialism - Existentialism: A Reconstruction by David Cooper

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    Existentialism: A Reconstruction
    by David Cooper

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    The best books on Existentialism - Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    The best books on Existentialism - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor Frankl

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    The best books on Existentialism - The Existentialist Reader by Paul S MacDonald

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    The Existentialist Reader
    by Paul S MacDonald

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    The best books on Existentialism - Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt

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    Heidegger: An Introduction
    by Richard Polt

The best books on Existentialism, recommended by Sarah Bakewell

Existentialist philosophy isn’t about bringing despair and angst into our lives, it’s about discovering our inner freedom, explains Sarah Bakewell, the author of At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails. She recommends books to learn more about existentialism.

    The best books on The Art of Living, recommended by Roman Krznaric

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    The best books on The Art of Living - Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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    The best books on The Art of Living - Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

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    Down and Out in Paris and London
    by George Orwell

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    The best books on The Art of Living - Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer

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    Out of My Life and Thought
    by Albert Schweitzer

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    The best books on The Art of Living - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor Frankl

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    The best books on The Art of Living - An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin

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    An Intimate History of Humanity
    by Theodore Zeldin

The best books on The Art of Living, recommended by Roman Krznaric

To learn how to live well we must look to the past, says social philosopher Roman Krznaric. He recommends five books, from Thoreau to Orwell, that inspire us to live more adventurously.

    The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age, recommended by Nick Harkaway

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    The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age - Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

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    Predictably Irrational
    by Dan Ariely

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    The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age - Tweets from Tahrir by Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle (editors)

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    Tweets from Tahrir
    by Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle (editors)

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    The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age - The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S Landes

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    The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
    by David S Landes

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    The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age - On Art and Life by John Ruskin

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    On Art and Life
    by John Ruskin

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    The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

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    Cryptonomicon
    by Neal Stephenson

The best books on Negotiating the Digital Age, recommended by Nick Harkaway

The challenges – and opportunities – of our times have never been greater. Everything from our models of political participation to the very architecture of our brains is at stake, says the novelist and technology blogger Nick Harkaway.

    The best books on Being Good, recommended by A C Grayling

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    The best books on Being Good - The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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    The Nicomachean Ethics
    by Aristotle

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    The best books on Being Good - Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza & Samuel Shirley

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    Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
    by Baruch Spinoza & Samuel Shirley

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    The best books on Being Good - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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    On Liberty
    by John Stuart Mill

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    The best books on Being Good - Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot

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    Rameau’s Nephew
    by Denis Diderot

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    The best books on Being Good - Why I am not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

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    Why I am not a Christian
    by Bertrand Russell

The best books on Being Good, recommended by A C Grayling

What does a moral life entail? How does one achieve it? Philosopher AC Grayling picks the best books on “being good.”

    The best books on The Art of Observation, recommended by Alexandra Horowitz

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    The best books on The Art of Observation - How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins

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    How to Use Your Eyes
    by James Elkins

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    The best books on The Art of Observation - An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks

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    An Anthropologist On Mars
    by Oliver Sacks

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    The best books on The Art of Observation - Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates by Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney

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    Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates
    by Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney

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    The best books on The Art of Observation - Manhole Covers by Mimi Melnick (photos by Robert A Melnick)

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    Manhole Covers
    by Mimi Melnick (photos by Robert A Melnick)

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    The best books on The Art of Observation - Helvetica and the New York City Subway System by Paul Shaw

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    Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
    by Paul Shaw

The best books on The Art of Observation, recommended by Alexandra Horowitz

How much do we take in of the world around us? You can tell a lot more about your surroundings than you realise, if you only know how and where to look, as the psychologist explains

    The best books on The Meaning of Life, recommended by Paul Thagard

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    The best books on The Meaning of Life - Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio

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    Descartes' Error
    by Antonio Damasio

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    The best books on The Meaning of Life - The Really Hard Problem by Owen Flanagan

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    The Really Hard Problem
    by Owen Flanagan

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    The best books on The Meaning of Life - The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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    The How of Happiness
    by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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    The best books on The Meaning of Life - Education’s End by Anthony T Kronman

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    Education’s End
    by Anthony T Kronman

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    The best books on The Meaning of Life - The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton

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    The Meaning of Life
    by Terry Eagleton

The best books on The Meaning of Life, recommended by Paul Thagard

Finding meaning in life is not the same as finding happiness, argues Canadian philosopher Paul Thagard. He picks the best books on the meaning of life.

    The best books on Happiness, recommended by Jonathan Haidt

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    The best books on Happiness - Dhammapada

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    Dhammapada

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    The best books on Happiness - Ambition by Gilbert Brim

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    Ambition
    by Gilbert Brim

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    The best books on Happiness - Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

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    Stumbling on Happiness
    by Daniel Gilbert

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    The best books on Happiness - The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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    The How of Happiness
    by Sonja Lyubomirsky

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    The best books on Happiness - Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

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    Dancing in the Streets
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

The best books on Happiness, recommended by Jonathan Haidt

Most of us want to be happy, and yet it’s hard to achieve. Jonathan Haidt, psychologist and author of  the classic The Happiness Hypothesis, talks us through five books, old and new, to better understand happiness.

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