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    On Cosmic Perspective, recommended by Rohit Kulkarni

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    Star Maker (SF Masterworks)
    by Olaf Stapledon

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    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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    The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
    by Sean Carroll

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    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
    by Edward O Wilson

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    The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
    by Steven Weinberg

On Cosmic Perspective

by Rohit Kulkarni

     

    Five books I’ve enjoyed in 2018, recommended by calflyn

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    Black Wave
    by Michelle Tea

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    Bluets
    by Maggie Nelson

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    Translations: A Play
    by Brian Friel

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    Dept. of Speculation
    by Jenny Offill

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    Reservoir 13
    by Jon McGregor

Five books I’ve enjoyed in 2018

by calflyn

     

    Introduction to Islam, recommended by Muhammad Naeem

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    Understanding Islam by Frithjof Schuon (1994-04-02)
    by Frithjof Schuon

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    Islam and the Destiny of Man
    by Charles Le Gai Eaton

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    The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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    Unveiling Islam (Islamic Texts Society)
    by Roger Du Pasquier

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    The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary
    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Introduction to Islam

by Muhammad Naeem

     

    The Best Books I Haven’t Read, recommended by DuncanAStuart

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    The Republic
    by Plato

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    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    The Origins of Totalitarianism
    by Hannah Arendt

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    Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1
    by Marcel Proust

The Best Books I Haven’t Read

by DuncanAStuart

     

    My Favourite Hungarian Novels You Can Read in English, recommended by TheAnnaGat

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    The Case Worker (Noran 1998) (Written in Hungary)
    by George Konrad

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    Katalin Street (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Magda Szabo

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    Captivity
    by György Spiró

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    Kaddish For An Unborn Child
    by IMRE KERTESZ

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    Traveler and the Moonlight
    by Antal Szerb

My Favourite Hungarian Novels You Can Read in English

by TheAnnaGat

     

    The Best Books on Denialism, recommended by Keith Kahn-Harris

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    Merchants of Doubt
    by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway

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    Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life (The MIT Press)
    by Kari Marie Norgaard

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    States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
    by Stanley Cohen

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    Lying About Hitler
    by Richard J. Evans

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    The Republican War on Science
    by Chris Mooney

The Best Books on Denialism

by Keith Kahn-Harris

     

    Reimagining The Ancient World, recommended by dredford

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    Circe
    by Madeline Miller

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    Rubicon
    by Tom Holland

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    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

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    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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    Fire from Heaven
    by Mary Renault

Reimagining The Ancient World

by dredford

     

    The Best Gay Novels Before Gay Novels Were a Thing, recommended by Simon Edge

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    In Search of Lost Time
    by Marcel Proust

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    Of Human Bondage
    by W Somerset Maugham

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    Love in a Cold Climate
    by Nancy Mitford

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    Mr Norris Changes Trains
    by Christopher Isherwood

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    The City And The Pillar
    by Gore Vidal

The Best Gay Novels Before Gay Novels Were a Thing

by Simon Edge

     

    The Best Books on the Psychedelic Experience, recommended by Panpsykist

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    The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Noumenautics: Metaphysics - Meta-Ethics - Psychedelics
    by Peter Sjöstedt-H

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    The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
    by Paul Devereux

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    Consolations in Travel: Or, The Last Days of a Philosopher
    by Humphry Davy

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    The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
    by Alan Watts

The Best Books on the Psychedelic Experience

by Panpsykist

     

    The Best Small Books Packed with Wisdom, recommended by bullsearching

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    1

    The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence (Penguin Classics)
    by Balthasar Gracian

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    Maxims and Reflections (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    3

    Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (Oxford World's Classics)
    by François de La Rochefoucauld

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    4

    The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    by NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB

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    Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library)
    by Franz Kafka

The Best Small Books Packed with Wisdom

by bullsearching

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