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    Five of my favourite books of nature writing, recommended by Cal Flyn

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    The Living Mountain
    by Nan Shepherd

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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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    Desert Solitaire
    by Edward Abbey

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    Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
    by Adam Nicolson

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    Sightlines: A Conversation with the Natural World
    by Kathleen Jamie

Five of my favourite books of nature writing

by Cal Flyn

     

    The Best Books on Data and Decision-Making, recommended by Edouard Mathieu

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    The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
    by Nate Silver

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    Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
    by Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner

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    Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity
    by Christian Rudder

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    Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
    by Richard Thaler

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow
    by Daniel Kahneman

The Best Books on Data and Decision-Making

by Edouard Mathieu

     

    An Intro to the Philosophy of Science, recommended by Joshua Lazarus

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    The Problems of Philosophy
    by Bertrand Russell

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    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

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    Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and It
    by Peter Godfrey-Smith

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    The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    by Karl R. Popper

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    The Scientific Image
    by Bas. C. van Fraassen

An Intro to the Philosophy of Science

by Joshua Lazarus

     

    Best Whodunnits, recommended by sophiemaynard

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    Cast, in Order of Disappearance
    by Simon Brett

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    Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 1)
    by M.C. Beaton

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    The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple Mysteries)
    by Agatha Christie

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    Brat Farrar
    by Josephine Tey

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    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

Best Whodunnits

by sophiemaynard

     

    World War I Books I want to read (and one Documentary), recommended by sophiemaynard

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    The First World War: A New History
    by Sir Hew Strachan

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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria; Wheen, A. W. Remarque

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    Modern Classics Storm of Steele (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ernst Junger

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    Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
    by Vera Brittain

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    WWI Documentary
    by Based on Hew Strachan's book

World War I Books I want to read (and one Documentary)

by sophiemaynard

     

    Witty Women Writers in the Late 20th Century, recommended by stephanie

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    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
    by Mary McCarthy

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    The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
    by Elizabeth Hardwick

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    Never Breathe a Word: Collected Stories
    by Caroline Blackwood

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    Two Serious Ladies
    by Jane Bowles

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    Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975
    by Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt

Witty Women Writers in the Late 20th Century

by stephanie

     

    Five best little kids books, recommended by Zoë Greaves

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    Harold and the Purple Crayon (Purple Crayon Books)
    by Crockett Johnson

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    Good Night, Gorilla
    by Peggy Rathmann

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    Chicken Thief
    by Beatrice Rodriguez

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    The Shrinking of Treehorn
    by Florence Parry Heide

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    Nutmeg
    by David Lucas

Five best little kids books

by Zoë Greaves

     

    Five of the best American classics, recommended by Cal Flyn

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    O Pioneers!
    by Willa Cather

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    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

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    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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    Little Women
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

Five of the best American classics

by Cal Flyn

     

    Introducing the Warrior Cats, recommended by sophiemaynard

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    The Complete First Series: The Prophecies Begin
    by Erin Hunter

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    Warriors: The New Prophecy Box Set
    by Erin Hunter

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    Warriors: Power of Three Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6
    by Erin Hunter

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    Warriors: Omen of the Stars Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6
    by Erin Hunter

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    Warriors: Dawn of the Clans Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6
    by Erin Hunter

Introducing the Warrior Cats

by sophiemaynard

     

    The Best Books on Heidegger, recommended by Charles_Styles

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    Heidegger: An Introduction
    by Richard Polt

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    Heidegger's Philosophy of Being
    by Herman Philipse

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    Heidegger: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
    by David R. Cerbone

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    Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger (Routledge Classics)
    by Martin Heidegger

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    The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time (The Routledge Guides to
    by Stephen Mulhall

The Best Books on Heidegger

by Charles_Styles

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