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Recommended Non-Fiction Books

Description: List of books recommended by friends and the internet that i have yet to read

Rank Title Author Added

1

How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition

by Mortimer J. Adler

7,640 members

75 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

2

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)

by Susan Wise Bauer

342 members

2 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

3

On Writing Well

by William Zinsser

6,856 members

76 reviews

4.1

Member: PatriAm

4

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

1,336 members

26 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

5

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

510 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: PatriAm

6

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

5,459 members

76 reviews

4.1

Member: PatriAm

7

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

223 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: PatriAm

8

The Meme Machine

by Susan Blackmore

1,173 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: PatriAm

9

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

852 members

20 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

10

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

3,034 members

78 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

11

All About Love: New Visions

2,379 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: PatriAm

12

8,035 members

45 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

13

The Art of Loving

4,215 members

48 reviews

3.8

Member: PatriAm

14

6,534 members

70 reviews

4

Member: PatriAm

15

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

by Roland Barthes

2,053 members

15 reviews

4.2

Member: PatriAm

16

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

by A. G. Sertillanges

892 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: PatriAm

17

How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

by Massimo Pigliucci

595 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: PatriAm

18

Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas Hofstadter

13,645 members

130 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: PatriAm

19

The art of fiction

70 members

½ 3.5

Member: PatriAm

20

18,575 members

218 reviews

4.2

Member: PatriAm

21

The Thirteen Books of the Elements

1,098 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: PatriAm

22

The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

by Barry Commoner

221 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: PatriAm

23

An Introduction to Mathematics

by Alfred North Whitehead

300 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: PatriAm

24

The idea of progress, (Concepts in Western thought series)

by Charles Van Doren

21 members

Member: PatriAm

25

How to Take Smart Notes [2nd edition]

by Sönke Ahrens

123 members

3.9

Member: PatriAm

26

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson

318 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: PatriAm

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Started: PatriAm
March 2023
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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