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Only a Promise of Happiness : The Place of Beauty in a World of Art by Alexander Nehamas

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The Selfish Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition by Bruce Schneier

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George Orwell (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell

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Unended Quest (Routledge Classics) by Karl R. Popper

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Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Thomas Flynn

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly

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Myths We Live By by Colin Grant

When you consider the number of books in our libraries, it is incredible that I have read 11 in yours. Maybe I'm just lots older than you.

Nevertheless, you have encouraged me to read Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. It is now on my list of books to find. Perhaps Blink too, though the Sunday Times did not give it a very convincing review.

I'm curious, why did you list Life of Pi as non-fiction and Zen ATAOMM as fiction? I thought Vernon God Little was fiction as well (my husband has read it, not I).

Based on what I see, I would highly recommend: Animals in Translation (not just about cows, pigs and dogs), and In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs : A Memoir of Iran. And if you like conversational philosophy written in unparalleled prose, The Myths We Live By.

Yours, Firoza

posted by Firoza at 5:52 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2006

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