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Faroresama
Crew

PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:45 pm


When recommending books, please give me the following information so that updating this list will go faster (so you don't have to wait ages for me to finally finish updating it):

-Full title
-Author
-fiction/non-fiction

With this information supplied the list can be updated with little to no trouble and I won't have to pull up another website just to determine
a.) where the book should be listed and
b.) who wrote it.

Thank you.

-Philosophymind


There are so many great books on philosophy out there, so let's share with everyone our favorite reads! I'll keep a tab up on this post for easy reference.


Fiction (such as stories, not hard philosophy)

A
--Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
--A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
--American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
--The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
--The Anthem by Ayn Rand
--A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
--Animal Farm by George Orwell
B
--The Baroque Cycle by Neil Stephenson
--Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
C
--Cine a�os de soledad by Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez
--Candide by Voltaire
--Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
--Camber of Culdi by Katherine Kurtz
--The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
D
--Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
--Divine Comedy by Dante
--The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
--Demian by Herman Hesse
E
--Everything Is Illuminated by Jon Safran Foer
F
--Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
--Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
--Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
--The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
--The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
G
--The Giver by Lois Lowry
H
--His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
--The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
--Hitchhiker's Ultimate Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I
--Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
J
--
K
--
L
--La Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
M
--Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
--Magister Ludi by Herman Hesse
N
--
O
--Oryx and Crake by Margeret Atwood
--On The Road by Jack K.
--The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
P
--
Q
--
R
--Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
--The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel
--Republic by Plato
--The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
S
--Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
--Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
--Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
--The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
T
--Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
--Through a Glass, Darkly by Jostein Gaarder
--Thom Paine (based on nothing) by Will Eno
U
--Utopia by Sir Thomas More
V
--Valis by Philip K. d**k
W
--
X
--
Y
--
Z
--Zadig by Voltaire
--Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
#s
--1984 by George Orwell



Non-Fiction (such as texts detailing a certain person's philosophy)

A
--A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
--An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
--The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
--Awareness by Anthony de Mello
--A Primer of Jungian Psychology by Calvin S. Hall & Vernon J. Nordby
--America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust, and Liberty by Marty Klein
--A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber
B
--Breaking the Spell by Daniel Bennet
--The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois
--Bomb the Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt
--Blackfoot Physics
--Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm
--The Biology of Transcendence by Joseph Chilton Pearce
--Beyond Good and Evil and The Anti Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
C
--The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friederich Engels
--The Collected Works of Plato
--Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
--c**t: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
D
--Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
E
--The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
--Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
F
--Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
--Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
--The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
G
--Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zerathustra and 75 Aphorisms by Nietzsche
--The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
--Great Systems of Yoga by Earnest Wood
--Gods within Everyman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
--Goddesses Within Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen
--The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust by Mark I. Pinsky
--God and the New Physics by Paul Davies
H
--
I
--Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
J
--Journey to Ixtalan by Carlos Castaneda
K
--
L
--Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
--The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
--Lazy man's Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas
M
--Marx's Concept of Man by Erich Fromm
--Marxism & Freedom: From 1776 until Today by Raya Dunayevskaya
--The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard
--The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
--The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto 'Che' Guervara
N
--No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt
O
--
P
--Pooh and the Philosophers(Wisdom of Pooh) by John T. Williams
--The Path of the Soul by White Eagle
Q
--
R
--The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek
--The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature by Ayn Rand
S
--Science of Harry Potter by Roger Highfield
--Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
--The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams
--The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking
--Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips
--Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
--Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem
--The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
T
--Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
--Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
--The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
--Total Freedom by Krishnamurti
--Tantric Mysticism of Tibet by John Blofeld
U
--
V
--
W
--The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
--Walden by Henry David Thoreau
X
--
Y
--
Z
--
#s
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:43 pm


books i've started reading (i just haven't had time to finish them...and i forget the authors atm):
The Elegant Universe
Blackfoot Physics

(yeah, i'm into reading about physics a lot...and i don't take physics until next year xp chemistry is awesome, though...and i'm already friends with the physics teacher whee )

Eilea


Faroresama
Crew

PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:53 pm


Eilea
books i've started reading (i just haven't had time to finish them...and i forget the authors atm):
The Elegant Universe
Blackfoot Physics

(yeah, i'm into reading about physics a lot...and i don't take physics until next year xp chemistry is awesome, though...and i'm already friends with the physics teacher whee )

Great! I'll add them.
I love physics too. I want to be an astrophysicist. Here's what my math teacher says about astronomy majors:
"Physics majors have to take more math than math majors.
Astronomy majors have to take more physics than physics majors."
I'm afraid of my future! ;_;
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:10 pm


Republic by Plato
Utopia by Thomas More

And how in the world can anyone go without reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman? wink

Let's see...other interesting books are as follows: The Science of Harry Potter for those interested in how HP can be put to Science and created (maybe not exactly in this world...quite yet anyway), The Tao of Pooh, and that's pretty much all I can recall at the time being...heh. biggrin

PhilosophyMind
Captain


--star--girl--

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:30 pm


PhilosophyMind
Republic by Plato
Utopia by Thomas More

And how in the world can anyone go without reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman? wink

Let's see...other interesting books are as follows: The Science of Harry Potter for those interested in how HP can be put to Science and created (maybe not exactly in this world...quite yet anyway), The Tao of Pooh, and that's pretty much all I can recall at the time being...heh. biggrin


Aww, I love The Tao of Pooh! Very good book. 3nodding
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:29 pm


PhilosophyMind
Republic by Plato
Utopia by Thomas More

And how in the world can anyone go without reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman? wink

Let's see...other interesting books are as follows: The Science of Harry Potter for those interested in how HP can be put to Science and created (maybe not exactly in this world...quite yet anyway), The Tao of Pooh, and that's pretty much all I can recall at the time being...heh. biggrin

MMM! "Utopia". I do want to read that.

Thanks for the great suggestions!

Faroresama
Crew


Faroresama
Crew

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:32 pm


PhilosophyMind
Republic by Plato
Utopia by Thomas More

And how in the world can anyone go without reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman? wink

Let's see...other interesting books are as follows: The Science of Harry Potter for those interested in how HP can be put to Science and created (maybe not exactly in this world...quite yet anyway), The Tao of Pooh, and that's pretty much all I can recall at the time being...heh. biggrin


Er....could you tell me which category these fall into? I'm not sure about some of them....and I don't want to put them into the wrong category....
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:30 pm


Erm...heh...I suppose put Republic and Utopia...as well as The Sandman (most definitely) under Fiction...And then The Tao of Pooh under non-fiction? Although...cheese...the only one I'm sure about is The Sandman...

And Science of Harry Potter I suppose...list that as Non-Fiction...gar... xp

PhilosophyMind
Captain


Faroresama
Crew

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:05 pm


That seems fine. Ok, thanks.
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:13 pm


OOH! OOH! Another good book (you reminded me in another thread of it) is Fire and Hemlock! Lol. And it's fiction. biggrin

PhilosophyMind
Captain


--star--girl--

PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:25 pm


PhilosophyMind
OOH! OOH! Another good book (you reminded me in another thread of it) is Fire and Hemlock! Lol. And it's fiction. biggrin

Fire and Hemlock? By Diana Wynne Jones?
PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:17 pm


--star--girl--
PhilosophyMind
OOH! OOH! Another good book (you reminded me in another thread of it) is Fire and Hemlock! Lol. And it's fiction. biggrin

Fire and Hemlock? By Diana Wynne Jones?


Yup! I couldn't remember the name >.<

I love the days when I have excess money from my relatives and I can just walk up to my local bookstore and book out a good looking book.

I read Fire and Hemlock in less than a day. And then read it again the next day. Lovely book.

Mwhaha. *ahem* biggrin

PhilosophyMind
Captain


--star--girl--

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:03 am


Ok, I've just started reading another book by Jostein Gaarder. It's called Through a Glass, Darkly (fiction). It's a very good book so far, and kind of reminds me of Sophie's World, but less textbook-ish.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:42 pm


--star--girl--
Ok, I've just started reading another book by Jostein Gaarder. It's called Through a Glass, Darkly (fiction). It's a very good book so far, and kind of reminds me of Sophie's World, but less textbook-ish.


Really? I'll look into it.

Anyone ever heard of Faerie Wars? Or The Purple Emperor?

I'd name the writer...if I could remember his name >.< The creator of Artemis Fowl (Eion maybe...this is stupid, I have that book right next to me! Eoin Colfer! I was close...got the letters...lol) loved Faerie Wars and wanted a sequel. I suppose he's happy now that there is one...

You might be interested in that. Good characters. Interesting plot. All that jazz.

Hey, if you enjoy books below your reading level, check out these: A Series of Unfortunate Events. And The Spiderwick Chronicles! =D

Yes, I am like a small child sometimes!

PhilosophyMind
Captain


Faroresama
Crew

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:34 pm


I volunteer at my library, sorting books, and I always get excited to see Sophie's World come around. It's been popular lately. I ALWAYS look at books on the job. Sometimes I have the nice supervisor, and sometimes I get the workaholic one, who won't let me read the jacket of a book. That happened when I found God and the New Physics.
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