Endless Love 
​Scott Spencer

Middlemarch 
George Eliot

Man’s Search for Meaning 
Viktor Frankl

Animal Spirits : How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism 
George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

​A Collection of Essays 
George Orwell

​The Lonely Man of Faith
Joseph Soloveitchik

The Confessions  
St. Augustine

Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas 
Richard Ogle

​The Peloponnesian War 
Thucydides

​All the King’s Men 
Robert Penn Warren

Anna Karenina 
Leo Tolstoy

Rationalism in Politics 
Michael Oakeshott

​The Happiness Hypothesis : Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom 
Jonathan Haidt

Descartes' Error : Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
​Steven Pinker

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell

The Wayfinders : Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World 
Wade Davis

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge 
Edward Osborne Wilson​

The Soulful Science : What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters 
Diane Coyle

Proust Was a Neuroscientist 
Jonah Lehrer

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Jonah Goldberg (columnist)

Paul Krugman (Economist)

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1. https://fivebooks.com/best-books/david-brooks-neuroscience/ 
2. http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/david-brooks-list-of-really-good-books.html 
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/opinion/brooks-really-good-books-part-i.html?_r=0 
4. ​http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/opinion/brooks-really-good-books-part-ii.html 
5. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/04/david-brooks-what-i-read/331654/ 
6. https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-brookss-favorite-books 
7. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-are-you-reading-david-brooks

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