21 books recommended by David Brooks
New York Times Op-Ed columnist,
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 |
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The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides |
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren |
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy |
Rationalism in Politics
Michael Oakeshott |
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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
“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.”
―David Brooks
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward Osborne Wilson |
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Jonah Lehrer |
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