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I always enjoy peering at other people’s bookshelves, so here’s mine.

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Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century

A. C. Grayling

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The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels

Alex Epstein

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The Gulag Archipelago Vol1

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago Vol2

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago Vol3

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Hitch 22

Christopher Hitchens

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God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens

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The Missionary Position

Christopher Hitchens

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Letter To A Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens

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Arguably

Christopher Hitchens

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And Yet...

Christopher Hitchens

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Love Poverty And War

Christopher Hitchens

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For the Sake of Argument

Christopher Hitchens

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Thomas Jefferson: Author Of America

Christopher Hitchens

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The Beginning Of Infinity

David Deutsch

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The Fabric Of Reality

David Deutsch

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The Bourgeois Virtues

Deirdre Mccloskey

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The Bourgeois Dignity

Deirdre Mccloskey

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The Bourgeois Equality

Deirdre Mccloskey

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Godel Esher Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

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Strange Death of Europe

Douglas Murray

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Rationality: From Ai To Zombies

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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The Trial

Franz Kafka

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

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Burmese Days

George Orwell

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1984

George Orwell

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

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The Road To Wigan Pier

George Orwell

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Homage To Catalonia

George Orwell

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

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The Odyssey

Homer

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Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

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Ulysses

James Joyce

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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

James Joyce

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Grapes Of Wrath

John Steinbeck

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Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck

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The Logic Of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

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Conjectures And Refutations

Karl Popper

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Poverty Of Historicism

Karl Popper

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Realism And The Aim Of Science

Karl Popper

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Objective Knowledge

Karl Popper

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Unending Quest

Karl Popper

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The Open Society And Its Enemies

Karl Popper

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The Myth Of The Framework

Karl Popper

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All Life Is Problem Solving

Karl Popper

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The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017

Martin Amis

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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Martin Amis

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The War Against Cliche

Martin Amis

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Evolution Of Everything

Matt Ridley

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The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

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Isis: Inside The Army Of Terror

Michael Weiss

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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

Multiple (Edited by John Brockman)

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Empire

Niall Ferguson

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Ascent Of Money

Niall Ferguson

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The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

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De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

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Philip Larkin: Poems selected by Martin Amis

Philip Larkin

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The Trial Of Socrates

Plato

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

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Free Will

Sam Harris

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Lying

Sam Harris

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The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris

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Islam And The Future Of Tolerance

Sam Harris / Maajid Nawaz

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Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Scott Aaronson

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Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

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Better Angels Of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

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The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker

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Sense Of Style

Steven Pinker

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On Tyranny

Timothy D. Snyder

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Oil

Vaclav Smil

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Man's Search For Meaning

Viktor Frankl

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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

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Laughter In The Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

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Invitation To A Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov

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Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

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Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov

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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

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