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RECOMMENDED READING
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This section contains a list of my favorite books and titles worth reading as a foundation to good thought and the pursuit of your own philosophy. I’ve listed the books in the order in which I would read them again. There are many more books I could recommend, though sometimes some books are enough, as suggested by Seneca:
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“You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Cosmos by Carl Sagan
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (George Long translation)
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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The Discourses by Epictetus
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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by Seneca
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Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorn
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
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Code of Hammurabi
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Enuma Elish – The Babylonian Epic of Creation
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The Torah with commentary by Rabbi Rashi
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The Bible (King James and New International Version (NIV) editions) I read one chapter a day, beginning at the front and proceeding to the back, and then round-and-round again, every day, for all my life.
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On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
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On Man in the Universe by Aristotle
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