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These books are ones that I believe need to be widely read and taught in order for our species to survive the various threats to our existence that are on the horizon – most of which we pose to ourselves. These books are necessary, but probably not sufficient.

  1. 2.
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    by Jared Diamond

  2. 3.
    The Future of Life
    by Edward O. Wilson

  3. 4.
    The Hydrogen Economy
    by Jeremy Rifkin

  4. 6.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

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  6. 8.
    BREAKING THE SPELL: RELIGION AS A NATURAL PHENOMENON
    by DANIEL C. DENNETT

  7. 9.
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared Diamond

  8. 10.
    Ishmael
    by Daniel Quinn

  9. 11.
    The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
    by Riane Eisler

  10. 13.
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    When Society Becomes an Addict
    by Anne Wilson Schaef

  11. 15.
    Chaos: Making a New Science
    by James Gleick

  12. 16.
    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman

  13. 17.
    Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
    by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  14. 18.
    When Corporations Rule the World
    by David C Korten

  15. 19.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  16. 20.
    Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
    by Albert Camus

  17. 21.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  18. 22.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  19. 24.
    The Revolt of the Masses
    by José Ortega y Gasset

  20. 27.
    The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
    by Brian Swimme Ph.D.

  21. 28.
    Answer to Job (Routledge Classics)
    by C.G. Jung

  22. 30.
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    The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior
    by Helen E. Fisher

  23. 31.
    Siddhartha (Modern Library)
    by Hermann Hesse

  24. 34.
    Hope for the Flowers
    by Trina Paulus

  25. 35.
    The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
    by Richard Preston

  26. 36.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

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  28. 39.
    Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
    by Starhawk

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  30. 43.
    Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala
    by Vaclav Havel

  31. 44.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
    by Edward Abbey

  32. 45.
    Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
    by Thich Nhat Hanh

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  34. 47.
    Dead Cities

  35. 48.
    Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee

  36. 49.
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas Hofstadter

  37. 50.
    Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story
    by Richard Bach

  38. 51.
    Ecotopia
    by Ernest Callenbach

  39. 52.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)
    by Carl Gustav Jung

  40. 54.
    The Ages of Gaia
    by James Lovelock

  41. 56.
    The Myth of Male Power
    by Warren Farrell

  42. 57.
    Iron John: A Book About Men
    by Robert Bly

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  44. 60.
    White Goddess
    by Robert Graves

  45. 62.
    Evil and the God of Love
    by John Hick

  46. 63.
    Christ and Culture
    by H. Richard Niebuhr

  47. 64.
    Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
    by Marshall B. Rosenberg

  48. 65.
    The Stranger (A Vintage Book, V-2)
    by Albert Camus

  49. 66.
    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

  50. 67.
    Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
    by Robert Anton Wilson

  51. 68.
    General Semantics Seminar 1937: Olivet College Lectures
    by Alfred Korzybski

  52. 69.
    Ender's Game Gift Edition (Ender Quartet)
    by Orson Scott Card

  53. 70.
    Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
    by Orson Scott Card

  54. 71.
    Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
    by Orson Scott Card

  55. 72.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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  57. 74.
    Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
    by Martin Luther King Jr.

  58. 75.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  60. 77.
    Alas, Babylon
    by Pat Frank

  61. 78.
    Lucifer's Hammer
    by Jerry Pournelle

  62. 79.
    The Great Divorce
    by C.S. Lewis

  63. 81.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell

  64. 82.
    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

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  66. 84.
    The Milagro Beanfield War
    by John Nichols

  67. 85.
    The Nirvana Blues: A Novel
    by John Nichols

  68. 86.
    The Magic Journey: A Novel
    by John Nichols

  69. 87.
    Jihad Vs.Mcworld
    by Benjamin R Barber

  70. 88.
    Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition
    by Paulo Freire

  71. 89.
    The Origin of the Family: Private Property and the State
    by Friedrich Engels

  72. 90.
    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  74. 95.
    I'd Rather Teach Peace
    by Colman McCarthy

  75. 96.
    Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
    by George Thompson

  76. 97.
    A Theory of Justice
    by John Rawls

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  78. 100.
    The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)
    by Lois Lowry

  79. 101.
    The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
    by M. Scott Peck

  80. 103.
    Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
    by John Houghton

  81. 104.
    The Pushcart War

  82. 105.
    The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
    by Robert Axelrod

  83. 106.
    Cadillac Desert
    by Marc Reisner

  84. 107.
    The Courage to Be
    by Paul Tillich

  85. 108.
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    by Malcolm Gladwell

  86. 109.
    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

  87. 110.
    Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
    by Antonio Damasio

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