artlover's "Most Important Books on the Planet"

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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.

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  1. 1.
    Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
    by Michael Braungart

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

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

  4. 4.
    The Hydrogen Economy
    by Jeremy Rifkin

  5. 6.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

  6. 7.

  7. 8.
    BREAKING THE SPELL: RELIGION AS A NATURAL PHENOMENON
    by DANIEL C. DENNETT

  8. 9.
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared Diamond

  9. 10.
    Ishmael
    by Daniel Quinn

  10. 11.
    The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
    by Riane Eisler

  11. 13.
    ?
    When Society Becomes an Addict
    by Anne Wilson Schaef

  12. 15.
    Chaos: Making a New Science
    by James Gleick

  13. 16.
    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman

  14. 17.
    Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
    by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  15. 18.
    When Corporations Rule the World
    by David C Korten

  16. 19.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  17. 20.
    Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
    by Albert Camus

  18. 21.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  19. 22.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  20. 24.
    The Revolt of the Masses
    by José Ortega y Gasset

  21. 27.
    The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
    by Brian Swimme Ph.D.

  22. 28.
    Answer to Job (Routledge Classics)
    by C.G. Jung

  23. 30.
    ?
    The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior
    by Helen E. Fisher

  24. 31.
    Siddhartha (Modern Library)
    by Hermann Hesse

  25. 34.
    Hope for the Flowers
    by Trina Paulus

  26. 35.
    The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
    by Richard Preston

  27. 36.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

  28. 37.

  29. 39.
    Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
    by Starhawk

  30. 42.

  31. 43.
    Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala
    by Vaclav Havel

  32. 44.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)
    by Edward Abbey

  33. 45.
    Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
    by Thich Nhat Hanh

  34. 46.

  35. 47.
    Dead Cities

  36. 48.
    Annals of the Former World
    by John McPhee

  37. 49.
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas Hofstadter

  38. 50.
    Jonathon Livingston Seagull a story
    by Richard Bach

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Created by artlover on Dec 04, 2006.
 

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