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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.

  1. 1.
    Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
    by William McDonough

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

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    The Future of Life
    by Edward O. Wilson

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  4. 4.
    The Hydrogen Economy
    by Jeremy Rifkin

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    Fast Food Nation
    by Eric Schlosser

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    Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
    by Daniel C. Dennett

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  8. 10.
    Ishmael
    by Daniel Quinn

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

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    When Society Becomes an Addict
    by Anne Wilson Schaef

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

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

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

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

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  15. 20.
    Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
    by Albert Camus

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  16. 21.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  17. 22.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

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  18. 24.
    The Revolt of the Masses
    by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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  19. 27.
    The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
    by Brian Swimme

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  20. 28.
    Answer to Job (Routledge Classics)
    by C.G. Jung

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

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  22. 31.
    Siddhartha (Modern Library)
    by Hermann Hesse

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  23. 34.
    Hope for the Flowers
    by Trina Paulus

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  24. 35.
    The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
    by Richard Preston

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  25. 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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  29. 40.
    Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
    by Lao Tsu

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

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

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

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  35. 47.
    Dead Cities

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

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

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

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  39. 51.
    Ecotopia
    by Ernest Callenbach

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  40. 52.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)
    by C.G. Jung

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  41. 54.
    The Ages of Gaia
    by James Lovelock

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  42. 56.
    The Myth of Male Power
    by Warren Farrell

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  43. 57.
    Iron John: A Book About Men
    by Robert Bly

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    The White Goddess
    by Robert Graves

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  47. 62.
    Evil and the God of Love
    by John Hick

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  48. 63.
    Christ and Culture
    by H. Richard Niebuhr

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  49. 65.
    The Stranger (A Vintage Book, V-2)
    by Albert Camus

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  50. 66.
    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

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    General Semantics Seminar 1937: Olivet College Lectures
    by Alfred Korzybski

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  53. 69.
    Ender's Game Gift Edition (Ender Quartet)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  54. 70.
    Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  55. 71.
    Pastwatch The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
    by Orson Scott Card

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  56. 72.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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  58. 74.
    Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
    by Martin Luther King Jr.

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  59. 75.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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    Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
    by Pat Frank

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  62. 78.
    Lucifer's Hammer
    by Jerry Pournelle

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  63. 79.
    The Great Divorce
    by C.S. Lewis

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  64. 81.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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  65. 82.
    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

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  67. 84.
    The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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  68. 85.
    The Nirvana Blues: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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  69. 86.
    The Magic Journey: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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  70. 87.
    Jihad Vs.McWorld
    by Benjamin R. Barber

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  71. 88.
    Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    by Paulo Freire

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  72. 89.
    The Origin of the Family: Private Property and the State
    by Friedrich Engels

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  73. 90.
    The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

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  75. 95.
    I'd Rather Teach Peace
    by Colman McCarthy

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  76. 96.
    Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
    by George Thompson

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  77. 97.
    A Theory of Justice
    by John Rawls

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  78. 98.
    Political Liberalism (Columbia Classics in Philosophy)
    by John Rawls

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  79. 99.
    Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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  80. 100.
    The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)
    by Lois Lowry

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Created by artlover on Dec 04, 2006.