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dandv's "Paradigm-shifting books"

Books which after read, will make you see the world with different eyes.

Books which you’ll keep mentioning in intelligent conversation.

Books you wish you had time to re-read, and you wish someone else read.

Listed in vague order of increasing shift.

See also my list of movies you’ll think about,
http://www.listsofbests.com/list/45069
1. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
  
2. The Giver
by Lois Lowry
  
3. Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edwin A. Abbott
  
4. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
  
5. God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
by Scott Adams
  
6. The Religion War
by Scott Adams
  
7. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
8. Diaspora.
by Greg Egan
  
9. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
by Richard Dawkins
  
10. The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
  
11. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins
  
12. Against Love: A Polemic
by Laura Kipnis
  
13. The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
  
14. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
  
15. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
16. Do You Think What You Think You Think?
by Julian Baggini
  
17. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
18. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  
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Created by dandv on Dec 17, 2008.