The Loose Canon

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"They will stretch your thinking, stir your soul, and maybe even offer some startling insights on what to cook for dinner tonight. We created this list out of thousands of recommendations from authors, activists, professors, book club members, spiritual teachers, and bemused observers of the human condition. It’s offered not as a checklist to measure your intellectual standing, but as an inspiration, to give you an incentive to pursue your own blissful course of study.

"The real value of self-learning is that it connects you with a whole web of knowledge, each new discovery moving you in the direction of further insights. That’s why every one of the main selections here points to another work we’ve listed, which of course will lead you to more and more. Please let us know where this list takes you, and what else you would include."

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  1. 52.
    The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Clarice Lispector

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  2. 53.
    In a Mellotone
    by Duke Ellington

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  3. 54.
    A Love Supreme
    by John Coltrane

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  4. 55.
    Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
    by Billie Holiday

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  5. 57.
    Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
    by Hank Williams

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  6. 58.
    The Sun Years
    by Johnny Cash

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  7. 60.
    Pig Earth
    by John Berger

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  8. 61.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  9. 62.
    Nashville
    by Robert Altman

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    United States: Essays 1952-1992
    by Gore Vidal

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    Just Another Band from East L.A.: A Collection
    by Los Lobos

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  14. 67.
    The Second Sex
    by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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  15. 68.
    Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
    by Mary Daly

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  16. 69.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  17. 70.
    Bedouin Hornbook (Sun and Moon Classics)
    by Nathaniel Mackey

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  18. 71.
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    Djbot Baghostus's Run (New American Fiction, No 29)
    by Nathaniel Mackey

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  19. 73.
    Race Matters
    by Cornel West

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  20. 74.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

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  21. 75.
    Aparajito
    by Satyajit Ray

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  22. 76.
    The World of Apu
    by Satyajit Ray

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  23. 78.
    Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  24. 79.
    Palace of Desire (Cairo Trilogy II)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  25. 80.
    Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy, 3)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  26. 81.
    This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet)
    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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  27. 82.
    Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet)
    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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  28. 83.
    Footsteps (Buru Quartet)
    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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  29. 84.
    House of Glass (Buru Quartet)
    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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  30. 85.
    The Seventh Seal [Blu-ray]
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  31. 86.
    The Secret of Roan Inish
    by John Sayles

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  32. 88.
    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by Louis Armstrong

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  33. 89.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  34. 90.
    Culture and Imperialism
    by Edward W. Said

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  35. 93.
    Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
    by François Truffaut

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  37. 95.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  38. 96.
    What Is Life?
    by Lynn Margulis

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  39. 97.
    Monk's Dream
    by Thelonious Monk

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  40. 98.
    Kind of Blue
    by Miles Davis

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  41. 99.
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

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  42. 100.
    Chaos: Making a New Science
    by James Gleick

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