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The Help
1,000 LA deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
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1984
1,500 LIn George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother. Defying a ban on individuality, Winston dares to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia.
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Animal Farm
1,500 L‘A prophet who thought the unthinkable and spoke the unspeakable, even when it offended conventional thought’ Daily Express
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Black Swan
1,650 LThe Black Swan is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively.
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Thinking Fast and Slow
2,450 LThere have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Thinking, Fast and Slow’ Financial Times
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Quiet
1,700 LPassionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with real stories, whether an introvert or extrovert, this book will change how you see human beings for good.
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Great Ideas Myth of Sisyphus
1,350 LThe Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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Blink
1,800 LThe Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell’s second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information.
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The Republic
1,800 LPlato’s The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy.
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Selected Poems
1,600 LThe essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mystic.
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The Politics
1,600 LThe aim of the Politics, Aristotle says, is to investigate, on the basis of the constitutions collected, what makes for good government and what makes for bad government and to identify the factors favourable or unfavourable to the preservation of a constitution.
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Selected Political Speeches
1,800 LCicero was thought to be the greatest orator in the Roman world during his life. Cicero wrote a variety of philosophical, rhetorical (on the study and practice of rhetoric), political and legal works. However, this compilation does not include any of those works. Instead, it is composed entirely of his speeches. There are nine, and they are ordered chronologically through his life.
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The Secret History
1,650 LUnder the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
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Letters to Sartre
2,100 LRecently published for the first time in France, letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to one of the world’s most acclaimed philosophers shed light on their relationship and her obsessive need to communicate with him.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
1,400 LMemoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the story of Nitta Sayuri and the many trials she faces on the path to becoming and working as a geisha in Kyoto, Japan, before, during and after World War II.
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It’s All in Your Head
1,600 LA neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.
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