Recommended Reading
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Sam's Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Reader Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Fiction
Authors by Last Name (w)
Wade, N
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Wallace, A.
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
Wallace, D.F.
Infinite Jest
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Wallace, David, Foster
Walls, Jeannette
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Warraq, I
Warraq, Ibn
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
Warren, Robert Penn
Watson, G
Watson, J.
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Watson, Peter
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
Ideas
Watts, A.
The Wisdom of Insecurity
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
A Handful of Dust
Webber, Marlene
As If Kids Mattered: What’s Wrong in the World of Child Protection and Adoption
Weber, M.
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
Webster, Richard
Wegner, DM
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Wei, Wei Wu
Weinberg, S.
Dreams of a Final Theory
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
Weiner, Jonathan
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Wells, Spencer
Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Consequences of Civilization
Werleman, CJ
God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible
West, Harry G.
West, Nathanael
West, R.
Wheen, Francis
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
White, M.
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things
Whittenberger, Gary J Ph.D.
God Wants YOU to be an Atheist: The Startling Conclusion from a Rational Analysis
Wilber, K.
The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion
Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World
The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God,
Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists
No Boundary Eastern & Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Wilde, O
Wilder, Thornton
Wilensky, G.
Wilkerson, Isabel
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Williams, B.
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Wilson, A. N
Paul: The Mind of the Apostle
Jesus: A Life
Wilson, E.O.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
On Human Nature
Wilson, Robert, Charles
Wilson, T.D.
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Winchester, S.
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicti
Wittgenstein, L.
On Certainty
Philosophical Investigations
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Grammar
Wolf, M.
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Wolfe, Tom
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolin, R.
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
Wollstonecraft, M.
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wolpert
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
Woo, Richard
Wood, Ann
Woolf , V.
A Room of One’s Own (Annotated)
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Wright, L
The Looming Tower
Going Clear:Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Wright, Patrick
Iron Curtain [from Stage to Cold War]
Wright, R.
Wright, Richard
Wyman, DS
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945
