7 best-selling philosophy books like Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections by William Irwin

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Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections

By: William Irwin

4.10

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A philosophical look at the twisted, high-tech near-future of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mir…

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Cover of The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason by William Irwin, George A. Dunn, Nicolas Michaud, Andrew Zimmerman Jones

1. The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

By: William Irwin , George A. Dunn , Nicolas Michaud , Andrew Zimmerman Jones

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time fo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
" resultant moral luck , which is 'luck in the way one’s actions and projects turn out'."

-William Irwin, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

" Circumstantial moral luck is 'luck in one’s circumstances - the kind of problems and situations one faces'."

-William Irwin, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

" Causal moral luck is 'luck in how one is determined by antecedent circumstances.'... we don't make our moral choices in a vacuum."

-William Irwin, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

" Constitutive moral luck occurs whenever forces beyond your control have shaped 'the kind of person you are, where this is not just a question of what you deliberately do, but of your inclinations, c…"

-William Irwin, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

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2. The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more

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"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

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3. Mommie Dearest

By: Christina Crawford

3.11

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

With the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford becomes one of the only aut… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

By: Julian Baggini

3.87

Format: 400 pages,

The author presents 100 thought experiments which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and i… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Heart and Brain: Body Language: An Awkward Yeti Collection

By: The Awkward Yeti , Nick Seluk

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling creator of the hugely popular Awkward Yeticomics comes the thir… read more

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6. Think Like a Freak

By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

3.50

Format: None pages, ebook

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Let the Right One In

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist

3.85

Format: None pages,

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a tee… read more

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8. The Stepford Wives

By: Ira Levin

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more

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9. Prelude to Foundation

By: Isaac Asimov

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for ISBN:  It is 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Impe… read more

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10. A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-… read more

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"On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Father Wanderly said, “Are we speaking with a demon right now?"

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Are you scared and confused like I am?" Her voice was as small as I'd ever heard it. "I think everyone is secretly like me."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

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11. Midnight Mass

By: F. Paul Wilson

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to … read more

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12. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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13. Them: Adventures with Extremists

By: Jon Ronson

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more

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14. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

By: Christopher Moore

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacri… read more

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15. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

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16. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

17. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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18. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

4.19

Format: 45 pages,

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more

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19. Dark Tales

By: Shirley Jackson

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more

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20. Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

4.22

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

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21. Master Class

By: Christina Dalcher

3.76

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Every child's potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). … read more

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  • dystopia
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22. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

By: Ryan Holiday

4.04

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday's best… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Start small...on something big."

-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing."

-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

"History is written with blood, sweat, and tears, and it is etched into eternity by the quiet endurance of courageous people."

-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

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24. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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25. Wahala

By: Nikki May

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best f… read more

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26. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

By: Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. People Like Her

By: Ellery Lloyd

3.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp, wickedly smart suspense debut about an ambitious influencer mom whose soaring succes… read more

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"It can really rob you of your faith in the human spirit, sometimes, the internet."

-Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

"I found that the more "authentic" I was, the more followers I won, and the more those followers "liked" me. If that sounds patronizing, I honestly don't mean it that way. Sorry, the Sisterhood, but w…"

-Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

"I've honed my approach overtime to make sure I don't stoke the hater's rage. I am sure these are often women broken with grief for their old lives, powder kegs packed with fury at the terrible injust…"

-Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

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28. Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

By: Tom Phillips

3.99

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from … read more

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"Niektórzy z nas mają kłopot z porannym wybieraniem skarpet - wyobraz sobie, że naprawdę chcesz decydować, jakie skarpety powinien nosić cały naród."

-Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

"While it's possible that this happened because an enterprising hunter-gatherer ancestor of ours woke up one day and said 'I am going to make friends with a wolf and he will be a Very Good Boy,' it's …"

-Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

"Availability, meanwhile, means that you make judgement calls on the basis of whatever information comes to mind easiest, rather than deeply considering all the possible information that might be avai…"

-Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

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29. Our Fight: A Memoir

By: Ronda Rousey

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered and ent… read more

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30. Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections

By: William Irwin

4.10

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A philosophical look at the twisted, high-tech near-future of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mir… read more

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  • philosophy
  • dystopia
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  • technology
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31. Inside Black Mirror

By: Charlie Brooker

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering. read more

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