9 must-read philosophy books like Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal by Noah Cicero

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Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal

By: Noah Cicero

4.43

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Marking a significant departure from Cicero's fictional and poetic works, Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard …

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1. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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2. Dust (Silo, #3)

By: Hugh Howey

3.97

Format: 250 pages,

The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. In the aftermath of the uprising, the pe… read more

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3. There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

By: Brad Warner

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Can you be an atheist and still believe in God? Can you be a true believer and still doubt? Can Zen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

5. Marigold

By: Troy James Weaver

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

A thirty-something floral salesman searches for reasons to keep living. read more

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6. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

By: Tao Lin

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy a 23-year-old person attempts to explain to himself the possible or… read more

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7. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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8. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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9. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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10. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

By: Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her m… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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11. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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12. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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13. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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14. The Last

By: Hanna Jameson

3.53

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts, this breat… read more

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"The only meaning we might have left as a species--indeed, the only thing left that might matter, that might keep us motivated to get up in the morning--is in the small acts of human kindness we show …"

-Hanna Jameson, The Last

"A lot of people confuse movement with progress," Dylan said. "I knew it was a bad idea but what were we gonna do, barricade them in? They weren't ready to face any kind of truth." I leaned against th…"

-Hanna Jameson, The Last

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15. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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16. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Event: an epic joke

By: Sam Pink

4.35

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Where do YOU stand? read more

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18. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more

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"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

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19. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Everything Is Totally Fine

By: Zac Smith

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

A collection of weird, surreal, inventive stories ranging from six sentences to eight pages. Animal… read more

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"I’m the sauce master. President Saucemaster. I feel suicidal every day and I don’t know how anyone doesn’t feel this way."

-Zac Smith, Everything Is Totally Fine

"Venison stinks when you chew it, it stinks in your gullet. The putrid meat expands in your bowels, it constricts the intestines, it constricts the appetite—it murders you slowly, clogging your organs…"

-Zac Smith, Everything Is Totally Fine

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22. One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir

By: Henry Shukman

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

One Blade of Grass tells the story of how meditation practice helped Henry Shukman to recover from … read more

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"I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good ."

-Henry Shukman, One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir

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23. Family Annihilator

By: Calvin Westra

4.42

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Oen is submitting a story called Family Annihilator, about a guy named Florian making a YouTube ser… read more

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24. Donald Goines: An Exciting Alternative to Other Novels

By: Calvin Westra

4.65

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Donald Goines is a book about drugs. Donald Goines is a book about friendship. Donald Goines is a b… read more

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25. Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal

By: Noah Cicero

4.43

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Marking a significant departure from Cicero's fictional and poetic works, Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard … read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Death Egg

By: Nathaniel Duggan

4.58

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Death Egg is a collection of poems about unemployment, love, jellyfish, despair, and apocalypses. E… read more

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15 best-selling nonfiction books like Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal by Noah Cicero

Transform Your Habits

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Transform Your Habits

There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

Brad Warner

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Republic

Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

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Transform Your Habits

Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

Joseph Goldstein

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Transform Your Habits

How the World Works

Noam Chomsky , David Barsamian , Arthur Naiman

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Everyday Zen: Love and Work

Charlotte Joko Beck

4.00

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