8 best-selling poetry books like The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction by Hal Taussig

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The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction

By: Hal Taussig

4.47

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Perfect Mind - a p…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction by Hal Taussig , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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2. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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3. The Gospel According to Mark (Pocket Canons, #8)

By: Anonymous , Nick Cave

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with e… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. The NIV Gospel of John: With Devotional Notes

By: Anonymous

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

'John's Gospel sheds a unique light not only on the ministry of Jesus Christ, but also on the natur… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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  • poetry
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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6. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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7. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • religion
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8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • religion
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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9. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • poetry
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10. Meno

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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11. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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  • poetry

12. On Contradiction

By: Mao Zedong

3.70

Format: 336 pages, paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. The Gospel According to Luke: KJV

By: Anonymous , Thomas Cahill

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

14. Duino Elegies

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more

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15. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more

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16. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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17. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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18. The Way of Zen

By: Alan W. Watts

4.17

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

19. The Location of Culture

By: Homi K. Bhabha , Teresa Miller

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working… read more

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20. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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21. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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22. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • religion
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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23. All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

By: Nemo Ramjet

4.21

Format: 111 pages, ebook

The story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform… read more

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  • philosophy
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24. Crier's War (Crier's War, #1)

By: Nina Varela

4.12

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution. … read more

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25. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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26. No Rings Attached (Ms. Right, #2)

By: Rachel Lacey

3.96

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes the second installment in the Ms. Right series: a capt… read more

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"Her heart was a delicate thing. Instead of toughening her up, each loss or heartbreak only seemed to make her more fragile."

-Rachel Lacey, No Rings Attached (Ms. Right, #2)

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27. Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

By: Nina Varela

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For too long, Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing its human citizens. But the … read more

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"You are newbuilt,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Cruelty was wasted on the kind."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"I told you once I’m not a book to be read,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Strength isn’t measured by the ability to cause harm."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

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28. Book of Revelation

By: Anonymous

4.47

Format: 669 pages, Kindle Edition

"I am the Alpha and the Omega .. the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come … the Alm… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

-Anonymous, Book of Revelation

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29. On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals

By: William Harvey

3.71

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

El Prof. Dr. J. J. Izquierdo nació en 1893, hizo los estudios preparatorios y de medicina, y obtuvo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?"

-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals

"Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown."

-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals

"The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds."

-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals

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30. Mutual Benefits

By: H.P. Munro

4.30

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Coming out to your loved ones is stressful, so when Hannah Melville’s family not only accept but ce… read more

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31. The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction

By: Hal Taussig

4.47

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Perfect Mind - a p… read more

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  • gnosticism
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12 Best philosophy books like The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction by Hal Taussig

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Meno

Plato , G.M.A. Grube

4.80

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9 Top fiction books like Paradise Lost by John Milton, John Leonard

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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