7 must-read nonfiction books like The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings by Pascal Bruckner

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The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

By: Pascal Bruckner

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orth…

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1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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  • philosophy
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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2. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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3. Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

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4. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an i… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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  • philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

7. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

By: M. Scott Peck

2.50

Format: 52 pages,

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8. La civilización del espectáculo

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"La cultura, en el sentido que tradicionalmente se ha dado a este vocablo, esta en nuestros dias a … read more

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9. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

10. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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11. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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  • philosophy
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

12. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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13. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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14. The Denial of Death

By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more

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15. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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16. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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17. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

By: Pascal Bruckner

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orth… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • climate change

9 Top philosophy books like The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings by Pascal Bruckner

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Immortality

Milan Kundera

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

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Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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The Plague

Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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