14 must-read nonfiction books like Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People by Fritjof Capra

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Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

By: Fritjof Capra

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

SABIDURIA CONVERSACIONES CON PERSONAJES EXCEPCIONALES

"Science is of no value unless it is accompanied by social concern."

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

"The original sense of the word 'therapist' in its Greek form therapuetes , was that of an attendant. A therapist, Laing maintained, should therefore be a specialist in attentiveness and awareness."

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

"For those of us who identify with the movements of the sixties this period represents not so much a decade as a state of consciousness, characterized by the transpersonal expansion, the questioning of authority, a sense of empowerment, and the experience of sensuous beauty and community. This state of consciousness reached well into the seventies. In fact, one could say that the sixties came to an end only in December 1980 with the shot that killed John Lennon."

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

"A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest assumptions but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead ego-centered, competitive, goal-oriented lives. They tend to be unable to derive satisfaction from ordinary activities in everyday life and can become alienated from their inner world. For people whose existence is dominated by this mode of experience no level of wealth, power, or fame will bring genuine satisfaction. They become infused with a sense of meaninglessness, futility, and even absurdity that no amount of external success can dispel."

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

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1. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

By: Marina Abramović

4.56

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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2. The Life of Milarepa

By: Anonymous , Lobsang P. Lhalungpa , Tsangnyön Heruka

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • spirituality
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3. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • science
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4. 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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5. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Zen Flesh, Zen Boneswas published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire genera… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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6. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • physics
  • science

7. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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8. Women Who Run With the Wolves

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4.13

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more

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10. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

By: Brian L. Weiss

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that chang… read more

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11. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

12. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

By: David Lynch

4.29

Format: 426 pages,

Where do ideas come from? In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch… read more

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13. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Cover of Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

14. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"The “persecution"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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15. The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.03

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more

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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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16. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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17. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more

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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

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18. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • psychology
  • essays
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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19. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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20. 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
  • science
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21. Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more

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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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22. Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.13

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linke… read more

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"Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause."

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

Cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

23. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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25. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more

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"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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26. Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

By: Fritjof Capra

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

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"Science is of no value unless it is accompanied by social concern."

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

"The original sense of the word 'therapist' in its Greek form therapuetes , was that of an attendant. A therapist, Laing maintained, should therefore be a specialist in attentiveness and awareness."

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

"For those of us who identify with the movements of the sixties this period represents not so much a decade as a state of consciousness, characterized by the transpersonal expansion, the questioning o…"

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

"A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest assumptions but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead ego-centered, competitive, goal…"

-Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom : Conversations With Remarkable People

Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

27. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • philosophy
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3.63

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