6 must-read philosophy books like Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde

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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

By: Lewis Hyde

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most …

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1. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

By: Chögyam Trungpa

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the comm… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral."

-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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2. The Bell

By: Iris Murdoch , A.S. Byatt

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed … read more

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3. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

By: Lewis Hyde

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • philosophy
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • anthropology

4. This Is the Place to Be

By: Lara Pawson

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

'What makes a life? Lara Pawson's lucid, sudden and subtle memoir unpicks the spirals of memory, po… read more

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5. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

By: David Abram

4.03

Format: 512 pages,

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6. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

By: Robert D. Kaplan

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croa… read more

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7. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

By: Erving Goffman , Sven Bergström

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has emp… read more

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8. Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

By: David Abram

4.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous--hailed as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles T… read more

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9. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

By: Chögyam Trungpa , Carolyn Rose Gimian

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this practical guide to enlightened living, Chogyam Trungpa offers an inspiring vision for our t… read more

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10. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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11. Dodger

By: Terry Pratchett

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A storm.Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately … read more

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12. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Fantastic Four, Vol. 1: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four?

By: Ryan North

3.95

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

The World's Greatest Comic Magazine gets a fresh start with superstar writer Ryan North! Whateve… read more

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14. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

By: Jenn Shapland

4.09

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. The Best American Short Stories 2023

By: Min Jin Lee

3.77

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more

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16. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

By: Joseph Henrich

4.12

Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • anthropology
"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"

-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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18. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech

By: William Deresiewicz

4.01

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work―the mus… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

20. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

By: Toni Morrison

4.30

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collectio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A perfect thing is not everything."

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

"There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press."

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

"Home is memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory."

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Cover of Freud (The Routledge Philosophers) by Jonathan Lear

21. Freud (The Routledge Philosophers)

By: Jonathan Lear

4.06

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

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4.09

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