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OUR READING LIST
Book Title | Author | Genre |
|---|---|---|
The Wisdom of Insecurity | Alan Watts | Philosophy |
The World’s Religions | Huston Smith | Religion |
Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Psychology |
Time Maps | Evyatar Zerubavel | Sociology |
To Heal the World | Jonathan Neumann | Judaism |
Voices in Exile | Rabbi Marc Angel | Judaism |
What Israel Means to Me | Alan Dershowitz | Essays |
Why Therapy Works | Louis J. Cozolino | Psychology |
Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | Psychology |
William Blake: The Complete Poems | William Blake | Poetry |
Winter’s Tale | Mark Helprin | Fiction |
Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | Fiction |
You Are Your Own Gym | Mark Lauren | Health |
Rafa | Rafael Nadal, John Carlin | Biographical |
Rice’s Architectural Primer | Matthew Rice | Architecture |
Sapiens | Yuval Harari | Science |
Selected Poems | Derek Walcott | Poetry |
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | Science |
Six Easy Pieces | Richard Feynman | Science |
Skin in the Game | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Philosophy |
Start-Up Nation | Dan Senor | Sociology |
The Adams-Jefferson Letters | History | |
The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm | Psychology |
The Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Philosophy |
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee | Wendy Mogel | Parenting |
The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel A Van der Kolk | Mind and Body |
The Body of Faith | Michael Wyschogrod | Judaism |
The Book of Jewish Food | Claudia Roden | History |
The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Fiction |
The Elephant in the Brain | Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson | Psychology |
The Elephant in the Room | Evyatar Zerubavel | Sociology |
The Epigenetics Revolution | Nessa Carey | Science |
The Essential Jung | Carl Jung | Psychology |
The Gene: An Intimate History | Siddharta Mukherjee | Science |
The Geography of Thought | Richard E. Nisbett | Sociology |
The Gift | Hafez | Poetry |
The Giver | Lois Lowry | Fiction |
The Grand Inquisitor | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Philosophy |
The Greatest Show on Earth | Richard Dawkins | Science |
The Indespensible Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson | Satire |
The Information | James Gleick | History |
The Inner Game of Tennis | W Timothy Gallwey | Psychology |
The Lives of a Cell | Lewis Thomas | Science |
The Mother Tongue | Bill Bryson | Language |
The Naked Olympics | Tony Perrottet | History |
The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | Science |
The Pacific and Other Stories | Mark Helprin | Fiction |
The Panda’s Thumb | Stephen J Gould | Science |
The Passion of the Western Mind | Richard Tarnas | History |
The Places that Scare You | Pema Chodron | Psychology |
The Quark and the Jaguar | Murray Gel-Mann | Science |
The Re-Emergence of Emergence | Phillip Clayton, Paul Davies | Systems |
The Reagan Diaries | Ronald Reagan | Biographical |
The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt | Sociology |
The Road Less Traveled | M. Scott Peck | Psychology |
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | Science |
The Sephardim of England | Albert Hyamson | History |
The Story of Philosophy | Will Durant | History/Philosophy |
The Storytelling Animal | Jonathan Gottschall | Psychology |
The Thirteen Petalled Rose | Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz | Judaism |
The Undoing Project | Michael Lewis | Biographical |
The Voice of Egypt | Virginia Danielson | Biographical |
The Way of Zen | Alan Watts | Philosophy |
A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | Science |
A General Theory of Love | Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon | Psychology |
A Question of Trust | Onora O’Neill | Sociology |
A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | Science |
Ancient Greek Athletics | Stephen G Miller, Stephen M Miller | History |
Be Here Now | Ram Dass | Philosophy |
Behave | Robert Sapolsky | Science |
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy | Marc B. Shapiro | Judaism |
Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosophy |
Biomimicry | Janine M Benyus | Science |
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat | Winston Churchill | Oratory |
Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | Sociology |
Decoding Reality | Vladko Vedral | Systems |
Diplomacy | Henry Kissinger | Geopolitics |
Does Santa Exist? | Eric Kaplan | Philosophy |
Escape From Freedom | Erich Fromm | Philosophy |
Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Wordwatcher | Lewis Thomas | Language |
Flow | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Psychology |
Food Rules | Michael Pollan | Health |
Fooled by Randomness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Numeracy |
Full Catastrophe Living | Jon Kabat Zinn | Meditation |
God | Reza Aslan | History |
Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Philosophy |
Hidden in Plain Sight | Evyatar Zerubavel | Sociology |
Homosexuality in History | Colin Spencer | Sociology |
Horeb | Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch | Judaism |
How to Be an Existentialist | Gary Cox | Philosophy |
How to Raise Your Self Esteem | Nathaniel Brandon | Psychology |
How to Read a Book | Mortimer J Adler, Charles van Doren | Reading |
Inner Engineering | Sadhguru | Philosophy |
Inside the Nudge Unit | David Halpern | Psychology |
Iron John | Robert Bly | Sociology |
Isaac Newton | James Gleick | Biographical |
Israel | Dan Gordis | History |
It Didn’t Start With You | Mark Wolynn | Biological Psychology |
It’s All in Your Head | Suzanne O’Sullivan | Psychology |
Jewish Meditation | Aryeh Kaplan | Judaism/Meditation |
Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | Fiction |
Leadership | Rudolph W. Giuliani | Leadership |
Lord of the Rings Trilogy | JRR Tolkien | Fantasy |
Maimonides | Moshe Halbertal | Judaism |
Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | Philosophy |
Musicophilia | Oliver Sacks | Psychology |
On Writing Well | William Zinsser | Writing |
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | Writing |
One, Two, Three, Infinity | George Gamow | Numeracy |
Peter Pan | Sir J M Barrie | Fiction |
Physics for the Rest of Us | Roger S Jones | Science |
Prisoners of Geography | Tim Marshall | Geopolitics |
Quantum | Manjit Kumar | Science/ history |
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