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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 10 August 2010 12:57:39AM *  5 points [-]

When I moved back to the US from Japan, I made an ordered list of the books I had to determine which ones to ship home. This is the top ten:

  • Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
  • Taleb, The Black Swan
  • Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
  • Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • Thomas & Turner, Clear and Simple as the Truth
  • Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
  • Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  • Wolferen, the Enigma of Japanese Power
  • Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Comment author: mayonesa 10 August 2010 04:31:13PM 0 points [-]

If you like the Aurelius, also read the Schopenhauer book of aphora:

http://www.amazon.com/Parerga-Paralipomena-Short-Philosophical-Essays/dp/0199242216

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