- Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Deadwood
- The Eden Project -- In Search of the Magical Other (James Hollis)
- The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
- More Than Two -- A practical guide to ethical polyamory (Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert)
- Train robbery (Peter Cook and Alan Bennett)
- The Undoing Project (Michael Lewis)
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"Nothing cramps one’s causal powers like not existing." -- Jerry Fodor
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"I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it." -- Robert Sapolsky
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"If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm." -- Bertrand Russell
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"...what Heidegger called the hope for authenticity—the hope to be one’s own person rather than merely the creation of one’s education or one’s environment. As Heidegger emphasized, to achieve authenticity in this sense is not necessarily to reject one’s past. It may instead be a matter of reinterpreting that past so as to make it more suitable for one’s own purposes. What matters is to have seen one or more alternatives to the purposes that most people take for granted, and to have chosen among these alternatives--thereby, in some measure, creating yourself. As Harold Bloom has recently reminded us, the point of reading a great many books is to become aware of a great number of alternative purposes, and the point of that is to become an autonomous self." -- Richard Rorty