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…t to be nonfiction, just to emphasize the nonfiction titles that are so neglected by so many Web-based best book lists. All of your further suggestions are very welcome. Mindset, by Carol Dweck. As one HN reader commented, "It'll change the way you think about the way you think." Highly recommended. Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte. Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb. E. W. Bovill's English Country Life 1780-1830 was recommended by pg a while ago. My favorite so far this year is What Intelligence Tests Miss by Keith Stanovich (2009). http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300123852 http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psychology/dp/030012385X/ My favorite book I read in 2007 was What Is Intelligence by James R. Flyn…

Godel Escher Bach The Moral Animal Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Language in Thought and Action Probability Theory: The Logic of Science The Adapted Mind Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach The Feynman Lectures on Physics The Tao is Silent Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition

1) Musashi's Book of Five Rings 2) Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People 3) Machaivelli's The Prince 4) Sun-Tzu's The Art of War 5) Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action 6) Steven Johnson's Emergence 7) Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel 8) Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything 9) Mark Buchanan's Nexus 10) C. S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain Taken together, these books cover just about everything there is to know about the sciences, about human history, human nature and how to understand and communicate effectively with other people. Only one other book besides these needs to be studied/read: The Bible.