Summer Reading List 2008

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Topic:	Summer Reading List 2008
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Guest:	Danielle Marshall Powell's City of Books
What is it?	Summer's just around the corner – what books are you going to pack with your Speedo? John and Ken leaf through some of this summer's philosophy, fiction, and non-fiction reading with Danielle Marshall from Powell's City of Books.


Recommendations From John, Ken & Danielle

Non-Fiction & Philosophy
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Why? by Charles Tilly	Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small by Barry Nalebuff	Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches by Robert Ingersoll
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely	Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal, Stephen Macedo, and Josiah Ober	Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life by Louise M. Antony
	Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn't Worth Drinking by Michael C. Jackson and Steven D. Hales

Additional Reading

The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Shams, Lies, and Delusions by Michael Philips A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips On Love by Alain de Botton Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Race Matters by Cornel West

Fiction
Mentioned on the Air

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon	Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Thomas Mann	Flatland by Edwin Abbott	Remebrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust
	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Additional Reading

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil East Of Eden by John Steinbeck Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow Mardi by Herman Melville The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

Recommendations From Our Listeners

The Ominvore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan Socrates In Love by Christopher Phillips The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett From Shakespeare to Existentialism by Walter Kaufmann The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition by William James Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom by Paul Rubin Critique of Criminal Reason: A Mystery by Michael Gregorio Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton Away With All Gods!: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian The Portable Voltaire by Voltaire Who Tampered With the Bible by Patricia G. Eddy Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Human Touch: our part in the creation of the universe by Michael Frayn Duchamp: A biography by Calvin Tomkins Solaris (or any) by Stanislav Lem