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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)

Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

Josh Rogin, Robert Petkoff, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell

4.9 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Don Quixote: Translated by Edith Grossman

Miguel de Cervantes, George Guidall, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time

Brad Aronson

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon , Richard Philcox , et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

Matthew B. Crawford

4.3 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Mark Fisher

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military

Matthew Lohmeier

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

Louis Menand

4.4 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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Barrin92onMar 25, 2021

A few have yes. Off the top of my head both fiction and non-fiction, Feyerabend's Against Method, Capital Marx, Orthodoxy Chesterton, Blood Meridian McCarthy, VALIS P.K. Dick, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Le Guin, Sirens of Titan Vonnegut, Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Girard, Discipline and Punish Foucault, Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher, some of Land's earlier work like Meltdown.

That's some of the stuff that comes to mind as having shifted my perception on things in some fundamental ways. I don't think I've ever practically changed anything in my life though as a response to reading a book, not sure how that would even manifest.

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