Book ideas

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Well, it's not like I don't have a million of books to read already but I want to get some more

Anyone have any ideas of good books that deal with:

Psychology or
Philosophy or
Religion or
Logic or
generally good books?

Thanks [:

[Kanye West]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Get Smarter by Seymour Schulich

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

All very practical for use in modern day life. :]

[Olive, always]

If you want to - I'm beginning a Massive List of Books I Want To Read. :P
On it is included:
Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
Joseph Congrad, Heart of Darkness
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Virgina Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[phoenixsrmc]

This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

[Algernon]

Flowers For Algernon. Wondeful book. Not too long either.

[Composure]

Originally Posted by Canuck

Well, it's not like I don't have a million of books to read already but I want to get some more

Anyone have any ideas of good books that deal with:

Psychology or
Philosophy or
Religion or
Logic or
generally good books?

Thanks [:

Religion: 'Stranger in a Strange Land' - Robert A. Heinlein
'The God Delusion' - Richard Dawkins

[Grizabella]

I haven't finished it yet, but The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti I've really liked so far.

[WhySoSerious?]

Originally Posted by Canuck

Well, it's not like I don't have a million of books to read already but I want to get some more

Anyone have any ideas of good books that deal with:

Psychology or
Philosophy or
Religion or
Logic or
generally good books?

Thanks [:

I see someone already mentioned The God Delusion for a religion book, I would like to say that it would be a worthwhile read

Also, The Divine Comedy, deals with religion/philosophy and it is a well known epic poem.

[Toast]

Are you wanting fiction or non fiction?

I would suggest a book called You've Been Warned by James Patterson. It's really interesting, and you certainly could interpret it in a lot of ways. It's about psychology, dreams, and hell. (PS if you've read any of his other books, it's not like them. Most of his are either romances or crime thrillers. This one isn't)

You also might like Overqualified by Joey Comeau. He's the guy that writes the A Softer World comics(www.asofterworld.com). It's one of my favourite books ever. I have no idea what genre it would be.
This is the description:

Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.
And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter, something entirely different comes out.
You start threatening instead of begging. You tell impolite jokes. You talk about your childhood and your sexual fantasies. You sign your real name and you put yourself honestly into letter after letter and there is no way you are ever going to get this job. Not with a letter like this.
And you send it anyway.

[Strider]

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim is a good non-fiction book about the importance or impact fairy tales have on a child. If you are interested in psychology it is a pretty good read.

[TheWhiteTornado]

Hard Times by Charles Dickens had a pretty good perception on an entirely logical and factual setting

[bcforpeace]

I love Ergg's list; Henry James and Virginia Woolf especially..

If you're interested in Psychology, you can read Carl Jung's books on the psychological types (you can also get a lot of interesting psychology/philosophy information online!).

Just a few ideas if you haven't already read them...
Oscar Wilde's plays (The Importance of Being Earnest)
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Albert Camus (look him up, he's a philosopher/existentialist)
Chuck Palahnuik (if you liked Fight Club, definitely read something by him!)

Actually, just take a trip to your library/used book store and rummage through the Philosophy/Religion/Psychology section. To me it's like a candy store. ^^

[InSovietRussiaORGASMGotU]

Books on religion
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

Books on philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Books on psychology (these are all books for courses I've done or am doing in university)
Forensic Psychology - Joanna Pozzulo, Craig Bennell & Adelle Forth
Psychology: Themes and Variations - Weiten
Abnormal Psychology - Davidson, Neale, Blankstein, Flett
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us - Robert Hare (this wasn't used as a textbook but I needed it for my research paper on neuroscience for psychopathy)
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit - John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology - Kolb and Whishaw
Clinical Neuroscience - Lambert and Kinsley
Animal Behavior - John Alcock (note: this book is strictly from a biological view)
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - Harold Schechter and David Everitt (this one was not for a course but rather for my own, out-of-class education)

There's also decent book, fairly interesting actually, not sure if it goes under philosophy, psychology or other:
Controversies in Sociology - Hale

For some pretty good and exciting books:
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Death at the Opera - John Gano

You can also check out books by Ann Rule, she's a very well-known forensic psychologist, she has numerous books, including one of her personal relationship with Ted Bundy (called The Stranger Beside Me).

[Grizabella]

For psychology, one I liked was The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes. Milligan was the first person to be aquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality. It's a very interesting read. There's a movie too, The Crowded Room, but I haven't watched it.