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Brainpickings' 33 Books on How to Live

'I approached my private, subjective, wholly non-exhaustive selection of thirty-three books to sustain modern civilization and the human spirit — books at the intersection of introspection and outrospection, art and science, self and society. Above all, books that help us (or, at least, have helped me) learn how to live — how to make sense of ourselves, our world, and our place in it.'
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The Principles of Uncertainty (Maira Kalman)
The Principles of Uncertainty
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Maira Kalman
On Photography
On Photography
2
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
3
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
4
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
5
Optimism (Helen Keller)
Optimism
6
Helen Keller
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Man's Search for Meaning
7
Viktor Frankl
The Diaries of Maria Mitchell (Maria Mitchell)
The Diaries of Maria Mitchell
8
Maria Mitchell
I'll Be You and You Be Me (Ruth Krauss)
I'll Be You and You Be Me
9
Ruth Krauss
On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes (Alexandra Horowitz)
On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes
10
Alexandra Horowitz
Letter to My Daughter
Letter to My Daughter
11
The Accidental Universe (Alan Lightman)
The Accidental Universe
12
Alan Lightman
Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
13
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
The Year of Magical Thinking
14
Joan Didion
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
15
Alice Walker
Here Is New York (E. B. White)
Here Is New York
16
E. B. White
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Fairy Tales
17
Hans Christian Anderson
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (Kay Larson)
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
18
Kay Larson
Orlando: A Biography (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando: A Biography
19
Virginia Woolf
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
20
Bill Bryson
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
21
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Sarah Bakewell)
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
22
Sarah Bakewell
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and ... (Lisa Randall)
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and ...
23
Lisa Randall
Politics and the Poetics by Aristotle
Politics and the Poetics by Aristotle
24
Freedom From Fear (Aung San Suu Kyi)
Freedom From Fear
25
Aung San Suu Kyi
The Information (James Gleick)
The Information
26
James Gleick
Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? (Gemma Elwyn)
Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am?
27
Gemma Elwyn
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
The Feminine Mystique
28
Betty Friedan
The Collected Poems (Denise Levertov)
The Collected Poems
29
Denise Levertov
The Pillow Book (Sei Shonagon)
The Pillow Book
30
Sei Shonagon
Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott
Tiny Beautiful Things (Cheryl Strayed)
Tiny Beautiful Things
32
Cheryl Strayed
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
33
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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