Brain Pickings Favorites

Updated 9 months ago
71 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia Laing	3.61	57 reads
#3	Hope In The Dark Rebecca Solnit	4	24 reads
#4	Upstream: Selected Essays Mary Oliver	3.96	60 reads
#5	Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space Janna Levin	3.5	9 reads
#6	Time Travel: A History James Gleick	3.36	31 reads
#7	The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Neil Gaiman	3.82	59 reads
#8	Hold Still Sally Mann	3.83	8 reads
#9	Unforbidden Pleasures: Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality Adam Phillips	0	0 reads
#10	The Course of Love Alain de Botton	4.1	58 reads
#11	The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure Caroline Paul	5	2 reads
#12	Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly	3.91	161 reads
#13	Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living Krista Tippett	4.2	10 reads
#14	The Abundance Annie Dillard	3.67	7 reads
#15	When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi	4.37	548 reads
#16	On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes Alexandra Horowitz	3.23	15 reads
#17	Advice to Little Girls Mark Twain	4	1 read
#18	This Explains Everything John Brockman	3.33	6 reads
#19	Time Warped Claudia Hammond	3.5	2 reads
#20	Self-Portrait as Your Traitor Debbie Millman	0	0 reads
#21	Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview Jonathan Cott	0	2 reads
#22	Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience	4.4	12 reads
#23	Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel C. Dennett	3.5	8 reads
#24	Eighty Days Matthew Goodman	3.6	6 reads
#25	Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything Kio Stark	2	3 reads
#26	The Topography of Tears	0	0 reads
#27	Democracy and Poetry Democracy and Poetry Robert Penn Warren	2	1 read
#28	Beethoven Jan Swafford	5	4 reads
#29	Words Are My Matter Ursula K. Le Guin	4.25	9 reads
#30	Consciousness Christof Koch	4	4 reads
#31	On the Shortness of Life Seneca Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa (Translator)	4.15	71 reads
#32	A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Janna Levin	3.5	8 reads
#33	The Necessary Angel The Necessary Angel Wallace Stevens	0	0 reads
#34	The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Justin O'Brien (Translator)	4.15	268 reads
#35	The wave in the mind Ursula K. Le Guin	4.11	12 reads
#36	Conversations with Kafka Gustav Janouch	4	2 reads
#37	Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors Franz Kafka	0	0 reads
#38	Dostoevsky Reminiscences Anna Grigoryevna Dostoyevskaya	0	0 reads
#39	A Writer's Diary, Volume One, 1873-1876 A Writer's Diary, Volume One, 1873-1876 Fyodor Dostoevsky	0	0 reads
#40	When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times Pema Chödrön	4.21	78 reads
#41	Night Night Etel Adnan Ulrike Stoltz	3	1 read
#42	Alice James, her brothers--her journal Alice James	0	0 reads
#43	No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters Ursula K. Le Guin	3.97	51 reads
#44	Nine Gates Jane Hirshfield	0	0 reads
#45	A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit	3.6	55 reads
#46	The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Nan Shepherd	3.94	24 reads
#47	Resistance, Rebellion and Death Albert Camus	4.33	3 reads
#48	Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm	4.13	21 reads
#49	Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Charlie Louth (Translator)	4.35	168 reads
#50	The conquest of happiness Bertrand Russell	4.09	28 reads
#51	The Prophet Kahlil Gibran	4.14	244 reads
#52	First and last notebooks Simone Weil	0	0 reads
#53	Getting There: A Book of Mentors Gillian Zoe Segal	3	2 reads
#54	Letters to Vera Vladimir Nabokov	3	2 reads
#55	The Wisdom of Insecurity Alan Watts	3.87	64 reads
#56	Mindset:The New Psychology of Success Carol S. Dweck	3.96	171 reads
#57	Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales Oliver Sacks	3.83	6 reads
#58	Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.33	30 reads
#59	Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman	3.99	145 reads
#60	Our Dogs, Ourselves: How We Live with Dogs Now Alexandra Horowitz	0	0 reads
#61	A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons Ben Folds	4.13	18 reads
#62	Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation Eva Illouz	0	0 reads
#63	What I believe Bertrand Russell	4.25	11 reads
#64	Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin Paul Cronin	4	2 reads
#65	The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit	4.3	13 reads
#66	Call Them by Their True Names Rebecca Solnit	4	6 reads
#67	A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader	4	7 reads
#68	Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties Rainer Maria Rilke John J.L. Mood	5	4 reads
#69	Portraits From Memory and Other Essays Bertrand Russell	0	1 read
#70	Specimen Days Specimen Days Walt Whitman	0	0 reads
#71	The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 Henry David Thoreau	0	0 reads
#72	A General Theory of Love Thomas Lewis Fari Amini Richard Lannon	3.5	5 reads