Books That Changed My Life
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J. R. R. Tolkien#2 on the ultimate list“ This definitive fantasy epic illustrates, to a greater extent than any other book, what I take to be most deeply true, good and beautiful about the human condition and the wider world we find ourselves in. That it does so while also telling a supremely entertaining, engaging adventure story is just icing on the cake. „ - 2
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis#240 on the ultimate list“ Reading this book in high school gave me my first hint that Christianity might have a coherent, reasonable body of beliefs about the world. „ - 3
Visions
Michio Kaku#254 on the ultimate list“ The first book I checked out from my high school library. Its optimism about the power of science to create a better future was infectious, and motivated me to study physics and mathematics for the next several years of high school and college. „ - 4
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang#261 on the ultimate list“ The most engaging, thought-provoking stories I have ever read. The last in particular, "Hell is the absence of God" is the Book of Job for the 21st Century. „ - 5
Faith and Criticism
Basil Mitchell#263 on the ultimate list“ When I underwent a serious crisis of faith in college, this book gave me a framework within which to keep investigating the questions that were troubling me while still remaining a committed Christian. I still think it's THE correct approach to relating faith and criticism, with applications for science and education as well. „ - 6
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume#268 on the ultimate list“ Every believer who wants to call himself rational must wrestle with Hume's devastating challenge to religion: that human reasoning may be too weak to gain secure knowledge of transcendent reality. It's also one of the most well-written works of philosophy of all time. „ - 7 Ron Paul#284 on the ultimate list“ I was an unthinking liberal when I read this, and it converted me to a broadly libertarian political worldview. It convinced me once and for all that the way to greater prosperity and security is through more freedom and less government. „
- 8 Stephen King#43 on the ultimate list
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Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny#267 on the ultimate list - 10
Why Don't Students Like School?
Daniel T. Willingham#285 on the ultimate list
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