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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
3.77 avg. ra!ng · 150,430 Ra!ngs

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of
the !me that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond.
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.82 avg. ra!ng · 2,704 Ra!ngs

Together in one volume, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature and Henry David
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

by Aldo Leopold
4.28 avg. ra!ng · 22,237 Ra!ngs

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest
nature wri!ng since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Introduc!on by Mary Oliver

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Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
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A collec!on of quintessen!ally American poems, the seminal work of one of the

most influen!al writers of the nineteenth century.

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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
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A quintessen!al novel of America & the Beat Genera!on On the Road

chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American con!nent with his
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in
the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year
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Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
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Wri"en in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher,
without any inten!on of publica!on, the Medita!ons of Marcus Aurelius offer a
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An

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by Robert M. Pirsig
3.76 avg. ra!ng · 191,342 Ra!ngs

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examina!on of

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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced genera!ons
of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who
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Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
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A lucid transla!on of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in

a Shambhala Pocket Library edi!on.

Wri"en more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of
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Nature and Selected Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.14 avg. ra!ng · 1,955 Ra!ngs

Through his wri!ng and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson
unburdened his young country of Europe's tradi!onal sense of history and
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Moby-Dick or, the Whale

by Herman Melville
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"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and
hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of… More

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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
4.20 avg. ra!ng · 38,388 Ra!ngs

First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most cri!cally
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Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Classic Essay by Emerson. Excerpted from Essays, First Series.

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Candide
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Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
3.82 avg. ra!ng · 224,496 Ra!ngs

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who

makes the following observa!ons, be Machiavellian as we understand the
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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London
3.86 avg. ra!ng · 314,884 Ra!ngs

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard
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An exhilara!ng medita!on on nature and its seasons—a personal narra!ve

highligh!ng one year's explora!on on foot in the author's own neighborhood in
Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard… More

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Fear and Trembling

by Søren Kierkegaard
4.02 avg. ra!ng · 16,096 Ra!ngs

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author

interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche
4.07 avg. ra!ng · 94,526 Ra!ngs

Nietzsche was one of the most revolu!onary and subversive thinkers in

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The Republic
by Plato
3.95 avg. ra!ng · 158,353 Ra!ngs

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different

interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the no!on of a perfect
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
3.43 avg. ra!ng · 369,563 Ra!ngs

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series

in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a
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The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful,

United, and Free
by Rich Lowry
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It is one of our most honored clichés that America is an idea and not a na!on.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Born a slave circa1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Through the story of an ordinary man unwi%ngly drawn into a senseless murder
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Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J.
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Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer
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In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and
walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His … More

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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English
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