If you have read Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything and/or are craving an existential crisis, these books should do the trick (so I’m told).
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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth
The Knowledge Illusion: The myth of individual thought and the power of collective wisdom
Steven Sloman
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Zoom
Istvan Banyai
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Horizon
Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Perestroika (Angels in America, #2)
Tony Kushner
Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
Bernd Heinrich
Moss
Klaus Modick
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
North Woods
Daniel Mason
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