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Italo Calvino -- Invisible Cities (amazon)

Miyamoto Musashi -- Dokkodo: The Way of Walking Alone (amazon)

Michael Crichton -- Disclosure: A Novel (amazon)

Thomas Pynchon -- Gravity's Rainbow (amazon)

Thomas Pynchon -- Slow Learner (amazon)

Walt Whitman -- Song of Myself (amazon)

Steven Pinker -- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (amazon)

Richard Dawkins -- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (amazon)

Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner -- Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (amazon)

William Strunk Jr, E. B. White -- The Elements of Style (amazon)

Herbert Spencer -- The Philosophy of Style (amazon)

Rene Descartes -- Discourse on the Method (amazon)

Longinus Longinus -- On the Sublime (amazon)

Plato -- The Apology of Socrates (amazon)

Richard L. Gregory -- Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (amazon)

Rudolf Steiner -- Colour (amazon)

Albert Camus -- The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (amazon)

Edward Westermarck -- Ethical Relativity (amazon)

Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse (amazon)

Morgan Housel -- The Psychology of Money (amazon)

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters -- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (amazon)

David Abram -- The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (amazon)

Jason Thalken -- Fight Like a Physicist: The Incredible Science Behind Martial Arts (amazon)

James Owen Weatherall -- Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (amazon)

Jane Johnson -- Postural Correction (amazon)

Jane Johnson -- Postural Assessment (amazon)

Stephen M. Barr -- Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (amazon)

E. O. Wilson -- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (amazon)