non-philosophy books

here i put anything worth mention of the non-phil books i've read recently, i'm not even putting most of the fiction prose here because i read a ton of it and it's not typically that worth mentioning, but i put some popscience and the distinguished fiction prose titles that influenced me somehow. these explicitly aren't philosophy in pure sense as much as some of them are philosophical, for the philosophy books click here.

popscience and other:

sapolsky, "behave"

dawkins, "the selfish gene"

dawkins, "extended phenotype"

miller, "mating mind"

hazen, "symphony in c"

sheldrake, "entangled life"

le doux, "the deep history of ourselves"

pearl, "causality"

taleb, "the black swan"

wine, "the provocative people"

sheldrake, "entangled life"

papagianni and morse, "the neanderthals rediscovered"

górny, "the history of stupid ideas"

i picked the ones i highly recommend, not all i read in past few years. mainly neuroscience/sociobiology and evolutionary biology, although i included one book on history, particularly secular history of the jewish nation i happen to be part of and i highly appreciate wine voicing certain opinions. i'm not including all the weird books on ww2 i've read over these years since they're not remarkable aside maybe from ernst klee's "auschwitz". the first book on this list ("behave") i recommend very very strongly. it was lifechanging for me. sheldrake's "entangled life" is a great book on fungi with a very interesting chapter about psychedelics; again, very much recommended. i also highly recommend "the neanderthals rediscovered".

for these interested, here's a list of my planned non-fiction books.

remarkable fiction literature:

süskind, "the perfume"

nabokov, "lolita"/"pale fire" (both are good)

eco, "the prague cemetery" (also recommend "the name of the rose")

golding, "lord of the flies"

tokarczuk, "empuzjon"

witkowski, "tango"

harris, "the silence of the lambs" (my first favourite book as a tween)

camus, "the plague"

joyce, "ulysses"

poetry wise i highly recommend zbigniew herbert (disclaimer: not a fan of his moralism, but i have to say he had class) and szymborska, though i think i have to / i do want to read more poetry in general, especially foreign poetry. i generally recommend shakespeare, which might be pretentious but who cares, his plays are entertaining to read. overall, i have so much stuff left that i would like to read! too little time.

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