A few of my favorite books in no intended order.
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- Mike Swickey
- Confessions of a Philosopher, by Bryan Magee
- Writers At Work - Nine Volumes, by The Paris Review (now online!)
- Coming Into Our Own, by Mark Gerzon
- Solitude: A Return To The Self, by Anthony Storr
- Browsings, by Michael Dirda
- Outgrowing God: A Beginners Guide, by Richard Dawkins
- The Summing Up, by Somerset Maugham
- The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
- Why Does the World Exist?, Jim Holt
- My Philosophical Development, by Bertrand Russell
- On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
- Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, by Eric Hoffer
- A Rapture To Maturity, by Charles D. Hayes
- Emerson and the Art of the Diary, by Lawrence Rosenwald
- Faith Versus FACT, by Jerry A. Coyne
- Staring At The Sun, by Irvin Yalom
- Strangers: A Novel, by Anita Brookner
- Lifecraft, by Forrest Church
- Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind, by Michael Murray
- A Life Worth Living (aka Legacy), by Barrie Sanford-Grieff
- Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher, by Tom Bethell
- Dreaming To Some Purpose, by Colin Wilson
- Love & Death, by Forrest Church
- The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant
- Essays Of Montaigne, by Michel de Montaigne
- John Adams/1776/Truman, by David McCullough
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Journal of Jules Renard, edited by Bogan/Roget
- Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson
- If You Can Talk, You Can Write, by Joel Saltzman
- Nothing To Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
- God is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens