Summer Reading List 2008

June 1, 2008

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Summer’s just around the corner – what books are you going to pack with your Speedo? John and Ken leaf through some of this summer’s philosophy, fiction, and non-fiction reading with Danielle Marshall from Powell’s City of Books.

Philosophy & Nonfiction mentioned on the air

Why? by Charles Tilly	Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small by Barry Nalebuff	Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches by Robert Ingersoll
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely	Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal, Stephen Macedo, and Josiah Ober	Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life by Louise M. Antony
	Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking by Michael C. Jackson and Steven D. Hales

Additional Reading:

The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Shams, Lies, and Delusions by Michael Philips
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips
On Love by Alain de Botton
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Race Matters by Cornel West

Fiction mentioned on the air

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon	Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Thomas Mann	Flatland by Edwin Abbott	Remebrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust
	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy