A few of my favorite books in no intended order.
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– Mike Swickey
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- Confessions of a Philosopher, by Bryan Magee
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- Writers At Work – Nine Volumes, by The Paris Review
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- Coming Into Our Own, by Mark Gerzon
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- The Bending Cross (Debs biography), by Ray Ginger
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- Solitude: A Return To The Self, by Anthony Storr
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- The Summing Up, by Somerset Maugham
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- Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel, by Pascal Mercier
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- The Courage To Write, by Ralph Keyes
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- Why Does the World Exist? Jim Holt
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- On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
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- Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, by Eric Hoffer
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- The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World, by Laurence Scott
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- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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- Commonplace Book, by E.M. Forster
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- Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books, by Michael Dirda
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- Staring At The Sun, by Irvin Yalom
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- Strangers: A Novel, by Anita Brookner
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- Lifecraft, by Forrest Church
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- Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind, by Michael Murray
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- The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, by Selena Hastings
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- A Life Worth Living (aka Legacy), by Barrie Sanford-Grieff
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- Summer Meditations, by Vaclav Havel
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- Stoner: A Novel, by John Williams
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- At the Existentialist Café…, by Sarah Bakewell
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- Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, by William Powers
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- Dreaming To Some Purpose, by Colin Wilson
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- Love & Death, by Forrest Church
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- Markings, by Dag Hammarskjöld
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- The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant
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- A Writer’s Diary, Virginia Woolf
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- Essays Of Montaigne, by Michel de Montaigne
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- John Adams/1776/Truman, by David McCullough
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- The Journal of Jules Renard, edited by Bogan/Roget
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- Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson
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- If You Can Talk, You Can Write, by Joel Saltzman
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- Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy, by David S. Awbrey
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- Mr. Bridge: A Novel, by Evan S. Connell
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- Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal…, by Alexandra Johnson
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- Nothing To Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
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- William James: In The Maelstrom…, by Robert D. Richardson