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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read

A Reddit.com user posed the question to Neil deGrasse Tyson : “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?” Below, you will find the book list offered up by the astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and popularizer of science.

100 Exquisite Adjectives

by Mark Nichol http://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-exquisite-adjectives/
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/08/02/25-ways-to-fuck-with-your-characters/ As storyteller, you are god.

25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/sunday-reading-32/ Socialism and/or Barbarianism has A Letter to Micky Arison, CEO of Carnival Cruiselines, and Gianni Onorato, president of Costa Cruises (ht Gtiso): (Photo poached from here , who poached it from here (and altered it))

Sunday Reading

Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Atlas of J.R.R.Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings": Amazon.co.uk: Barbara Strachey

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Journeys-Frodo-Atlas-Tolkiens-J-R-R-Tolkiens/dp/0261102672 Review ‘A handy volume… a good guide to Middle-earth for The Lord of the Rings readers… a painstaking and successful achievement.’ Amon Hen, The Bulletin of the Tolkien Society

20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes

http://litreactor.com/columns/20-common-grammar-mistakes-that-almost-everyone-gets-wrong?fbhash=qHP1jWuJCaoO1I1MrqTsTyPJoQ_dwdumOe4sVDR6XJg.eyJhbGdvcml0aG0iOiJITUFDLVNIQTI1NiIsImNvZGUiOiJBUURFWEtmc0RRN29wYjFqTTlkcTZRRjZpNU9pMWdFclBEVGhhcXhNUEt4U1hEX2F0NUd/ I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery.
http://remycarreiro.com/five-books-that-changed-my-life/

Five Books That Changed My Life | Remy Carreiro

I was incredibly lucky that my Mom owned a beautiful second-hand book store throughout my adolescence, because I constantly got to reap the reward of having amazing literature at my finger tips.

40 Literary Terms Every Bookworm Should Know

http://www.onlineclasses.org/2011/03/17/40-literary-terms-every-bookworm-should-know/ Aphorism : Short, sweet little sayings expressing an idea or opinion are familiar to everyone — they just don’t always know the technical term for them.
http://www.literatureyoungadultfiction.com/74-books-to-read-if-you-love-the-hunger-games/ If you haven't read the Hunger Games you really should!

74 Books to Read if You Love the Hunger Games