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Setting Book Lists. The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century - By Rank. a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg (3800×2300) This Sentence Has Five Words. FREE Online Rhyming Dictionary. Bertrand Russell Quote On The Paradox of Fools And Wise Men. How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. 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. Where possible, we have included links to free versions of the books, all taken from our Free Audio Books and Free eBooks collections. Or you can always download a professionally-narrated book for free from Audible.com.

Details here. If you're looking for a more extensive list of essential works, don't miss The Harvard Classics, a 51 volume series that you can now download online. 1.) The Bible (eBook) - "to learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. " 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) Tyson concludes by saying: "If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.

" Related Content: Free Audio Books - Philosophy - Download mp3 and iPod format today! What's it like to be a drug dealer. Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. By Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes. Same Text | All Weird Pictures. 'If', by Rudyard Kipling. If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

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