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Siddhartha Golu

Brain Pickings Favorites

#2

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016 • 155 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

#3

Hope In The Dark

2004 • 66 Readers • 152 pages • 4.1

#4

Upstream: Selected Essays

2016 • 151 Readers • 192 pages • 3.8

#5

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

2016 • 19 Readers • 241 pages • 3.3

#6

Time Travel: A History

2016 • 60 Readers • 304 pages • 3.5

#7

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

2016 • 106 Readers • 544 pages • 3.8

#8

Hold Still

2015 • 13 Readers • 482 pages • 5

#9

Unforbidden Pleasures: Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality

2015 • 1 Reader

#10

The Course of Love

2016 • 118 Readers • 240 pages • 4.2

#11

The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure

2016 • 2 Readers

#12

Hidden Figures

2016 • 258 Readers • 384 pages • 3.9

#13

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

2016 • 24 Readers • 4.1

#14

The Abundance

2016 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 3

#15

When Breath Becomes Air

2016 • 828 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

#16

On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

2013 • 43 Readers • 308 pages • 3.1

#17

Advice to Little Girls

1867 • 1 Reader • 4

#18

This Explains Everything

2013 • 21 Readers • 432 pages • 5

#19

Time Warped

2012 • 7 Readers • 342 pages • 3

#20

Self-Portrait as Your Traitor

2013 • 2 Readers • 112 pages

#21

Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

1978 • 3 Readers

#22

Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

2013 • 28 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

#23

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

2013 • 9 Readers • 496 pages • 4

#24

Eighty Days

2013 • 9 Readers • 453 pages • 4

#25

Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything

2013 • 6 Readers • 204 pages

#26

The Topography of Tears

2017 • 1 Reader • 128 pages

#27

Cover 2

1975 • 1 Reader • 2

#28

Beethoven

2014 • 10 Readers • 1,077 pages • 5

#29

Words Are My Matter

2016 • 23 Readers • 316 pages • 4

#30

Consciousness

2017 • 10 Readers • 194 pages • 4.5

#31

On the Shortness of Life

159 Readers • 4.1

#32

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

2006 • 15 Readers • 230 pages • 3.7

#33

Cover 1

1951 • 2 Readers • 192 pages

#34

The Myth of Sisyphus

197 • 520 Readers • 162 pages • 4.1

#35

The wave in the mind

2004 • 13 Readers • 314 pages • 4.7

#36

Conversations with Kafka

2012 • 4 Readers • 228 pages • 4

#37

Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

1975 • 528 pages

#38

Dostoevsky Reminiscences

1925 • 1 Reader

#39

Cover 8

1886 • 1 Reader • 805 pages

#40

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

1996 • 150 Readers • 164 pages • 4.2

#41

Cover 1

2015 • 2 Readers • 29 pages • 3

#42

Alice James, her brothers--her journal

1934 • 252 pages

#43

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

2017 • 81 Readers • 241 pages • 4.1

#44

Nine Gates

1997 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

#45

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

2005 • 100 Readers • 209 pages • 3.4

#46

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

1977 • 33 Readers • 115 pages • 4.1

#47

Resistance, Rebellion and Death

1960 • 7 Readers • 271 pages • 4

#48

Escape from Freedom

1941 • 43 Readers • 324 pages • 4.4

#49

Letters To A Young Poet

1929 • 305 Readers • 97 pages • 4.4

#50

The conquest of happiness

42 Readers • 4.1

#51

The Prophet

1923 • 289 Readers • 240 pages • 4.2

#52

First and last notebooks

1970 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

#53

Getting There: A Book of Mentors

2015 • 4 Readers

#54

Letters to Vera

2014 • 8 Readers • 864 pages • 3

#55

The Wisdom of Insecurity

197 • 126 Readers • 152 pages • 3.9

#56

Mindset:The New Psychology of Success

2006 • 314 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

#57

Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

2019 • 16 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

#58

Wind, Sand And Stars

52 Readers • 4.3

#59

Leaves of Grass

19 • 278 Readers • 152 pages • 3.9

#60

Our Dogs, Ourselves: How We Live with Dogs Now

2019 • 1 Reader

#61

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

2019 • 15 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#62

Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

2011 • 2 Readers • 293 pages

#63

What I believe

1925 • 10 Readers • 48 pages • 3.8

#64

Cover 4

2003 • 6 Readers

#65

The Faraway Nearby

2013 • 35 Readers • 259 pages • 4.6

#66

Call Them by Their True Names

2018 • 18 Readers • 188 pages • 3.5

#67

A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader

2018 • 11 Readers • 272 pages • 3

#68

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties

1975 • 4 Readers • 144 pages • 5

#69

Portraits From Memory and Other Essays

1956 • 2 Readers • 252 pages

#70

Cover 6

1882 • 1 Reader

#71

Cover 8

1960 • 1 Reader

#72

A General Theory of Love

2000 • 12 Readers • 288 pages