 | Der Steppenwolf (German Edition) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: $16.34 / Used from: $4.69 Classic literature. This book borders on lunacy, but it's a great reading.
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 | Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.15 Beautiful journey of self discovery by two friends that follow completely different paths in life and reunite at the end to share their insights.
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 | Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Buy new: $12.80 / Used from: $4.66 I read almost all of Richard Bach's books and found them really insightful and revealing. I thought these were the best. I do not know if I would enjoy them know the way I did back then, but I really liked them.
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 | One by Richard Bach
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I read almost all of Richard Bach's books and found them really insightful and revealing. I thought these were the best. I do not know if I would enjoy them know the way I did back then, but I really liked them.
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 | The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $2.99 I read almost all of Richard Bach's books and found them really insightful and revealing. I thought these were the best. I do not know if I would enjoy them know the way I did back then, but I really liked them.
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 | Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Ayn Rand Library, Volume 6) by Leonard Peikoff
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $5.99 Altough I disagreed with some of the author's viewpoints, I must admit that she is undeniably brialliant and some arguments are hard to contradict.
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 | The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Optimistic approach into the future of the information driven society/economy. I truly enjoyed the author's futuristic approach. Probably a bit outdated now.
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 | Animal Farm by George Orwell
Buy used from: $2.04 This timeless introduction to politics is quite a revelation.
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 | Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.43 The first science book I enjoyed, with beautiful pictures that help you through the wonders of cosmology and life.
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 | The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.25 For me, this is Hesse's best work, although a bit difficult to read. I read quite a few of his novels and the ones shown here are the best. I found Siddharta and Demian not so deep but good and the rest I found depressing.
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 | The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $5.71 Beautiful insights into the "conquest" of love, meaning all kinds of love, parental and fraternal love (including friends), romantic love, etc. Loving is an art that requirtes effort, practise and self forgetting.
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 | The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $10.99 Beautiful story of self discovery, full of fantastic adventures that remind you of your childhood. Atreju (Bastian) struggles to recover his identity, which he lost while escaping reality. Do not be mislead, this is not a children book (unlike the movie). This book is somewhat difficult to read and has deep philosophical insights.
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 | Momo by Michael Ende
Buy used from: $23.68 Beautiful story about what really matters and about what happens with the precious time we "save" by not devoting it to important things. Basically a children book, but I read it as a teenager and enjoyed it deeply.
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 | Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $3.00 From this collection the "Garden of forking paths" is an excellent piece of literature. If you enjoy riddles you will enjoy this one.
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