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Alain de Botton Recommended Books
Alain de Botton has recommended 4 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Novel
by Milan Kundera
"A book that I gave out a lot." - Alain de Botton (Source)
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"I am re reading now." - Shah Rukh Khan
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Evan Spiegel recommended this bookEvan Spiegel
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Ev Williams recommended this bookEv Williams
On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.
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Justin Boreta recommended this bookJustin Boreta
Justin Boreta's answer to "if you could take one book to a desert island, what would it be?"
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In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
"About a search for how you can stop wasting your life and start to appreciate life and live fully." - Alain de Botton (Source)
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Christopher Hitchens recommended this bookChristopher Hitchens
"[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]." - Christopher Hitchens
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Frank Blake recommended this bookFrank Blake
"I wanted to read Proust, but I didn’t know French so I started with [this book] and start learning French." - Frank Blake
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The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
"I’ve given quite a lot of copies of [this book] to people down the years." - Alain de Botton (Source)
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Shane Parrish recommended this bookShane Parrish
"Really helped foster my interest in philosophy." - Shane Parrish
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The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman
"An extraordinary and necessary book . . . One leaves energized and thrilled to be alive right now." - Alain de Botton (Source)
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Al Gore recommended this bookAl Gore
"Deeply researched and highly relevant." - Al Gore
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Bill Gates recommended this bookBill Gates
"An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times." - Bill Gates
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Eric Schmidt recommended this bookEric Schmidt
"Extraordinary... Utterly unmissable." - Eric Schmidt
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Stephen Fry recommended this bookStephen Fry
"Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing." - Stephen Fry
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Tristan Harris recommended this bookTristan Harris
"A brave wake-up call... Indispensable reading." - Tristan Harris
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Yuval Noah Harari recommended this bookYuval Noah Harari
"A fascinating, well-written, and important book." - Yuval Noah Harari
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- Daniel Kahneman
"Essential reading." - Daniel Kahneman
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