Books Recommended by Nick Thompson
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Strangers Drowning
Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
Larissa MacFarquhar
Source: "A story about people who make extraordinary moral choices like the choice to adopt 23 children and bring them into your lives, [...] and why they make those choices." - Nick Thompson
1 recommender
Why Buddhism is True
The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Robert Wright
Source: "A story about mindfulness and about the science of Buddhism and the current neurosciencee." - Nick Thompson
1 recommender
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Source: "[The author] doesn’t write a ton, but she writes is extraordinary." - Nick Thompson
3 recommenders
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
Robert Wright
Source: "Among my five favorite books of all time." - Nick Thompson
3 recommenders
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
John McPhee
Source: "An unknown book but just brilliant." - Nick Thompson
1 recommender
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