Reading List - A Curious Curation

This page showcases Daniel Sanderson's books and personal reading list, from which he draws his inspiration. Your recommendations are always welcome.

2020 Influences

Kimberly Clausing (2019) - Douglas Hofstadter (2008) - Douglas Hofstadter (2013)
Edward O. Wilson (2004) - Nigel Warburton (2014) - Arthur Herman (2014)
Edward O. Wilson (2007) - Edward O. Wilson (2002) - Edward O. Wilson (2016)
Will Durant (2012) - Ben Shapiro (2020) - Aristophanes (S. Douglas Olson) (1999)
Will and Ariel Durant (2010) - Nigel Warburton (2012) - Anthony Kenny (2012)
Will and Ariel Durant (2010) - Will Durant (2014) - Nigel Warburton (2012)
Edward O. Wilson (2013) - Stephen Greenblatt (2011) - Will Durant (2002)
Jess Walter (2013) - Leonard M. Wapner (2012) - Lucretius (Author), Frank O. Copley (Translator) (2011)
Antonio Damasio (2012) - Antonio Demasio (2019) - Antonio Damasio (2003)

2019 Inf luences

Plato (1997) - Peace (Aristophanes (2013) - Gerald A. Press (2015)
Richard E. Palmer (1969) - Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Jane Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve, and Deborah Steiner (2011) - Deborah Tarn Steiner (2016)
E.O. Wilson (2000) - Robert L. Perkins (2008) - Sandra Rendgen (2018)
Stephen Fry (2019) - Will Durant (1991) - H. D. F. Kitto (1959)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1996) - Steven Gimbel (2017) - Ted Honderich (2005)
Edward O. Wilson (2012) - Edward O. Wilson (2019) - Edward O. Wilson (2017)
Jared Diamond (2011) - Jared Diamond (2012) - Jared Diamond (2019)
Daniel N. Robinson (2009) - Jared Diamond (2012) - Daniel N. Robinson (2008)
Daniel N. Robinson (1995) - Antonio Damasio (2005) - Daniel N. Robinson (2012)
Andrew Yang (2018) - David Wallace-Wells (2019) - Nathaniel Rich (2019)
James Gleick (2003) - James Gleick (1992) - James Gleick (1999)
James Gleick (1987) - Theodor W. Adorno (2002) - James Gleick (2011)
Edward Sheriff Curtis (2015) - Douglas Rushkoff (2019) - Linda Pastan (2018)
Robert M. Sapolsky (1998) - Sadhguru (2016) - David Bohm (1990)

Prior to 2019...

Jordan B. Peterson (2018) - Richard Dawkins (2003) - Rohinton Mistry (1995)
John Locke (1689) - E.H. Gombrich (1936) - George Steiner (2017)
Mortimer J. Adler (1996) - George Steiner (1975) - Richard Dawkins (2013)
Christopher Hitchens (2015) - Temple Grandin (2010) - George Steiner (1992)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012) - Christopher Hitchens (2012) - Mortimer J. Adler (1997)
William Faulkner (1991) - Sarah Bakewell (2016) - Robert M. Sapolsky (2018)
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2009) - Charles Bukowski (2002) - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2013)
Christopher Hitchens (2004) - Shaun Nichols (2015) - Richard Dawkins (2016)
Voltaire (1991) - David Mitchell (2012) - Oscar Wilde (2003)
William Shakespeare (2016) - Shephen Eric Bronner (2017) - Patterson | Grenny | McMillan | Switzler (2011)
Vittorio Montemaggi (2016) - Neil deGrass Tyson (2014)
Catherine D. Chatterley (2011) - Daniel H. Pink (2011) - Steven Pinker (2018)
Leonard Mlodinow (2002) - Frank Furedi (2014) - Leonard Mlodinow (2011)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2005) - Derk Pereboom (2009) - Sam Harris (2012)
Daniel C. Dennett (2018) - Christopher Hitchens (2008) - David Perlmutter (2018)
George Steiner (2013) - Herbert Marcuse (2005) - Christopher Hitchens (2010)
Yuval Noah Harari (2016) -Yuval Noah Harari (2017) - Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
Steven Pinker (2002) - Ray Kurzweil (2002)
Mortimer J. Adler | Charles Van Doren (1972) - Marcel Proust (1932) - Mortimer J. Adler (2008)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008) - Sam Harris | Maajid Nawaz (2015) - Hilary Putnam (2008)
Andrew Weaver (2008) - Dante Alighieri (1530) - George Steiner (2013)
Steven Pinker (2015) - George Steiner (2005)
Christopher Hitchens (2005) - Max Tegmark (2017) - Christopher Hitchens (2004)
Ross King (2002) - Jordan B. Peterson (2002) - George Steiner (2002)
Thomas Nagel (2012) - Paul Johnson (2013) - Stephen Eric Bronner (2012)
Christopher Hitchens (2014) - Hilary Putnam (2016) - Kim Stanley Robinson (2017)
Naomi Klein (2017) - Massimo Pigliucci (2010) - George Steiner (1997)
Barbara Demick (2010) - George Steiner (1978) - Michèle Roberts (2012)
Neil deGrass Tyson | Donald Goldsmith (2014) - Brandon R. Brown (2015) - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014)
Frank Furedi (2015) - Richard P. Feynman (2014) - Jane McGonigal (2011)
Herbert Marcuse (1986) - Eric R. R Kandel (2016) - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2018)
E. H. Gombrich (2014) - Stephen Eric Bronner | Dick Howard (2011)
Christopher Phillips (2011) - William Blake (1970) - Nick Bostrom (2014)
A. C. Grayling (2016) - Michael Shermer (2012) - Steven Pinker (2012)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010) - Steven Pinker (2003) - Norman Doidge (2015)
Thomas Carlyle (2016) - Michael Walsh (2015) - Leonard Mlodinow (2009)
Albert Camus (1991) - Richard Dawkins (2008) - A. C. Grayling (2011)
Stephen Hawking | Leonard Mlodinow (2010) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1846) - Arthur Herman (2007)
George Steiner (2004) - Charles Van Doren (1985) - Leo Tolstoy (1894)
Charles Taylor (2016) - Steven Pinker (1994) - Plato (1880)
Eleanor Catton (2013) - Richard Dawkins (2011) - Michael Shermer (2007)
Christopher Hitchens (1995) - Michael Shermer (2015)
Sam Harris (2010) - Dan Marshall (2013) - Simon Blackburn (1994)
Chris Kresser (2013) - Andrew Feenberg (2014) - Albert Camus (1947)
John Lithgow (2007) - George Steiner (2011) - Christopher Hitchens (2007)
Pierre Berton (1984) - Rebecca Goldstein (2000) - Ralph W. Hood Jr. | Peter C. Hill | Bernard Spilka (1945)
Windsor Mann (2011) - Richard Dawkins (1976) - Steven Pinker (2014)
Ray Kurzweil (2005) - Arthur Koestler (1959) - Edward O. Wilson (2012)
Gary Younge (2013) - Peter Catapano | Simon Critchley (2015) - Charles Jencks (2011)
Albert Camus (1942) - Steven Pinker (2005) - Mark Manson (2016)
Leonard Susskind (2013) - Christopher Hitchens (2001) - Milan Kundera (1984)
Leonard Mlodinow (2015) - William James (1896)
Daniel Kahneman (2011) - Naomi Klein (2014) - Christopher Hitchens (2005)
Isaiah Berlin (2000) - George Steiner (1959) - Madelaine Hron (2010)
Richard Dawkins (1998) - Sam Harris (2014) - Randall Munroe (2014)
Philip Moriarty (2018) - Christopher Hitchens (Sept 18, 2002) - Jay Parini (2008)
R.J. Palacio (2012) - Steven Pinker (1999) - Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

Audio Books

Jordan B. Peterson (2002) - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2002) - Great Course Professors (2002)
Tom Butler-Bowdon (2002) - Stephen W. Hawking (2002) - Tom Butler-Bowdon (2002)
Stephen Hawking (2002) - Rich Werner (2002) - E.H. Gombrich (2002)
Peter Boghossian (2002) - Jimmy Soni | Rob Goodman (2002) - Jonathan Swift (2002)

Robert M. Sapolsky (2002) - Elliot Engel (2002) - Jeremy McInerney (2002)
Brian Christian | Tom Griffiths (2002) - Oliver Sacks (2002) - Jordan B. Peterson (2002)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (2002) - David Zarefsky (2002)
William Faulkner (2002) - Neil deGrasse Tyson (2002) - Robert M. Sapolsky (2002)
Robert M. Sapolsky (2002) - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2002) - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2002)
Robert Lanza | Bob Berman (2002) - Robert M. Sapolsky (2002) - Malcolm Gladwell (2002)
Daniel C. Dennett (2002) - Kevin Flanigan (2002) - Voltaire (2002)
Christopher Hitchens | Salman Rushdie (2002) - Howard Fast (2002) - Greta Christina (2002)
Carl Sagan (2002) - Stephen Eric Bronner (2002) - William R. Cook | Ronald B. Herzman (2002)
Arthur Koestler (2002) - Malcolm Gladwell (2002) - Neil deGrasse Tyson (2002)
Alexis de Tocqueville (2002) - Stephen Jay Gould (2002) - David G. McAfee (2002)
Richard Wolfson (2002) - Leonard Mlodinow (2002) - Ricard Wolfson (2002)
Michael Korda | Paul Johnson | Christopher Hitchens (2002) - Steven Pinker (2002) - Leonardo Mlodinow (2002)
Lawrence M. Krauss (2002) - Various Authors (2002) - Frank Furedi (2002)
Ken Albala (2002) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2002) - Daniel W. Drezner (2002)
Sam Harris (2002) - Daniel C. Dennett (2002) - Dennis Dalton (2002)
Daniel C. Dennett (2002) - Louis Markos (2002) - Gabriel García Márquez (2002)
Christopher Hitchens (2002) - George Steiner (2002) - Shaun Nichols (2002)
George Steiner (2002) - Shaun Nichols (2002) - Daniel N. Robinson (2002)
Michael Inwood (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (2002) - George Orwell (2002)
Dan McMillan (2002) - Steven Pinker (2002) - Eugenia Cheng (2002)
Jane Friedman (2002) - Mortimer J. Adler | Charles Van Doren (2002) - Marcel Proust (2002)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2002) - Sadhguru (2002) - Daniel C. Dennett (2002)
Ralph Ellison (2002) - Sam Harris | Maajid Nawaz (2002) - Hilary Putnam (2002)
Andrew Weaver (2002) - Dante Alighieri (2002) - Stephen Jay Gould (2002)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782) - Sam Harris (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (2002)
Max Tegmark (2002) - Sam Harris (2002) - Ross King (2002)
Jordan B. Peterson (2002) - George Steiner (2002) - Robert C. Bartlett (2002)
Thomas Nagel (2002) - Patrick Grim (2002) - Richard H. Thaler (2002)
Christopher Hitchens (2002) - Sean Carroll (2002) - David Fitzgerald (2002)
Kim Stanley Robinson (2002) - Robert C. Solomon (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (2002)
Massimo Pigliucci (2002) - Richard H. Thaler | Cass R. Sustein (2002) - David Bohm (2002)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2002) - Charles Darwin (2002) - Philip Clayton | Justin Heinzekehr (2002)
Dan Brown (2002) - Neil deGrasse Tyson (2002) - Plato (2002)
Christopher Butler (2002) - Dennis Dalton (2002) - David M. Martin (2002)
John Polkinghorne (2002) - Stephen Jay Gould (2002) - Maajid Nawaz (2002)
Jane McGonigal (2002) - Steven Gimbel (2002) - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2002)
Russell Brand (2002) - Edmund White (2002) - Salman Rushdie (2002)
Michael Shermer (2002) - Sam Harris (2002) - Michael Shermer (2002)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2002) - Neil deGrasse Tyson (2002) - Pierre Berton (2002)
Steven Pinker (2002) - Leonard Mlodinow (2002) - Sadhguru (2002)
Nick Bostrom (2002) - Mortimer J. Adler (2002) - A.C. Grayling (2002)
Frank Kermode (2002) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2002) - Michael Shermer (2002)
Steven Pinker (2002) - David Kyle Johnson (2002) - Alan Charles Kors (2002)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2002) - Steven Pinker (2002) - Richard Dawkins (2002)
Norman Doidge (2002) - Jon Ronson (2002) - Charles Dickens (2002)
David Fitzgerald (2002) - Douglas Trevor (2002) - Michael Walsh (2002)
Leonard Mlodinow (2002) - Sam Harris (2002) - Kahlil Gibran (2002)
Brian Greene (2002) - Thomas F.X. Noble (2002) - Brené Brown (2002)
Richard Dawkins (2002) - A.C. Grayling (2002) - Stephen Hawking (2002)
Daniel N. Robinson (2002) - John Freely (2002) - Daniel N. Robinson (2002)
Richard Dawkins (2002) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2002) - P.Z. Myers (2002)
Michel Foucault (2002) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002) - Oscar Wilde (2002)
Steven Pinker (2002) - Richard Dawkins (2002) - Oliver Sacks (2002)
Christopher K. Germer (2002) - Stephen Jay Gould (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (2002)
Lawrence Cahoone (2002) - Michael Shermer (2002) - Sam Harris (2002)
Albert Camus (2002) - Susan Orlean (2002) - Robert Garland (2002)
U.S. Grant (2002) 
Oscar Wilde (2002) - Albert Camus (2002) - Richard P. Feynman (2002)
John Lithgow (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (2002) - Simon Winchester (2002)
Kahlil Gibran (2002) - Peter Hitchens (2002) - Paul Gordon Lauren (2002)
Michael E. Wyession (2002) - Benjamin Schumacher (2002) - Steven Pinker (2002)
Matthew Kelly (2002) - Ray Kurzweil (2002) - Edward O. Wilson (2002)
Gary Younge (2002) - Peter Catapano | Simon Critchley - John McWhorter (2002)
Albert Camus (2002) - Steven Pinker (2002) - Albert Camus (2002)
Paul Rosenzweig (2002) - Stephen Hawking (2002) - Edward J. Larson (2002)
Christopher Hitchens (2012) - Leonard Mlodinow (2015) - Various Poets (XXXX)
Robert C. Solomon | Kathleen M. Higgens (2013) - Federico Garcia Lorca (2010) - Randall Bartlett (2013)
Daniel Kahneman (2011) - Naomi Klein (2014) - John Brockman (2014)
Christopher Hitchens (2007) - Bernard Williams (2010) - James Joyce (2008)
Leo Tolstoy (2005) - Deepak Chopra | Leonard Mlodinow (2002) - Mortimer J. Adler (2002)
Thomas Quinn (2013) - Dan Hooper (2017) - Randall Munroe (2014)
Leo Tolstoy (2008) - Carrie Jenkins (2017) - John Brockman (2014)
Richard Carrier (2012) - Michael Shermer (2000) - Jay Parini (2010)
J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. (2015) - Robert M. Sapolsky (2012) - Stanley Fish (2016)
Charles Mackay | Sam Harris (2017) - A.C. Grayling (2013) - Tilar J J. Mazzeo (2013)
Steven Novella (2013) - Mark Richardson (2008)

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