Angel Veliz's votes on the list Sam Harris recommended readings

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1	Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein 4.38 avg rating — 2,223 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 212,582 ratings Angel rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right – A Provocative Analysis of Republican Excesses and Empowering Individuals by Andrew Sullivan 3.76 avg rating — 440 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch 4.17 avg rating — 10,106 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 6,639 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 1,631 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 4.29 avg rating — 14,148 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror by Michael V. Hayden 3.81 avg rating — 2,043 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci 4.08 avg rating — 1,462 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 114,670 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Way of the Strangers by Graeme Wood 4.13 avg rating — 1,319 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria 3.83 avg rating — 3,216 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 12,006 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey B. West 4.11 avg rating — 5,662 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden 4.33 avg rating — 8,484 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Road to Character by David Brooks 3.65 avg rating — 26,775 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker 4.18 avg rating — 52,768 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark 3.99 avg rating — 27,842 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm 4.22 avg rating — 693 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger 4.10 avg rating — 3,330 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.34 avg rating — 116,744 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 2,567 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis 3.74 avg rating — 4,124 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein 4.19 avg rating — 652 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	#republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass R. Sunstein 3.35 avg rating — 335 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright 4.02 avg rating — 27,546 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 8,965 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski 4.45 avg rating — 4,209 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by David Benatar really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 874 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Thomas M. Nichols 3.82 avg rating — 10,328 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 6,032 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire by Tom Holland 3.90 avg rating — 5,809 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 17,339 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie 3.65 avg rating — 9,371 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley 4.14 avg rating — 2,012 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 45,464 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine 3.96 avg rating — 2,062 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	My Lunches with Orson by Henry Jaglom 3.88 avg rating — 1,427 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray 3.81 avg rating — 5,753 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.09 avg rating — 744,781 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier 3.77 avg rating — 3,669 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noel Thomas 4.14 avg rating — 471 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas E. Harding 3.71 avg rating — 2,895 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens 4.13 avg rating — 12,935 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel 4.14 avg rating — 409,921 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson 3.93 avg rating — 66,336 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 4.33 avg rating — 1,299,039 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 1,803 ratings Angel added it to currently-reading See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 81,177 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference by William MacAskill (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 8,013 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	One Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady Babchenko 4.07 avg rating — 2,017 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy 4.07 avg rating — 20,037 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Churchill by Paul Johnson 3.77 avg rating — 6,067 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 5,086 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser 4.27 avg rating — 14,844 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 2,692 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 4.18 avg rating — 292,530 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Intelligence: All That Matters by Stuart Ritchie 4.06 avg rating — 720 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray 4.15 avg rating — 12,955 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.35 avg rating — 57,142 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 11,270 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky 4.37 avg rating — 33,290 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi 4.60 avg rating — 167 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne 4.11 avg rating — 1,807 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Art of Modern Gunfighting The Pistol: Volume 1 by Scott Reitz 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 103,951 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars