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New Book Recommendations

Matthew Clapp

16 Mar 2006 — 1 min read

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Here is the latest round up of books that I’ve read in the past few months:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
On Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Against Depression by Peter D. Kramer
Tibetan Wisdom for Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between by Robert Thurman
Spin Selling by Neil Rackham
The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Unholy Ghost by Nell Casey
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison
Understanding Depression by J. Raymond DePaulo, et al
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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