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Books Kevin Kelly recommends

Public list compiled from their own recommendations. Writer; founding executive editor of Wired magazine.

Compiled by Kaffe from public sources, with a link to each one. Kevin Kelly is not affiliated with Kaffe.

  1. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); sparked his lifelong interest in science source
  2. Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand (ed.): Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); gave him permission to invent his own life source
  3. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); led him to drop out of college source
  4. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); prompted eight years roaming Asia source
  5. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); model of radical honesty source
  6. The Bible by various: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); read cover to cover several times source
  7. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); insights kept growing over the years source
  8. The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); mind as the only truly scarce resource source
  9. Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse: Books That Changed My Life (Cool Tools); framework for his spirituality source
  10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven: named one of his favorite novels on the same page source
  11. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan, Zach Weinersmith: Books I have loved episode, Tim Ferriss Show #432 (2020) source
  12. How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand: Books I have loved episode, Tim Ferriss Show #432 (2020) source
  13. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen: Books I have loved episode, Tim Ferriss Show #432 (2020) source
  14. A Museum of Early American Tools by Eric Sloane: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves; praised it as magical, enough detail to make the tools yourself source
  15. Caveman Chemistry by Kevin M. Dunn: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  16. Civilizations: Ten Thousand Years of Ancient History by Jane McIntosh, Clint Twist: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  17. Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  18. Mirror Worlds by David Gelernter: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  19. Systemantics by John Gall: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  20. Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  22. The Annotated Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  23. Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  24. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  25. Future Shock by Alvin Toffler: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  26. Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  27. The Universe Story by Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  28. The Foraging Spectrum by Robert L. Kelly: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  29. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  30. The Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  31. On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  32. Rare Earth by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  33. The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  34. Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner, Jane Maxwell: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source
  35. The Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley: from his ~200-book pick for the Long Now Manual for Civilization, pulled from his own shelves source

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