Summer's just around the corner – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read up on? Kant's Critique of Pure Reason may not be the obvious choice to take on vacation, but there are lots of readable, beach-friendly classics and non-classics to add philosophical depth to your summer reading. Not to mention new and classic fiction books with a philosophical bent. John and Ken share some of the philosophically-minded titles on their reading list and take suggestions from listeners and special guests.
Recommended by John & Ken
Bernhard Schlink, Self's Punishment | 
Bernhard Schlink, Guilt About the Past | 
Bernhard Schlink, The Homecoming |
Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms | 
Troy Jollimore, At Lake Scugog: Poems |
Robert Rowland Smith, Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary |
Recommended by John McMurtrie (SF Chronicle Book Editor)
Garry Wills, Augustine's Confessions: A Biography | 
T.C. Boyle, When the Killing's Done | 
Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers |
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty-One | 
Apostolos Doxiadis et. al., Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth | 
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention |
Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary | ||
Recommendations by other guests
Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names For Love | Irv Yalom, The Spinoza Problem (forthcoming) | 
Helen Fisher, Why Him? Why Her?: Finding Real Love By Understanding Your Personality Type | ||
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Recommended by listeners on the air
Noam Shpancer, The Good Psychologist | 
William Shakespeare, Coriolanus | 
Leo Tolstoy, The Devil |
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel (reprinted in Labyrinths) | 
Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature | 
Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place |
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