![]() The Iliad by Homer translated by Robert Fagles.The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fagles.Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R.Here, futurist, environmentalist, and Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand - best-known for authoring the era-defining Whole Earth Catalog and originating the commonly (mis-)quoted aphorism that “information wants to be free” - offers his 76-book contribution to the cumulative library of 3,500, including Brain Pickings favorites like Nobel-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, Bill Bryson’s magnificent illustrated edition of A Short History of Nearly Everything, and Lewis Hyde’s modern manifesto for the creative life, The Gift. On the heels of Brian Eno’s reading list comes another installment in the Long Now Foundation’s effort to assemble 3,500 books most essential for sustaining or rebuilding humanity, as part of their collaboratively curated library for long-term thinking, the Manual for Civilization. UPDATE: The folks at the Long Now kindly invited me to contribute my own reading list - see it here.
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