Mental Library Index

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Thinking in Numbers

A beautiful collection of essays from Daniel Tammet (linguistic genius, math enthusiast, writer and synaesthete with Asperger’s). 

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

A touching story from the perspective of Christopher, a boy detective with Asperger’s syndrome. 

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Mrs Dalloway

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A Room of One's Own

Virginia was turned away from Oxford's library because she was female. The sting of injustice prompted this book.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Tragedy and existence in spite of it.

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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Calvino's final work. Five lectures on the lessons we can learn from literature. He did not complete the sixth.

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L'étranger/The Stranger

Meursault, an amoral man, kills another man "because of the sun."

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

A man experiences impossible things and hears the stories of many other troubled people before he finds the key to his own problems.

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Blue Horses

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Dream Work

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A White Tea Bowl

A collection of 100 haikus to celebrate their author's 100th birthday.

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Love & Math

Frenkel explains how he and math grew up together and fell in love.

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Comfortable With Uncertainty

Chödrön's guide to ceasing useless fighting with the universe and finding power and calm within oneself.

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Flora of Colorado

Reference guide to the flora of this state, with many pictures and useful keys.

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Bossypants

Tina Fey gracefully and humorously addresses the points in her life that forced her to struggle enough to find out what she was made of.

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Rebecca

A woman gradually gets to know the evil late wife of her new husband through the traces she leaves behind.

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Botany for Gardeners

A wonderful introductory text to botany, written in an informative, succinct, interesting style. Gorgeous stained slide photos.