Tim Urban Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Writer, infant

3 books

The Lessons of History

Will Durant

Tim Urban

@MaxCRoser The Lessons of History by Will Durant. The audiobook has interviews with Durant after each chapter that are even better than the chapters themselves.

Paperback, 2010

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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison

Tim Urban

And here's Beloved author Toni Morrison talking about these kinds of bans: “It struck me as a purist yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children.”

Paperback, 2004

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Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Timothy Ferris

Tim Urban

I remember being 5 on the beach and having my mind blown when my dad said that if you walked down the beach and just kept walking you'd eventually end up back here from the other direction. This is the 3D version of that. From Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris. https://t.co/nuWoL7V48n

Paperback, 2003

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