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A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine (about the Stoics, and last I knew, free to download online)

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (about the impact of the Roman poet Lucretius' poem On The Nature of Things--everything from the idea of the atom, Botticelli's Venus on the Half Shell to why Thomas Jefferson put "the pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence--and much more)

The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone (about David Fairchild, who introduced 10,000 plants to U.S. agriculture at the turn of the 20th century, most of the groceries we buy today)

The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf (a biography of Alexander von Humboldt)

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

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I would put On The Nature of Things on my list of life changing books as well. Its sublime