Brett Keller's
Influential Books
These are the books that have influenced me.
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer (2007)
On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson (2004)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
Sean B. Carroll (2006)
The Uses Of Haiti
Paul Farmer (2005)
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins (2006)
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama (2004)
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson (1999)
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (2005)
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett (1995)
Dune
Frank Herbert (2005)
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen (2000)
The Dressing Station
Jonathan Kaplan (2001)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond (2005)
Diffusion of Innovations
Everett M. Rogers (2003)
War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
Sheri Fink (2004)
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin (2001)
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Rory Stewart (2007)
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder (2004)
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002)
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Paul Farmer (2001)
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien (2001)
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell (1967)
Contact
Carl Sagan (1997)
The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Richard Dawkins (2005)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond (2005)
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton (2003)
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)
Paul Farmer (2004)
