The People's Economics

An important work in understanding the divisions in our society and what we can do to bridge them

Mentions system III thinking, but I think that it more of a repackaging of system 2 thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell claims that the 10000 hours of practice applies to many areas of expertise. He is persuasive, but it's important to note that in many of examples the 10000 hours can't really be considered practice.

Builds upon the idea that we need 10000 hours to achieve excellence. But does this mean that we have to have years of training before we can presume to contribute to a field of study?

In this book Ronald B. Levinson responds to many of Karl Popper's criticisms of Plato in The Open Society and its Enemies.

This was supposedly a rebuttal to Snow's Two Cultures arguments. But it wasn't. It was mostly an attack on C. P. Snow himself, and then went on to defend literary culture from an attack Snow didn't make

How could the gulf between science and the arts be bridged

Rowling's bestselling series.

This book continues Kurzweil's ideas on how to live longer (rather than wishing for some future singularity) but it has got rather buried in the huge number of alternative medicine books