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