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Books like Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman is about consciousness, meaning, mortality. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Man's Search for Meaning
    Man's Search for Meaning

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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology

    Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.

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  2. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
    The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

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    The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

    Stephen Grosz · Psychology

    The Examined Life is a collection of short psychoanalytic case studies drawn from Stephen Grosz's 25 years of practice as a psychoanalyst in London.

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  3. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

    David Eagleman · Psychology

    David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford who argues that the conscious self is a late, small, and largely uninformed participant in the brain's activity.

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  4. Consciousness Explained
    Consciousness Explained

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    Consciousness Explained

    Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy

    Consciousness Explained is Daniel Dennett's attempt to replace what he calls the Cartesian Theater — the intuitive picture of consciousness as a single unified stream of experience observed by a self — with a model he calls Multiple Drafts.

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  5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Yuval Noah Harari · History

    Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.

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  6. 1984
    1984

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    1984

    George Orwell · Philosophy

    Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.

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