Brian Eno

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The Ezra Klein Show · Best Of: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Okay, so this was a very hard question.

Three is not very many books, and I thought quite hard about them.

So one of the books is called Printing and the Mind of Man.

It was the catalogue, really, of an exhibition that was at the British Museum in 1963, and it was about the history of printing.

But actually, the book is about the most important books in the Western canon and the impact that they had when they were released.

It starts with the Gutenberg Bible, but it's such a fascinating book because you really start to understand where the big fundamental ideas that made Western culture – it doesn't have any Arabic books or any Indian books or any Chinese books –

So it's really about the last 500 years in Western culture.

And it's probably the most fascinating book about intellectual history that I've ever read.

And it's a very beautiful book because it was put together by a great printer who used lots of beautiful types and so on.

It's a wonderful book.

So the second book I think I'm going to suggest is a book by the architect Christopher Alexander called

called A Pattern Language.

And it's really a book about habitat, about what makes spaces welcoming and fruitful or hostile and barren.

And it's the most beautiful book.

So it talks about things at the biggest scale possible, countrywide, nationwide scale, down to the scale of the molding of a

Bannister or something like that, and tries to understand why some of those things work and why they don't.

And it's such a lovely book to read.

Over the course of my life, I've bought...

I would say 60 copies of that book now because I always give it to anyone who is about to renovate a house or about to build a house.

So that's my second one.

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