Reddit mentions of Running After Antelope

Running After Antelope
Running After Antelope by Scott Carrier. The man is clearly insane, but his insanity is the sort that allows others to see the world in new ways. The whole expanding of mental horizons is the point of living, for me, so I really enjoyed this book.

Medea
Medea by Christa Wolf. I've always had a thing for ancient Greek stories. That combined with Christa Wolf's ability to discuss modern issues in surprisingly subtle ways and this was as much a book made for me as a book that was not made for me could be.

The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. I really liked this book when I was a teen. I haven't read it in a while so I'm not sure if it hold up in adulthood or if it sort of goes the way of Fight Club, but as it's a bit of a cultural touchstone I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it.

The Quest for Christa T
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf. Huh, I guess I'm going to mention the same author twice. This book really struck me when I read it. There are so many movies and books about the time surrounding and including World War Two that just paint the Germans as either villains or willfully ignorant monsters of genocide that a book like this which tries, I think, to communicate the destruction of the collective soul of the German people is at once refreshing and something that will leave you psychically mauled.

Newton's Principia, The Central Argument
Newton's Principia, The Central Argument by Dana Densmore. Newton was a badass. He had issues, sure, but the guy changed Western civilization. While I'm not a big math sort of person I really enjoyed this book because of how it allows you to get to know how Newton thought about these problems. I'm not really sure what sort of person wouldn't jump at the chance to get even a glimpse at a mind as clearly brilliant as the one Newton had. It was work to get though, but it was the sort of work that had a real pay off for me.

Scott Carrier tested this theory out with some interesting results. One detail he discovered was that when trying to run down a single animal, the individual prey would repeatedly blend into a larger group, then splinter off again. It proved difficult to know whether he was actually chasing a single tiring animal or a new fresh one over every hill.
https://www.amazon.com/Running-After-Antelope-Scott-Carrier/dp/1582431795