alt Hacker NewsI don't think this list is as famous as you assume it to be. The only "Carl Sagan reading list" I managed to find [0] is apparently his personal TODO note (books he plans to read, but haven't at the moment of writing). Which obviously isn't the same thing as "his famous reading list for students".
[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/get-inspired-by-carl-sagan-s-am...
Even today, people still discuss Carl Sagan and his Astronomy 490 course structure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pc3IuVNuO0
The articles posted UFO cult study reference is part of the reading list. =3
"On Liberty" (John Stuart Mill, 1859)
https://gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm
"Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds" (Charles Mackay, 1852)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm
"The Evolution of Cooperation" (Robert Axelrod, )
https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/Breakthrough/book/pdfs/axel...