If humanity should only keep 10 books, what should they be?

>The Complete and Collected Western Canon
>my diary desu

Impossible question, but here goes!

Nestle-Aland Text
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (or Quinta, when it's finished)
Complete Plato (original Greek)
Complete Aristotle (original Greek)
Mahabharata (original Sanskrit)
On The Origin Of Species
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Critique of Pure Reason (original German)
Critique of Practical Reason (original German)
Zhuangzi (original Classical Chinese)

Hopefully those would give a broad range of seminal works in human thought, a highlight reel of religion, philosophy, and science. Really depends what you count as a book though, I mean the Mahabharata is a single epic but you can't fit it in one volume.

>getting baited this easily

ten copies of the immortal DAS KAPITAL

>The Phenomenology of Spirit
>Das Kapital
>Ulysses
>Shakespeare's Complete Works
>University Physics, along with an edition of Medical Sciences and Mathematics.
>Sublime Object of Ideology
>Tristes Tropiques
>2666

>plebwarningplebwarningplebwarning

>Das Kapital

Why? Certainly it was a tremendously influential book. But it is flawed and flat out wrong on so many aspects. Surely there are better publications if you want to include an economic book as literary legacy - I mean, it was published hundred fucking fifty years ago.

The religious texts of all the major religions
+ Zoroastrianism and world mythology

what are some you would consider more suited?

Bible
Vedas
Quran
Iliad and Odyssey
Parallel Lives
Divine Comedy
Shakespeare complete works
Critique of Pure Reason
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Decline of the West

this, also:
Marlowe's Jew
Shakespeare's Merchant
On the Jews and their Lies
On the Jewish Question
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Canterbury Tales
Oliver Twist
The Marble Faun
Candide

anyone saying the Bible just hasn't learned... You don't want to give humanity only 10 books and have one of them be dogmatic apologetics for violence and general cruelty

you forgot the international jew

You're right, only one is not enough

>Oliver Twist
I don't feel like this novel is anti-Semitic. Fagin is shown to be a deplorable Jew by eating pork, so it's not as if Dickens was criticizing him for being a Jew, but rather an evil person in general.

If you want anti-Semitic Dickens, look to A Christmas Carole.

>so it's not as if Dickens was criticizing him for being a Jew, but rather an evil person in general
that's the point, it's in their blood.

>Animal Farm (just so they have a fair warning)
>Mein Kampf

wat

my diary definitely belongs on the list to be honest

What about it is wrong? I ask because most people who criticize the labor theory of value make it clear that they've never actually read Marx.

>Animal Farm (just so they have a fair warning)
>Mein Kampf

wtf is goin on here bud?

>The Bible
>Iliad
>Aeneid
>Oresteia
>Republic
>Hamlet
>Faust
>The Brothers Karamazov (I'm not sure whether this should be swapped out for War and Peace) >Essais by Montaigne
>Don Quixote
>Ficciones

But I don't actually know anything about literature

>But I don't actually know anything about literature

it shows

01. The Holy Bible KJV
02. Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
03. Graves - The Greek Myths
04. Girard - The Scapegoat
05. Frazer - The Golden Bough
06. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
07. Born - Einstein's Theory of Relativity
08. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
09. Solzhenitsyn - Warning to the West
10. Strassler - The Landmark Thucydides

>Oliver Twist
This and David Copperfield were utter trash. Dickens can blow me. I know you're making a joke hurr hurr Da Joos!, but seriously fuck Dickens don't recommend him in any context.

tell me about The Golden Bough my friend. All I know it from is Kurtz's book shelf in Apocalypse Now.

>But it is flawed and flat out wrong on so many aspects

List one

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It's a thorough examination of (primarily) western mythology and the way humans lived it and what we have inherited from them. Studies origins of kingship, ritual sex and ritual murder, taboos, animal sacrifice, harvest, the solar deity, lunar symbology, the feminine principle. It's been years since I read it, but it's a good single volume summary of 20th C. comparative mythology.

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Meet me in real life and see what happens

>This guy's character is fundamentally flawed therefore noting he says has any value

Nice try.

>Godel, Escher, Bach
>Thinking, Fast and Slow
>Don Quijote
>The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
>Siddhartha
>Notes from the Underground
>The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
>Der Einzige und sein Eigentum
>Daodejing
>my diary desu

*lits up cigarette*

>saving the Bible
>not letting Christianity die once and for all

ITT: mentally deficient anons who could not grasp the bible as anything but ancient superstition, or (worse) who understood the moral lessons but reject them because of teenage hormones.

how's Hell treating you, user?

Hell isn't real.

>could not grasp the bible as anything but ancient superstition

Come talk to me again after you've studied more.

>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>The World as Will and Representation
>The Trouble with Being Born
>Industrial Society and its Future
>Fanged Noumena
>Notes From Underground
>My Twisted World
>Journey to the End of the Night
>On the Heights of Despair

redpill 'em early

A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
1984
will save the galaxy for food
the bee movie novelization
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
FullMetal Alchemist
Mr nice
the works of mozart
the works of leonardo devinchi
madame president

>the phonebook
>the constitution (it is a book in most countries)
>an agriculture textbook
>a mathematics textbook
>a physics textbook
>a biology textbook
>the soldier's handbook
>the boy scout's handbook
>an economics textbook
>animal farm

lmao niggas it's like you don't even want to stay alive

>saving history
>not just forgetting everything

Okay wiseguy, what are the WORST ten books that could remain?

The ones that would royally fuck up humanity's future or stymie knowledge for years to come

>your diary desu
>x10

I wonder about this question sometimes, what books would be needed to rebuilt society after a SHTF scenario. Given that this is Veeky Forums, I went off the assumption that OP meant literature books and STEM/Ag/Pol etc would be intact. Still threw in some Einstein just in case. Would replace with Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid omnibus though, and other picks still stand as necessary Veeky Forums tools for understanding ourselves.

This is going to sound edgy but I would like to see how humanity would evolve without any access to The Bible or any religious text.

Less edgy than half the faggots in this thread posting unfunny/uninteresting lists. It's a good question. Western development for the past 2000+ years has been completely tied up with religious doctrine. I believe religion would be inevitable. Magical thinking, imagination, storytelling, and a need to be governed are part of our constitution. Some kind of universal cult of psychotherapy would be required to actively oppress it.

>single volume

>Some kind of universal cult of psychotherapy would be required to actively oppress it.
Right, and I'm super fucking interested in what that new religion will look like. I bet people would start worshiping figures from pop culture.

if we had to only keep 10 books, couldn't you just condense all the books into 10 books, then break them up again later?

>t. autism

t. computer engineer

we already have a new religion, it's called science

>harry potter 1 - 7
>the fault in our stars
>hunger games (see above)
>mrs dalloway
>stoner
>his dark materials trilogy
>to kill a mockingbird

Oh wtf a real reply?

Are you the Girardposter? How does scapegoat compare to I see Satan Fall Like Lightning?

I am not Girardbro, and I've only just started The Scapegoat. I would recommend both tbrqhwyf. I picked Scapegoat because of its usefulness in developing a new forgiveness meme when combined with KJV and Frazer.

10 books of Bourbaki. Anything else is inferior. Silly Veeky Forums.

lol

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But user, I don't speak A-rab

Moby-Dick
Hamlet
Ulysses
The bible
The Fault In Our Stars
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Meditations
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Meditations