Hey Veeky Forums, I'm updating my reading list. Which books are must reads, in your opinion?

Hey Veeky Forums, I'm updating my reading list. Which books are must reads, in your opinion?

On the origin of species.

Mein Kampfus and The God Devolution.

The Power and the Glory

Your own personal to-read list? Tell us what you've read so far.

A reading list for someone else? Best for us to just name authors, or just go to Veeky Forums's own reading list (though it seems to be lacking any James Joyce for some reason).

Richard Hitchens' "The God Delusion."

It's for my personal reading list.
I've read so far a lot of the german and austrian authors, like Thomas Mann, Georg Büchner and Stefan Zweig. But I'd like to read more books from other countries like Fitzgerald or Marquez

Thanks for the suggestion, but I've already read that

just read the sticky lol

"Have you read the Roossians?"

What are you talking about?

Hemingway once said, "have you read the Roossians?" Or at least that's what my father says he's said. I don't know if he actually said it. Have you read the Russians? Tolstoy and Dostoevsky?

Here's authors and books, I've read or wish to read, or read the books about these books if they turn out to be stupidly verbose and full of redundancy, like Kant; jesus Kant get to the point.
It's a growing list.

The Righteous Mind
Man's Search for Meaning
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
Way of Being
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Meditations, Lucretius, Diogenes Laërtius, Aristophanes, Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism, Seneca...

Machiavelli
Goethe
Sowell: Economic Facts and Fallacies... The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late, a follow-up to his Late-Talking Children... Intellectuals and Race... Marxism: Philosophy and Economics... Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy... A Personal Odyssey... A Conflict of Visions

Stirner, Nietszche and Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer & CO; like fucking Mainländer
Samuel Beckett, Camus, William James & CO
Jaymes Joyce

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live
Tsurezuregusa
Jacques Barzun
Julius Evola
Bad Science - Ben Goldcare
A short History of Nearly Everything
Stranger in a Strangeland
The culture of critique
Free to Choose
Abridged books of Hegel and Kant.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Erich Neumann The Origins and History of Consciousness
Free Women, Free Men
Being and Time
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, primarily The Social Contract
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Locke
David Hume
John Stuart Mill...
Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
A History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
About Philosophy (10th Edition)

Not necessarily in this order.

Oooh ok, yes I've read Dostojewskis notes from the underground (at least I think that this is the correct title in english) and I'm working on Anna Karenina

Wow thank you very much!

I mean; I just copy pasted it from my books and stuff to read file
Most of these are nonfiction, half of which "every man" should read, or at least know about.
I guess every man should also be able to bench press their own weight and swim 1.5 miles as well.

There are also a bunch of basic economic and political books I plan to read.

Anyone know why there's no Joyce on the /lit? reading list?

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Yeah go and look at the actual list though....

I heard Darwin didn't really know what a species even was. Is it still worth reading after the theory of evolution has become better understood?

I'll just rattle off some fools who never show up on this board:

anything by WG Sebald
Ibsen
Virginia Woolf
Lydia Davis short stories
Colette
David Mitchell, especially cloud atlas
Martin Amis- Money or London Fields or that essay collection especailly the one on Ulysses
Salman Rushdie- God Tier[Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children], Nobel tier[Shame]
Coetzee- literally anything, but most especially Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace, and/or Foe, potentially in that order
Rabelais- Gargantua and Pantagruel
poetry by Philip Larkin
TS Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and The Waste Land
Anything by Daniel Heller-Roazen
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
Oscar Wilde - Works
Edouard Louis - The End of Eddy
Antonio di Benedetto
Toni Morrison
Ian McKewan- literally anything from short stories through Atonement
That new Joyce biography (2014?) put out by FSG
Anything by Gunter Grass especially the Tin Drum. In fact do Tin Drum then Rushdie's Midnight's Children for a wilde ride
Emerson's essays, if you like them then Montaigne
Random Booker Prize winners
Outline - Rachel Cusk


WALTER PATER

Oh forgot to add, The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, kind of in vogue right now but genuinely a special project

>never show up on this board
>woolf
>rabelais
>eliot
>rushdie

Iliad
Odyssey
Works and Days
Theogony
Oresteia
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
Persians
Suppliant Women
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Electra
Ajax
Women of Trachis
Philoctetes
Cyclops
Heracles
Alcestis
Hecuba
Bacchae
Orestes
Andromache
Medea
Ion
Hippolytus
Helen
Iphigenia at Aulis
The Birds
The Clouds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
The Knights
The Wasps
The Assemblywomen
The Histories
The Peloponnesian Wars
Dialogues
Poetics
Ethics

What do I have to read to learn about Orpheus's descent into the underworld?

>No Trojan Women

Probably Orpheus and Eurydice