✓ Number of Times Read
* Not As Essential
** Some Other Time
(still deciding what other books to add but this will keep me going for at least a decade)
Currently Reading:
– Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
– The Cynic Philosophers (Penguin Edition)
– Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey
– Dostoevsky – Brothers of Karamazov
~ Ancient Greece ~
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Heraclitus – Fragments (Penguin Edition)
Plato – Symposium ✓
Plato – Republic
Plato – Euthyphro ✓✓✓ Response
Plato – Apology ✓✓✓ Response
Plato – Crito ✓
Plato – Phaedo ✓
Plato – Ion ✓✓✓✓✓ Response
Plato – Meno ✓✓✓✓✓ Response
Plato – Lysis
Plato – Protagoras
Plato – Timaeus
Plato – (Other Dialogues)*
Homer – The Odyssey ✓
Homer – The Iliad
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle – Politics
Aristotle – Metaphysics
Aristotle – Categories
Aristotle – Organon
Aristotle – Prior Posterior Analytics
Aristotle – Rhetoric
Aristotle – Poetics
Aristotle – Physics
Aristotle – On the Soul
Epicurus – The Art of Happiness (Penguin Edition) ✓
The Cynic Philosophers (Penguin Edition)
~ Roman/Religious ~
Laozi – Tao Te Ching
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Confucius – Analects
The Holy Bible
The Quran
The Torah
Cicero – The Selected Works (Penguin Edition)
Seneca – Letters From a Stoic
Epictetus – Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Edition)
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Plotinus – Enneads*
Augustine – Confessions
Augustine – The City of God
Boethius – The Consolation of Philosophy
Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas – Selected Writings
~ Renaissance ~
Dante – Inferno
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
Michel De Montaigne – The Complete Essays
Machiavelli – The Prince ✓
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare – Hamlet
Shakespeare – Macbeth
Descartes – Meditations
Descartes – Discourse and Method
Descartes – Passions of the Soul*
Miguel De Cervantes – Don Quixote
Pascal – Pensees
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin – A Little Book on the Christian Life
Hobbes – Leviathan
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Leibniz – Monadology**
Leibniz – New Essays**
Spinoza – Ethics
George Berkely – Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
~ 1700s ~
Hume – Treatise of Human Understanding
Hume – An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Voltaire – Candide*
Rousseau – The Social Contract
Rousseau – Emilie, On Education**
Immanuel Kant – The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant – Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant – The Critique of Practical Reason**
Immanuel Kant – What is Enlightenment?**
Goethe – Faust
Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther
Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws**
Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations
Founding Fathers – Federalist Papers, The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights
Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Jeremy Bentham – An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Marquis De Sade – The 120 Days of Sodom ✓
Marquis De Sade – Justine
Marquis De Sade – Juliette
~ 1800s ~
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen – Persuasion
Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel – Science of Logic**
Schopenhauer – The World As Will And Representation Vol 1.
Schopenhauer – The World As Will And Representation Vol 2.
Schopenhauer – Essays and Aphorisms ✓✓
Schopenhauer – The Wisdom of Life ✓✓
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein ✓✓
Kierkegaard – Either/Or
Kierkegaard – Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard – The Concept of Anxiety
Kierkegaard – Philosophical Fragments
Kierkegaard – The Sickness Unto Death
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Charles Darwin – On the Origins of Species*
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance ✓
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Society and Solitude
Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau – Walking
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx – Das Kapital
Max Stirner – The Ego and its Own ✓
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment ✓
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Notes From Underground ✓
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers of Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Demons
Frederic Bastiat – The Law
John Stuart Mill – Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill – On Liberty
Emilie Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables
Nietzsche – The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human
Nietzsche – The Joyful Science
Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra ✓ (even though I read this I understood hardly any of it)
Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil ✓ (even though I read this I understood hardly any of it)
Nietzsche – Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche – The Antichrist
Nietzsche – The Will To Power
Nietzsche – Twilight of the Idols
Nietzsche – Ecce Homo
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbevilles
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey
Bram Stoker – Dracula
~ 1900s ~
Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
HP Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu ✓
HP Lovecraft – The Shadow Over Innsmouth ✓
HP Lovecraft – The Whisperer in Darkness
HP Lovecraft – At the Mountains of Madness
HP Lovecraft – (Other works)**
Kafka – The Metamorphosis
Kafka – The Judgment
Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud – The Ego and ID*
Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle**
Carl Jung – Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Carl Jung – Man and his Symbols
Carl Jung – The Undiscovered Self*
George Batallie – Story of the Eye
George Batallie – Eroticism
George Batallie – Literature and Evil
Virginia Woolf – The Lighthouse
Edmund Husserl – Logical Investigations*
William James – Pragmatism
Heidegger – Being and Time
Hitler – Mein Kampf
Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Wittgenstein – Philosophical Investigation
James Joyce – Ulysses
Marcel Proust – Search of Lost Time
Karl Jaspers – Psychopathology*
Karl Jasper – Philosophy of Existence*
Jean-Paul Satyr – Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartyr – Nausea
Jean-Paul Satyr – Existentialism is Humanism
Albert Camus – The Stranger
Albert Camus – The Plague
Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago
Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search For Meaning
Viktor Frankl – The Will To Meaning
Viktor Frankl – Yes To Life In Spite of Everything
J.D Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone Weil – Gravity and Grace*
Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt – The Banality of Evil ✓
Hannah Arendt – The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt – The Life of the Mind
Isabel Paterson – The God of the Machine
H.L. Mencken – A Mencken Chrestomathy
H.L. Mencken – The Vintage Mencken
H.L. Mencken – Notes on Democracy
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead ✓✓
Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged ✓✓
Ayn Rand – Philosophy: Who Needs It ✓
Ayn Rand – For the New Intellectual ✓
Ayn Rand – Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology ✓✓
Ayn Rand – The Virtue of Selfishness ✓✓
Ayn Rand – Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal ✓
Ayn Rand – The Romantic Manifesto ✓✓
Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle ✓
Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
Robert Nozick – Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Milton Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom
David Friedman – The Machinery of Freedom
Friedrich Hayek – The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek – The Constitution of Liberty
Ludwig Von Mises – Human Action
Karl Popper – Logic of Scientific Discovery
George Orwell – 1984
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Gabriel García Márquez – 100 Years of Solitude
Joseph Heller – Catch-22
John Rawls – A Theory of Justice
John Rawls – Justice As Fairness
~ Contemporary ~
Richard Taylor – Restoring Pride ✓✓ Response
Alasdair MacIntyre – After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre – Who’s Justice
Alasdair MacIntyre – Dependent Rational Animals
Derek Parfit – Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit – On What Matters
Fredric Jameson – Postmodernism: Or, Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition
Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
Susan Sontag – Notes on Camp
Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault – The Order of Things
Michel Foucault – The Archaeology of Knowledge
David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
Derrida – On Grammatology
Derrida – Speech and Phenomena
Derrida – Writing and Difference
Derrida – Specters of Marx
Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation
Richard Rorty – Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty – Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism
Deleuze – A Thousand Plateaus
Deleuze – Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
David Boaz – The Libertarian Mind
Thomas Sowell – Basic Economics
Thomas Sowell – Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Thomas Sowell – Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell – Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell – Intellectuals and Society
Thomas Ligotti – The Conspiracy Against the Human Race ✓
Peter Zapffe – The Last Messiah ✓
David Chalmers – The Conscious Mind
David Chalmers – Reality+: Virtual Worlds and Problems of Philosophy
David Chalmers – Philosophy of Mind
David Chalmers – Constructing the World
Ted Kaczynski – Industrial Society and Its Future
Slavoj Zizek – The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Zizek – Violence
Slavoj Zizek – First as Tragedy then as Farce
Slavoj Zizek – Did somebody say totalitarianism?
Slavoj Zizek – Plague of Fantasies
Slavoj Zizek – Fragile Absolute
Slavoj Zizek – Ticklish Subject
Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves To Death (still need to finish this)
Neil Postman – (a bunch of other books by him, all his books)
Nick Land – Fanged Noumena
Nick Land – The Dark Enlightenment
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson – Home
Marilynne Robinson – Lila
Marilynne Robinson – Jack
Marilynne Robinson – Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson – The Death of Adam
Marilynne Robinson – When I Was A Child I Read Books
Marilynne Robinson – Absence of Mind
Marilynne Robinson – What Are We Doing Here?
Marilynne Robinson – The Giveness of Things
Robert Greene – 48 Laws of Power ✓✓
Sam Vaknin – Malignant Self-Love Narcissism Revisited ✓
Sam Vaknin – Confessions Diary of a Narcissist
Jordan Peterson – Maps of Meaning ✓
Jordan Peterson – We Who Wrestle With God
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Stephen T. Asma – On Monsters
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock – The Monster Theory Reader
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen – Monster Theory: Reading Culture
W. Scott Poole – Monsters in America
David Livingstone Smith – Making Monsters: Uncanny Power of Dehumanization
Esther J. Hamori – God’s Monsters
Chaosium Inc. – Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors
David McGill – Cryptozoology
Terry Breverton – Phantasmagoria
Marina Levina – Monster Culture in 21st Century