Literature

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

  • Frank Herbert: Author of the Dune Series
  • J.K. Rowling: The Harry Potter Series : (Every kid on the face of the planet in aggregate can’t be wrong)
  • Isaac Asmov:’Foundation’ & ‘Robot’ series
  • Orson Scott Card:’Ender’ Series
  • Hermann Hesse:Glass Bead Game, Demian

Classic

  • Dante: Divine Comedy
  • Homer: Oddyssey & Illiad
  • Juvenal: Satires
  • Shakespeare: Hamlet and Julius Casear They’re all good, of course
  • Unknown Vedic: Baghavad-Gita

Renaissance

  • Machiavelli: The Prince
  • Boccaccio: The Decameron
  • King James: Bible: Like it or no, you are part of this book’s hegemony. Good tips on proper use of the subjunctive too.

Modern

  • Sartre: Being and Nothingness
  • Camus: La Chute (The Fall) & L’Etranger (The Stranger)

post-Modern

  • Don DeLillo: Underworld
  • Vonnegut: Anything
  • Eco: Name of the Rose & Foucault’s Pendulum

Philosophy

  • Hegel: Phenomenology
  • Hardt & Negri: Empire
  • Nietzsche: Everything (Genealogy of Morals, Zarathustra)
  • Symbolic Logic: Irving Copi At some point you will want it again
  • Baudrillard: Simulacra & Simulation

Poetry (works of the below are fantastic, I’ve listed my favorites though)

  • Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lotos-Eaters, Ulysses
  • Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’ , ‘The Greatest Day’