The List

The List.md

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• What is wisdom
• What Is Enlightenment?
• In Praise of Idleness

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Books (awesome ones)

Meant to be read roughly in order, atleast the first 10 books or so

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• Alamut one of the most awesome books I read. Read this before all the books in the list, and then after.

• The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

• The Demon-Haunted World

• The Three Dialogues

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and other books by this author

• The Catcher in the Rye

• The Story of Philosophy and other books by this author

• The Myth of Sisyphus and other books by this author

• Notes from Underground and other books by this author

• The Republic - Plato

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• Think A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

• The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten

• The Prince

• What Does It All Mean?

• The Age of Reason

• Five Dialogues

• Discourse on Method

• Steppenwolf

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

• The Problems of Philosophy

• Leviathan

• On the Genealogy of Morals

• The Complete Essays

• Thinking It Through

• The Language of God

• The Trial

• City of God

• A New History of Western Philosophy

• A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

• Meditations

• Philosophy and the Social Problem

• Critique of Pure Reason

• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

• 1984

• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

• Ethics - Spinoza

• The Social Contract

• Maxims - La Rochefoucauld

• A Theory of Justice

• Being and Nothingness

• On Liberty

• Passions of the Soul

• The Meaning of It All

• The Denial of Death

• Fahrenheit 451

• Candide

• The Old Man and the Sea

• The 48 Laws of Power

• American Contempt for Liberty

• Sophie's World not that great in my opinion, but good for philosophy intro

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Contemporary Fiction

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• A Game of Thrones
• Prince of Thorns
• The Lies of Locke Lamora
• The Name of the Wind