/lit/ - Literature

The Bible - Well, if you read what happens when the ((choosen people)) departs from God you'll understand how the christians societies departed and came to such a degree of degeneracy. There you will see the beter and the worse of the human;
The Demons - 'cause Dosto just described how every revolutionary moviment happens, the mass hysteria caused by the ideas of a earthly paradise departed from the notion of God;
Pure Theory of Law - to understand how the legal positivism works in the legal system, this notion guides a lot of western legal systems around the globe;
Das Kapital - 'cause Santa Claus described well how capitalism works, but his solution for the problem is actualy worse them the fucking problem.
The Quran - Yes, at least more than a billion of people belives in it, so is essencial to understand it.

Well, you will not understand the modern world just reading any list of 5 books, but it can help you to improove your knowledge about it. My tip is: just dont fall in nihilism or in beliving in a earthly paradise, those two things screw the minds of the belivers, just study more about what the Holy Church teaches and everything will be fine, 'cause the only hope is The Lord and He will baptise this world with fire, nothing outside of Peter's Boat is safe. Another tip: the Rerum Novarum deals with a lot of topics, and prevent us from some mistakes.