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I, Claudius - Robert Graves
History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
A Mencken Crestomathy (collection, I read maybe 20%)
Triggerfish Twist; Nuclear Jellyfish; Electric Barracuda - Tim Dorsey
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski (if you can call it reading)
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War (Letters to the editor of Asahi Shimbun, ed. Frank Gibney)
Progress and Poverty - Henry George (literally cannot be refuted)
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
The Ruins of Kasch - Roberto Calasso (dropped, prohibitively dense unless you're ready to study it like a monk)
The Snow Leopard - Peter Mattiessen
Shadow Country - Peter Matthiessen (dropped, will pick up again later)
The Bubble and Beyond - Michael Hudson
The Reformation in Economics - Philip Pilkington
The Anomaly - Hervé Le Tellier (not that great ngl idk why it got the Prix Goncourt)
From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement - Fred Glass
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution - Theodore Draper (academic text, I skipped parts of it and read the interesting bits)
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Erich Hoffer (contains mind-warping incredible insights)
The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The Magus - John Fowles
Currently reading:
Blindsight - Peter Watts
The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin
Ubik - Phillip K. Dick

It's not a huge list but a lot of those books are long as fuck. Do any anons have opinions about any of these?

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