/lit/ - Literature

>>22212946
Beyond Food and Evil (got me into philosophy, although I've found it less exceptional on rereads. Nietzsche's critique of the post-Kantian German idealists in particular is weak and shows a lack of understanding of their work. Still, some great bits in here).

The Brothers Karamazov - particularly the Grand Inquisitor

The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Decay - (best works on how high functioning states got that way)

The Blank Slate (I know, ass, but it's actually a very good book on how different takes on human nature define the modern left and right wing and how both get things wrong. It's a particularly good argument against radical "woke" politics that came a decade before they came to the fore.)

Elements of the Philosophy of Right - Hegel has a highly original, great take on political philosophy.

Freedom's Right - Honneth's work is an excellent primer on how Hegel's work fits into the landscape of political philosophy. First part is really to important section.

Complexity: A Guided Tour - I knew a lot of this stuff going in, but this is the best intro to complexity, chaos theory, and information theory I've found.

Great Courses: The Science of Information - my intro to information theory, which has had a huge effect on my philosophy and metaphysics. It's a lecture series, not a book. The Routledge Guide to the Philosophy of Information is also great as well.

Paul's Letter to the Romans - best layout of positive/reflective freedom I've seen in Romans 7.

The Gospel of John - my favorite of all the Gospels. I've always been very interested in Logos theology.

The Reality of Time Flow: Local Becoming in Modern Physics - excellent intro to the philosophy and physics of time that I believe delivers a KO against eternalism.

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information - both a good background on information in physics and a novel theory of its ontological ground.

Semiotics the Basics and the Routledge contemporary intro to the philosophy of language - basic but the flip side of information theory and great sources.

Also, The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Signature in All Things, Borges' Library of Babel (and the book a mathematician did on the math behind the story), the Science of Logic and Houlgate's commentary on the intro, Augustine's Confessions and On The Trinity.

Pic is good reads or re-reads in the last 18 months.

>>21370889
I finish a small minority of books I start and read a lot of anthologies so this sort of thing is out for me.

I can do a top 9 grid though.