/lit/ - Literature

I like books that carry the theme of human mortality and nature's triumph and utter indifference over the struggles of humanity.

For reference, I liked Hodgson's 'the House on the Borderland' and Lovecraft and Poe's oeuvre. I also liked Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun with its cryptic prose and imagery, as well as McCarthy's 'The Road'. Jack London's 'To Build a Fire' comes to mind as well, as well as Murakami's 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'. For anime/manga, I liked Kino no Tabi, Shingeki no Kyoujin, Sidonia no Kishi, Haibane Renmei, Shinsekai Yori, Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryukou, Tegami Bachi, So Ra No Wo To, Blame! etc.

What books would you suggest from my taste? I'd also appreciate if you'd help me define it.
>Pic related is one of my favourite paintings. It's called 'Two Men Contemplating the Moon' by the German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2i_QmgAJn0

How might I achieve a state of eudaemonia or lasting contentment?

Laws - Plato
Politics - Aristotle
The Republic - Cicero
The Laws - Cicero
On Obligations - Cicero
The Prince - Machiavelli
Discourses on Livy - Machiavelli
Leviathan - Hobbes
The Social Contract - Rousseau
Two Treatise on Government - Locke
Utilitarianism - Mills
On liberty - Mills
Reflections on the revolution in France - Burke
The Civilisation of the renaissance in Italy - Burckhardt
Outlines of the philosophy of right - Hegel
The wealth of nations - Smith
The communist manifesto - Marx/Engels