/lit/ - Literature

Think of globalization, reach of the net, developing nations getting wealthier, literacy and English language spreading.

Literature has never had a larger audience than now.

What are some essential non-fiction books that teach something crucial about the world and the history of mankind? Books that are universally recognized and books that you think anyone who wants to understand the world properly (how societies and people work) should read.

The Wealth of Nations, The Republic, The Art of War, Das Kapital. These are examples of the kind of books I'm looking for. The link in the sticky wasn't much help.

>>3742871

>getting buttflustered

>>1292246

Pretty much the opposite of that. I read so I can find the motivation to change my shitty behavior. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't.

Also, I use the quotes and ideas I find interesting to fuel my shitty attempts at writing.

>>1270533
All of my internets to you, good sir.

Hi /lit/, you seem like the guys to ask:

At what point do I level up from pseudo-intellectual to actual intellectual. Are there some kind of exercises I can do to speed the process up?

[x]Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
[ ] Faust
[ ] Don Quixote
[ ] Finnegans Wake
[ ] Portait of the Author as a Young Man
[ ] The Sound and The Fury


What should be added for powerleveling in my book quest? I think im still to low-leveled at this point to take on Finnegan's Wake.

I need five books that will make me a wiser man.

Can you e/lit/eists help?

I want to level up my literary intellect.

What do?

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A quote like that deserves its own macro.