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What are some books you think everyone should read and why?

>> No.10791396

Some of what you have there are essential.

If you're into logic or mathematics, The Elements.

If you're into Politics or early Philosophy/Theology, The Laws, Republic, Timaeus, and Metaphysica are important.

And I would check out The Holy Bible, The Koran, The Tao te Ching, and The Dhammapada, at the very least.

I believe God is definitely real.

>> No.10791497

>>10791379
The Master and Margarita, it matches all criteria:
>doesn't require previous knowledge of literature or anything else
>is ultra amusing in every aspect - comical, mysterious, tragical, dramatical, action packed etc.
>is influental
>is timeless
Everyone who I know that has read this book is his favourite one.

The only issue is that part II gets romantic, so you could drop it there.

>> No.10791507

>>10791497
And has a literary merit

>> No.10791511

>>10791379
my diary desu

>> No.10791646

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

>> No.10791671

>>10791497
which translation?

>> No.10791684

>>10791671
the English one

>> No.10791706

>>10791671
IDK man, I didn't read it in English. Do some research on search engines and in 4chan archives, there're many discussions.

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Journey to the end of the night

>> No.10791739

Atomized

>> No.10791743

>>10791706
ok

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>>10791497
>Everyone who I know that has read this book is his favourite one.

>> No.10791808

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's fairly easy to read, relatively short, and is a border between genre and literary fiction. You won't be reading something as pleb as harry potter but you it also ain't something by Pynchon

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Every one of these books is essential. I've read each one at least twice

>> No.10791834

William James
Montaigne
Erasmus
Fichte
Montesquieu
T. Paine
Burke
Rousseau (people always think he's a proto socialist)
Cicero
The Prince
New Science
Oration on the Dignity of Man
The Book of the Courtier
Vitrivus, Palladio, and The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Areopagitica
Past and Present
The Human Condition
Chicago Manual of Style
Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Carl Menger, Bertrand De Jouvenel, Pareto, Morgenthau, Rothbard, and other 20th century economists.
>A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity