/lit/ - Literature

>>17850646
I need some recommendations, I already have Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Atlas Shrugged for what it was anyway (average and long)

here is the list OP

The Book of Law
Hopscotch
Ecclesiastes
Brief History of Time
Tortilla Flat
La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea
Tractatus
Solaris

>>17850646
Plato - Complete Works
Plotinus - Enneads
Marsilio Ficino - Platonic Theology
Dante - The Divine Comedy
Ayys - The Urantia Book
Leopardi - Zibaldone
Pliny - Naturalis Historia
Eriugena - Periphyseon
Dino Campana - Orphic Songs
The Quran

>>17850695
Wasn't Pliny The Elder wrong on natural anatomy though? Or does he have more to contribute? I know he said the blood of animals leaves in certain seasons lmao

>>17850721
Anon, the whole thing is over 2500 pages, I guess it must have something valuable other than the blood of animals leaving in certain seasons... And you read it because it is a majestic representation of the universe, anyway.

>>17850646
imagine thinking the top ten books you must read would include any philosophy

>>17850695
Is The Urantia Book any different from an extended version of the outtakes of the Book of Mormon

>>17851244
It's much more difficult. Some parts are unreadable.

>>17851269
Is it worth it? Life changing in any way?

>>17850695
I feel like Marcus Aurelius - Meditations should be in there. Or at least as 11th book

>>17851763
It's definitely the eleventh as it's just a personal dairy that was never meant to be published, but it's influence can't be overstated

Call of the Crocodile
Call of the Kappa
Call of the Arcade
Call of the Cradle
Call of the Cherokee
Super Mario Encyclopedia: The Official Guide to the First 30 Years
The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
Mein Kampf
The Secret History of the Reptilians (David Icke)
Nag Hammadi Library

>>17850646
If you live in the West, the bible may be beneficial. Also, any introductory text on philosophy. That's personally what got me started. From their you'll build interests and branch out.

Applied Behavior Analysis is interesting, or at the very least it's deterministic underpinnings. If nothing else, it helps foster an empathetic view of fellow man, and his shortcomings. Skinner's Beyond Freedom Dignity is a good place to start if you don't want to read a full on text book.

Same goes for most "spiritual" reading, and comparative mythology/religion. Eliade is a good start. As is Campbell. Jung too. Not to say "God" per say isn't present or an active agent today, but the more I read, the more the statement "Man uses God" (as oppose to the other way round) makes sense.

I love this comfy thread. Bump.

The Bible (Old and New Testament)
The Complete Works of Plato
The Complete Works of Aristotle
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Homer's Iliad & Odyssey
Dante's Divine Comedy
Milton's Paradise Lost
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Marx's Capital

Runner-ups: Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra; The Collected Works of C. G. Jung; The Complete Prose and Poetry of William Blake; Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; Cervantes's Don Quixote; Tolstoy's War and Peace; Orwell's 1984; Melville's Moby Dick; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Proust's Swann's Way

>>17850646
The Bible (including all "lost" and non-canonical books)
The Koran
The Bhagivad-Gita
The Upanishads
The Art of War
The Book of the Law
The Book of the Dead
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
The Kama Sutra
The Emerald Tablet

This plus the Bible and Shakespeare

>>17850646
Holy Bible
Philokalia
On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
On the Cosmic Mystery of Christ by St. Maximus the Confessor
City of God by St. Augustine
Orthodox Catechism by St. Philaret of Moscow
Nihilism by Fr. Seraphim Rose
Orthodox Dogmatic Theology by Vladimir Lossky
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Gospel in Brief by Tolstoy

Apology by Plato
Memorabilia by Xenophon
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Seneca's Letters
The Discourses of Epictetus
On Moral Ends by Cicero
The Outline of Sanity by GK Chesterton
For my Legionaries by Codreanu
After Virtue by MacIntyre
What is Art by Tolstoy

I think that's a good overall statement of who I am. I would have recommended more by Seneca but I'm trying to be diverse. His consolations, plays, and essays on anger are all excellent. He really has become a favorite of mine these past few years.

>>17850646
In no order, just what comes to mind first.
>Ulysses by James Joyce
>The Complete Works of Shakespeare
>The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
>Literaria Biographia by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>Paradise Lost by John Milton
>Vala or The Four Zoas by William Blake
>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
>In Memoriam A.H.H by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
>The Divine Comedy by Dante
>The Odyssey by Homer

>>17850667
Sounds old and dated. Are you sure?

>>17854114
This except substitute the last 3 for War & Peace, Brothers Karamazov and Swann's Way. Augustine's Confessions and City of God honourable runner-up.

>ten books

Investing 3-5 years in seriously tackling this list will change who you are on a fundamental level forever.

>>17850646
The Bible (Old and New Testament and Apocrypha)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Complete Works of Plato
Aeneid
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Plutarch's Lives
Divine Comedy
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Moby Dick

>>17854786
fuck off.

>>17850695
>ficino
>zibaldone
>Plotinus

this is a great list

The art of the deal

The complete works of Katy Price

>>17854114
Swann's way is a horrible pick for must-reads.

>>17854974
Not pretending I'm not a brainlet compared to the people who compiled this list, but what would you get out of reading those dated science textes? Wouldn't it be more efficiënt to just pick up a modern maths or biology textbook?

>>17856548
idk about some of those, but in the case of euclid, it might help with formulating arguments, that is, in the geometrical style, but I would just recommend to read Spinoza's Ethics if that is the kind of rhetorical knowledge you seek from it. If you want to learn geometry, yea, go read a geometry textbook, dont read fucking Euclid.

Another answer would be mapping the history of scientific knowledge. I will sometimes go back and read ancient scientific texts because they can be fascinating even if they aren't factual.

>>17854974
>muh anglo is the only civilization on earth: the list

>>17856811
? You might wanna take another look at that list.

>>17856821
It's pretty much a meme list, even if it has some German philosophers

>>17856841
It's an overview of the most important works of European civilization with a few women and locals sprinkled in (+you can't fault them for the English poetry, that's their language). It's very good. As it concerns formal education I don't really see the point in reading the historical scientific works though.

>>17850646
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Complete Works of the Greek Tragedians
>The Complete Works of Plato
>The Complete Works of Aristotle
>Don Quixote
>The Complete Works of Shakespeare
>The Complete Works of Goethe
>The World as Will and Representation
>In Search of Lost Time

>>17850695
you can actually feel the wisdom emanating from this list
why don't you have the bible though

>>17855134
going through plutarch's lives RN.
Seriously humbled me regarding reading comprehension. That book is tough.

Soon I will have finished the complete works of Shakespeare and written several essays on them. I don’t know if I should then read the complete works of Plato and Aristotle, the Bible, or more Elizabethan authors. I’m familiar with all of the above, and have read parts, but I have never read them all. Wat do?

>Rabelais - Complete Works
>Molière - Complete Works
>de La Fontaine - Complete Works
>Balzac - Complete Works
>Flaubert - Complete Works
>Baudelaire - Complete Works
>Rimbaud - Complete Works
>Mallarmé - Complete Works
>Proust - Complete Works
>Celine - Complete Works

>>17857793
The Bible is less poetic than the Quran

>>17850646
Okay i'm a half brainlet, not where i want to be, but let's give it a try:

Heraclitus
Plato
Aristotle
Marx
Lao tzu, Tao Te Ching
Hegel, phenomenology of Spirit
Carl Jung
The New testament
Pistis Sophia
A Study of HIstory (D.C Somervell). Around 7000 pages, history is important.

>>17850646
harry potter 1-10

>>17852531
>no captain underpants

ngmi

>>17858833
Given the other books on that list it makes zero sense to have the Quran instead of the Bible

>>17859461
Why?

>>17859631
because half the books are by Christians

>>17850646
>1. Ancient Mesopotamian History (Religion, Trade, Banking and War; based on the newest findings of sumerian kuneiform clay tablets and egyptian texts):
The Sumerian Swindle, Gregory Delaney
>2. Eco "Philosophy":
Industrial Society and it's Future, Ted Kaczynski
>3. Present Day Crisis
The Crisis of the Modern World, Rene Guenon
>4. Finance and Banking History
A History of Central Banking, Stephen Goodson
>5. Most important book about Vedic Indian Metaphysics & Philosophy
Bhagavad Gita As It Is, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
>6. Buddhist Philosophy
The Teaching of the Buddha, BDK Tokyo
>7. Greek Mythology (you should have read this already!)
The Illiad & The Odyssey, Homer
>8. Stoic Philosophy
On the Shortness of Life, Seneca (read all his dialogs!)
>9. The Republic, Plato
>10. Become a Man (it's about time)
The Way of Men, Jack Donovan
Might Is Right, Ragnar Redbeard

>>17850646
The Bible
The House Of Fame-Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
Don Quixote-Cervantes
Faust-Goethe
Thus Spoke Zarathustra-Nietzsche
Apology-Plato
The World As Will And Representation-Schopenhauer
Critique Of pure Reason-Kant
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus-Wittgenstein

>>17854427
Based orthochad

>Dude, just read Millenia old works everyone namedrops
>Retards keep crying how they can't function in the modern world
Wasn't logic first place on your LARP curriculum?

>>17859880
the OP asked for only ten books, so most anons posted foundational works. Though you are right that there is something to be said about reading the words of dead men instead of hearing the living.

>>17859956
Not all of them are foundational works, some are mentioned for their intrinsic beauty.

The Bible
Common Sense
On the Suffering of the World
Moby-Dick
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Murphy
Lolita
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Black Dogs

>>17850646
The Bible
Iliad
Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Ulysses
Moby Dick
Don Quixote
The 1001 Nights

1. The Cosmic Race, by J. Vasconcelos.

2. Lazarillo de tormes, by Anonymous.

3. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius.

4. The Enchiridion, by Epictetus.

5. Society of the Spectacle, by G. Debord.

6. Beyond Good and Evil, by F. Nietzsche.

7. The Communist Manifesto, by K. Marx and F. Engels.

8. On the Jewish Question, by K. Marx.

9. The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, by T. de Molina.

10. The House of Bernarda Alba, by. F. Garcia L.

Bump

>>17860471
Based

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Don Qujote
Tristram Shandy
Madame Bovary
War and Peace
Gargantua and Pantagruel
In search of lost time
The man without qualities
The good soldier Svejk
The Sleepwalkers
Berlin Alexanderplatz

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
THE TAO TE CHING
SEX AND CHARACTER
THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA
THE DHAMMAPADA
SOREN KIERKEGAARD'S JOURNALS AND PAPERS
THE NEW TESTAMENT
POISON FOR THE HEART
THE ZEN TEACHING OF HUANG PO
SHE-RAB DONG-BU (THE TREE OF WISDOM)

>>17854427
>No summa
It never even started for orthos

>>17850646
Being and Time -Martin Heidegger.
Black Notebooks -Martin Heidegger.
Contributions to Philosophy -Martin Heidegger.
The Question Concerning Technology -Martin Heidegger
Introduction to Metaphysics -Martin Heidegger
Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" -Martin Heidegger
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics -Martin Heidegger
The Origin of the Work of Art -Martin Heidegger
The Fourth Political Theory -Aleksandr Dugin
Foundations of Geopolitics -Aleksandr Dugin

Being and Time is the easiest book you can possibly start with,just jump straight in.
If you can't even read that just tie a noose and hang yourself,it's over for you.

>>17850646

Moby Dick
The Bible
The Qur'an
Plato - Complete Works
The Brothers Karamazov
The Wretched of the Earth
Hamlet
Das Kapital
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Art as Experience