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Recommend someone who has never read a book in their life the most essential books to now read

>> No.14982305

Read the sticky.

>> No.14982308

everything on this list

http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

>> No.14982314

They need to start with children's books so they can first learn to read.

>> No.14982316

The Bible, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, and Shakespeare's tragedies (mainly Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth)

>> No.14982356

>>14982297
How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler
Then go and read the greeks

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>>14982297
Is all u need

>> No.14982455

>>14982297
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzJVcFm8Mzs

>> No.14982927

Rene Guenon (PBUH) Collected Works

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>>14982297
The Courage To Be Disliked
How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness

>> No.14983310

>>14982308
I am particularly interested in the Yiddish section.

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>>14982297
>to now read
GTFO of my /lit/.