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Adolf Hitler: mein Kampf
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Amin Maalouf: The Crusades through Arab Eyes
Ben Goldacre: Bad Science
Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy
Dante Aligheri: The Divine Comedy
Edgar Allen Poe: 14 Horror Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Flann O\'Brien: The Third Policeman
Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka: The Castle
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
G. K. Chesterton: The Father Brown Stories
G. K. Chesterton: The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
G. K. Chesterton: Wisdom of Father Brown
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
George Orwell: 1984
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha

>> No.2687748

>>2687743
Howard Zinn: A People\'s History of the United States
Howard Zinn: Stories Hollywood Never Tells
J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
Jack Bernstein: The life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel
Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World:
James Joyce: Ulysses
Jean:Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorceror\'s Apprentice
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Jung Chang: Mao The Unknown Story
Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

>> No.2687752

>>2687748
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huck Finn
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Miyamoto Musashi: The Book of Five Rings
Neil Bascomb: Hunting Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann
Noam Chomsky: An American Addiction: Drugs, Guerillas, and Counterinsurgency in US Intervention in Colombia
Noam Chomsky: Class War - The Attack on Working People
Noam Chomsky: Everlasting War: America, Imperialism and the New World Order
Noam Chomsky: Failed States - The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Noam Chomsky: For A Free Humanity - For Anarchy
Noam Chomsky: Free Market Fantasies - Capitalism in the Real World
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival
Noam Chomsky: Imperial Ambitions Conversations on the Post - 911 World
Noam Chomsky: Imperial Presidency - Sovereignty Terror
Noam Chomsky: Media Control - The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

>> No.2687755

>>2687752
Noam Chomsky: Necessary Illusions - Thought Control in Democratic Societies : Abridged
Noam Chomsky: Propaganda And Control of The Public Mind
Noam Chomsky: Prospects For Democracy
Noam Chomsky: The Clinton Vision - Old Wine New Bottles
Noam Chomsky: The Emerging Framework of World Power
Noam Chomsky: The New War Against Terrorism
Noam Chomsky: War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies
Noam Chomsky: What We Say Goes
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Plato: The Republic
Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and EE Cummings
Sam Harris: The End of Faith
Shelby Foote: The Civil War - A Narrative
Stephen Hawking: A brief history of time
Sun Tzu: The Art of War:
The Koran (English)
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood:
Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Wilhelm Reich:The Mass Psychology of Fascism
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

>> No.2687757

Stephenie Meyer - Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer - Eclipse

>> No.2687762

you may be a little optimistic

>> No.2687765

>>2687762
Agreed, you have thousands and thousands of pages stacked up there, and some of it very dense reading at that.

>> No.2687771

Don't read all the Chomsky back-to-back, you will end up with a tinfoil hat and never leaving the house again.

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2687774

You got some nice taste there, my friend.

>> No.2687790

how much do you read a day?

>> No.2687824

>Adolf Hitler: mein Kampf
Why would you read that garbage?

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2687840

I'm almost done with Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy, the darn thing is 900 pages long and not a page turner it's interesting though

and then you have 60+ books to read

>> No.2687850

>>2687824
People read it expecting an insight into the causes of WWII and such like that. What they get is a poorly written book by Hitler.
Everybody I know who reads it ends up extremely disappointed. Including myself.

>> No.2687858

>>2687824
He should just read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich if he cares for nazi ww2 germany. There's plenty of direct quotes from hitler and a lot more informative overview overall.

>> No.2687866

Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Melville - Moby Dick
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Oe - A Personal Matter
Endo - Silence
Bretall - A Kierkegaard Anthology

>> No.2687867

>>2687743
Know any good books about the Spanish Civil War looking from the perspective of the Fascist Nationalists? Or something about the Nazi-Spanish link?

>> No.2687868

I was going to say that you wouldn't get through all that Chomsky before I looked through the titles, but it's only the political stuff. Have fun. Also, don't bother with Mein Kampf, it's shit.

>> No.2688697

Kerouac - On the Road
Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
Hesse - Demian
Salinger - Franny & Zooey

>> No.2688732

>>2687858
Rise & Fall written by a Jew. I recommend Albert Speer's autobio Inside the 3rd Reich. If you don't mind a bunch of architecture BS, it's one of the better Nazibooks.

>> No.2688750

Is this a thread where we list our own summer reading lists too?

>> No.2688754

Kingdom Come (Yes, the DC graphic novel)
Blood Dark Track (Joseph O'Neill)
Gravity's Rainbow
Portrait of the Artist
Freedom (Franzen)
Milton

>> No.2688833

>>2687743
>Herman Melville: Moby Dick
>Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth
Trash. Better off skipping them.

>Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
>James Joyce: Ulysses
>Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Don't read these works first.
Read Notes from the Underground or Crime and Punishment, The Dubliners or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Anna Karenina or The Death of Ivan Ilyich first before tackling their larger pieces and to gather a general feel for the respective writer's style.
>>2687866
>Gravity's Rainbow
Same thing goes for this one.
(Crying of Lot 49 or Mason & Dixon)

>> No.2688856

>Adolf Hitler: mein Kampf

It really isn't worth your time.

>> No.2688906

In approximate order:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Crying of Lot 49
The Stranger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Notes from Underground
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Dead Souls
Selected Short Stories of DH Lawrence sprinkled somewhere in the mix

Mostly short books so that will hopefully just be to start me off. Might finish off the summer with something long like Infinite Jest or Ulysses.

>> No.2688935

For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Islands in the Stream
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Day of the Locust
On The Road
some Hemingway short stories
finish A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
A Movable Feast
Blood Meridian


Hopefully I'll be able to read all of this. I can usually only knock about 15 books in a summer, almost all of them being 200-300 pages.

>> No.2688951

Summer Reading List:
Infinite Jest
Neuromancer
Stranger in a Strange Land
Paradise Lost
MAY reread The Hobbit.
(In all likelihood I'll end up just finishing Infinite Jest. I read fast but not often.)

>> No.2688955

>>2688951

Stranger in a Strange Land sucks

>> No.2688960

>>2688935

day of the locust is super fucking good, make sure you see the film afterward too

>> No.2688966

>>2688732
>hurr jewish conspiracy
This isn't /pol/, don't discount a well written book to recommend another book by a Nazi hack.

>> No.2688976

I can't be fucked with alphabetical order.

Homer - The Odyssey
Herodotus - The Histories
Virgil - Aeneid
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Ivan Turgenev - Home of the Gentry
Gustave Flaubert - Salammbo
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
George Eliot - Mill on the Floss
George Eliot - Middlemarch
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
Alexandre Dumas - The d'Artagnan Romances

I'll probably throw some Byron and some Shakespeare up in that bitch. Call it entry level, I honestly don't care. I never cared much for reading until recently and I want to read some old shit, dude.

>> No.2688980

Cloud Atlas
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Invisible Cities
Lost in the Funhouse
Gravity's Rainbow
And possible Jest.
>all that post-modernism

>> No.2688989

>>2688980

Cloud Atlas is amazing. I wish I could be you and read it for the first time again.

>> No.2688990

>>2687867

Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" presents a fairly unbiased account of the war; it's worth noting, however, that he is focused mostly on the machinations of the Leftist side. Still, he does talk about the Fascist side.

>> No.2688996

i just finished Wildwood by The Decemberist

Battle Royale
The Prose Edda
The Canterbury Tales, but it is not holding my attention well
The Story of Sir Lancelot and His Companions by Pyle

>> No.2689004

>>2688989

Just looked it up after reading this, and it looks like a really good book. I have a 14 hour flight to china monday, and was looking for something to read.