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What are some books that you guys think every collection should have?

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>>3745262
just ordered this

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>>3745263
>>3745223
I would also propose the Art of War and The Apology.

>> No.3745315

The typical ones, Dostoyevsky's Works, the Allegory of the Cave, Nietzche, 1984, Brave New World, those sorts of things.

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I think this one's important enough.

>> No.3745384

Any suggestions that you all didn't read in high school?

>> No.3745394

>>3745293
wrd mane, it's good
like an edgier version of beckett's unnamable

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universal masterpiece

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>> No.3745530

>>3745223
Thank you. This would be my vote too.

>> No.3745534

>>3745400
I've heard excellent things about this work. Is it really as worthy as people say?

>> No.3745537

For Whom the Bell Tolls is my suggestion.

>> No.3745690

>>3745534

one word

FEELS

>> No.3745701

If I see Anna Karenina and Right-Ho Jeeves in someone's library, I know we'll hit it off instantly.

>> No.3745787

The Book Thief
High Fidelity
Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
Enders Game

>> No.3745810

>>3745534
No.

>> No.3745812

>>3745787
The Book Thief was the most vacuous and insensitive treatment of Nazi Germany I have ever had the misfortune to read.
It was also boring.

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>> No.3745842

The Bible and the Quran

>> No.3745869

>>3745842
Why the Quran? I've never understood this. It's literally a PC maneuver from people to counter out the fact that they have the bible in their shelf.

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>> No.3745907

>>3745869
Why the Bible? I've never understood this. It's literally a PC maneuver from people to counter out the fact that they have the Quran in their shelf.

>> No.3745913

>>3745907
If you live in the western world, the bible has had a major influence on your life, your parents life, your city, your country all the books you'll ever read.

It's important to have read it.

>> No.3745922

>>3745913
I'm a gril by the way

>> No.3745946

>>3745907
Why the Bible? I've never understood this. It's literally a PC maneuver from people to counter out the fact that they have the Quran in their shelf.

>> No.3745950

>>3745946
>Why the Bible and the Quran? I've never understood this. It's literally a PC maneuver from people to counter out the fact that they have the Dungeons and Dragons manuals in their shelf.

>> No.3745951

>>3745400
The other cover is nicer. Beige with images on the bottom.

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I like a lot of Kosinski though.

>> No.3746411

>>3745315
>the allegory of the cave
That's not a book, it's one of many things Socrates says in The Republic.

>> No.3747169

>>3746403
I didn't know that Being There is the english translation of Dasein, before after having read it