Older Stuff: The Bible/Quran, The Republic (Plato), The Social Contract (Rousseau), Tao Te Ching (Laozi), Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) Newer Stuff: Nine Stories (Salinger), The Razor's Edge (Maugham), Nausea (Sartre), Siddartha (Hesse), Road to Serfdom (Hayek), The Book (Watts), Design of Everyday Things (Norman), Atlas Shrugged (Rand), Invisible Man (Ellison), Debunking Economics (Keen), Blood Meridian (McCarthy), The Center Cannot Hold (Saks), This Time Is Different (Reinhart/Rogoff), Infinite Jest (Wallace), Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson) All of these books are well written and have given me some perspective on interesting people/situations/ways of thinking.
Also recommended in this reply
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Siddhartha
- Infinite Jest
- Tao Te Ching
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Blood Meridian
- The Republic
- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
- The Road to Serfdom
- Debunking Economics
- Calvin and Hobbes
- The Bible
- Nausea
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Invisible Man
- Nine Stories
- The Razor's Edge
- This Time Is Different
- The Center Cannot Hold
- The Social Contract