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Alright cocksuckas.
5 fiction books everyone who reads needs to read, then 5 non-fiction books everyone who reads needs to read.
>in no particular order
>each of the 10 must be unique (no Brothers Kara 5 times)
>must be 5/5 split
>"but OP, I can't do 10!'
>plebe

>> No.14265872

go ahead then

>> No.14265885

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Moby Dick
3. 2666
4. The Bible (unironically)
5. The Odyssey
~~~~
1. Basic Economics (unironically)
2. Confessions by Augustine
3.Guns Germs and Steel
4. Meditations of marcus aurelius
5. The Art of War

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14265890

Fiction
Bible
Complete dosto
Complete Emily Dickinson
Ulysses
The whale

Non fiction:
(All is fiction tho so)
Complete Montaigne
Principia
On the Origin
The wealth of nations
Complete Foucault

>> No.14265896

>>14265885
Nice list
Didn’t think about ggs... tho Why Marcus? I’ve read it and it’s not that significant that’s why I put Montaigne as the stoic.

>> No.14265906

good thread.

The Hobbit / LoTR (no watching the movies doesn't count)
Fahrenheit 451 (see above)
Les Miserables
The Screwtape Letters
A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Holy Bible
McGee's On Food and Cooking
Reader's Digest Back to Basics
Bernays' Propaganda
Christopher Hitchen's Arguably

>> No.14265910

>>14265885
kys 1/10

>>14265890
3/10

>> No.14265913

>>14265860
Fiction:
>The Hobbit -> The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
>A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
>Redwall by Brian Jacques
>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

Non-fiction:
>Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
>Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
>NIV Student Bible edited by Philip Yancey
>Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
>On the Road (the Original Scroll) by Jack Kerouac

>> No.14265923

>>14265885
>Guns Germs and Steel
Kill yourself, faggot.

>> No.14265945

>>14265913
>>14265906
did we just become best frens

>> No.14265972

>>14265910
What’s your list?

>> No.14266009

Fiction:

>The Great Gatsby
>The Bible
>Shakespeare's first folio
>Middlemarch
>Leaves of grass

Nonfiction:

>On the origin of the species
>Euclid's elements
>Principia
>The C Programming Language
>Meditations

>> No.14266034

Holy shit these non fiction lists are bad....
Fiction:
>Crime and punishment
>Faust
>The Iliad
>The Divine Comedy
>Don Quixote
Non fiction:
>Plato's Complete Works
>The Bible
>Being and Time
>The Enneads
>Critique of Pure Reason

>> No.14266044

>>14265945
I hope so. Wanna exchange emails? :3

>> No.14266050

>>14266034
If you don't have the origin of the species on your non-fiction list then you are an actual tard.

>> No.14266060

>>14266034
Your list is literally the worst on here you pseudo-intellectual, model-train building Kraut.

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>>14266044
no, you're that creep that cybersexes with butterfly! you won't get me in your weirdo sex cult, pervert

>> No.14266079

>>14266076
Okay your loss.

>> No.14266080

>>14266050
There is nothing profound in that book you utter midwit. All of Darwin's major theories are already diluted to your level of understanding. You only put it on your list because your a posturing pseud who looks for 'influential' texts through an array of different disciplines without having a slightest care for the truth or actually good philosophical and scientific texts so long as they aren't popular with the masses.

>> No.14266115

>>14266080
No. I'm just your intellectual superior you brain damaged, degenerate first year Philosophy student. I have read more of the books on your list than you have.

>> No.14266164

>>14265885
>>14265896
If you can only have one stoic why in the hell would you not pick Epictetus?

>> No.14266167

>>14266115
Are you ESL or retarded? The latter might excuse your abhorrent list. Also it doesn't matter how many books you read, remember quality over quantity :)

>> No.14266851

>>14265860
Fiction:
>The Book of the New Sun
>Moby-Dick
>Middlemarch
>War and Peace
>Paradise Lost

Non-Fiction
>The History of the Peloponnesian War
>The Power Broker
>The Complete Plato
>The Storm of Steel
>A Treatise of Human Nature

>> No.14266887

>>14266164
Marcus Aurelius is much easier to understand than Epictetus

>> No.14266931

>people putting the bible in "non-fiction"
cringe

>> No.14266937

>>14265860
>The Odyssey
>Don Quixote
>Paradise Lost
>Melmoth the Wanderer
>The Brothers Karamazov

>The Bible
>Last Days of Socrates (or any collection of the basic 5-6 most commonly read Platonic dialogues)
>Herodotus’ Histories
>Leviathan
>Being and Time

>> No.14266967

>1984
>Animal Farm
>Fahrenheit 451
>Brave New World
>Faust

>On Liberty
>The Age of Reason
>The Doors of Perception
>Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

>> No.14267008

>>14266967
So you have 1984, 1984 but with drugs, and 1984 the retarded American edition written for 15 year olds?

>> No.14267025

>>14267008
Brave new world is based, far more accurate at predicting our times. 84 is an analysis of what happened with communist countries.

>> No.14267072

>>14266967
>Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Why this? Seems like clickbait tier garbage

>> No.14267079

Girl in OPs pic is perfect

>> No.14267158

>>14265860
Iliad
Collected Works of William Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy
Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses

Republic
Nichomachaen Ethics
Hydrotaphia
The Gay Science
A Thousand Plateaus

>> No.14267169

>>14267025
84 is becoming more relevant in places such as Hong Kong, Syria and Iraq

>> No.14267175

>>14267079
>latin short necked mutt
she's probably 5'3" at the most. idk about you but that's too short

>> No.14267177

War and Peace
Hopscotch
The Magic Mountain
The Metamorphosis
The Idiot

The Republic
Phaedrus
Phaedo
Parmenides
Gorgias

>> No.14267181

>>14265885
this sounds like you just read the sticky and this is your second post

>> No.14267190

>>14265906
this list is incredibly cringe. the Bible is the only passingly acceptable entry, everything else is either highschool- or dilettante-tier

>> No.14267197

>>14267177
>Gorgias
How do you pronounce this? Is it Gore-GY-as? "Gorgeous"? George-us?

>> No.14267204

>>14266009
Leaves of Grass is nonfiction, you fucking plebe normie. what else could we expect from some coder faggot

>> No.14267213

>>14266851
>I'm a sophomore at /Lit/ University, how 'bout yourself?

>> No.14267233

King James Version Bible
Paradise Lost
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Hobbit and LotR
American Psycho
>
New Oxford Annotated Bible in RSV with expanded Apocrypha
Descartes' Principles of Philosophy
Spinoza's Ethics
Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

>>14267175
>that's too short
faggot detected, short girls are cute as fuck

>> No.14267256

nonfic: (i don't read fiction)
enquiry concerning human understanding
meditations on first philosophy
euthyphro
ethics
a theory of justice

>>14266937
bretty good
>>14267233
disagree but i like your choices generally speaking

>> No.14267259

>>14267204
you

>> No.14267261

>>14267233
just because i like longer women doesn't mean I like dick, m'keh...

>> No.14267280

>>14267256
I guess we can respectfully agree to disagree then, I like your choices as well
>>14267261
I didn't mean gay-faggot just slackjawed-faggot, ya dig? don't take it personally buddy boy
I like long women too 2bh, but there's a time and place for appreciation of women both short and long, to reject one type is to engage in ignorance and duality

>> No.14267514

Arabian Nights
Canterbury Tales
Kathasaritsagara
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Kalevala

Nag Hammadi Library
Consolation of Philosophy
Koran
Upanishads
Pensees

>> No.14267830

>>14265860
I'm sorry OP, I can't focus because you're posted a goddess and I'm thirsty as fuck.

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>>14267233
>idealism

>> No.14267859

>>14265860
Why does this pic look so fucking real ?

>> No.14267869

>>14265860
The Bible is unironically the best fiction and non fiction.

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>>14265860
Journey to the End of the Night
Tristram Shandy
Whatever
Blood Meridian
Gulliver's Travels

Storm of Steel
The Technological Society
Human, All Too Human
The Ego and Its Own
Political Theology

>> No.14267927

No idea who the girl is in the pic btw. Just some random pic. She's very pretty.
This has been a good thread. I've been looking for non-fiction reccs because I took the fiction pill hardcore a year back and have basically read no non-fiction in a whiiile.
I was a big sucker for biographies for a while. I happened to read "George, Wilhelm, and Nicholas: Three Cousins and the road to WW1" a while back. It was very good.

>> No.14267941

>>14266931
> poetry
> nonfiction
kys brainlet

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Where’s all your sleepyhead girls?

The Odyssey
Moby Dick
Don Quixote
Les Miserable
Tristram Shandy

Natura de Rerum
Permaculture
The Unique and its Property
The Age of Reason
Das Kapital

>> No.14268228

>>14267197
Gore - gi (like the martial arts uniform) - as

>>14267190
Not everything is a competition, anon. OP asked for five and five that people should read. Not necessarily the best five, or the most obscure five, or the most impressive five. I picked five that came to mind. I'll admit my fiction taste there isn't sophisticated but I'm also not larping as an intellectual misanthrope wishing for death.

>> No.14268422

>>14266967
Based fiction.

>> No.14268437

The adventures of huckleberry finn
1984
brave new world
ishi, last of his tribe
childhoods end

The transformative vision, jose arguelles
passages about earth, william irwin thompson
be here now, richard alpert
memories dreams reflections ,carl jung
yuga, an anatomy of our fate, marty glass

>> No.14268440

>>14266009
>the species
>the

>> No.14268454

>>14267514
First time saying this on this board: based.

>> No.14268607

>>14267072
I admit the title is absurdly cheesy, but the content is top tier. It outlines the pitfalls intimate relationships can fall into when communication breaks down (stone walling for example) and focuses on how to form safe, secure attachment bonds. It is a mix of biological theory on the pair bonding nature of human beings and the clinical practice and work of the author. Definitely a must read as it explores a fundamental aspect of human life in an enlightening and useful way. I refer back to ideas in this book in my own relationship and it was been very helpful

>> No.14268609

>>14267008
almost like tyranny can take many forms and is one of the primary threats at any stage of civilization

>> No.14268618

>>14267941
poetry about literal magic belongs in the fiction section

>> No.14268725

>>14265885
>Guns Germs and Steel
embarrassing post

>> No.14268731

>>14266115
That anon is actually correct though, why on earth anyone would read Origin of the Species beyond posturing is stupid since any modern text will have way more detailed and accurate explanations due to the huge discoveries made in microbiology, alternatively the only important part of evolution is the game theory so you’re still better off reading Von Neumann or Nash.

>> No.14268930

>>14267859
i-its not real? :(

>> No.14268952

>>14268607
I'll check it out then, thanks.

>> No.14269382

>>14267927
Pretty sure it's Isabela Moner

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>>14267855
>wojak posting

>> No.14270265

Fiction:
Jean-Christophe
Studs Lonigan
Death on the Installment Plan
McTeague
Divine Comedy

Non-Fiction:
History of the Great American Fortunes
Human Smoke
Inventing Japan
People's History of the United States
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

>> No.14270785

>>14265860
The Bible is pure shit. It's not even a good book. You bitches wants to read the best mythology book ever writen? Read The Iliad.

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>>14265860

>> No.14271088

>>14265885
>3.Guns Germs and Steel
Cringe. Is there even anything to be gained from reading it if you know Diamond isn't a historian nor anthropologist, but a psychologist whose shitty theories are mocked by the academics and only praised by morons?

>> No.14271090

>>14265860
hwo did u know i'm a cockersucker?? hehe

>> No.14271601

>>14268607
I'm now more than midway through this book and it really is quite insightful (though it falls into the usual pitfall of inventing silly jargon for common phenomena). I'm curious to know how it helped you specifically. I can also see it as a good guide to writing and understanding relationships in literature, e.g the novels of Tolstoy become crystal clear when you understand the emotional responsive paradigm and the corresponding facets of accessibility, responsiveness and engagement.

I'd recommend this to anyone that wants to understand or write so called "domestic literature", as relationship issues tend to be the central conflict in that genre.

>> No.14272381

>>14271601
will respond tonight when I have more time

>> No.14272434

>all these anons listing philosophy books under nonfiction
y'all are joking, right?

>> No.14272447

>>14265885
>Basic Economics
wow kys, and guns germs and steel is pretty bad too and has been rightly torn apart
Meditations is basic bitch shit, if you must read memeicism read an actual proper stoic work
>bible in fiction lol so funny
The art of war is literally thot-tier

Confessions is good, somehow managed to get in there idk
Jesus, this post is just awful anon kys

>> No.14272484

Fiction:

>The Divine Comedy
>Don Quixote
>Faust
>War And Peace
>Horcynus Orca

Nonfiction:

>Plato's Dialogues
>The Enneads
>Summa Theologiae
>The Decline Of The West
>Being And Time

>> No.14272516

>>14265860
>Fiction
The Little Prince
Alexander Pope's Iliad
The Lord of the Rings
Paradise Lost
The Sorrows of Young Werther
>non-fiction
The Authorised King James Bible
The Nicomachean Ethics
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Confessions
The Republic

>> No.14273046

No particular order and no bulli pls.

Fiction:
> Fluctuates between Bel-Ami, Like Death, and Alien Hearts
>Stoner
>The Book of Disquiet
>Against Nature
>Black Wings Has My Angel

Non-Fiction:
>Moralia
>Maxims
>The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
>The Cynic's Breviary
>The Passionate State of Mind

>> No.14273168

>>14271601
It helped me to realize and be mindful of when I have the urge to say something defensive when my gf says something that annoys me. I make more of an effort to understand where she is coming from in arguments (usually feelings of unconscious insecurity about our relationship bond). She and I both experienced the divorce of our respective parents when we were younger which has led to a mistrust of commitment I would say on both of our parts.
Another good piece from that book is regarding "attachment types", trying to move from avoidant or anxious types to secure types (I realized I am avoidant).
Also how to "revisit" rocky moments in a non-judging, healing way so both people understand why certain things rub each person the wrong way
We've been dating for over 5 years now, and I am glad to say that we have been mostly successful in minimizing the "demon dialogues" (I know, cheesy jargon) and communicating in a healthy and respectful way in order to build a relatively strong and health relationship

>> No.14273175

>>14273168
>>14271601
>>14268607
thanks for the rec friendos, nice effortposts