I wanna get more into reading give me the most importent books someone has to read, not so much interested in fiction. mostly interested in history and knowledge
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I wanna get more into reading give me the most importent books someone has to read, not so much interested in fiction. mostly interested in history and knowledge
the most important books ARE fiction, you fool. check the wiki for book recommendations, or go to reddit if you just want to read self help shit, popsci and meme histories.
hit me up with some good fiction then
Homer.
Borges.
The bible
Madame Bovary is all you need recommended. After it I would hope you'd be able to choose your own books.
Growth of the Soil
Why do Americans say non-fiction are the most important books? Most of those type of books are crappy textbooks or self-help books that just repeat themselves to reach a quota.
Burger here. I enjoy fiction also but biographies and historic accounts of major events can be interesting too. It’s just the lack of metaphoric interpretation that’s puts people off I guess. History just happened, not everything is a lesson
non fiction to me is like intro to engineering or like autobiographies
>the most important books ARE fiction
Why?
What have you read anon? Might be a good start to see what you’re into, there’s a thousand “must-read” books, and you won’t read, or like most of them.
Literally the greeks
The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist.
100 years of solitude
Start with the Greeks
Homer - Iliad
Homer - Odyssey
Aeneas - Iliad
Herodotus - Histories
Plato - Apology
Livy - Ab Urbe Condita
That's an entire classical education.
>Aeneas - Iliad
jesus I'm moronic. The Aeneid by Virgil
For me it's Annales - Ennius
Virgil is a small time poet, better at imitation than most
>That's an entire classical education
>no Hesiod
Lol
Shogun is a great pseudo-historic fiction about feudal Japan during attempted catholic conversion by Jesuits that I really enjoy.
I'm just going to dump this 'most important literary works concerning history and wisdom list' on you. Its really just limited to the most influential literary works for history, mythology and philosophy but ordered chronologically to be complete and only include the must-reads for that section of time. Just double checked it and still looks good. Every student should have read all of those.
(Greece)
Theogony, Hesiod
The Iliad, Homer
Histories, Herodotus
Plato (just read some of his dialogues, you'll figure it out from there)
Lacedaemonians, Xenophon (On The Constitution of the Spartans)
The Peloponnesian War, Tucydides
Hellenica, Xenophon
The Persian Expedition, Xenophon
Anabasis of Alexander and Indica, Arrian
The Lives of the Great Commanders, Cornelius Nepos
Parallel Lives, Plutarch (read all of them)
(Greek Tragedy - for background on mythology and future reference)
Euripides - Medea, Electra
Sophocles - The Theban Plays: Oedipus, Antigone; Ajax
Aeschylus - Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides; Prometheus Bound
The Argonautica, Appolonius of Rhodes
(Rome)
The Histories: Rome and The Mediterranean, Polybius
On The Nature of Things, Lucretius
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Plutarch on: The Fall of the Roman Republic (Parallel Lives: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero)
Annals and Histories, Tacitus
Agricola and Germania, Tacitus
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius
The Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire, Gibbon (1776)
(Medieval)
Consolation of Philosophy, Anicius Boethius
Beowulf
Das Niebelungenlied
Volsunga Saga
(Renaissance + Enlightenment)
The Travels, Marco Polo
The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Prince, Machiavelli
Dr. Faustus, Marlowe
Discourse on Method, Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes
The Social Contract, Rousseau
Discourse on Political Economy, Rousseau
Critique of Pure Reason, Kant
(19th century - this is controversial so I focus mostly on some of the German literary texts)
The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer
On War, Clausewitz
On the Art of War, Moltke
The Ego and Its Own, Stirner
The Communist Manifesto, Marx
Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
The Origin of Species, Darwin
The Victory of Judaism over Germanism, Marr (unique polemic antisemitic writing)
Nietzsche (you should probably read him whether you like him or not)
1. The Genealogy of Morals,
2. Beyond Good and Evil,
3. The Gay Science,
4. Thus Spake Zarathustra
(20th century - too controversial to make recommendations)
>Greeks
>Plutarch
Uh huh….
Read the Bible.
Read Guenon’s intro to the orient after the Iliad or Plato.