I'll start with some of the classics I have on my reading table (to re-read mostly)
These are classics and most people know what they are about:
"Faust" - Goethe
"Crime and Punishment" - Dostoyevski
"Demons" - Dostoyevski
"Brothers Karamazov" - Dostoyevski
"Confessions" - Tolstoi
"Beyond Good and Evil" - Nietzche
"Divine Comedy" - Alighieri
"The Great Divorce" - Lewis
"Paradise Lost in Plain English" - Milton
More recent ones that I like:
-"Man's Search for Meaning" - Frankl
The experience of Viktor Frankl during his imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his search for the meaning in life
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"The Gulag Archipelago" - Solschenizyn
Similar to the above but more comprehensive and in a Soviet Gulag, Solchenizyn won the Nobel Prize for Literature
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"The Gospel According to Jesus of Nazareth" - José Saramago
A ficticious novel about a gospel written by Jesus himself, denounced as heretical by several religions, another Literature Nobel Prize winner
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"The Labyrinth of Solitude" - Octavio Paz
A deep insight into Mexican culture and mentality, written by the mexican Literature Nobel Prize winner
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"Rayuela" - Julio Cortázar
An interesting novel in which one can read in many different ways, you can read it sequentially from start to end and it will tell one story, or you can read it randomly or however you like and the story will be different. Interesting literary experiment from the 60s.
-"How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace" - Ahearn/Horan
This is a very interesting book, both Ahearn and Horan used to work as "trackers", people who used to track people who went into hidding, like witness protection, divorced spouses, etc... they eventually turned to the good side and now they work helping and counseling people who want to disappear and remain hidden, it is amazing how little it is needed for someone to get info about you, like a tag from a discarded mattress, don't even mention the obvious means like facebook and all that....
- "The Devil's Delusion" - David Berlinski
This book is a response to famous atheist Richard Dawkins's bestseller book "The God Delusion" in which he basically discredits God in every possible way. Berlinski, a mathematician, PhD, author and professor of mathematics, who is an agnostic himself, writes this book to rebute the new atheist movement proponents like Sam Harris, Dawkins, Hitchens, and claims that there is more than meets the eye and that religion shouldn't be discarded as mere fairy tale.
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"Darwin's Doubt" - Stephen Meyer
Meyer is a physicist and PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge, he is a proponent of intelligent design and analyzes faults and contradictions on Darwin's theory of evolution in light of recent discoveries like the human genome project etc... Meyer is not a creacionist nut who thinks the earth is 6000 years old, he doesn't discard Darwin's theory but argues that it is not as straightforward as it seems.
-"12 Rules for Life" - Jordan Peterson
No introduction necessary, Canadian Clinical Psychologist and YouTube rockstar, both loved and hated by many, but brilliant none the less.
-"12 More Rules For Life" - Jordan Peterson
New book by the same author.
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"The Black Book of the New Left"-Laje/Marquez
A book written by two argentinians who analyze what they refer to as the New Left and how feminism, LGBT+, abortionists, and global organizations, etc.. are impacting the political and global world. Trigger Warning.
-"La Maquina de Matar" (spanish) - Nicolás Marquez
This is the third book written by Marquez (the same co-author of the Black book...) on the life of Guevara, he is an expert biographer on the life of Che Guevara, and in this book, titled with a phrased coined by Guevara himself, is about the life of Guevara from his begginings till his assasination in Bolivia, exposing all the frustrations, mentality, atrocities and genocide comited by Guevara, contrary to the contemporary portrayal of Guevara as a saviour, role model and symbol of freedom.
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"Is God a Moral Monster?" - Paul Copan
For those interested in religion, this book investigates the portrayal of a morally objectionable God of the Old Testament.
I wish I could read German and Russian, there are some great books in those languages only....
Perhaps we could have a thread for favourite fiction too? Like many, I've done a lot of reading in the last year and a half and I'm always on the lookout for recommendations
Oops, I already did that.
I also love math books, do they apply here?
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