I am looking for more books like the ones in the list below, books that if you read them will change your perspective and greatly increase your overall knowledge and understanding.
These are the ones I've been through so far, and consider very important reading for life and political perspective in general:
-The Bible
-Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
-Mein Kampf
-everything by Freud
...So, there must be others out there... Any ideas?
2007-02-21 11:19:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Oh I forgot, I've read Marx already too.
2007-02-21 11:25:17 · update #1
I've always meant to read:
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- something by Nietzsche
2007-02-21 11:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by Surely Funke 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, a lot of these are Sci-fi/Fantasy, but definite must reads.
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein 2001: A Space Odessy - Clark. Anything by CS Lewis(Especially the Space Trilogy's First Two books), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Dune, anything by Philip K. Dick. The Illiad and the Odessy. Plato, Sophocles, 12th Night and other Shakespeare, Peirs Anthony "To Ride a Pale Horse", Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, Gullivers Travels, 1001 Arabian Nights. Anna Karinina. I heard the owl call my name. Edgar Allen Poe, especially Fall of the House of Usher and Murders on the Rue Morgue. HG Wells Time Machine. The Koran. The Celestine Prophesies. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Kafka. The Communist Manifesto. The Art of War. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Crime and Punishment. Last of the Mohicans. The Jungle. Slaughterhouse 5. Dracula. Frankenstein (The book). A Wrinkle in Time.
2007-02-21 19:43:59 · answer #2 · answered by Ross F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Don Juan Cervantes
Fall and Decline of The Roman Empire Gibbon
Dr. Seuss (anything by him)
For Whom the Bell Tolls or any Hemingway
Inside the Third Reich Albert Speer
I have lots of books, I like to read. The man that said Whitman or Thoreau is well read. Leaves of Grass is a great compilation.
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2007-02-21 19:54:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's good to try and read a great range of topics. Get different views.
-Darwin's The Origin of the Species(opposing the Bible)
-Bradbury's Farenheit 451
-Lowry's The Giver
-Orwell's 1984
Also try books that make you appreciate life and the little things;
-Helen Keller's Autobiography
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- Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton(arm bitten off by shark)'s autobiography
-The Lord of the Flies is also a great look into the psyche of humans
-any poems by Edgar Allen Poe also provide a startling grim look at society
-books by H.G. Wells also provide a highly paranoid view of society
And lastly, the book that LITERALLY changed my whole outlook on life;
-The Alchemist by Paul Coellho
2007-02-21 19:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speeches of Martin Luther King, Ghandi, and Franklin Roosevelt.
The Boy Scout Handbook
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"1984" and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Lord Of The Flies"
The early works of Hunter S. Thompson especially "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas"
2007-02-21 20:46:30 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋