Updated (9/15/2024) — (best believe I’ll be affiliate linking the most aesthetically pleasing copy for each of the titles below)
*** = must-read, XXX = read @ your peril.
LIST OF BOOKS — READ AND RECOMMENDED
The Emperor’s New Mind – Roger Penrose
Critique of Pure Reason – Kant
I Am A Strange Loop – Douglas Hofstadter
Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
Answer to Job – Jung (XX)
AION – Jung (XX)
The Stranger – Albert Camus
Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley
Brief Peeks Beyond – Bernardo Kastrup
Idea of the World – Bernardo Kastrup
Dream of a Ridiculous Man – Fyodor Dostoevsky
**Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brother Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
**Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sickness Unto Death – Soren Kierkegaard
Concept of Irony – Soren Kierkegaard
**Three Godly Discourses (Lily of the Field and Bird of the Air) – Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
**The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
**Meditations – Marcus Aerleious
Being Aware of Being Aware – Rupert Spira
Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter – Spira, Chopra, Kastrup
Hamlet – Shakespeare
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
**1984 – George Orwell
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Art of War – Sun-Tzu
**Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
Soul of the World – Roger Scruton
Intellectuals & Society – Thomas Sowell
**A Vision of the Anointed – Thomas Sowell
**Basic Economics – Thomas Sowell
**Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Red Book – Jung ( XXXX — i shouldn’t even put this on here lmaooo, read @ your own peril)