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I�ve Read and Recommend: *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance � Robert Persig *The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (hilarious book) *The Count of Monte Cristo � Alexandre Dumas *Essays and Aphorisms � Arthur Schopenhauer **(see note) *Les Miserables � Victor Hugo *The Republic � Plato *The Story of Philosophy � Will Durant *Candide � Voltaire *The Fountainhead � Ayn Rand *Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand *We The Living - Ayn Rand *Intellectuals � Paul Johnson *The Wisdom of Life - Arthur Schopenhauer *Councils and Maxims - Arthur Schopenhauer Chicot the Jester - Dumas The Black Tulip - Dumas Henry VIII - Dumas Many others by Dumas - anything he writes is incredible We Were Soldiers Once, and Young � Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque The Odyssey � Homer Surprised By Joy � C.S. Lewis Narnia Chronicles � C.S. Lewis (for younger readers) The Birth of the Modern� Paul Johnson Modern Times - Paul Johnson Ecce Homo � Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche The Anthem - Ayn Rand The Red Badge of Courage � Stephen Crane Intensity, and others by � Dean Koontz The Lord of the Flies - William Golding The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux Call of the Wild � Jack London All Things Bright and Beautiful, and others by � James Herriot Canterbury Tales � Geoffrey Chaucer (I�ve read several, but not all of them) The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio (haven�t finished the whole book) The Universe Next Door � James W. Sire The Pursuit of Holiness � Jerry Bridges The Oath � Frank Perretti Sherlock Holmes Collection � Arthur Conan Doyle Any book by Jack Higgins Any book in the Calvin and Hobbes collection, by Bill Waterson What I Will Be Reading Soon: (and will hopefully recommend!) Walden � Henry David Thoreau (Currently Reading - it's pretty dry) Critique of Pure Reason � Immanuel Kant (up next) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (just bought it) The World as Will and Idea � Arthur Schopenhauer The Inferno (The Divine Comedy) - Dante Alighieri * - I Especially Recommend These ** - Schopenhauer happens to be my favorite of the Philosophers. Most of what he wrote is fairly dark and pessimistic, but I happen to be a fairly pessimistic person myself so I don't mind that a bit. Anyway, he's one of the few Philosophers that writes clearly and unambiguously in my opinion, so that definitely helps him in my book. So check him out. He writes good stuff. |