EssentialBooks, #0

Philosophy

• Plato - republic
• Plato - symposium
• Plato - trial of socrates
• Plato - crito / meno
• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
• Descartes - Meditations on first philosophy
• Spinoza - Ethics
• Locke - An essay concerning human understanding
• Berkeley - A treatise concerning human knowledge
• Hume - Enquiry concerning human understanding
• Hume - Treatise of human nature
• Kant - Critique of pure reason
• Schopenhauer - World as will and idea
• Nietzsche - Beyond good and evil
• Wittgenstein - Tractatus
• Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
• Whitehead - Process and Reality
• Kripke - Naming and Necessity

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Literature

• Homer - Iliad
• Homer - Odyssey
• Cervantes - Don Quixote
• Shakespeare - Hamlet
• Carroll -- Alice in wonderland & Through the looking-glass
• Melville - Moby-dick
• Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Twain - Adventures of Huck Finn
• Dostoevsky - Crime and punishment
• Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
• Kafka - The trial
• Orwell - 1984
• Huxley - Brave new world
• Camus - The stranger
• Tolkien - Lord of the rings
• Fitzgerald - The great gatsby
• Joyce - Dubliners
• Joyce - Portrait of an aritst
• Joyce - Ulysses
• Faulkner - The sound and the fury
• Faulkner - As I lay dying
• Nabokov - Lolita
• Nabokov - Pale fire

Politics

• Hobbes - Leviathan
• Smith - Wealth of Nations
• Marx- Capital