Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Frank Herbert: Author of the Dune Series
- J.K. Rowling: The Harry Potter Series : (Every kid on the face of the planet in aggregate can’t be wrong)
- Isaac Asmov:’Foundation’ & ‘Robot’ series
- Orson Scott Card:’Ender’ Series
- Hermann Hesse:Glass Bead Game, Demian
Classic
- Dante: Divine Comedy
- Homer: Oddyssey & Illiad
- Juvenal: Satires
- Shakespeare: Hamlet and Julius Casear They’re all good, of course
- Unknown Vedic: Baghavad-Gita
Renaissance
- Machiavelli: The Prince
- Boccaccio: The Decameron
- King James: Bible: Like it or no, you are part of this book’s hegemony. Good tips on proper use of the subjunctive too.
Modern
- Sartre: Being and Nothingness
- Camus: La Chute (The Fall) & L’Etranger (The Stranger)
post-Modern
- Don DeLillo: Underworld
- Vonnegut: Anything
- Eco: Name of the Rose & Foucault’s Pendulum
Philosophy
- Hegel: Phenomenology
- Hardt & Negri: Empire
- Nietzsche: Everything (Genealogy of Morals, Zarathustra)
- Symbolic Logic: Irving Copi At some point you will want it again
- Baudrillard: Simulacra & Simulation
Poetry (works of the below are fantastic, I’ve listed my favorites though)
- Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lotos-Eaters, Ulysses
- Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’ , ‘The Greatest Day’
