Book Recommendations

I'm pulling together a list of books to read this year. Subjects to include: philosophy, political/economic theory, and classical literature among others.

What does the Sup Forums-approved library look like?

My current list:

"The Prince" - Machiavelli
"The Lord of the Rings" - JRR Tolkein
"The Republic" - Plato
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" - Gibbon
"The Wealth of Nations" - Alex Smith
"The Communist Manifesto" - Marx
"Mein Kampf" - Hitler"
The Holy Bible
"Discourse on Method" - Rene Descartes
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Carnegie
"Animal Farm" & "1984" - Orwell
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" - Hemmingway
"Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand
"Iliad/Oddesy" - Homer
"The Art of War" - Sun Tzu
"All Quiet on the Western Front" - Remarque
"Ulysses" - James Joyce
"Don Quixote" - Miguel de Cervantes
"Nicomachean Ethics" - Aristotle
"The Apology" - Socrates
The Federalist Papers
"The Divine Comedy" - Dante
"The Art of the Deal" - Donald J. Trump
"Meditations" - Marcus Aurelius

>"The Wealth of Nations" - Alex Smith
Should be Adam Smith.

Patriotism - Yukio Mishima
Ancient Eugenics - Allen Roper
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Chomsky

Finnegan's Wake

Fuck, you're right.

Killing Hope William Blum
Understanding Power Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent
A New History of Western Philosophy

That's all you need.

Thanks lads. I'll add em

Read Explaining Postmodernism. It's an academic book but has about 2 life-changing redpills per chapter. Then do research into Kant and read about idealism. It's pretty much what gave way for intersectional feminism and is what phds in women's studies learn. Get ready for the descent into madness.

You will understand the importance of existentialism, realism, rationalism and essentialism.

PS anyone who thinks Nietzsche is a nihilist or an idealist is a retard

Drumpf is redundant here, but good list overall

I’m reading an Evola book every week this year. On yoga of power now.

Good list

read this

I did a single class on philosophy for my degree. We touched briefly on Kant and Nietzsche but nowhere near in depth. I'll look into both more

>"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" - Gibbon

Will take too long.

>"The Wealth of Nations" - Alex Smith

Get cliff notes

>"The Communist Manifesto" - Marx

Cliff notes

>"Mein Kampf" - Hitler"

Skip entire first half

>The Holy Bible

Semitic waste of time


>"The Art of War" - Sun Tzu

Overrated, western world did fine without it for 5000 years

>"Ulysses" - James Joyce

Pretentious bullshit

>"The Apology" - Socrates

Written by Plato actually.

>"The Art of the Deal" - Donald J. Trump

No point unless you go into business or real estate, written by a ghost writer also.

>The Federalist Papers

Why?

>"Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand

Shit.

You know The Communist Manifesto is like 20 pages right? It's better to read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific anyways. It's short and you will have a much better understanding of Marx than if you just read the Manifesto. This passage proves it.

"But, the transformation — either into joint-stock companies and trusts, or into State-ownership — does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces. In the joint-stock companies and trusts, this is obvious. And the modern State, again, is only the organization that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments as well of the workers as of individual capitalists. The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit. The workers remain wage-workers — proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with. It is, rather, brought to a head. But, brought to a head, it topples over. State-ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict, but concealed within it are the technical conditions that form the elements of that solution."

I don't use cliff notes, never had to. I clocked "The Bear and the Dragon" by Tom Clancy at 9 hours cover to cover.

"The Decline of the West" (AKA "The Downfall of the Occident") by Oswald Spengler and "The Forest Passage" by Ernst Jünger

Oh, and also: "Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger and "On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn.

>Kant paved the way to feminism
We need to ban Americans from posting about philosophy, holy FUCK

You post threads like this but never post the megafile for Sup Forums top 100 of 2017 or 2016. I’m not talking about the Sup Forums megafile either

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>>Kant paved the way to feminism
>We need to ban Americans from posting about philosophy, holy FUCK


Except he did you retarded fuck. His tranacendal idealism based in Berkeley's interpretation on idealism paved the way for Foucault and Rorty. Stop having a wet dream over that retard Kant just because he's German. Read another philosopher or fucking open your eyes to the implications of their work.

Social justice warriors basing the fact their personal identity supercedes objective reality is 100% based on Kant and Postmodernism philosophy openly says this. It's not just my interpretation. So fucking sick and tired of retards who read one philosopher and think they know anything close to the truth you limp dick kraut.

user, I'm afraid I have no idea what you're on about.