Books have always been quiet companions to me, not just something to read, but something to feel. Some held me when I was falling apart. Others cracked open questions I didn't know I was carrying. This is where I gather them.
Philosophy & Ethics
Plato: The Republic, Phaedrus, Phaedo, Symposium, Timaeus, The Laws
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Rhetoric
Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Perpetual Peace
Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic, Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morality, Ecce Homo
Rousseau: The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality, Emile, Confessions
Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation, The Consumer Society, Symbolic Exchange and Death, America
Literature & Fiction
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, A Confession, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out in Paris and London
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin
Isaac Asimov: Foundation series, I Robot, The Gods Themselves, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
Science & Psychology
Robert Sapolsky: A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, The Trouble with Testosterone, Monkeyluv, Behave, Determined
Simon Baron-Cohen: Mindblindness, The Essential Difference, Prenatal Testosterone in Mind, Zero Degrees of Empathy, The Pattern Seekers
Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth
Ancient Drama & Epic Poetry
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Homeric Hymns
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra, Ajax
Euripides: Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, Electra
Aristophanes: Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice
Political Thought
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital (Vol. I–III), The German Ideology, Critique of the Gotha Programme
Mikhail Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy, God and the State, The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State
Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent, Syntactic Structures, Hegemony or Survival, Who Rules the World?
Slavoj Žižek: The Sublime Object of Ideology, Violence, First as Tragedy Then as Farce, The Courage of Hopelessness
Spirituality & Mysticism
Carl Gustav Jung: The Red Book, Man and His Symbols, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Memories Dreams Reflections
Jiddu Krishnamurti: Freedom from the Known, The First and Last Freedom, Think on These Things, The Awakening of Intelligence
Iamblichus: On the Mysteries, Life of Pythagoras
Greek Literature
Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, Freedom or Death, Report to Greco, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Renos Apostolidis: Pyramid 67, I Accuse, The Furies, Anthology of Modern Greek Literature
Herodotus: Histories
With softness, Elli