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  1. I study politics and philosophy.I wish I could suggest a good reading list, but I'm really not well read, tbh. Here it goes in no particular order:
  2. Non-fiction
  3. 1. T.S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', I have not read this yet, but this is the next thing I am going to read. It is considered especially interesting because his method/framework of analysis was developed independently of post-Structuralists (dudes like Marx/Althusser, Freude/Lacan). A lot of the analytic philosophy (logicians) dudes love it, so it comes recommended from diverse sources.
  4. 2. Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard is really interesting.
  5. 3. Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty by Wittgenstein, these aren't too long. I'm trying to write something right now in a similar style about addiction. Wittgenstein writes in a Tractarian style, kind of like Spinoza's Ethics. Just a series of numbered propositions meant to attack certain 'pictures of knowledge' (interestingly the main piece i am currently working on is a sort of tract on addiction specifically, and psychiatric illnesses more broadly).
  6. 4. Nietzsche- the Genealogy of Morals (ecco homo)
  7. 5. Hegel- Lord and Bondsman Dialectic (in the phenomenology of spirit): hard as fuck to make sense of but very important to many disciplines.
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  9. Ok so thats all for non-fiction for now. The nice thing about 2-4 is that they are poetically written, not dry.
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  11. Fiction- I really like short stories as you will see
  12. 6. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other short stories by Tolstoy. You may want to do some googling to find a well reviewed translation because translations really matter for the Russian dudes.
  13. 7. Ficciones- Borges
  14. 8. Slaughterhouse-five is excellent and you should check out Breakfast of Champions (mah 'favorite' book) and Cats Cradle by Vonnegut
  15. 9. The Purloined Letter- Poe. And Poe's short stories in general are excellent, but the Purlioned Letter, though not even close to his most famous, is considered especially important as an allegory about the relationship between signifier and signified.
  16. 10. Benito Cereno- Melville
  17. 11. V for Vendetta- Alan Moore
  18. 12. Animal Dreams and The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, some longer novels.
  19. 13. all of The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan/ Brandon Sanderson(some fantasy stuff idk if youre into that)
  20. 14. Check out Terry Pratchett, he's a humorous fantasy writer, his shit is excellent and good for light vacation reading. His books do not need to be read in order at all.
  21. 15. Angels in America (a play by the same dude who wrote the script for Lincoln)
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  24. All of the above other than 13 and 14 (and maybe 11, but its assigned surprisingly often to be left out) are available in libraries and many of the non-fictions can be found as pdfs online just by googling " 'title' pdf".
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