Hey, I'm planning to make my own personal library at home and here are a few books that are on my mind, can y'all give your opinions on the same please?
1. Classics
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Odyssey by Homer (Fagles translation)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2. WW1 / WW2 History
- The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (WW1)
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (WW1 fiction)
- Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945 by Max Hastings
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge (Pacific War memoir)
3. Philosophy
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Republic by Plato
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (more advanced)
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
4. Politics
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
5. Art and Its Inspiration
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger
- The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
- The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
- What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz
6. Economics, Finances, and Salary Management
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
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by 7fnx