I’m not sure if this will entirely make sense, but I would consider my favorite books to be philosophical at least in some way they are to me. Something that really makes me think and ponder on the meaning of life and humanity, and make relations to today’s world or my own life, even if the books are not really considered to be of that genre. I really get into reading and then fall off for a period, so I haven’t really gone all in.
I’ve read and enjoyed:
Brave New world
1984
Animal Farm
The Alchemist
Flowers for Algernon
Currently reading: Crime and Punishment
I have House of Leaves, East of Eden, Island, Doors to Perception, War and Peace, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and a lot of standard classics on my list, but I’m just wondering about any other suggestions that could be made and what you would suggest next. Thanks!
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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Hermann Hesse: the Glass Bead Game
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motor-Cycle Maintenance
Albert Camus: the Outsider, the Myth of Sisyphus
Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit, the Flies
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Would inject what you may need. If you like philosophy, consider that? If you want to read classics, The Republic (Plato) is my favorite but it’s a difficult read.
Frankenstein, for sure. The grandaddy of sci-fi and proto horror. It’s not straight-up horror, but you can definitely see it in there. And the book is highly philosophical. The responsibility of creator toward the created, the nature of morality, responsibility, etc. What’s more is it’s actually quite readable.
Frankenstein is everything that CMarlowe says and more…
But I’m recommending Candide
also, perhaps, consider Sophie’s World
Siddhartha
The Disposessed by Ursula Le Guin