I enjoy religion and space topics and critical thinking exercises so I like reading Hitchens, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins. I started reading fiction books have have been really enjoying that world… any way I can combine my “likes”?
Bonus points if it’s on audible
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Isaac Asimov, C.S. Lewis, Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, and just for some variety, Don DeLillo.
Orwell, Wilde, Rushdie, Graham Greene, Martin Amis.
His favorite books according to him:
The Code of the Woosters by Wodehouse
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Prophet Outcast by Isaac Deutscher
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
Nabokov’s Pale Fire
Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past
Rushdie’s Shame
Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Joyce’s Ulysses
Tolstoy’s War & Peace
Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment
Tolstoy’s War & Peace
Other writers: Trotsky, Martin Amis, McEwan, Toibin, Dawkins, Fenton, Paul Scott, Camus, Wilde, Wilfred Owen, Richard Llewellyn, Arthur Koestler, Huxley, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Saul Bellow.
Source: Christopher Hitchens In Depth on C-Span, 2007; and, Green Room interview at Charlie Rose Show.
I will warn you that reading some of these will not hit as hard if you are not Christopher Hitchens, with his depth of knowledge about literature and history. But it will inspire you to keep trying to read enough to one day appreciate all that he loved.
Anything by Marquis de Sade, Adolf Hitler, Theodore Fritsch, Juvenal, and Ernst Haeckel.