Ali’s boekenlijst I. PHILOSOPHY A N C I E N T & C L A S S I C A L Fragments — Heraclitus The Analects — Confucius Tao Te Ching — Laozi Five Dialogues — Plato The Symposium — Plato The Republic — Plato Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle Metaphysics — Aristotle Politics — Aristotle Letter to Menoeceus — Epicurus Enchiridion — Epictetus Meditations — Marcus Aurelius M E D I E V A L & R E N A I S S A N C E Confessions — Augustine of Hippo Deliverance from Error — Al-Ghazali Essays — Michel de Montaigne E A R L Y M O D E R N & E N L I G H T E N M E N T Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes Ethics — Baruch Spinoza An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — John Locke Second Treatise of Government — John Locke Monadology — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — David Hume E A R L Y M O D E R N & E N L I G H T E N M E N T / C O N T . Candide — Voltaire Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics — Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals — Immanuel Kant T H E N I N E T E E N T H C E N T U R Y Phenomenology of Spirit — G. W. F. Hegel The World as Will and Representation — Arthur Schopenhauer Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morality — Friedrich Nietzsche T H E T W E N T I E T H C E N T U R Y The Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein Being and Time — Martin Heidegger The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl Existentialism Is a Humanism — Jean-Paul Sartre The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir Philosophical Investigations — Ludwig Wittgenstein A Theory of Justice — John Rawls II. CLASSIC LITERATURE A N C I E N T T O E A R L Y M O D E R N The Iliad — Homer The Divine Comedy (including Inferno) — Dante Alighieri Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong Hamlet — William Shakespeare Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes Macbeth — William Shakespeare T H E N I N E T E E N T H C E N T U R Y Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen Frankenstein — Mary Shelley Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë Moby-Dick — Herman Melville Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy T H E N I N E T E E N T H C E N T U R Y / C O N T . Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde Ward No. 6 — Anton Chekhov Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad T H E T W E N T I E T H C E N T U R Y The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce Ulysses — James Joyce The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald The Trial — Franz Kafka A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck The Stranger — Albert Camus The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway East of Eden — John Steinbeck III. PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life — Erving Goffman Discipline and Punish — Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality, Volume I — Michel Foucault The Order of Things — Michel Foucault The Psychopathology of Everyday Life — Sigmund Freud Psychological Types — Carl Gustav Jung How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie Games People Play — Eric Berne The Social Animal — Elliot Aronson Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert B. Cialdini Attached — Amir Levine & Rachel Heller Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt Surrounded by Idiots — Thomas Erikson Talking to Strangers — Malcolm Gladwell IV. ECONOMICS & STATISTICS The Wealth of Nations (Books I–III) — Adam Smith Theory of Games and Economic Behavior — John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern Basic Economics — Thomas Sowell The Art of Strategy — Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio Capitalism and Freedom — Milton Friedman The Affluent Society — John Kenneth Galbraith This Time Is Different — Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff Thinking Strategically — Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy — Joseph Schumpeter Capital, Volume I — Karl Marx Who Gets What and Why — Alvin E. Roth V. POLITICS & GEOPOLITICS The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Animal Farm — George Orwell 1984 — George Orwell Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? — Mark Fisher Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay On Liberty — John Stuart Mill The State and Revolution — Vladimir Lenin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism — Vladimir Lenin Prison Notebooks — Antonio Gramsci On Protracted War — Mao Zedong The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon The Anarchical Society — Hedley Bull Theory of International Politics — Kenneth N. Waltz VI. HISTORY The History of Rome — Livy The Gallic Wars — Julius Caesar King Leopold's Ghost — Adam Hochschild The Book of Contemplation — Usama ibn Munqidh Letters from Mexico — Hernán Cortés A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497–1499 — Anonymous Salt: A World History — Mark Kurlansky Plagues and Peoples — William H. McNeill Who's Who in Mythology — Alexander S. Murray The Penguin History of the World — J. M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad The Military 100 — Michael Lee Lanning Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World — Leo de Hartog Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C. — Peter Green Atlas of World Military History — Richard Brooks The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician — Anthony Everitt Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor — Anthony Everitt The Roman Emperors — Michael Grant SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome — Mary Beard Early Roman Warfare — Jeremy Armstrong A History of Russia — Walter G. Moss The Soviet Experiment — Ronald Grigor Suny George Washington's War — Robert Leckie The Twilight of Ancient Egypt — Karol Myśliwiec The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt — Ian Shaw The Search for Modern China — Jonathan D. Spence The Muqaddimah — Ibn Khaldun VII. SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS & SYSTEMS Elements — Euclid The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking Introduction to Flight — John D. Anderson Jr. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics — G. K. Batchelor Fluid Mechanics — Frank M. White Fundamentals of Aerodynamics — John D. Anderson Jr. Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas R. Hofstadter Thinking in Systems — Donella H. Meadows VIII. MUSIC & ART How Music Works — David Byrne Mozart: A Life — Maynard Solomon The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven — Charles Rosen The Rest Is Noise — Alex Ross The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich Ways of Seeing — John Berger The Lives of the Artists — Giorgio Vasari On Photography — Susan Sontag IX. FICTION The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson The Poppy War — R. F. Kuang The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams Normal People — Sally Rooney X. ANTHROPOLOGY The Interpretation of Cultures — Clifford Geertz Tristes Tropiques — Claude Lévi-Strauss Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond Patterns of Culture — Ruth Benedict Debt: The First 5,000 Years — David Graeber The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber & David Wengrow