To read

List of books and authors that I'm interested in reading! Classified using the Library of Congress Classification system referred from LibraryThing

Books

A – General Works

• Ideas and Opinions - Albert Einstein

B – Philosophy. Psychology. Religion

• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• Discourses, Fragments, Handbook - Epictetus
• Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
• A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyong Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
• On the Genealogy of Morality - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Reasons and Persons - Derek Parfit
• Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
• Either/Or - Soren Kierkegaard
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• The Hero With A Thousand Faces
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian
• Sceptical Essays - Bertrand Russell
• Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Schopenhauer
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
• Thaetetus - Plato
• Bhagvad Gita
  • Eknath Easwaran
  • Georg Feuerstein
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• What Is Ancient Philosophy - Pierre Hadot
• Philosophy as a Way of Life - Pierre Hadot

D – World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

• Maus - Art Spiegelman

H – Social Sciences

• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
• Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
• The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
• Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens
• Colours of a Cage - Arun Ferreira
• In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
• Animal Liberation - Peter Singer

J - Political Science

• Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
• The Republic - Plato

P - Language and Literature

• Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff

PA: Greek and Latin language and Literature

• Selected Works: Cicero
• Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis

PC: Romanic Languages

• I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 - Victor Klemperer
• I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 - Victor Klemperer

PK. Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures

• The Essential Rumi - Jalal al-Din Rumi

PG: Slavic Languages and Literature

• The Master and Margarita
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov
• The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
• Solaris - Staistaw Lem

PN: Literature (General)

• The Legend of Luther Arkwright - Bryan Talbot
• The Sandman - Neil Gaiman

PJ-PL: Oriental, Indo-Iranian, East-Asian and Oceanian Languages

• The Temple of the Golden Pavillion - Yukio Mishima
• Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore
• Tales from 1,001 Nights

PQ: Romance Literature

• In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
• Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
• Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
• Inferno - Dante
• The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
• Candide - Voltaire
• The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
• The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
• Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
• Tender Is The Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica

PR: English Literature

• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• Island - Aldous Huxley
• Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• I, Claudius - Robert Graves
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
• Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
• The Ring Legends of Tolkien - David Day
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
• The Best of Wodehouse
• Midnight's Children - Salamn Rushdie
• The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
• The Machine Stops - E. M. Foster
• The Rachael Papers - Martin Amis

PS: American Literature

• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• Breakfast of Champtions - Kurt Vonnegut
• Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinback
• Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
• Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
• Independent People - Halldor Laxness
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Ulysses
• Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
• Tower of Babylon - Ted Chiang
• Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
• Pale King - David Foster Wallace
• The Depressed Person - David Foster Wallace
• Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Mobby Dick - Herman Melville
• Foundation Series - Issac Asimov
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales - H. P. Lovecraft
• A Game of Thrones
• A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
• Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
• The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
• All Systems Red - Martha Wells
• Anathem - Neal Stephenson
• The Overstory - Richard Powers
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
• 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
• Pet Sematary - Stephen King
• The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Elliot
• The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
• Beginners - Raymond Carver
• All of Us: Collected Poems - Raymond Carver
• Cathedral - Raymond Carver
• Escape Into Meaning - Evan Puschak
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau

PT-PZ: Other Literature

• The Code of the Woosters - P. G. Wodehouse
• The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
• Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• The Waves - Virginia Woolf
• Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

Q – Science

• The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
• Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
• On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
• What If - Randall Munroe
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hoffman
• The Code Book - Simon Singh
• Chaos - James Gleick
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Prime Obsession - John Derbyshire
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard P. Feynman
• The Feynman Lectures - Richard P. Feynman
• Six Not So Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
• The Meaning of It All - Richard P. Feynman
• The Character of Physical Law - Richard P. Feynman
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track - Richard P. Feynman
• The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold
• Godel's Proof - Ernest Nagel
• Behave - Robert M. Sapolsky
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter
• The Brain: The Story of You - David Eagleman

Essays

• Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
• David Sedaris
  • Calypso
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • When You Are Engulfed in Flames
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

Uncategorized

• Rationality: From AI to Zombies
• The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tostoy
• Essays and Lectures: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authors

• Saul Bellow
• Martin Amis
• David Graeber
• Alan Watts
• Noam Chomsky
• Jed McKenna
• Karl Popper
• Carl Jung
• HP Lovecraft
• Neil Gaiman
• Walt Whitman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• John Updike
• Mark Twain
• T. S. Elliot
• John Muir