Recommended Reading List

At last, the long-awaited reading list. Over the last year, I have been getting innumerable questions from men of all ages with regards to what books they should read, and rightly so, with all the perplexity and ignorance surrounding the so-called ‘improvement’ books that most people read nowadays. I feel inclined to finally put together a thorough reading list for all my readers who support and value my work.

The books listed below are not so much ‘self-improvement’ books as they are ageless and invaluable pieces of literary genius that will not only brush up your thinking and writing, but enrich your character and teach you something of competence and true power. I will attempt to keep this list as inclusive as possible yet not exhaustive. A follow-up may be in right in the future. [The list follows an alphabetical order]

Non-Fiction

1. Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden Whereabouts Unknown
2. Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
3. Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation [Comes in 2 Volumes]
4. Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
5. Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections
6. Carl Jung, The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
7. David Deida, The Way of The Superior Man
8. Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
9. Epictetus, The Enchiridion
10. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
11. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
12. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
13. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
14. Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience
15. Heraclitus, Fragments
16. Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
17. Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World
18. Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
19. Plato, The Republic
20. Plato, The Symposium
21. Plutarch, Essays
22. Plutarch, Parallel Lives [comes in several volumes, but this one is unabridged]
23. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mind on Fire
24. Robert Greene, 33 Strategies of War
25. Robert Moore, King Warrior Magician Lover
26. Seneca, Epistles
27. Sen Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
28. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
29. Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel

Fiction and Poetry

1. Aesop, Fables
2. Albert Camus, The Fall
3. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
4. Aldous Huxley, Island
5. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
6. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
7. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
8. Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms
9. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
10. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
11. Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
12. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
13. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brother Karamazov
15. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
16. George Orwell, 1984
17. George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier
18. Homer, The Illiad
19. Homer, The Odyssey
20. Horace, Odes
21. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
22. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
23. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
24. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
25. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
26. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
27. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
28. Virgil, Aeneid

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