Here is a comprehensive and tentative list of books that I have compiled over that last decade. Reaching from the depths of humanity and into “modern” day society. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them!
For any student studying philosophy, sociology, or even contemporary anthropology — these texts are the building blocks of literature that I used to further understand the art of humans, the art of ethics, and finally, the overarching art of living.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Iliad & Odyssey by Homer
- The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles
- Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros by Edith Hamilton
- The Bhagavad Gita
- I Ching (Book of Change)
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- Zhuangzi
- The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, Edward Conze
- The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
- A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, Wing-Tsit Chan
- A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Yu-Ian Fung
- Complete Works of Plato
- The Metaphysics by Aristotle
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
- The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air by Soren Kierkegaard
- Ethical Philosophy by Immanuel Kant
- Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John S. Mill & Jeremy Bentham
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzche
- The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzche
- The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Being and Nothingness by John-Paul Sartre
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joesph Campbell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
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