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My Personal Recommendations in Literature
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items Some books that I've read that have shaped who I am as a person and as an artist.
The first book I read by Camus. (My favorite Author)
The Stranger (Vintage International)
My favorite book by Camus, a story that changed my life.
The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
One of the most widely read novels of all time from one of the best-known writers of all time about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition.
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
hrough an exploration of themes that preoccupied Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those...
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus Quest
Probably the best book I've ever read.
Kitchen Confidential: Culinary Adventures
Helped me get past the fear of judgement
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Creativity
"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment.”
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The book that made me understand the actual history of the united states
A People's History of the United States
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland lif...
Fahrenheit 451
My favorite childhood book
Lord of the Flies
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons
The Brothers Karamazov: Bicentennial Edition
In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense,...
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, ...
Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot
The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
One of the grandest tales of adventure, Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel of revenge, perseverance, lost love, and self-invention
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy
Pride and Prejudice
An astounding novel of decadence, debauchery, and secrecy from one of Ireland's greatest writers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charles Dickens's classic historical novel of the French Revolution
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Hard read but once you begin to comprehend, is one of the most thought provoking books I've read.
Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of On the Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book does much more than that, elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil, and ...
On the Genealogy of Morals (Penguin Classics)
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Classics)
A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy.
Ethics
Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel whose frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance was decades ahead of its time.
Giovanni's Room
Toni Morrison's definitive edition of James Baldwin's incomparable nonfiction. Contains all the major essays collections in their entirety, plus 36 uncollected essays.
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America)
The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Classics)
This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, this concise, lively book combines clear explanations of the main theories of ethics with discussions of interesting examples. Topics covered include famine relief, euthanas...
The Elements of Moral Philosophy
A beautiful story about death that was gifted to me by a dear friend.
Tuesdays with Morrie: 25th Anniversary
The book that got me into photojournalism
The Bang-Bang Club: Making New South Africa
The best book on existensialism I've ever read.
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Story