Book Lists

Here is were I share recommened readings for different topics and reviews for books. All the Books I will list I have read (or will read) and I added the date the book came out. To give you an idea of when the text was realseased in it's origional language. Personally I believe in supporting local brick and morter book stores, fuck Amazon. But I added the Amazon links cus it helps find the ISBN, and having that in the page made it look like shit.

Leftist and Political Theory

Modern

'Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844' by Karl Marx (Translated by Martin Milligan) : 1844
'The German Ideology' by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (Translated by Progress Publishers) : 1846
'Wage-Labour and Capital and Value, Price, and Profit' by Karl Marx (Translated by International Publishers) : 1847
'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte' by Karl Marx (Translated by Progress Publishers) : 1852
'Capital, Volume I' by Karl Marx (Translated by Samuel Moore & Edward Aveling) : 1867
'The Civil War in France' by Karl Marx (Translated by International Publishers) : 1871
'Critique of the Gotha Programme' by Karl Marx (Translated by International Publishers) : 1875
'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific' by Friedrich Engels (Translated by Edward Aveling) : 1880
'Reform or Revolution' by Rosa Luxemburg (Translated by Integeral) : 1899
'State and Revolution' by Lenin, V. I. (Translated by International Publishers) : 1917
'Workers' Councils' by Anton Pannekoek : 1947
'Selections from the Prison Notebooks' by Antonio Gramsci (Translated by Quintin Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith) : 1926-1937 (1971)

Post-Modern

'Women, Race & Class' by Angela Y. Davis : 1981
'Caliban and the Witch' by Silvia Federici : 2004
'The Anatomy of Fascism' by Robert O. Paxton : 2004
'Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?' by Mark Fisher : 2009
'Why Marx Was Right: 2nd Edition' by Terry Eagleton : 2011
'The Reactionary Mind' by Corey Robin : 2011
'Alt-America' by David Neiwert : 2017
'Kill All Normies' by Angela Nagle : 2017
'Why We're Polarized' by Ezra Klein : 2020

Game Design and Technical Books

'Game Feel' by Steve Swink : 2008
'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels' by Jason Schreier : 2017
'Press Reset' by Jason Schreier : 2021
'Play Nice' by Jason Schreier : 2024

Historical

Ancient/Medival

'A History of the Roman Republic' by Klaus Bringmann : 2007
'A Brief History of the Roman Empire' by Stephen P. Kershaw : 2013
'Medieval Feudalism' by Carl Stephenson : 1942
'A History of Japan' by R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger : 1971
'The Triumph of Christianity' by Bart D. Ehrman : 2018
'The Origin of Capitalism' by Ellen Meiksins Wood : 2002
'Henry V' by Dan Jones : 2018

Modern

'The French Revolution' by Ian Davidson : 2016
'The Know Nothing Party' by Charles River Editors : 2014
'Overthrow' by Stephen Kinzer : 2006
'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William L. Shirer : 1960
'Hitler's Monsters' by Eric Kurlander : 2017
'The Nazi and the Psychiatrist' by Jack El-Hai : 2013
'The Nuremberg Trials' by Paul Roland : 2016

Post-Modern

'Computing: A Concise History' by Paul E. Ceruzzi : 1998
'Transgender History, Second Edition' by Susan Stryker : 2017
'Collapse' by Vladislav M. Zubok : 2021
'Ukraine and Russia' by Paul D'Anieri : 2019
'The Afghanistan Papers' by Craig Whitlock : 2021
'The Bin Laden Papers' by Nelly Lahoud : 2022
'The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order' by Gary Gerstle : 2022

Psycholgoy

'A Man's Search for Meaning' by Viktor E. Frankl (Translated by Ilse Lasch) : 1946
'Goddess in Everywoman' by Jean Shinoda Bolen : 1984
'Gods in Everyman' by Jean Shinoda Bolen : 1989
'Come As You Are: Revised and Updated' by Emily Nagoski : 2021

Hellenic/Roman Polythiesm

'Greek Religion' by Walter Burkert : 1977
'Roman Religion' by Clifford Ando : 2003
'Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship' by Labrynthos : 2014

Philosophic Texts

Ancient

'Fragments' by Heraclitus (Translated by T. M. Robinson) : 500 BCE
'Fragments' by Parmenides (Translated by David Gallop) : 475 BCE
'The Golden Verses of Pythagoras' attributed to Pythagoras (Translated by Johan Thom) : 300 BCE
'Symposium' by Plato (Translated by Robin Waterfield) : 385 BCE
'The Republic' by Plato (Translated by Desmond Lee) : 380 BCE
'Phaedo' by Plato (Translated by G. M. A. Grube) : 380 BCE
'Meno' by Plato (Translated by G. M. A. Grube) : 380 BCE
'Gorgias' by Plato (Translated by Robin Waterfield) : 385 BCE
'Phaedrus' by Plato (Translated by Robin Waterfield) : 370 BCE
'Timaeus' by Plato (Translated by Donald J. Zeyl) : 360 BCE
'Politics' by Aristotle (Translated by Carnes Lord) : 350 BCE
'Nicomachean Ethics' by Aristotle (Translated by Terence Irwin) : 340 BCE
'Metaphysics' by Aristotle (Translated by W. D. Ross) : 340 BCE
'Ecclesiastes' attributed to King Solomon : 300 BCE
'Letters from a Stoic' by Lucius Seneca (Translated by Robin Campbell) : 65 CE
'Enchiridion of Epictetus' by Epictetus (Translated by George Long) : 125 CE
'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius (Translated by Martin Hammond) : 170 CE
'Hermetica (Corpus Hermeticum & Asclepius)' attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (Translated by Brian P. Copenhaver) : 200 CE

Medival/Eastern

'The Gathas' by Zarathustra (Translated by Stanford R. Kent) : 1200 BCE
'Bhagavad Gita' attributed to Vyasa (Translated by Eknath Easwaran) : 200 BCE
'Tao Te Ching' by Laozi (Translated by D. C. Lau) : 400 BCE
'The Analects' by Confucius (Translated by D. C. Lau) : 475 BCE
'The Dhammapada' attributed to Gautama Buddha (Translated by Eknath Easwaran) : 300 BCE
'Confessions' by Augustine of Hippo (Translated by Henry Chadwick) : 397 CE
'The Book of Healing (Metaphysics)' by Avicenna (Translated by Michael Marmura) : 1020 CE
'Proslogion' by Anselm of Canterbury (Translated by Thomas Williams) : 1078 CE
'Summa Theologica' by Thomas Aquinas (Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) : 1274 CE
'The Book of Five Rings' by Miyamoto Musashi (Translated by Thomas Cleary) : 1645 CE
'Hagakure' by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Translated by William Scott Wilson) : 1716 CE

Early-Modern

'Meditations on First Philosophy' by René Descartes (Translated by John Cottingham) : 1641
'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes : 1651
'Ethics' by Baruch Spinoza (Translated by Edwin Curley) : 1677
'Two Treatises of Government' by John Locke : 1689
'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' by David Hume : 1748
'The Social Contract' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Translated by Maurice Cranston) : 1762
'Critique of Pure Reason' by Immanuel Kant (Translated by Paul Guyer & Allen Wood) : 1781
'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft : 1792

Modern

'The World as Will and Representation' by Arthur Schopenhauer (Translated by E. F. J. Payne) : 1818
'The Sickness Unto Death' by Søren Kierkegaard (Translated by Alastair Hannay) : 1849
'Fear and Trembling' by Søren Kierkegaard (Translated by Alastair Hannay) : 1843
'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) : 1864
'The Gay Science' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by Walter Kaufmann) : 1882
'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by R. J. Hollingdale) : 1883
'Beyond Good and Evil' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by R. J. Hollingdale) : 1886
'Genealogy of Morals' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by Douglas Smith) : 1887
'The Will to Power' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by Walter Kaufmann) : 1901
'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Translated by C. K. Ogden) : 1921
'The Trial' by Franz Kafka (Translated by Breon Mitchell) : 1925
'Being and Time' by Martin Heidegger (Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson) : 1927
'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre (Translated by Lloyd Alexander) : 1938
'Being and Nothingness' by Jean-Paul Sartre (Translated by Hazel Barnes) : 1943
'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus (Translated by Justin O'Brien) : 1942
'The Stranger' by Albert Camus (Translated by Matthew Ward) : 1942
'A History of Western Philosophy' by Bertrand Russell : 1945

Post-Modern

'One-Dimensional Man' by Herbert Marcuse : 1964
'Of Grammatology' by Jacques Derrida (Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) : 1967
'Discipline and Punish' by Michel Foucault (Translated by Alan Sheridan) : 1975
'The Postmodern Condition' by Jean-François Lyotard (Translated by Geoff Bennington & Brian Massumi) : 1979
'A Thousand Plateaus' by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari (Translated by Brian Massumi) : 1980
'Simulacra and Simulation' by Jean Baudrillard (Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser) : 1981
'The Sublime Object of Ideology' by Slavoj Zizek : 1989
'Gender Trouble' by Judith Butler : 1990
'Whipping Girl' by Julia Serano : 2007

Classics

'The Iliad' by Homer (Translated by Robert Fagles) : 750 BCE
'The Odyssey' by Homer (Translated by Robert Fagles) : 725 BCE
'The Oresteia' by Aeschylus (Translated by Robert Fagles) : 458 BCE
'Antigone' by Sophocles (Translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald) : 441 BCE
'Prometheus Bound' by Aeschylus (Translated by James Scully) : 430 BCE
'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles (Translated by Stephen Berg & Diskin Clay) : 429 BCE
'The Bacchae' by Euripides (Translated by James Morwood) : 405 BCE
'Oedipus at Colonus' by Sophocles (Translated by Robert Fagles) : 401 BCE
'Jason and the Golden Fleece' by Apollonius of Rhodes (Translated by R. C. Seaton) : 250 BCE
'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri : 1321
'Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer (Translated by Nevill Coghill) : 1387
'Paradise Lost' by John Milton : 1667

More coming soon. This is on my to-do list.