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.

Political Theory

Ancient/Early-Modern

'The Republic' by Plato (Translated by Desmond Lee) : 380 BCE
'Politics' by Aristotle (Translated by Carnes Lord) : 350 BCE
'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli (Translated by Peter Bondanella) : 1532
'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes : 1651
'Second Treatise on Government' by John Locke : 1689
'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Translated by Donald A. Cress) : 1755
'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith : 1776
'The Federalist Papers' by Alexander Hamilton : 1788
'Reflections on the Revolution in France' by Edmund Burke : 1790
'Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)' by Maximilien Robespierre (Translated by John Howe; Introduction by Slavoj Zizek) : 1794
'Perpetual Peace and Other Essays' by Immanuel Kant (Translated by Ted Humphrey) : 1795

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
'The Concept of the Political' by Carl Schmitt (Translated by George Schwab) : 1932 !Warning Fascist!
'Workers' Councils' by Anton Pannekoek (Translated by John Gray) : 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
'Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity' by Judith Butler : 1990
'Caliban and the Witch' by Silvia Federici : 2004
'The Anatomy of Fascism' by Robert O. Paxton : 2004
'Whipping Girl' by Julia Serano : 2007
'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

Technology

'Game Feel' by Steve Swink : 2008
'The Web Application Hackers Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws, 2nd Edition' by Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto : 2011
'Semiconductor Physics and Devices: Basic Principles' by Donald A. Neamen : 2012
'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made' by Jason Schreier : 2017
'Linux Bible, 10th Edition' by Christopher Negus : 2020
'Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry' by Jason Schreier : 2021
'Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment' by Jason Schreier : 2024

Historical

Ancient/Medival

'Debt: The First 5,000 Years' by David Graeber : 2011
'Ancient Greece, Second Edition: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times' by Thomas R. Martin : 2013
'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 Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World' by Catherine Nixey : 2017
'Henry V' by Dan Jones : 2018
'The Origin of Capitalism' by Ellen Meiksins Wood : 2002

Modern

'The French Revolution' by Ian Davidson : 2016
'Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna' by Adam Zamoyski : 2008
'The Know Nothing Party' by Charles River Editors : 2014
'Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq' 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: The Fall of the Soviet Union' 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

Psychology

'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
'The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love' by Bell Hooks : 2004
'Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving' by Pete Walker : 2013
'Come As You Are: Revised and Updated' by Emily Nagoski : 2021

Hellenic/Roman Polythiesm

'Mythology' by Edith Hamilton : 1942
'Greek Religion' by Walter Burkert : 1977
'Roman Religion' by Clifford Ando : 2003
'Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship' by Labrynthos : 2014
'Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus (2nd edition)' by Gregory Shaw : 2014
'Classical Mythology 11th Edition' by Mark Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Michael Sham : 2018

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
'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
'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 Phenomenology of Spirit' by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Translated by A. V. Miller) : 1807
'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
'The Gay Science' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by Walter Kaufmann) : 1882
'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
'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
'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

Literature

'The Epic of Gilgamesh' (Translated by Andrew George) : c. 2100 BCE
'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
'Metamorphoses' by Ovid (Translated by A. D. Melville) : 9 CE
'The Aeneid' by Virgil (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald) : 19 BCE
'Beowulf' (Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien) : c.1000
'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri : 1321
'Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer (Translated by Nevill Coghill) : 1387
'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare : 1597
'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare : 1599-1601
'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes (Translated by Edith Grossman) : 1605-1615
'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare : 1623
'Paradise Lost' by John Milton : 1667
'Faust' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Translated by Walter Kaufmann) : 1808-1832
'The Mysterious Stranger' by Mark Twain : 1916
'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' by Mary Shelley : 1818
'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) : 1864
'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) : 1866
'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by R. J. Hollingdale) : 1883
'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka (Translated by Susan Bernofsky) : 1915
'The Trial' by Franz Kafka (Translated by Breon Mitchell) : 1925
'The Stranger' by Albert Camus (Translated by Matthew Ward) : 1942
'American Psycho' by Bret Easton Ellis : 1991