I'm a philosophy nerd who is dedicated to righting social wrongs in the world.
I write to make a difference.
This is not a complete list, but:
Non-Fiction:
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States Richard Feynman's QED and The Feynman Lectures on Physics Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb and The Flamingo's Smile Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach Aristotle's Ethics and Politics Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus John Gribbin's Schrödinger's Cat Albert Einstein's Relativity Kurt Gödel's On Formally Undecidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72
Fiction:
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Plato's Gorgias and The Republic Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of Ages series, especially the Rhapsody Trilogy. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series Joseph Heller's Picture This George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity Nick Hornby's High Fidelity D. B. Weiss's Lucky Wander Boy
Short Stories:
Isaac Asimov's The Last Answer Isaac Asimov's Nightfall Hal Clement's Uncommon Sense Ursula Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Poetry:
T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and The Wasteland John Milton's Paradise Lost Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach e. e. cummings' l(a leaf falls)oneliness Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky Robert Frost's The Tuft of Flowers
Right on, brother. Welcome.
Right on, brother. Welcome.