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Philosophy, Poetry, Fiction, Explorations & Classical Literature Reading List

Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant

Ethics – Benedict Spinoza

Anathemas and Admirations – E. M. Cioran

The Trouble with Being Born – E. M. Cioran

On The Heights of Despair – E. M. Cioran

The New Gods – E. M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered – E. M. Cioran

The Temptation to Exist – E. M. Cioran

History and Utopia – E. M. Cioran

All Gall is Divided – E. M. Cioran

Tears and Saints – E. M. Cioran

Essays in Radical Empiricism – William James

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking – William James

The Sentimentality of Rationality – William James

The Meaning of Truth – William James

The Idea of the Holy – Rudolf Otto

Self-Reliance and Other Essays – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The World as Will and Representation, vol. I - Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Representation, vol. II - Arthur Schopenhauer

The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics - Arthur Schopenhauer

Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Schopenhauer

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche – Christopher Middleton

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions & Homer and Classical Philology – Friedrich Nietzsche

Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unfashionable Observations – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Fragments from the Period Human, All Too Human I: Winter 1874/75-Winter 1877/78 – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn: Winter 1879/80-Spring 1881 – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Summer 1882-Winter 1883/1884 – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Spring 1884-Winter 1884/85 – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Fragments: Spring 1885-Spring 1886 – Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpublished Fragments: Summer 1886-Fall 1887 – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Joyous Science – Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human – Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols – Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo – Friedrich Nietzsche

On The Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Dawn of Day – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Use and Abuse of History – Friedrich Nietzsche

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense – Friedrich Nietzsche


A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of The Sublime and Beautiful – Edmund Burke

Philosophy of Beauty – Francis J. Kovach

The Sense of Beauty - George Santayana

The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluxuating Ideas of Taste - William Hogarth


The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall - Francis Bacon

On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

Letters Concerning the English Nation – Voltaire

Treatise on Toleration - Voltaire

Lectures on the English Poets - William Hazlitt

The Illustrated Pepys: from the Diary - Robert Latham

Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters – Jeremy Adler and Charlie Louth

Nietzsche – Stefan Zweig

The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig

The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844-1869 – Daniel Blue

Friedrich Nietzsche: A Psychological Approach to His Life & Work – Liliane Frey-Rohn

Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography – Rudiger Safranski

Maxims and Reflections - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conversations with Goethe – Johann Peter Eckermann

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History – Thomas Carlyle

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. III - Thomas Carlyle

Memoirs, Letters, and Remains, vol. I – Alexis de Tocqueville

Memoirs, Letters, and Remains, vol. II – Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America – Alexis de Tocqueville

The English Constitution – Walter Bagehot

 

My Life on the Plains - General G. A. Custer

Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen - Edward John Payne, C. Raymond Beazley

Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds - Ian Wright

The Rings of Saturn - W. B. Sebald

South: The Endurance Expedition – Ernest Shackleton

Journals – Robert Falcon Scott

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain – Daniel Defoe

Journey in Ireland, July-August 1835 – Alexis de Tocqueville

The Journey Through Wales/The Description of Wales – Gerald of Wales

Italian Journey - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Travels – Marco Polo

The Four Voyages – Christopher Columbus

Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent – Alexander von Humboldt

The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Díaz

Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition – Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

The Journals – James Cook

The South Pole – Roald Amundsen

 

History in Hiding: Story of Britain’s Secret Passages and Hiding Places – Stewart Ross

Lost Railway Walks – Julian Holland

Abandoned Stations on London’s Underground: A Photographic Record – James Edward Connor

Hidden Britain: Secret Tunnels, Lost Chambers and Unknown Passageways – Alvin Nicholas

The Compleat Trespasser: Journeys into Forbidden Britain – John Bainbridge

The Trespasser’s Companion – Nick Hayes


The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke

Against the Fall of Night - Arthur C. Clarke

The Hammer of God - Arthur C. Clarke

Earthlight - Arthur C. Clarke

The Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke

The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke

The Deep Range - Arthur C. Clarke

A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C. Clarke

The Sentinel - Arthur C. Clarke

2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

The Wind Whales of Ishmael - Philip Jose Farmer

Watership Down - Richard Adams

Shardik - Richard Adams

Tarry Flyn - Patrick Kavanagh

Ulysses - James Joyce

Ireland: Selected Stories - William Trevor

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

Heinrich von Kleist: Selected Writings - David Constantine

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust (with the Ur-Faust) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Selected Short Stories – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Renaissance - Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau

The Women at the Pump - Knut Hamsun

Victoria - Knut Hamsun

Hunger - Knut Hamsun

Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

1985 - Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Outlaws - Ernst von Salomon

Rebel Mountain – Kurt Eggers

Fugue for a Darkening Island - Christopher Priest

The Camp of the Saints – Jean Raspail

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Hold Back This Day - Ward Kendall

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake

The Bodley Head - Saki

The Best of Saki - Saki

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Persuasion – Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

Emma – Jane Austen

 

The Poet’s Craft – Sandy Brownjohn

The Poet’s Manual – Frances Stillman

Il Trastullo della Fanciulla: Poesia, Italian Edition - Ivan Barkov

Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin – James Mitchell

Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – David Luke

Selected Poems and Translations – Ezra Pound

Some of Mary’s Paintings and Some Versifying and Drawing – Jimmy Johns

Candle on The Reef: Poetry of Men and Mud and the River – Robert R. Whitford

The Best of Banjo Patterson – Walter Stone

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry – George Walter

Collected Poems – Philip Larkin

Collected Poems – Dylan Thomas

W. B. Yeats Selected Poems – Seamus Heaney

Selected Poems – T. S. Eliot

I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year - Fiona Waters, Frann Preston-Gannon

Virgil’s Aeneid – John Dryden

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