Any one of them.
Please.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep. First book we know of & filled with practical advice.
The section dealing with domestic demons by applying crocodile urine to your underwear is worth living by.
What number maxim is that?
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
Few other sci-fi books do as good a job of depicting how a gift/library economy could work like in practice. It’s quite a hopeful vision of where we can collectively go in the future.
It also shows a realistic version of utopian hope. An eternal struggle for better
That reminds me that I really need to put more le guin into my book pile
A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Time
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For me, I think Russian literature is a must-read.
The Count of Monte Christo, Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer.
Count of Monte Christo imo isn’t so great, or maybe I’ve read too many shorter riffs on the theme. I’d also plop 1984 before 451.
The Count of Monte Christo
i keep seeing this listed, but I saw the Wishbone episode of it when i was younger and i dont think i could take it as seriously and also already knowing the twist at the end
Give it a try. I was blown away by how good it is. I prefer the audiobook because it’s so long.
World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd
About 100000 pages. If you read a page per minute, continuously without breaks you’ll lose over 60 days of economic activity to this. This would massively disrupt the world if everyone had to read it.
For Americans I think “slavery by another name” and “bury my heart at wounded knee” should be required reading.
Don’t really know one book that everyone should read, maybe everyone should read more than one book
Don Quixote
It’s old but very readable and surprisingly funny. Even gets quite meta at points!
Goes off on some tangents at points (including some nested stories), but even these I found quite fun.
I haven’t read it but i love this take by late great Michael Sugrue https://youtu.be/zQtP3ZHRA3Q
To kill a mockingbird -Harper Lee
After reading it, I felt I had read and understood something important that remained with me. Not a difficult or long book, enjoyable and interesting.
Everyone? Idk. For most people though GTD is pretty high on my list.
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.
A short read that makes you think about how you interact with the world. I’ve read it multiple times and always take something new from it.
1984, so that people mentioning it online will stop sounding like complete fucking idiots.
Or perhaps The Jungle; it sparked public outcry and major overhauls the last time it became popular, maybe it can work its magic again.
I was going to say this.
1984, A Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.
Add Animal Farm to that list.
1984 was about the government being able to read your mind so they can give you a rat, right?
No, that was the diary of Ann Frank actually.
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No,I think that’s Helter Skelter (?)
wasnt that He-man’s nemisis?
He-man’s nemesis is She-man, everybody knows that.
Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man
