For Myself:
Dune
The Perennial Philosophy
The Way We Never Were: American Families
Lolita
Ayn Rand
For Others:
1.) Oppression, Freedom, and Empowerment through Knowledge
A Room of One’s Own
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Reservation Blues
A Modest Proposal
2.) Cynicism, Philosophy, and Asking “Why?!”
Candide
Slaughterhouse Five
Invisible Monsters
A Man Without a Country
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
3.) Politics, Utopia and Distopia
The Book of Merlin
Watership Down
1984
Brave New World
The Giver
The Earth’s Children series (namely, Clan of the Cave Bear)
4.) Spiritual Anarchy and Rebirth
Steppenwolf
Demian
Siddhartha
A Newcomer’s Guide to the Afterlife
5.) Neotribalism (neo-tribalism)
Ishmael
My Ishmael
The Story of B
Providence
6.) All-of-the-Above
His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass (these made me think of Carl Jung and Gnosticism more than anything)
7.) Furthermore…
Authors: Daniel Quinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Jung, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris
Topics: existentialism, animism, animus/anima, collective subconscious, the String Theory, neotribalism, signifier/signified, universalism, linguistics, ethnocentricism and eurocentricism
Website: blueletterbible.com (I suggest the raw word-for-word translation of the ancient texts, versus the even more politically-biased various ”English translation versions”… and I suggest you read and come up with your own conclusions)
Any suggestions?
