🙃
I thought @thedisasterautist's meme prompt today was pretty neat, but it is VERY hard to ask a writer to pick just a few good books.
Still, here goes nothing:
Top 30(ish: actually 34)
Books To Know Me Better
1. Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power
2. Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
3. Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics
4. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
5. Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War
1/x
6. Tony Judt, Postwar (but also Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem)
7. Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
8. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
9. Roland Barthes, Mythologies
10. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
11. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
12. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
13. Fyodor Dostoevsky, either The House of the Dead or The Brothers Karamazov
14. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories of the Future
15. Anton Chekhov, The Complete Short Novels
2/x
