Created by Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴
I’ll keep sharing this list of books with family and friends every year, though it hardly matters. These are the only things I might still want to read before the void wins.
If you insist on giving gifts, start here, but understand I no longer cling to the material illusions we trade for meaning. Otherwise, give nothing, it makes no difference.
Covers vary, editions change, meaning fades. Just check the author before buying.
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Russian: Двойник. Петербургская поэма, romanized: Dvoynik. Peterburgskaya poema) is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. …
Second Sex by Constance Borde, Simone de Beauvoir
4 stars
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, …
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku) is a 1948 Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. It is considered Dazai's masterpiece and …
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism Is a Humanism (French: L'existentialisme est un humanisme) is a 1946 work by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, based on …
The Gay Science by Bernard Williams, Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as "perhaps my most personal book", when he was at the …
Nietzsche and Anarchy by Shahin
How is it possible to live free and joyful in this world of domination? The key idea Nietzsche offers us …
Nationalism and Culture by Rudolf Rocker
5 stars
Nationalism and Culture is a nonfiction book by German anarcho-syndicalist writer Rudolf Rocker. In this book, he criticizes religion, statism, …
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper …
