Of a Philosophical Nature: A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming

A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming

Some Written Works That May Help Get the Young up to Speed

The Prince by Machiavelli

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Candide by Voltaire

Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Dune by Frank Herbert

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

King Rat by James Clavell

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life by Gail Sheehy

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A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming

Some Written Works That May Help Get the Young up to Speed