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Sallust

The Conspiracy of Catiline
Sallust
Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde · 1891
Vladimir Lenin
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Vladimir Lenin · 1904
Ted Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future
Ted Kaczynski · 1995
Edward O. Wilson

Half Earth
Edward O. Wilson · 2016
René Descartes

Rules for the Direction of the Mind
René Descartes · 1701
Edgar Allan Poe

The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 1902
William L. Shirer

עלייתו ונפילתו של הרייך השלישי
William L. Shirer · 1960
Fred Brooks

The Mythical Man-Month
Fred Brooks · 1975
Seneca

De Vita Beata
Seneca
Galileo Galilei
The Assayer
Galileo Galilei · 1623
Benedictus de Spinoza

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
Benedictus de Spinoza · 1677
Arthur de Gobineau
An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Arthur de Gobineau · 1853
Sigmund Freud

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Sigmund Freud · 1921
George Orwell

Politics and the English Language
George Orwell · 1946
Theodor W. Adorno

Minima Moralia
Theodor W. Adorno · 1951
Jordan Peterson

Maps of Meaning
Jordan Peterson · 1999
Ferdinand Tönnies

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Ferdinand Tönnies
Michael Praetorius

Syntagma Musicum
Michael Praetorius · 1614
Bernard Mandeville

The Fable of the Bees
Bernard Mandeville · 1705
Alexander von Humboldt

Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt · 1845
Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka: A Prose Poem
Edgar Allan Poe · 1848
Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?
Leo Tolstoy · 1897
Stefan Zweig

Decisive Moments in History
Stefan Zweig · 1927
Theodor W. Adorno

Negative Dialectics
Theodor W. Adorno · 1966
Pseudo-Aristotle
Secretum Secretorum
Pseudo-Aristotle
Xenophon
Apology of Socrates to the Jury
Xenophon
Archimedes
On Spirals
Archimedes · 300
Voltaire

Letters on the English
Voltaire · 1734
Cesare Beccaria
On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria · 1764
J. R. R. Tolkien

On Fairy-Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1947
Carl Sagan

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan · 1977
Orhan Pamuk

Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk · 2003
Naomi Oreskes

Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes · 2010
Shang Yang

The Book of Lord Shang
Shang Yang
Marsilio Ficino
Poimandres
Marsilio Ficino
Sallust
The Jugurthine War
Sallust
Antoine Arnauld
Port-Royal Logic
Antoine Arnauld · 1662
Benedictus de Spinoza

Tractatus Politicus
Benedictus de Spinoza · 1677
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

New Essays on Human Understanding
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1765
Stendhal

On Love
Stendhal · 1822
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

What Is Property?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1840
Vladimir Lenin
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
Vladimir Lenin · 1914
Georg Lukács

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Georg Lukács · 1923
H. P. Lovecraft
Supernatural Horror in Literature
H. P. Lovecraft · 1927
George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell · 1936
Elias Canetti

Crowds and Power
Elias Canetti · 1960