Books to become well read by

[fretted]

Sophie's World for a good introduction to philosophy and Interpretation of Murder for the Oedipus Complex theory!

 

[mike62]

First Light by Geoffrey Wellum. A great insight into the mind of a young World War 2 pilot.

 

[pingwing]

James Tully - Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity

Best thing iv ever read to broaden your opinion on how the world of states operate (plus gives a better understanding to how the native Americans ended up the way they did)

Get the discworld series if you want something funny that after a while actually has decent real world implications too

 

[mangobreeder]

also read the hornblower series and the master and commander series

 

[FNGsam]

just subscribe to the daily mail. that should help!

 

[Morgoth]

Kafka!

Hipsters love it.

 

[rker83]

The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brookes

 

[THMRK]

Alasdair Grey - Lanark.

 

[Greavesy]

When money dies
by Adam fergusson

Its a great read

 

[dante6491]

Animal Farm or The Wealth of Nations.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Alasdair Grey - Lanark.

I really shouldn't have forgotten this one, a work of genius. It's inspiring, it's a bit crazy, it's just a book you should read and be grateful that it has been written.

 

[FabienO]

Musashi - A book about the greatest samurai in history

Shogun - A book about Edo era Japan and Captain Blackthorne surving in it after getting marooned there.

 

[ichabod crane]

Gullivers travels the original nothing to do with the awful film recently released. The way Jonathan Swift tells his tales is spell binding.

 

[Deadbeat]

I'd put in another plug for Catch 22. It subtly altered my view on the strength of perception - how the same event could be witnessed so differently from one person to the next, and now certain degrees of mental imbalance are little more than a matter of relativity.

 

[Fenris]

WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin. A dystopian novel "written in response to the author's personal experiences during the Russian revolutions of the early 20th century.

Considered by many to be the inspiration behind novels such as Brave New World (though Huxley denied it, most think he was lying, after reading both I tend to agree) and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

If you want to go back further, WE is believed to have been derived from Jerome K. Jerome's short essay The New Utopia.

 

[OriginalJonty]

WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Considered by many to be the inspiration behind novels such as Brave New World (though Huxley denied it, most think he was lying, after reading both I tend to agree) and Orwell's inspiration for Nineteen Eighty-Four.

If you want to go back further, WE is believed to have been derived from Jerome K. Jerome's short essay The New Utopia.

I'll second this.

 

[danzhang16]

The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number, is quite interesting, if you're into maths and,

A History of the World in One Hundred Objects is good as well.

 

[apeZ]

Interpretation of Murder for the Oedipus Complex theory!

Been a while since I read this, but this is an absolutely fantastic book.

 

[ojrules]

sun tzu's art of war is short and interesting, you won't become well read, it's translated into old, slightly broken english but its a very interesting short read, try to look beyond the literal when reading it though...

 

[THMRK]

I really shouldn't have forgotten this one, a work of genius. It's inspiring, it's a bit crazy, it's just a book you should read and be grateful that it has been written.

I can't get over how good it is, really. I think Grey might now be my favourite author. I've yet to meet the man, though. Even though he lives near Glasgow Uni. Seems that most lit students have met him around the West End at some point.

Still surprised I like it so much even though I'm studying it....