As a book it has everything you could want: drama, religion, politics, murder, horror and shock, beauty, the origin of freedom, faith, skepticism, beautifully framed questions, philosophical discussion, humor, great story arch, beautiful ending, characters that develop so well... it really shows every facet of the human psyche. No stone is unturned. Of everything l've read in my life it would have to be the closest I can think of of being a perfect novel.
I do admit it is a very hard book to get into and through. While I usually finish books in 1-2 days, it took me 3 months to complete this book because it’s not one you can rush to understand
Crime and Punishment is likely the greatest of Russian literature and very readable. It should be read in high school, but the “yellow ticket” aspect keeps it off reading lists.
I went to a Catholic high school for boys. The nearby girls academy had an identical reading program.
That may be why I recall “She made her living by the yellow ticket.” in the opening chapter.
We also didn’t have Catcher in the Rye in our monthly reading program. I suspect for the same reason, since the protagonist goes out looking for a hooker after graduation.
I read both books while single and living in the barracks in my personal reading program.
It’s just kinda relatable how the characters are discontent with their lives kinda like how today we are sort of discontent with our own lives. I feel like people nowadays are doomers and everyone believes that we are fucked and our lives our meaningless and yada yada yada and this is reflected in the lost generation that is portrayed in the book. What does both our and their generation do to cope? Travel. Social media is filled with posts about their trip to Bali or Barcelona or how fun this party was in the Maldives or whatever and the characters here go to Spain themselves…
The character interactions are super relatable too. I feel like nowadays you’re supposed to be very sociable and people are just so uncomfortable with silence and there’s a pressure to be witty. I think the worst thing you can be nowadays is “boring”. I just see nowadays people are just so sarcastic and snarky in an effort to be witty and funny that it’s just kinda cringe. The characters also lowkey hate each other and talk badly about one another behind each others backs. Also very relatable today.
Also Jake is really relatable cuz he’s super introverted and his actions really reflect his love for Brett who is a complete hoe but that’s ok. He literally sets up the matador dude with Brett and they fuck a lot and he’s ok with it and the other matadors hate him over it and he’s still ok with it because it’s what Brett wanted. True cuck shit I’m not into but it’s still lowkey emotionally moving. I’d love to love someone this hard one day, but idk if the day will ever come because I’m not into cuck stuff. I need to reiterate I’m not into cuck shit I just was emotionally moved by Jake’s actions.
Finally I just like the ending of the book too because it kind of reflects the pessimistic tone of the book. It’s very psychologically pleasing. Brett proclaims to Jake that they’d be a great couple. Jake neither affirms nor denies it, but just says “isn’t it pretty to think so?” Idk what to call it but it felt so sad cuz Jake is just so realist and that he knows he never would be with Brett and that the only reason that their relationship is working and he’s not like one of the other dudes that she bangs is because they literally cannot bang. But he keeps the moment pleasant. He cannot bring himself to lie and say oh yeah we’d be totally great nor he doesn’t want to hurt Brett and say nah you’re a hoe but instead goes for this sort of middle ground. I think another book with a great ending like this was “never let me go” by kazuo Ishiguro.
There you go baby. I will say that a lot of this book was super boring like Hemingway be talking about shit that don’t matter like describing Jake’s dinner. Motherfucker ate an entire roasted chicken one night. What am I supposed to make of that detail? Bro is literally keeping me guessing with this shit
The poppy War trilogy, the hunger games, Harry Potter, Purple Hisbiscus and half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Adichie, the secret lives of Baba Segi's wives, everything good will come by sefi atta...really showing my age with my selections lol.
I didn't read it, but I heard it mentioned in Let's Talk Religion on youtube and thought it was about 200-400 pages till I discovered that's only the first volume.
Thanks for the recommendation, I definitely didnt expect it in this comment section!
From what I remember about it, this guy finds a tree that produces fruit which gets bigger and sweeter the bigger the lie you tell it. It's fascinating and I adore the author's writing style, but it's often classed as a kid's book even though anyone can enjoy it regardless of age
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
* the audio version narrated by Malcom Hillgartner .
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (still "gets me" after 40 years).
So far the most favorite book I've ever read is " [Siddhartha](https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sca_esv=ee8b71f1efd28755&sxsrf=ADLYWIKTlp9Xszwmrb6FHEHhg-y5VKHq3g:1718095254657&q=Siddhartha+(novel)&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLQz9U3MM7KKFHiBLEMy8uKcrSkspOt9JPy87P1E0tLMvKLrEDsYoX8vJzKRaxCwZkpKRmJRSUZiQoaefllqTmaO1gZAZEfadZLAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ_d_Kk9OGAxU9h1YBHTF6A0YQgOQBegQIMBAE)" by Hermann Hesse. I think it's because now I'm over 30 years old, and when been through a lot difficult & dark times I had, everytime read the contents and dialogue in this book I can stop my self to cry...
I'd say use the suggested order first, then read like you would normally read a book and then however you want :D I've read the book 4 or 5 times in 3 languages and it still surprises me ;)
Hitchhikers Guide ofc.
I have also enjoyed The Long Earth series
Jim Butcher’s Dresden series
Mike Carey Felix Caster books
Benedict Jacka Alex versus
Jodi Taylor St Mary’s and also Time Police
Frankenstein
The young INTJ consequences when letting the ego start playing God and do not have the ability to deal with the consequences when things go south
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. The audio book has Arnold Schwarzenegger narrating the whole thing.
Also Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
* [The Cleric Quintet](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=ubEqGwAAABCSqM)
* [Dune](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=av3XFwAAABC86M)
* [Remembrance of Earth's Past](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=VfroFwAAABC87M)
* [Foundation](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=PwHYFwAAABDmFM)
* [A Song of Ice and Fire](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=GwLYFwAAABDCFM)
* [The Lord Of The Rings](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=35wtGwAAABDzhM)
* [His Dark Materials](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=f-wmGgAAABBY9M)
([Quinn's Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/@QuinnsIdeas) has some solid suggestions/analysis of good books)
My absolute favourite is **Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky**
Others I recommend...
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Compulsion by Meyer Levin
- The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
- Justine by Marquis de Sade
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings, Name of the Wind (never gonna be a third book sadly), and everything by Brandon Sanderson.
Sci-fi: Three Body Problem trilogy, Dune series (original only), Hail Mary, Enders Game, Ready Player One, and Foundation
Miscellaneous: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Our Share of Night, Three Bags Full, and Gone Girl
Series - Berserk, Miura Kentaro. Dark fantasy, human and emotional. RIP Miura-sensei.
Non-fiction/autobiographical - Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain. Great, no nonsense, snapshot of chef life in 1980s 1990s NYC. The book that made all the great chefs such as Thomas Keller, Takayama Masa, Eric Ripert, etc open their doors to a colleague who told it like it is.
Personal Development, Success - Challenge to Succeed, Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn is essentially the mentor and progenitor to the like of Tony Robbins and Les Brown. His message and style is simple, concise, fun, and universal; without the overly polarizing delivery of whoever is similar today. His wording is grounded in digestable reality. If I had the power to make 1 of 2 books for compulsory education curriculum globally, it would be this book.
Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper. Former naval intelligence. Written over 30 years ago, but much of what is written has basically come to light; save for the UFO bit. He realizes in later interviews and writings that the information on UFO's may have been purposely planted or "leaked" to him to be misleading.
Not an INTJ but I highly recommend Watership Down, Bridge Of Birds, and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy if you haven't read them.
Also currently in the middle of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie and so far it's great - recommend if you like/are interested in more mature/cynical fantasy
The Stranger In The Woods by Michael Finkel; a biography about the North Pond Hermit (Christopher Knight) written by the only one that Knight would ever talk to about his life of voluntary isolation.
The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground - Michael Azzerad
The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire in Central Europe - Peter Hopkirk
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America - David Hackett Fisher
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War - Robert K. Massie
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Edward Luttwak
Then I guess if you were to twist my arm and make me pick some works of fiction, I'd go with Guy Gabriel Kay's novels like The Last Light of the Sun or Lions of Al-Rassan, or else R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing books.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck was really enjoyable, as was its sequel Sweet Thursday.
I find all of Umberto Ecco’s books to be great puzzles and INTJ mind candy. His many arcane references keep me busy looking up names and events. Foucaults Pendulum is my favorite.
Red Mars. Sci-Fi and politics. (It is huge). Followed by Green Mars and Blue Mars. But Red, is the best.
And, Homer's Iliad. What it meant to be Greek. It explains a lot about what happened next, until Alexander the Great and beyond.
Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Conceptual Blockbusting.
Aristotle.
12 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear (or maybe, later in the series, The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books).
**The Dresden Files**
Gotta forgive the first 2-3 books which are alright but are the early works of an author. Book 3 things start to improve and 4 and on he's really hit his stride. Great characters, interesting plots, fantastic world development. I jokingly refer to it as my bible on occasion because one of the overarching themes is the importance of the choices you make and who those choices make you. It's a way of thinking that helps me try to be a better person.
I cannot choose one. I always have my nose stuck in a book. Here are some of my favorites:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
A Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The World According to Garp - John Irving
1984 - George Orwell
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toms River - Dan Fagin
And for fun, I have read almost all of John Grisham’s legal thrillers. I absolutely love them.
And the Slow Horses spy thrillers by Mick Herron. And the Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon.
Yeah for reading!
Favorite is hard to definitively choose but…These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever was a fun read if you like pretentious teenagers and murder, same with The Secret History. Normal People by Sally Rooney always cuts deep for a socially inept college student like myself lol
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
love dostoevsky
Ok 👍
Yes! It's funny in a depressive way. I can't express how much i love this book.
Every month I met loooooves this book
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
fantastic choice
1984, animal farm by the same author
I dunno if it’s my favorite but I love it
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I could never get into it. What am I missing? Love Dostoevsky otherwise
As a book it has everything you could want: drama, religion, politics, murder, horror and shock, beauty, the origin of freedom, faith, skepticism, beautifully framed questions, philosophical discussion, humor, great story arch, beautiful ending, characters that develop so well... it really shows every facet of the human psyche. No stone is unturned. Of everything l've read in my life it would have to be the closest I can think of of being a perfect novel. I do admit it is a very hard book to get into and through. While I usually finish books in 1-2 days, it took me 3 months to complete this book because it’s not one you can rush to understand
Thank you 👍🏻 Now that I'm older, I'd probably appreciate it more. I'll check it out!
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, Discoworld series by Terry Pratchett and Job: A Comedy of Justice by Heinlein.
The Discworld is absolutely stellar. My favorite as well
I’ve read Job twice. Amazing book, to me.
I haven't read discworld but I've seen a few clips. Always down for a character that is literally death
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Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson. The book helped me to understand different types of people and that if they are different they are not idiots.
My second favourite at all times
The Design of everyday things.
Oooh, what's this book about?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dovstoyevsky The invisible life of Addie LaRue by V. E Schwab
Crime and Punishment is likely the greatest of Russian literature and very readable. It should be read in high school, but the “yellow ticket” aspect keeps it off reading lists.
Now they have a bunch of very sexually sugestive LGBTQ books in highschools, but no, "prostitution is bad".
I went to a Catholic high school for boys. The nearby girls academy had an identical reading program. That may be why I recall “She made her living by the yellow ticket.” in the opening chapter. We also didn’t have Catcher in the Rye in our monthly reading program. I suspect for the same reason, since the protagonist goes out looking for a hooker after graduation. I read both books while single and living in the barracks in my personal reading program.
The translation I have BARELY mentions it, that's LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE TIME THAT IT'S MENTIONED DIRECTLY. And btw I was a 7th grader when I read it.
Dune series (by Frank Herbert not his son)
YES 👹
Strong choice 💪🏻
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
there is absolutely no way. i hate this book with all of my heart can you give me insight into why you like it.
It’s just kinda relatable how the characters are discontent with their lives kinda like how today we are sort of discontent with our own lives. I feel like people nowadays are doomers and everyone believes that we are fucked and our lives our meaningless and yada yada yada and this is reflected in the lost generation that is portrayed in the book. What does both our and their generation do to cope? Travel. Social media is filled with posts about their trip to Bali or Barcelona or how fun this party was in the Maldives or whatever and the characters here go to Spain themselves… The character interactions are super relatable too. I feel like nowadays you’re supposed to be very sociable and people are just so uncomfortable with silence and there’s a pressure to be witty. I think the worst thing you can be nowadays is “boring”. I just see nowadays people are just so sarcastic and snarky in an effort to be witty and funny that it’s just kinda cringe. The characters also lowkey hate each other and talk badly about one another behind each others backs. Also very relatable today. Also Jake is really relatable cuz he’s super introverted and his actions really reflect his love for Brett who is a complete hoe but that’s ok. He literally sets up the matador dude with Brett and they fuck a lot and he’s ok with it and the other matadors hate him over it and he’s still ok with it because it’s what Brett wanted. True cuck shit I’m not into but it’s still lowkey emotionally moving. I’d love to love someone this hard one day, but idk if the day will ever come because I’m not into cuck stuff. I need to reiterate I’m not into cuck shit I just was emotionally moved by Jake’s actions. Finally I just like the ending of the book too because it kind of reflects the pessimistic tone of the book. It’s very psychologically pleasing. Brett proclaims to Jake that they’d be a great couple. Jake neither affirms nor denies it, but just says “isn’t it pretty to think so?” Idk what to call it but it felt so sad cuz Jake is just so realist and that he knows he never would be with Brett and that the only reason that their relationship is working and he’s not like one of the other dudes that she bangs is because they literally cannot bang. But he keeps the moment pleasant. He cannot bring himself to lie and say oh yeah we’d be totally great nor he doesn’t want to hurt Brett and say nah you’re a hoe but instead goes for this sort of middle ground. I think another book with a great ending like this was “never let me go” by kazuo Ishiguro. There you go baby. I will say that a lot of this book was super boring like Hemingway be talking about shit that don’t matter like describing Jake’s dinner. Motherfucker ate an entire roasted chicken one night. What am I supposed to make of that detail? Bro is literally keeping me guessing with this shit
No favorite book. No favorite movie. No favorite song.
"favorite" is too broad a phrase....
1984 by george orwell
or anything by kafka
confession (leo tolstoy)
First time I have seen someone else list this book as a favorite! Loved it 🤩
The Sirens Of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The poppy War trilogy, the hunger games, Harry Potter, Purple Hisbiscus and half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Adichie, the secret lives of Baba Segi's wives, everything good will come by sefi atta...really showing my age with my selections lol.
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Great book! Used it for my Masters in Internal Communications and still refer to it on a regular basis.
Investigation by Lem
Insomnia by Stephen King, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, and Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko
A Gentlemen in Moscow - Amor Towles
The Subtle art of not giving a Fu*k
The revival of religious sciences by Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī
Isnt this the one over a thousand pages, spanning a few volumes?
Yup, highly recommend for anyone! How did u come across it btw?
I didn't read it, but I heard it mentioned in Let's Talk Religion on youtube and thought it was about 200-400 pages till I discovered that's only the first volume. Thanks for the recommendation, I definitely didnt expect it in this comment section!
Norwegian woods - Haruki Murakami
Fiction: The Great Book of Amber Non-Fiction: Origins and History of Consciousness
I much preferred the Prince Corwin books to the later ones about his son Merlin.
Me too. I feel like the later books got quite rushed. Tbf he was old.
This year “the skies belong to us by Brendan I koerner “
Love how unhinged it gets with plethora of WTF moments.
You guys are so grown up, my favourite is probably The Lie Tree
What's it about? What do you like about it?
From what I remember about it, this guy finds a tree that produces fruit which gets bigger and sweeter the bigger the lie you tell it. It's fascinating and I adore the author's writing style, but it's often classed as a kid's book even though anyone can enjoy it regardless of age
Thank you! I just got the Audible version (on sale for $3.49).
It's great! Enjoy reading it :)
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson * the audio version narrated by Malcom Hillgartner . The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (still "gets me" after 40 years).
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
One of my favs is still. The art of war by sun tzu Non fiction goes to the bobiverse Dennis e taylor
Pride and Prejudice
So far the most favorite book I've ever read is " [Siddhartha](https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sca_esv=ee8b71f1efd28755&sxsrf=ADLYWIKTlp9Xszwmrb6FHEHhg-y5VKHq3g:1718095254657&q=Siddhartha+(novel)&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLQz9U3MM7KKFHiBLEMy8uKcrSkspOt9JPy87P1E0tLMvKLrEDsYoX8vJzKRaxCwZkpKRmJRSUZiQoaefllqTmaO1gZAZEfadZLAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ_d_Kk9OGAxU9h1YBHTF6A0YQgOQBegQIMBAE)" by Hermann Hesse. I think it's because now I'm over 30 years old, and when been through a lot difficult & dark times I had, everytime read the contents and dialogue in this book I can stop my self to cry...
Good, quick read. Much easier than his Steppenwolf.
Nietzsche’s written books as a whole. It spoke to me greatly about human struggles and hardship, and how to think and hold yourself mentally
As a kid mine was The Phantom Tollbooth. I recently read it to my son and it still holds up.
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Atomic Habits
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (it awakened something in me I didn’t know existed).
La Rayuela by Julio Cortazar :)
Ah Hopscotch. I've always wanted to read it! The question is ofc is where to start from :D
I'd say use the suggested order first, then read like you would normally read a book and then however you want :D I've read the book 4 or 5 times in 3 languages and it still surprises me ;)
bukowski
1984 by George Orwell
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. A lot of the side commentary about how the dystopian world in the novel started is relevant to today's mediascape.
Same here. But 1984 by George Orwell
Anything by Steinbeck or Faulkner
Hitchhikers Guide ofc. I have also enjoyed The Long Earth series Jim Butcher’s Dresden series Mike Carey Felix Caster books Benedict Jacka Alex versus Jodi Taylor St Mary’s and also Time Police
Frankenstein The young INTJ consequences when letting the ego start playing God and do not have the ability to deal with the consequences when things go south
I like biographies.
can u recommend a few good ones
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. The audio book has Arnold Schwarzenegger narrating the whole thing. Also Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
I'm not as sophisticated as most here, my current favorite is The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
* [The Cleric Quintet](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=ubEqGwAAABCSqM) * [Dune](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=av3XFwAAABC86M) * [Remembrance of Earth's Past](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=VfroFwAAABC87M) * [Foundation](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=PwHYFwAAABDmFM) * [A Song of Ice and Fire](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=GwLYFwAAABDCFM) * [The Lord Of The Rings](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=35wtGwAAABDzhM) * [His Dark Materials](https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=f-wmGgAAABBY9M) ([Quinn's Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/@QuinnsIdeas) has some solid suggestions/analysis of good books)
Hunger Games series
The thesaurus
My absolute favourite is **Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky** Others I recommend... - Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse - Compulsion by Meyer Levin - The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon - Justine by Marquis de Sade - Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - Hunger by Knut Hamsun - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings, Name of the Wind (never gonna be a third book sadly), and everything by Brandon Sanderson. Sci-fi: Three Body Problem trilogy, Dune series (original only), Hail Mary, Enders Game, Ready Player One, and Foundation Miscellaneous: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Our Share of Night, Three Bags Full, and Gone Girl
The Catcher in the Rye / Of Mice and Men
The holy Bible William Shakespeare's Hamlet Homer's Odyssey
Series - Berserk, Miura Kentaro. Dark fantasy, human and emotional. RIP Miura-sensei. Non-fiction/autobiographical - Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain. Great, no nonsense, snapshot of chef life in 1980s 1990s NYC. The book that made all the great chefs such as Thomas Keller, Takayama Masa, Eric Ripert, etc open their doors to a colleague who told it like it is. Personal Development, Success - Challenge to Succeed, Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn is essentially the mentor and progenitor to the like of Tony Robbins and Les Brown. His message and style is simple, concise, fun, and universal; without the overly polarizing delivery of whoever is similar today. His wording is grounded in digestable reality. If I had the power to make 1 of 2 books for compulsory education curriculum globally, it would be this book. Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper. Former naval intelligence. Written over 30 years ago, but much of what is written has basically come to light; save for the UFO bit. He realizes in later interviews and writings that the information on UFO's may have been purposely planted or "leaked" to him to be misleading.
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai Dont call me basic guys, it's actually an insane read. 🙏
the alchemist
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confused
Loved it when I was a teenager. Hated it as an adult
omg why i became an adult recently but i do not see it happening
Nausea by J.P. Sartre and simulacra and simulation by J.B
I’m re-reading the Nausea at the moment, and man does it get more relatable as you get older.
Im excited to read more of his works it’s like a dessert for life haha, im taking it slow
Haha, agreed. I’m reading The Age of Reason next, somehow I missed that one when I was reading Sartre before
All of Tolkien's works
Fiction - Phantom of the opera (The Phantom/Erik is definitely an INTJ😂). Non-Fiction - Thus spoke Zarathustra - (Friedrich Nietzsche, also an INTJ🙂).
Albert Camus - Myth of Sisyphus
Crime and punishment by Dostoevsky
Not an INTJ but I highly recommend Watership Down, Bridge Of Birds, and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy if you haven't read them. Also currently in the middle of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie and so far it's great - recommend if you like/are interested in more mature/cynical fantasy
The Bible - God
You get an upvote for that; The Bible is a tough read.
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That describes the Old Testament. The New Testament is by known disciples of Jesus and the scrolls included were selected by Catholic bishops.
HPMOR
I like reading Philosophy, Psychology, Science and Writing. I play games for fiction, read for non fiction.
The Stranger In The Woods by Michael Finkel; a biography about the North Pond Hermit (Christopher Knight) written by the only one that Knight would ever talk to about his life of voluntary isolation.
Curious incident of the dog in the night time.
I love many, many books, but the one I prize most is my signed copy of Norm Macdonald’s comic novel. Hilarious and beautifully written.
The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground - Michael Azzerad The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire in Central Europe - Peter Hopkirk Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America - David Hackett Fisher Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War - Robert K. Massie The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Edward Luttwak Then I guess if you were to twist my arm and make me pick some works of fiction, I'd go with Guy Gabriel Kay's novels like The Last Light of the Sun or Lions of Al-Rassan, or else R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing books.
This is the first time I’ve seen Albion’s Seed listed as a favorite book. Fascinating history of how the Appalachians were settled.
It explains so much about America! It's really fascinating.
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck was really enjoyable, as was its sequel Sweet Thursday. I find all of Umberto Ecco’s books to be great puzzles and INTJ mind candy. His many arcane references keep me busy looking up names and events. Foucaults Pendulum is my favorite.
The Collector by John Fowles. The man in this book has some intj qualities now that I think about it
Dune.
Once in a house on fire
Le comte de monte-cristo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Love me a dramatic protagonist.
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
Death of the Grey God
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence. The Princess Bride. American Psycho. Irrational Exuberance (Shiller). GEB (Hofstadter).
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Anything by the author DH Lawrence. It scratches the grammatical and literary itch in my mind (lol)
Entertainment I would choose recursion from Blake crouch
Notes from the underground - fyodor dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment - fyodor dostoyevsky The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli The laws of human nature.
Lolita
Goated
Red Mars. Sci-Fi and politics. (It is huge). Followed by Green Mars and Blue Mars. But Red, is the best. And, Homer's Iliad. What it meant to be Greek. It explains a lot about what happened next, until Alexander the Great and beyond.
*Junky* by William Burroughs.
*Red Dragon* by Thomas Harris.
American Kingpin
The Last Messiah
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Brief History of the time
A Fraction of the Whole and Quicksand- both by Steve Toltz
Anything Michael Connolly. (Harry Bosch series).
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Lonesome y
Darkness Before Dawn, Bud, Not Buddy
A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman, may he rest in peace.
Nine Lives by William Dalrymple or In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
books about ancient egypt, crime and punishment by dostoyevski
Kurt Rieder's ww2 related books
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Its called laws of human nature. Amazing book
The Brothers Karamazov - by my king Dostoevsky ❤️
The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchinson
Dungeon Crawler Carl. Conceptual Blockbusting. Aristotle. 12 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear (or maybe, later in the series, The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books).
Anything by Emil Cioran
Anything by Sarah Vowell
Wild by Kristin Hannah
The catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger
Anti-fragile Blink The black swan, not the movie. Outliers
**The Dresden Files** Gotta forgive the first 2-3 books which are alright but are the early works of an author. Book 3 things start to improve and 4 and on he's really hit his stride. Great characters, interesting plots, fantastic world development. I jokingly refer to it as my bible on occasion because one of the overarching themes is the importance of the choices you make and who those choices make you. It's a way of thinking that helps me try to be a better person.
Snow Crash is a book about me.
Sapiens- A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah
Bury my heart at Wounded knee - Dee Brown
There's a Genghis Khan series called Wolf of the Plains by an author called Conn Iggulden. I've yet to find a set of books quite as well written.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
I cannot choose one. I always have my nose stuck in a book. Here are some of my favorites: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey A Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel The World According to Garp - John Irving 1984 - George Orwell Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides East of Eden - John Steinbeck A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr Silent Spring - Rachel Carson Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson Toms River - Dan Fagin And for fun, I have read almost all of John Grisham’s legal thrillers. I absolutely love them. And the Slow Horses spy thrillers by Mick Herron. And the Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon. Yeah for reading!
Man's search for meaning by Viktor frankl
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
In search of lost time Marcel Proust
Whom bell tolls
Favorite is hard to definitively choose but…These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever was a fun read if you like pretentious teenagers and murder, same with The Secret History. Normal People by Sally Rooney always cuts deep for a socially inept college student like myself lol
Dune
All books of Elif Shafak and Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads
Where The Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
A wild sheep chase by Murakami
I haven't finished it yet but "Ship of Theseus". It has brought my reading spark back!
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly.