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Highly Recommended Books for Life and Understanding - Page 2

A list of 125 books that are a sure to impart widsom, life lessons, empathy, compassion, and conceptual knowledge to the reader. A mixture of fiction, poetry, science fiction, dystopia, non fiction, memoirs, biography, fantasy - as well as themes of war, love, death, tyranny, evil, and religion.
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen)
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
41
Wilfred Owen
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
42
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Beyond Good and Evil
43
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)
The Myth of Sisyphus
44
Camus
Foundation (Asimov)
Foundation
45
Asimov
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
Starship Troopers
46
Robert A. Heinlein
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
47
Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
Life, the Universe and Everything
48
Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
49
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
50
Sharon and My Mother-In-Law (Suad Amiry)
Sharon and My Mother-In-Law
51
Suad Amiry
The River Between
The River Between
52
Decolonising the Mind (Ngugi Wa Thiong'o)
Decolonising the Mind
53
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
Disgrace
54
J. M. Coetzee
Elizabeth the Queen (Alison Weir)
Elizabeth the Queen
55
Alison Weir
Against Our Better Judgement (Alison Weir)
Against Our Better Judgement
56
Alison Weir
The Gulag Archipelago V1 (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago V1
57
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
58
Marcus Aurelius
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics
59
Aristotle
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway - 1929)
A Farewell to Arms
60
Ernest Hemingway - 1929
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
61
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
62
Shel Silverstein
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon
63
Daniel Keyes
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
64
William Shakespeare
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
65
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
66
William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare)
Titus Andronicus
67
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
68
William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare)
Much Ado About Nothing
69
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
The Taming of the Shrew
70
William Shakespeare
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It
71
William Shakespeare
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
72
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar
73
William Shakespeare
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (Dante)
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
74
Dante
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
75
Homer
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
76
Homer
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
77
Sylvia Plath
The Human Situation (Aldous Huxley)
The Human Situation
78
Aldous Huxley
If This Is a Man (Primo Levi)
If This Is a Man
79
Primo Levi
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
V for Vendetta
80
Alan Moore
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