Cultural Amnesia: A Reading List

1.
The Opium of the Intellectuals
The Opium of the Intellectuals 3.99 avg rating — 473 ratings
2.
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind 4.27 avg rating — 4,725 ratings
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Mephisto
Mephisto 4.07 avg rating — 5,644 ratings
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Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India, 1921-1952 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
5.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,643 ratings
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Selected Writings
Selected Writings 4.06 avg rating — 204 ratings
7.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope 4.37 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
8.
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
9.
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 4.42 avg rating — 7,511 ratings
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My Half-Century: Selected Prose
My Half-Century: Selected Prose 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
11.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 71,984 ratings
12.
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition 4.13 avg rating — 657 ratings
13.
Die Welt von Gestern
Die Welt von Gestern 4.51 avg rating — 27,402 ratings
14.
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 4.29 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
15.
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline 3.82 avg rating — 598 ratings
16.
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne 4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
17.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,297 ratings
18.
Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,417 ratings
19.
Three Tales
Three Tales 3.62 avg rating — 7,572 ratings
20.
Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas
Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas 3.94 avg rating — 386 ratings
21.
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century 4.13 avg rating — 135 ratings
22.
Goebbels: A Biography
Goebbels: A Biography 3.82 avg rating — 925 ratings
23.
Poetry and Prose
Poetry and Prose 4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
24.
Diary
Diary 4.49 avg rating — 740 ratings
25.
In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader
In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings
26.
Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,487 ratings
26.
Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown 4.26 avg rating — 438 ratings
28.
On the Marble Cliffs
On the Marble Cliffs 3.80 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
29.
The Glass Bees
The Glass Bees 3.69 avg rating — 1,738 ratings
30.
The Waste Books
The Waste Books 4.16 avg rating — 842 ratings
31.
Thomas Mann and His Family
Thomas Mann and His Family 3.67 avg rating — 78 ratings
32.
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture 4.09 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
32.
Prague Farewell
Prague Farewell 4.42 avg rating — 66 ratings
34.
Wittgenstein's Vienna
Wittgenstein's Vienna 4.13 avg rating — 435 ratings
34.
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny 4.14 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
36.
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
36.
ಆವರಣ [Aavarana]
ಆವರಣ [Aavarana] 4.45 avg rating — 4,357 ratings
38.
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 4.08 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
38.
Kritische Essays zur europäischen Literatur
Kritische Essays zur europäischen Literatur 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
38.
Pakistan or the Partition of India
Pakistan or the Partition of India 4.43 avg rating — 719 ratings
41.
Hope Abandoned
Hope Abandoned 4.43 avg rating — 114 ratings
41.
Why Read the Classics?
Why Read the Classics? 3.83 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
43.
The Annals/The Histories
The Annals/The Histories
by: Tacitus
4.04 avg rating — 358 ratings
44.
Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose
Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose 3.83 avg rating — 111 ratings
44.
Reminiscences and Reflections: A Youth in Germany
Reminiscences and Reflections: A Youth in Germany
by: Golo Mann
3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
46.
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong 4.15 avg rating — 964 ratings
46.
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 4.09 avg rating — 455 ratings
48.
The History of Jazz
The History of Jazz
by: Ted Gioia
4.08 avg rating — 5,421 ratings
49.
Why I Write
Why I Write 4.01 avg rating — 14,211 ratings
50.
Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection
Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection 4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings
50.
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 13,637 ratings
52.
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship 3.96 avg rating — 249 ratings
53.
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life 4.38 avg rating — 176 ratings
54.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating — 12,264 ratings
55.
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings 4.32 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
56.
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. 4.09 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
57.
Marc Bloch: A Life in History (Canto original series)
Marc Bloch: A Life in History (Canto original series) 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
58.
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions 4.56 avg rating — 25,156 ratings
59.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.34 avg rating — 6,651 ratings
60.
Selected Non-Fictions
Selected Non-Fictions 4.44 avg rating — 2,353 ratings
61.
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach 3.87 avg rating — 125 ratings
62.
Notebooks, 1935-1951
Notebooks, 1935-1951 4.27 avg rating — 659 ratings
63.
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays 4.33 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
64.
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 617 ratings
65.
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan 4.33 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
66.
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew 4.34 avg rating — 225 ratings
67.
Collected Prose
Collected Prose 4.07 avg rating — 183 ratings
68.
Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings
Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
69.
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life 3.75 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
70.
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends 3.68 avg rating — 712 ratings
71.
My Autobiography
My Autobiography 4.03 avg rating — 8,116 ratings
72.
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings
73.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 3.84 avg rating — 571 ratings
74.
G.K. Chesterton: A Selection from His Non-fictional Prose
G.K. Chesterton: A Selection from His Non-fictional Prose 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
75.
The Difficulty of Being
The Difficulty of Being 3.89 avg rating — 515 ratings
76.
Jean Cocteau: A Life
Jean Cocteau: A Life 4.59 avg rating — 54 ratings
77.
Guide to Aesthetics
Guide to Aesthetics 3.68 avg rating — 248 ratings
78.
Benedetto Croce: Essays on Literature and Literary Criticism
Benedetto Croce: Essays on Literature and Literary Criticism liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
79.
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography 4.21 avg rating — 16,140 ratings
80.
Diaghilev: A Life
Diaghilev: A Life 4.35 avg rating — 301 ratings
81.
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1909-1929
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
82.
Will O' the Wisp
Will O' the Wisp 3.76 avg rating — 940 ratings
83.
The Comedy of Charleroi, and Other Stories
The Comedy of Charleroi, and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings
84.
Essays on Music
Essays on Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
85.
Mozart: His Character, His Work (Galaxy Books)
Mozart: His Character, His Work (Galaxy Books) 4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings
86.
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington 3.89 avg rating — 657 ratings
87.
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya 4.26 avg rating — 183 ratings
88.
Fellini On Fellini
Fellini On Fellini 4.21 avg rating — 365 ratings
89.
W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles
W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings
90.
W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields 4.28 avg rating — 201 ratings
91.
The Crack-Up
The Crack-Up 3.90 avg rating — 3,717 ratings
92.
The Letters, 1830-1880
The Letters, 1830-1880 4.49 avg rating — 131 ratings
93.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,077 ratings
94.
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Flaubert and Madame Bovary 4.02 avg rating — 217 ratings
95.
Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
Freud: The Mind of the Moralist 4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings
96.
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst 3.96 avg rating — 341 ratings
97.
The Freud Reader
The Freud Reader 3.99 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
98.
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 1, Renaissance and Reformation (Social Science Classics Series)
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 1, Renaissance and Reformation (Social Science Classics Series) 4.31 avg rating — 89 ratings
99.
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment 4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings
100.
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Romanticism and Liberalism (Volume 3)
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Romanticism and Liberalism (Volume 3) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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