100 Books to Read before The Collapse

1.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 4.09 avg rating β€” 50,999 ratings
2.
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems 4.14 avg rating β€” 12,038 ratings
3.
The Hawk in the Rain
The Hawk in the Rain 3.93 avg rating β€” 858 ratings
4.
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,011 ratings
5.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating β€” 602,843 ratings
6.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating β€” 602,348 ratings
7.
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating β€” 38,624 ratings
8.
The Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary
The Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating β€” 176,957 ratings
9.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,857 ratings
10.
About Looking
About Looking 4.09 avg rating β€” 9,053 ratings
11.
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 4.12 avg rating β€” 4,250 ratings
12.
Games People Play
Games People Play 3.73 avg rating β€” 40,203 ratings
13.
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,710 ratings
14.
The Abolition of Work
The Abolition of Work
by: Bob Black
3.69 avg rating β€” 990 ratings
15.
The Law Of The Playground: A puerile and disturbing dictionary of playground insults and games
The Law Of The Playground: A puerile and disturbing dictionary of playground insults and games really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
16.
Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God: Srimad Bhagavata Purana: Srimad Bhagavata Purana Bk.10
Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God: Srimad Bhagavata Purana: Srimad Bhagavata Purana Bk.10
by: Anonymous
4.30 avg rating β€” 90 ratings
16.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,959,460 ratings
18.
Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye 4.14 avg rating β€” 115,679 ratings
19.
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology 4.27 avg rating β€” 4,288 ratings
20.
Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II (The Masks of God, 2)
Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II (The Masks of God, 2) 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,428 ratings
21.
The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,851 ratings
22.
The Fall
The Fall 4.03 avg rating β€” 127,589 ratings
23.
The Education of Little Tree
The Education of Little Tree 4.14 avg rating β€” 17,568 ratings
24.
Year 501: The Conquest Continues
Year 501: The Conquest Continues 4.15 avg rating β€” 736 ratings
25.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating β€” 23,241 ratings
26.
The Book of Chuang Tzu
The Book of Chuang Tzu
by: Zhuangzi
4.35 avg rating β€” 3,174 ratings
27.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating β€” 545,794 ratings
28.
The Sketchbooks, 1981-2012
The Sketchbooks, 1981-2012 really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
29.
VALIS
VALIS 3.92 avg rating β€” 32,019 ratings
30.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield 4.04 avg rating β€” 253,112 ratings
31.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating β€” 369,588 ratings
32.
The Civilizing Process
The Civilizing Process 4.25 avg rating β€” 970 ratings
33.
The Technological Society
The Technological Society 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,158 ratings
34.
My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson 4.27 avg rating β€” 1,802 ratings
35.
Parzival
Parzival 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,836 ratings
36.
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 4.21 avg rating β€” 37,069 ratings
37.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating β€” 35,775 ratings
38.
Animal Architecture
Animal Architecture 4.30 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
39.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating β€” 25,627 ratings
40.
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody 3.69 avg rating β€” 17,699 ratings
41.
Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago
Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago 4.33 avg rating β€” 443 ratings
42.
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,169 ratings
43.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating β€” 206,776 ratings
44.
Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker 4.02 avg rating β€” 8,554 ratings
45.
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration 4.54 avg rating β€” 1,061 ratings
46.
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,713 ratings
47.
Les MisΓ©rables
Les MisΓ©rables 4.21 avg rating β€” 830,273 ratings
48.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,015,890 ratings
49.
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health 4.04 avg rating β€” 583 ratings
50.
Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society 3.99 avg rating β€” 3,414 ratings
51.
Disabling Professions
Disabling Professions 4.13 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
52.
Moomins (8 Book Series)
Moomins (8 Book Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
53.
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
by: Ricky Jay
4.17 avg rating β€” 462 ratings
54.
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,757 ratings
55.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating β€” 377,396 ratings
56.
The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums 3.93 avg rating β€” 99,792 ratings
57.
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō 3.86 avg rating β€” 2,615 ratings
58.
The Impossible Question
The Impossible Question 4.25 avg rating β€” 171 ratings
59.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution 4.23 avg rating β€” 3,798 ratings
60.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow 3.70 avg rating β€” 21,411 ratings
61.
Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie 3.91 avg rating β€” 14,858 ratings
62.
If This Is a Man β€’ The Truce
If This Is a Man β€’ The Truce 4.54 avg rating β€” 21,717 ratings
63.
The Waste Books
The Waste Books 4.16 avg rating β€” 842 ratings
64.
Making Love: Sexual Love the Divine Way
Making Love: Sexual Love the Divine Way 3.98 avg rating β€” 126 ratings
65.
Be As You Are
Be As You Are 4.27 avg rating β€” 2,836 ratings
66.
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays 4.09 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
67.
The Upanishads
The Upanishads
by: Anonymous
4.25 avg rating β€” 17,330 ratings
68.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World 4.35 avg rating β€” 3,770 ratings
69.
Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media
Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media 4.18 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
70.
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus
The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus 4.30 avg rating β€” 424 ratings
71.
Kitaro
Kitaro 3.98 avg rating β€” 781 ratings
72.
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Useful Work versus Useless Toil 3.87 avg rating β€” 476 ratings
73.
Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization 4.30 avg rating β€” 601 ratings
74.
I Am a Cat
I Am a Cat 3.68 avg rating β€” 17,002 ratings
75.
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs 4.26 avg rating β€” 19,807 ratings
76.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating β€” 97,523 ratings
77.
Tertium Organum
Tertium Organum 4.31 avg rating β€” 579 ratings
78.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) 3.78 avg rating β€” 241,472 ratings
79.
Struggle of the Magicians: Exploring the Teacher Student Relationship
Struggle of the Magicians: Exploring the Teacher Student Relationship 3.76 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
80.
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises
by: Simon Lee
3.31 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
81.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 4.20 avg rating β€” 5,133 ratings
82.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating β€” 13,695 ratings
83.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating β€” 239,831 ratings
84.
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond 3.99 avg rating β€” 222 ratings
85.
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought 4.43 avg rating β€” 218 ratings
86.
The World as Will and Representation, 2 Vols
The World as Will and Representation, 2 Vols 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,255 ratings
87.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating β€” 232,713 ratings
88.
Kolyma Tales
Kolyma Tales 4.36 avg rating β€” 8,310 ratings
89.
Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich
Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich 4.02 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
90.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,772,492 ratings
91.
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,972 ratings
92.
Non-Stop Inertia: Life in and out of Precarious Work
Non-Stop Inertia: Life in and out of Precarious Work 3.75 avg rating β€” 197 ratings
93.
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct 3.77 avg rating β€” 1,719 ratings
94.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating β€” 357,011 ratings
95.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,319,007 ratings
96.
The Underground Sketchbook of Tomi Ungerer
The Underground Sketchbook of Tomi Ungerer 3.94 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
97.
Ramayana
Ramayana 4.19 avg rating β€” 5,259 ratings
98.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism 3.92 avg rating β€” 6,139 ratings
99.
The Outsider
The Outsider 4.03 avg rating β€” 4,477 ratings
100.
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations 4.26 avg rating β€” 15,521 ratings
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