 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.90 What I would call the greatest novel I have ever read. Magnificent and human.
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 | Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $3.60 This one is up there with Brothers K--dark, funny, and illustrative of the power of ideas in our human lives.
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 | Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $2.97 Who cannot find himself in the underground man?
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 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Capuchin Classics) by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $8.29 Probably the best answer to absurdity after Christ's, "O ye of little faith, wherefore did you doubt?"
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics) by G.K. Chesterton
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.32 The best theodicy I ever read. Why do we so often feel alone in our struggle with the world? Chesterton understands better than anyone I have read.
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 | The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Ancius Boethius
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.49 The wheel of fortune turns for every man, to good or ill. To place your hope and well-being in fortune's hands is folly. One's wellbeing must be anchored in the inner life, to that which is truly good.
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 | The Plague by Albert Camus
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.39 I <3 this book. It was my bridge to philosophy and I love it more now than I ever did. The human world is viewed in microcosm in the plague-quarantined city of Oran and its people's struggles.
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 | The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.11 Whether he is right or not, Camus' famous essay is a cardinal, and essential, work for understanding the absurd.
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 | The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition For Upbuilding And Awakening (Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 19) (v. 19) by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.00 While Lazarus' sickness was not unto death, he died. What, then, is the sickness unto death? And what is the extent of this sickness? How is it discovered, and how can it be cured? Probably the best introductory work for someone wishing to break into one of the greatest thinkers in history.
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 | Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 10) (v. 10) by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $70.00 / Used from: $47.50 I especially recommend "At a Graveside." This is where Heidegger got a lot of his death ideas for Sein und Zeit.
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 | Fear and Trembling/Repetition : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 6 by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.92 What is faith? Who is the knight of faith? Another must-read of Kierkegaard's.
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 | The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $3.49 A great introduction to Plato. Follow the last days and conversations of the man who stands at the fore of Western philosophy.
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 | Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 7 by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $25.02 / Used from: $4.37 How do we get past Socrates?
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