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Live the Examined Life
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We the LivingWe the Living by Ayn Rand
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Perhaps the most moving potrayal of the human condition
The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You will find youself, lose yourself, and then find yourself again in this masterpiece
Demian (Perennial Classics)Demian (Perennial Classics) by Hermann Hesse
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A must read...
Blindness (Harvest Book)Blindness (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago
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An example of how utterly base human behavior can become
The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material WorldThe Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World by Colin Mcginn
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A laymen's guide to modern philsophy of mind - it will change your life!
The FallThe Fall by Albert Camus
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Camus's best: deal's with a lawyer's predicament
City of GodCity of God by E. L. Doctorow
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A mixture of philosphy, theoretical physics and postmodernism
Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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I believe that a meaning for life may be found in the last 50 pages...
Prague: A NovelPrague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
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This book is unexpectedely deep & will touch anyone who suffers from the "life is elsewhere" syndrome
The Captive MindThe Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
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An brilliant exposition into the socialist/communist ideology of the former Eastern Bloc
Underworld: A NovelUnderworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
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Delillo's best: good to see that this kind of work is still being produced!
DemonsDemons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If you are going to read Dostoevsky, read 'Brothers K' first and this second
The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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Explores the complex relationship of brothers and sisters: George Elliot is too easily overlooked
No Exit and Three Other PlaysNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Explores why "hell is other people"
SnowSnow by Orhan Pamuk
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You will become hooked on Pamuk
The TrialThe Trial by Franz Kafka
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This book made we want to become a lawyer - the fear and anxiety K feels against the arbitrary state makes you glad we have Due Process... or do we?
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A NovelThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
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This book with bend the boundaries by which you define "reality"
When Nietzsche WeptWhen Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
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Explores questions about depression, hoplessness and grief that many contemporary novels avoid
Doctor ZhivagoDoctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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Although hailed as a political novel, Pasternak delves into socio/philosophical issues of man struggle for personal identity in a repressive state