Great Books list

Feb 2, 2026

Add Great Books you have read here. These books must be essential reading, not merely good to read. Fiction, nonfiction, eastern, and western are all allowed. Here is my list (I will not let it get above three pages in length):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KOCR-qSvx0vi0XU18pglwh84NVkk2i0DANdHeM4xMmo/edit?tab=t.0

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Collapse of Chaos and the companion volume Figments of Reality by the pair Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart (deep epistemology and ontology)

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Nice overview of human history

@100Anonymous I skimmed through it once and wasn't impressed. But I didn't look at it thoroughly, so you may be right.

@EnopoletusHarding Maybe check chapters 5-12. I liked those the most.

Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky. If you like weird esoteric sci-fi stuff, I enjoyed the hell out of it.

@Valerie Can’t add it to the google doc because I’m not at my computer, hence me putting it in the comments. Apologies

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@Valerie I don't allow people to put it in the Google doc because I don't want it to get too big and I want to select submissions.