Books that have given me much insight(in no particular order):
-Nietzsche: Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Geneology of Morals
-Edward Hyams: Soil and Civilization
-Emerson: collected writings
-Wendell Berry: The Unsettling of America, Home Economics, general poetry, essays
-Bataille: Visions of Excess
-James Frazer: The Golden Bough
-Walter Lippmann: Public Opinion(good to understand the optics of Leviathan)
-Aristotle: Politics, Nichomachean Ethics
-Thucydides: History of the Pelopponessian War
-Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy
-Caesar: writings on the gallic war, civil war
-Hobbes: Leviathan (duh)
-Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
-Marx: On The German Ideology, Kapital, Grundrisse, misc. writings
-The Upanishads(very close to my heart)
-Bhagavad Gita(close to my heart)
-The Bible, especially the New Testament
-All of Blake's Writings and Art(he is my prophet)
-essays of T.E. Hulme
-Emily Dickinson: collected poems
-Rilke: Book of Hours
-Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems
-Cormac McArthy: The Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian, The Passenger
-Faulkner: The Wild Palms
-Collected works of Jung
-collected works of Freud
-collected works of Hunter S Thompson
-Arthur Ponsonby: Falsehoods in wartime(must read)
-Ezra Pound: Guide to Kultur
-Eustace Mullins: Secrets of the federal reserve(havent read his other works but this was one that i read as a teenager that opened the gates to me understanding the anatomy of Leviathan)
-Manly P Hall: Secret Teachings Of All Ages
-Goethe: Faust, essays and letters
-Plutarch: most of his major writings- too much to name
-Plato: collected works but most especially the Theaetetus because i think it should be taught as an introductory course to all of philosophy
-The Rig Veda: this is where the poetic tradition began and I still draw much inspiration from it
-Bardo Thödol, or in the west, Tibetan book of the dead
-Nag Hammadi Scriptures, dead sea scrolls
-Philip K Dick: VALIS trilogy, other sci-fi works
-various alchemical treatises.
If anyone sees this engage with it because i would love to talk about these and other books; of literature, poetry and philosophy in general.










