Just placed an order for the following books (I just finished The Essential Plotinus & Gandhi's Autobiography [Seeking Truth]):

Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal..
The Art of Happiness (10th)
Republic Plato (Thomas Taylor)
Siddahartha (New Directions)
Nicomachear Ethics (Irwin)
Beyond Good & Evil
Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Mediations (Hays)
The Obstacle is the Way
Letters from a Stoic (Seneca/Campbell)
Mans Search for Meaning
Montaigne Essays
Emerson Select Essays
Ishmael: Adventure of..
Being Peace
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
If you meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him
Walden (Thoreau)
Discipline & Punish (Foucault/Sheridan)


My question to you:

• Am I missing any obvious good/important reads?
• Would you recommend a different translation of a book over the one(s) I have?
• Do you have a strong opinion about any of the above titles (good or bad + explain)?
• Are there ones that you recommend that I read prior to others?

Thanks for your help
Austin

I'm missing some Dostoyevsky if you haven't already read some.

Oh and Bulgakov, Master and Margarita is great!

Dostoyevsky - good call!
As for Master & - isn't this a purely fictional piece? I may have misunderstood the discussion I overheard about this book, so please correct me if I'm wrong

Thanks again for the Dosto reminder!

It is fictional but the story is a strong satirical commentary on the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

Some selected works of Kant may be a good idea alongside some of that philosophy - as a primer/contrast for Nietzsche/Foucault and contrast for the Nicomachean Ethics.

If you have the constitution for it, I would recommend front loading the serious philosophy to have better tools to tease out meaning from the less structured works.

game of thrones

Can't go wrong with some Camus.

good stuff, i gotta check out some of these myself