Books

Last updated: Jan 2025

Political Philosophy

• Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince, Discourses in Livy
• Montesquieu – Persian Letters, The Spirit of the Laws
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, The Social Contract, Reveries of a Solitary Walker

History

• Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Joseph W Bendersky – A Concise History of Nazi Germany
• Sheila Fitzpatrick – The Russian Revolution
• Daniel Immerwahr – How to Hide an Empire

Modern Literature

• William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
• Lu Xun – Collective Essay
• Eileen Chang – The Golden Cangue
• Natsume Sōseki – Kokoro

Poetry

• Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet
• William Shakespeare – Sonnets
• Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu

Essays

• Eula Biss – The Pain Scale
• Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance, Divinity School Address