100 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE!

The germ of book love didn't start in my childhood, but rather at the beginning of an existential crisis! and this 100 titles on this list do so magnificently. These are books that have influenced my life the most and I heartily recommend that you read them not only because I know how they affect some of my patients, but first of all because I know what they have done to me!

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MUST READ BOOKS BEFORE YOU DIE!

Existentialism Camus, Albert: The Stranger (1942) Camus, Albert: The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) Camus, Albert: The Plague (1947) Camus, Albert: The Rebel (1951) Camus, Albert: The Fall (1956) Camus, Albert: A Happy Death (1971) Camus, Albert: The First Man (1994) Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from the Underground (1864) Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (1866) Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869) Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Demons (1872) Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Heidegger, Martin: Being and Time (1927) Heidegger, Martin: The Question concerning Technology (1954) Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis (1915) Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1925) Kafka, Franz: The Castle (1926) Kierkegaard, Søren: Either/Or (1843) Kierkegaard, Søren: Fear and Trembling (1843) Kierkegaard, Søren: The Concept of Anxiety (1844) Kierkegaard, Søren: Stages on Life’s Way (1845) Kierkegaard, Søren: Works of Love (1847) Kierkegaard, Søren: The Sickness unto Death (1849) Kierkegaard, Søren: The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Birth of Tragedy (1872) Nietzsche, Friedrich: Human, All Too Human (1878) Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Dawn of Day (1881) Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science (1882) Nietzsche, Friedrich: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil (1886) Nietzsche, Friedrich: On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) Nietzsche, Friedrich: Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist (1888) Sartre, Jean-Paul: Existentialism is a Humanism (1946) Sartre, Jean-Paul: Nausea (1938) Sartre, Jean-Paul: The Wall (1939) and Other Stories Sartre, Jean-Paul: Being and Nothingness (1943) Sartre, Jean-Paul: No Exit (1944) and Three Other Plays

Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot (1953) Stoicism Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations (180 AD) Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings ( 108 AD) Epictetus: The Enchiridion (125 AD) Seneca: On the Shortness of Life (49 AD) Seneca: Letters from a Stoic (65 AD) Psychology Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) Freud, Sigmund: The Future Of Illusion (1989) Jung, Carl: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961) Jung, Carl: Man and His Symbols (1964) Jung, Carl: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology – C.W. Vol.7 (1967) Jung, Carl: Symbols of Transformation – C.W. Vol.5 (1967) Jung, Carl: Psychology & Alchemy – C.W. Vol.12 (1968) Jung, Carl: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious – Collected Works Vol.9 Part 1 (1969) Jung, Carl: Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self – C.W. Vol.9 Part 2 (1969) Jung, Carl: Mysterium Coniunctionis – C.W. Vol.14 (1970) Jung, Carl: Psychological Types – C.W. Vol.6 (1971) Jung, Carl: Modern Man In Search of a Soul (1933) Eastern philosophy Confucius: The Analects (2th century BC) Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha (1922) Musashi, Miyamoto: The Book of Five Rings (1643) Tzu, Lao: Tao Te Ching (6th century BC) Tzu, Sun: The Art of War (5th century BC) Watts, Alan: The Way of Zen (1957) Watts, Alan: Tao – The Watercourse Way (1975) Yogananda, Paramahansa: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) Zhou, Zhuang: The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th – 2th century BC) Unknown author: The Bhagavad Gita (2nd century BC) Unknown author: The Upanishads (7th – 5th century BC) Unknown author: The Dhammapada (5th – 4th century BC) The Classics Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy (1321) Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (1813) Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote (1615) Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations (1860) Frank, Anne: The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury (1929) Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (1925) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust (1829) Golding, William: Lord of the Flies (1954) Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 (1961) Herbert, Frank: Dune (1965) Homer: The Iliad (7th century BC) Homer: The Odyssey (7th century BC) Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World (1932) Joyce, James: Ulysses (1922) Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Machiavelli, Niccolò: The Prince (1532) Márquez, Gabriel García: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Melville, Herman: Moby Dick (1851) Milton, John: Paradise Lost (1667) Orwell, George: Animal Farm (1945) Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Proust, Marcel: In Search of Lost Time (1913) Salinger, J.D: The Catcher in the Rye (1951) Shakespeare, William: Hamlet (1609) Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein (1823) Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipielago (1974) Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Stoker, Bram: Dracula (1897) Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace (1869) Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina (1878) Tolstoy, Leo: The Death Of Ivan Ilich (1886) Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse (1927) Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1844)

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