Looking for suggestions from literate Dramanauts 
Silly and potentially brain-rotting as this may be, I am unironically interested in reading recommendations from my fellow shitposters. I’ll take fiction and nonfiction alike, but I’m mainly looking for things you thought were genuinely profound.
I actually bought a meditation book, The Mind Illuminated by John Yates, because it was recommended here, and I’ve enjoyed it so far. It’s worth noting the author was an actual PhD scientist, so the book isn’t just guru fluff. It details how to meditate, how specifically to get better at it and avoid plateauing, and makes it clear when you’re actually ready for the next stage by listing what you should be accomplishing and how you should be feeling.
I’m also on a theology kick at the moment, so I’ve been thumbing through a bible for the first time since childhood, and I’m also reading Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo. I enjoy how relatable his points and reflections are despite the elaborate writing and significant passage of time. While this may sound mean, I also can’t help but note Augustine’s obsession with rhetorical debate in his youth greatly reminds me of our community’s very own @pizzashill. It’s more theological, but I’m still getting the same feel.
On that note, does anyone have a specific recommendation for a good English Quran for beginners?
I’ve also been replaying Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid, so my political science is on point 
I’ve seen the following books brought up over the months:
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Brave New World (Any other Aldous Huxley suggestions?)
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Grapes of Wrath
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The Expanse
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Stand on Zanzibar
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Lord of the Rings series (I honestly know nothing about the franchise)
Do not read
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Wheel of Time (Carp likes it so it goes here)
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The Handmaid’s Tale
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Krakauer stuff
Anything else 
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Read Blood Meridan, the book is straight up art.
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Harry Potter
It's required reading to be able to spot all the fascism in current times
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The Bible and Quran are pretty poggers
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Just read the modern religious texts like Harry potter and Handmaids tale or gasp 1984
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pizza always reminded me of Ignatius of Confederacy of Dunces, which is a book you might like.
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That's a really good comparison lmao
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I liked a farewell to arms. It really shows how utterly useless the Italians are which is a lesson all people need to learn.
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Notes from Underground is something I'll always recommend and Infinite Jest (unironically) dw no one has ever read IJ but people (redditors) think you are smart whenever you mention it
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Notes from the Underground is a very easy read for dramanauts as its basically like reading the social media posts of a lolcow
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Microwave me harder daddy
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Read:
Pale Fire
Faust by Goethe
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky
I would replace Brave New World with the essay Brave New World Revisited also by Adolf Huxley (the ideas are interesting but the actual book is pretty bad as a story which is why I rec reading it as an essay)
White Noise by Don Delillo
Sirens of titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Then some non-fiction stuff:
The Present Age by Kirekgaard (an OG anti journo tract)
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Decent list, extra upmersy for Soren.
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Is Jerusalem actually good? I like Alan Moore, but that just seemed like more words than I'd care to read from the Wizard man. Good list overall tho
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I haven't actually finished it but I liked the chapters I read. Its just very slow because he writes it in Bri'ish instead of English.
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Yes DeLillo. Odd, 2nd time ive seen In the Penal Colony mentioned here in a week
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Catch 22 is the only book that made
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From that list, Brave New World is good but contrary to reddit opinion 1984 is a much, much better book.
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1984 is way better written then Brave New World but I like the themes of BNW better. Read the essay Brave New World Revisited if you get the chance.
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I’ve read 1984 and I did like it. Brave New World is the other famous dystopia novel I’ve yet to get to.
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It's good, and it's just as good a prediction of things to come as 1984. But 1984 is just a much better book in all regards.
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Any Balzac: Pere Goriot or this short story https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/pitdbalz.html
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Sarrasine is god tier
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I cannot read
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Collections of essays are underrated, for some reason. I can't get enough of them. I'd say skip Brave New World and 1984 and read "The Essays of George Orwell" and "The Essays of Aldous Huxley" (they are both really good essayists.)
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Good to know
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The Last and First Men
Chaos: Making of a new Science
Gulliver's Travels
Who Moved my Cheese?
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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Oh my God JC! A bomb!
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/lit/ says Start with the Greeks.
On a serious note, I don't think anything I read will interest you. Giving my bookshelf a glance maybe J. G. Ballard would suit you? Something like High-Rise? He's like less crazy Phil K. Peepee. You need to give me some more of yours likes/dislikes.
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If you like Sci-Fi that isn't about jerking off about spaceships and hyperweapons, starship troopers is good.
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We don't care about the pretexts you've collected that justify to yourselves why your particular targeted harassment behaviour is justified; It's still a witch hunt, and it's still disallowed by Reddit sitewide rules, and your witch hunt is the kind of thing that gets picked up by those who do evil and given another pretext to go harass other people.
You are building a weapon that breaks Reddit. Reddit admins will not allow it.
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Read Infinite Jest
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I thought The Night Land and Awake in the Night Land were interesting. The first one was written in 1912 and is sci-fi cosmic horror before the genre really existed. A bit of a tough read due to weird prose. Awake in the Night Land was written in 2015 by some guy who was a fan of the book and is a collection of stories based on the setting.
Also, if you want to knock out a really quick read, I liked The Long Walk.
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My diary
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Post it
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Sure
https://www.gaydemon.com/stories/Banging_The_Pakistani_Brothers_30224.html
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I really liked One Soldiers War about the Chechnya conflict. Showed how the Russian military functioned from a Russian soldiers perspective and very enlightening
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Necro, but The Book of Misers.
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Steinbeck Steinbeck Steinbeck
Cannery Row is my favorite
, but Red Pony and Grapes are fine novels too. And all the Louis Lamour paperback cowboy stories too
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Guns of August is a great book on WW1
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress was fun. Brush up on your Russian accent before reading. For nonfiction, I can't theology. Caplan's Myth of the Rational Voter is great.
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On a second thought, maybe I can get lazy and just scroll through my Kindle tell you what I read/enjoyed:
Americana, DeLilo
Travel Writings, Basho
The Crying Lot of 49, Pychon
Busy Doing Nothing, Rekka & Devine
Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan (that should fit your theological bend)
Cold Enough For Snow, Au
The Trail, Kafka (re-read, but I liked it anew)
The Pillow Book, Shōnagon
A Rebours, Huysmans
Botchan, Soseki
Kokoro, Soseki
Spring Snow, Mishima
Esseys Afer Eighty, Hall
Should be enough.
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Skip baby Pynchon and go straight to GR.
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It's perfect for caring around campus in vain hope of picking up arthoes.
(I didn't read it)
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Nah thats infinite jest, but both are lsrge enough tomes to knock out obnoxious foids with a single swing
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I think I have GR epub somewhere, maybe I'll give it a go once I'll finish all my paper stock currently in progress. I'm in zero rush.
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