What would be some must read non fiction books that span a fair amount of subjects? Something similar to the /lit/ starter kit to get your feet wet. I'm thinking stuff like>In Cold Blood>Into Thin Air>Napoleon: A Biography>Confessions>MeditationsWhat else?
>23820762>WesternThe Republic by PlatoNicomachean Ethics by AristotleSayings and Anecdotes by Diogenes the CynicMeditations by Marcus AureliusLetters from a Stoic by SenecaFear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard>EasternTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Art of War by Sun TzuA Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto MushashiSun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
>>23820780This definitely covers the more philosophical aspect. Any history/journalism favorites?
>>23820805For journalism you could have Defoe, Johnson, Addison & Steele, Carlyle, Hazlitt, Beerbohm, Pater, Orwell, Mailer, Didion, Wolfe, Capote, DFW
>>23820762From that pic I've only read>1984 (it was shit)>Slaughterhouse-Five>Dorian Gray (it was shit)>LolitaAs for the topic of the thread, you should check out Anatomy of Melancholy. Nice, meaty prose that covers a wide range of topics.Gass has some great essays on literature. Temple of Texts, Finding a Form. I want to check out On Being Blue next.Conversations with Goethe is also something I want to check out soon, heard great things about it.If you want to dip your feet into "essayistic" literature, as in fiction that almost borders on non-fiction due to the wide range of topics it covers, then definitely check out Moby-Dick, Huysmans and late Mann. I heard that The Man Without Qualities is great too, I'll probably pick it up early next year.
Philosophy:Republic, Plato.Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle.Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzche. History:Histories, Herodotus.Anabasis, Arrian.Parallel Lives, Plutarch.Poetry:Homer.Metamorphoses, Ovid.And the Bible, which includes all those topics.
>>23820762I have not read over half of these and feel as though my tastes are too evolved to bother with them at this point.
>>23820762The only non-fiction you should be reading are STEM manuals. Everything else you might as well be reading fiction, which is unequivocally written better.
>>23820762just read what interests you, you're not going to like reading as a hobby if you rigidly follow some chart an anon made as a joke
>>23820762He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
>>23820762I couldn't finish the Great Gatsby because I felt that it was uninteresting
>>23820902I found Pater boring.
