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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
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bookshelf
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Odyssey (trans. Mendelsohn)
Homer
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Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
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Compatibilism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
M. McKenna, D. J. Coates
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Liberal Fascisms
Slavoj Žižek
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OpenAI's myopia keeps causing alignment problems
Fiora Starlight
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On What It Means To Be Sincerely Religious
Prudence Primrose
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The Possibility of an Island
Michel Houellebecq
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AI Kill Switch Act [Draft bill]
Ted Lieu
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An Opinionated Introduction to Newcombology
Flo Bacus
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Taking the Singularity Seriously
Beren Millidge
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The Comprehensive Case For God Summarized Extremely Quickly
Bentham's Bulldog
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Determinism and the Paradox of Predictability
Rummens & Cuypers
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The Odyssey of Homer, "Introduction"
Richard Lattimore
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Meltdown
Nick Land
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The End of Reading Is Here
Rose Horowitch
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
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The Two Standpoints on the Will
Daniel Guevara
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Nadsat: The Argot and Its Implications in Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange"
Robert Evans
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
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Review of The Annotated Lolita, Alfred Appel, Jr.
Dean Flower
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Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous Planet Sized Nutshell
Scott Alexander
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Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
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An Essential Unpredictability in Human Behavior
Michael Scriven
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Promising The Moon
Scott Alexander
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On the Logical Indeterminacy of a Free Choice
D. M. MacKay
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Counterfactuals for Perfect Predictors
Chris_Leong
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In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
Scott Alexander
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The repulsive crust
Sam Kriss
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The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0
Lydia Laurenson
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Clarity didn’t work, trying mysterianism
Scott Alexander
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What's expected of us
Ted Chiang
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Ezra Klein Is A Republican
Libertarian Development
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The AI Superforecasters Are Here
Scott Alexander
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The Human Stain
Phillip Roth
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L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department
Tom O'Donnell
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Thinking to Recall: How Reasoning Unlocks Parametric Knowledge in LLMs
Gekhman et al.
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Accelerationism and Acid Communism: Notes on Theory and Praxis
xenogothic
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Intergalactic Torture Chambers
Bentham's Bulldog
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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
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The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
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Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
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The Republic
Plato
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Books are subjectivity-merging devices, not efficient information transfer devices
Sasha Chapin
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The internet is already over
Sam Kriss
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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
Sam Kriss
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Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?
Charles Lehman
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Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud
Patrick McKenzie
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The Fable of the Dragon‐Tyrant
Nick Bostrom
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Lena
qntm
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AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals
Tse et al.
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A Sweeping Theory of Everything Is Revolutionizing the Democratic Party
Jonathan Chait
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Machines of Loving Grace
Dario Amodei
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Submission
Michel Houellebecq
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Madame Bovary (trans. Davis)
Gustave Flaubert
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My First Book
Honor Levy
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Coin
Yasmin Zaher
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Man and His Symbols
Carl Jung
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Contempt
Alberto Moravia
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Oblivion
David Foster Wallace
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Versification: A Short Introduction
James McAuley
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
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The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Lanzarote
Michel Houellebecq
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German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
Terry P. Pinkard
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Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
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Three Worlds Collide
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Too Like the Lightning
Ada Palmer
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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
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Whatever
Michel Houellebecq
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The Map and the Territory
Michel Houellebecq
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Annihilation
Michel Houellebecq
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The Maniac
Benjamín Labatut
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Xenosystems
Nick Land
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Roger Williams
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Word and Object
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Specters of Marx
Jacques Derrida
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Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
Ray Brassier
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Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of AI
Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland, Bogna Konior
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k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher
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Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Mark Fisher
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Difference and Repetition
Gilles Deleuze
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
CCRU
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A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
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Ontology Made Easy
Amie L. Thomasson
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Fiction and Metaphysics
Amie L. Thomasson
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The Quantum Thief
Hannu Rajaniemi
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Permutation City
Greg Egan
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Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon
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Blindsight
Peter Watts
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The Melancholy of Resistance
László Krasznahorkai
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Technically Man Dwells upon This Earth
Ulysse Carrière
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The Future Is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds
Matt Bluemink
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Voice and Phenomenon
Jacques Derrida
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Molloy
Samuel Beckett
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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
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Dune
Frank Herbert
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The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
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The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
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Imaginary Magnitude
Stanisław Lem
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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On the Origin of Language
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
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Neuromancer
William Gibson
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
Angela Carter
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges
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Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
Marquis de Sade
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Unsong
Scott Alexander
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Accelerando
Charles Stross
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Without Feathers
Woody Allen
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After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work
Chad Wellmon
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville
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Towards a New Manifesto
Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer
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Harassment Architecture
Mike Ma
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Zeros and Ones
Sadie Plant
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
Alexei Yurchak
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There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good
Benjamin Todd
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Robin Hanson
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Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
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The Constitution of Liberty
Friedrich A. Hayek
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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939
Georges Bataille
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
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Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
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Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
Mark Fisher
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Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
Nick Land
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#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Žižek
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The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Jacques Lacan
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The Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
Bruce Fink
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
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Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant
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Nietzsche and Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze
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Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Louis Althusser
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How to Read Lacan
Slavoj Žižek
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Hegel
Frederick C. Beiser
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud
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On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
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An Introduction to Metaphysics
Henri Bergson
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
Nick Bostrom
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The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Joël Dicker
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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
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Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Anton Jäger
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The Sluts
Dennis Cooper
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The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
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The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth
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Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
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Flat Earth
Anika Jade Levy
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Foreclosure Gothic
Harris Lahti
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
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Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
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Stoner
John Williams
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Other Men's Daughters
Richard Stern
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The Past
Tessa Hadley
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The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien
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The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Worry
Alexandra Tanner
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Woo Woo
Ella Baxter
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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Vineland
Thomas Pynchon
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ulysses
James Joyce
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
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The Sellout
Paul Beatty
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
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The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Most
Jessica Anthony
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The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
added
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
added
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
added
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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The Castle
Franz Kafka
added
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
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The Balcony
Jean Genet
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The Atrocity Exhibition
J.G. Ballard
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
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Shred Sisters
Betsy Lerner
added
Serotonin
Michel Houellebecq
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
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Practice
Rosalind Brown
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Possession
A.S. Byatt
added
Platform
Michel Houellebecq
added
Piglet
Lottie Hazell
added
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
Anuradha Ghandy
added
Persuasion
Jane Austen
added
Outline
Rachel Cusk
added
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
added
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
added
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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On Beauty
Zadie Smith
added
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
added
North and South
Elizazbeth Gazkell
added
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
added
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
added
Middlemarch
George Eliot
added
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
added
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
added
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
added
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
added
Liars
Sarah Manguso
added
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
added
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
added
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
added
Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
added
Hitchcock/Truffaut
François Truffaut
added
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
added
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
added
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
added
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
added
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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Erasure
Percival Everett
added
Emma
Jane Austen
added
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
added
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
added
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
added
Crash
J.G. Ballard
added
Colored Television
Danzy Senna
added
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
added
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
added
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Blood Test: A Comedy
Charles Baxter
added
Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
added
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
added
Atonement
Ian McEwan
added
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
added
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
added
American Bulk: Essays on Excess
Emily Mester
added
Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon
added
Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
added
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
added
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
added
A Crackup at the Race Riots
Harmony Korine
added
2666
Roberto Bolaño
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1984
George Orwell
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