If you had to pick books that should be read and conserved for future generations in order to preserve the best parts of western values and traditions, what books would you pick? I think the Bible is a no-brainer, 1984, Animal Farm, Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. Which books would you add?
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Pilgrim's Progress
Zane Grey
Louis L'Amour
Jack London
The entire corpus of Plato. Philosophy is all but a footnote to Plato.
Maybe, the Summa Theologiae of Aquinas.
Metaphysics by Aristotle.
It's all about the proper structure of thought and reality, both the spiritual and the material. That is one of the essential pillars of Christendom (i.e. the west)
The Red Badge of Courage A Separate Peace The Book of Virtues The Moral Compass
Shakespeare, Milton, Tolkien, Dickens, Mark Twain, Solzhenitsyn, Dumas, Apuleius (gloriously bawdy) The Brothers Grimm, R.L. Stephenson, Angela Carter and Cervantes.
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas), 5 Levels of Leadership (Maxwell), The Madness of Crowds (Murray), 12 Rules for Life & Beyond Order (Peterson)
Tons more....
Huckleberry Finn