Here is a brief list of books that have influenced my thinking to a significant degree (last updated on 4/21/25):
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Dostoevsky: (Virtually Everything) The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Devils, Notes from Underground
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Tolstoy: The Kingdom of God is Within You, Confessions, War and Peace
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Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics
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Sartre: Nausea
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Camus: The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
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Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil
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Plato: Apology, The Republic
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Aristotle: Ethics
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St. Augustine: Confessions, City of God
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St. Maximus: The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
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C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters