BOOKS EVERY AUTODIDACT SHOULD READ (by category) BOOKS EVERY AUTODIDACT SHOULD READ (by category) COMEDY: Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott Don Quixote (get a good version, translation is everything) The uncommercial traveler – Charles Dickens Fantasy/Drama: Frankenstein - Mary Shelly Bleak House - Charles Dickens Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens The hobbit – JRR Tolkein The Space Trilogy – CS Lewis Short Story: Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut JR Romance: My lovely employer has shared some romance novels with me. While I understand that any reading is good for the brain, even if it is mindless, I think I’ll exclude those from the list of good books because their contents do nothing education-wise. Every book on the Fantasy list could actually be classified as romance, however. For those of you interested in porn, try Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Non-fiction Trachtenberg Method – Jakow Trachtenberg (A method of rapid mental computation developed in a concentration camp) The dictionary. It can be any dictionary of any language, especially English from C. 1880-1949.
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