For someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy fiction or find much value in philosophy that doesn’t focus on liberation ideology, I sure seem to have collected a lot of it. This page is where you’ll find the various left-leaning works of philosophy and fiction I’ve managed to acquire over time – despite my best efforts to avoid doing so. Please keep in mind that the term “philosophy” actually covers an absurdly large amount of territory in western literature and as such, many of the books I own that touch on philosophical discussions will be found in other, more appropriate sections; if you’re looking for Engels for example, you’ll want to hit up the Marxism, Anarchism & Liberation Ideology Books page instead.

As always, books listed after the cut line should be viewed with an implicit understanding of their ideological bias, or not at all.

 

The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle – Review

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury – Review

Finite and Infinite Games: a Vision of Life as Play & Possibility – James P. Carse – Review

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – Review

The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad – Review

Manifesto of Real Democracy – Democrates – Review

A Room with a View – E.M. Forster – Review

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison – Michel Foucault – Review

The Quiet American – Graham Greene – Review (mostly)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door – Same Greenlee – Review

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller – Review

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway – Review

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo – Review

The Nix – Nathan Hill – Review

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro – Review

Amerika: The Missing Person – Franz Kafka – Review

The Castle – Franz Kafka – Review

The Complete Stories – Franz Kafka – Review (sorta)

The Trial – Franz Kafka – Review

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life – Søren Kierkegaard – Review (sorta)

Seven Days in May – F. Knebel, C.W. Bailey – Review

It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis – Review

One-Dimensional Man – Herbert Marcuse – Review – Margin Notes

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville – Review

The Conquest of Canada – Wendel Messer – Review

The Work of Sartre – István Mészáros – Review – Margin Notes

The Crucible – Arthur Miller – Review – Margin Notes

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell – Review

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig – Review

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality – JJ Rousseau – Review (sorta)

The Essential Writings of Rousseau – JJ Rouseau – Review (sorta)

Humanism and Democratic Criticism – Edward W. Said – Review – Margin Notes

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair – Review

Oil! – Upton Sinclair – Review

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – Review

Fear & Loathing in America – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Generation of Swine – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Hell’s Angels – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Hey Rube – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Kingdom of Fear – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

The Proud Highway – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Songs of the Doomed – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

The Great Shark Hunt – Hunter S. Thompson – Review

Walden & Civil Disobedience – HD Thoreau – Review

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – Review

Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo – Review

Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1852-90 – Mark Twain – Review

Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891-1910 – Mark Twain – Review

Germinal – Emile Zola – Review

 

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Fire and Light – James MacGregor Burns – Review