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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Walden by Thoreau
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. A classic novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 1 million copies are sold each year with total sales...
The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
The Celestine Prophecy by Redfield
The Celestine Prophecy is a 1993 novel by James Redfield that discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas rooted in multiple ancient Eastern traditions and New Age spirituality. The main character undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights in an ancient manuscript in Peru...
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that...
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael by Quinn
Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. It examines the mythological thinking at the heart of modern civilization, its effect on ethics, and how this relates to sustainability and societal collapse on the global scale. The novel uses a style of Socratic dialogue to deconstruct the notion that humans are the pinnacle of biological evolution....
The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
The book summarizes his interviews with thirteen evangelical Christian scholars... ...in which they defend their views regarding the historical reliability of the New Testament... ...personal experience while encountering these scholars and their beliefs was portrayed in the 2017 drama film of the same name....