Recommended Reading

Novel

• Notes from Underground — Fiodor Dostoievski The crème de la crème of Dostoievski dark humor and psychological insight.
  
  This books goes to show, at a first person point of view, how resentment, together with cowardice and lust for power, can destroy a man's spirit. My favorite book of all times.
• Crime and Punishment — Fiodor Dostoievski
• The Idiot — Fiodor Dostoievski Interestingly, Dostoievski wrote this book without knowing where it would end. Therefore, the narrative is somewhat loose, but at the same time, we have an in-depth overview of Dostoievski main ideas. 🕮 See quotes
• Notes from the Dead House — Fiodor Dostoievski 🕮 See quotes
• Point Counter Point — Aldous Huxley One of my most fun and interesting reads. The name is... on point (no pun intended). Best read in a group, so that the "points" and "counter points" the characters present develop even further.

Short story

• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Fiodor Dostoievski A beautiful narrative about The Fall.
• The Death of Ivan Ilitch — Liev Tolstoi Classic. Best Tolstoi's book I've ever read, calling us out to rethink our bullshit lives and bullshit jobs.
• The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich — Nikolai Gogol Hilarious. I find this book to be greatly underrated, it's one of the most funny (and also tragic, as it couldn't be otherwise in the case of russian realism) readings I've ever done.
• The Cloak — Nikolai Gogol
• The Bet — Anton Tchehov
• The Shades, a Phantasy — Vladimir Korolenko For anyone who have read anything by Socrates, reading this will be delightful. For those who haven't, it's still gonna be delightful.
• Lazarus — Leonid Andreiev

Self-help

• No More Mr. Nice guy — Robert A. Glover Albeit the cringe title, this is one of the best self-help books there exists for men. I read it fairly young, when I was 19; and till this day I believe there is a vast amount of men who would benefit tremendly from the reading, as did I.
• 12 Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson

Scientific

• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins This book gives birth to the word meme. It's the most revolutionary work on evolution & natural selection after Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence — Anna Lembke As informative and eye-opening as fun and entretaining. The honesty that Lembke displays here is really impressive. The worst part of this book is that when you are half-way throught it, it ends, because the other half of it is just bibliography & index. 🕮 See quotes