The 20 books to get to know the world of human beings
The following classics of literature cover different topics and offer different perspectives on human nature:
“The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli
“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
“1984” by George Orwell
“The Interpretation of Dreams” by Sigmund Freud
“Moby Dick” by Herman Melville
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
“Sentimental Education” by Gustave Flaubert
“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez
“Franny and Zooey” by J.D. Salinger
“The Trial” by Franz Kafka
“The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
“The Art of Loving” by Erich Fromm
“The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton
“Beyond Good and Evil” by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
