UPDATED 1/4/11 - I should read more classics. A part of me thinks I should have gone to St. John's College, so in lieu of trying to figure out what the classics are on my own, I'm going to throw a chunk of the St. John's reading list on here.
UPDATED 1/10/11 - Added some Jung.
UPDATED 4/15/11 - Added Dostoevsky and Melville
History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
Crito, by Plato
The Tanakh plus Jonah, Isaiah and Job
The Nature of Things, by Lucretius
Confessions, by Augustine of Hippo
Matthew, Luke, Acts, John, I Corinthians, Romans
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Meditations, by Rene Descartes
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Theologico-Political Treatise, by Baruch Spinoza
Discourse on Metaphysics, by Gottfried Liebniz
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
Benito Cereno, by John Melville
Histories, by Herodotus
The Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Violent Bear it Away, by Flannery O'Connor
The Gay Science, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy of Right, by GWF Hegel
Between Past and Future, by Hannah Arendt
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
The Divine Comedy, by Dante
Faust, by Goethe
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Go Down Moses, by William Faulkner
Three Tales, by Gustave Flaubert
Psychological Types, by Carl Jung
Rimbaud
Genet
Bartleby, the Scriver, by Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Devils, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
ALSO:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
Moral Man and Immoral Society, by Reinhold Niebhur
The Breaks of the Game, by David Halberstam
The Curve of Binding Energy, by John McPhee
Levels of the Game, by John McPhee
The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac, by Freedarko
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
Great House, by Nicole Krauss
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville
Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, by Alvaro Mutis
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by Alice Dreger
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, by Maile Meloy
The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
The Lives of a Cell, by Lewis Thomas
The Nature and Destiny of Man, by Reinhold Niebhur
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
On Heroes and Tombs, by Ernesto Sabato
