Some great works to inspire us in our hour of darkness. Click on image for detailed record.

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
by Giorgio Agamben
English edition, Stanford University Press, 1998
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
Reprint edition, Penguin Books, 2006

The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
Reprint edition, Penguin Books, 2017

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
reprint edition, Simon and Schuster, 2012

The Plague
by Albert Camus
reprint edition, October 2022, Vintage

White Noise
by Don DeLillo
reprint edition, Penguin, 2016

Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Vintage, 1995

Violence and the Sacred
by René Girard, trans. Patrick Gregory
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979

The Power of the Powerless
by Václav Havel
reprint edition, Vintage, 2018

The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason
by F. A. Hayek
reprint edition, Liberty Fund, 1980

The Road to Serfdom
by F. A. Hayek
reprint edition, University of Chicago Press, 2007

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
by Neil Howe
July 2023, Simon and Schuster

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Reprint edition, Harper Perennial, 2006

The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by Ji Xianlin
reprint edition, New York Review Books, 2022

Eumeswil
by Ernst Jünger, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Telos Press, 2015

The Forest Passage
by Ernst Jünger
reprint edition, Telos Press, 2013

The Abolition of Man
by C. S. Lewis
reprint edition, 1974, HarperOne

Out of the Silent Planet
by C. S. Lewis
reprint edition, Scribner, 2003

Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by Charles Mackay
Reprint by Dover Publications, 2017

The Captive Mind
by Czeslaw Milosz
reprint edition, Vintage, 1990

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
reprint edition, Everyman’s Library, 1992

Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
reprint edition, Penguin, 2006

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
reprint edition, Berkley, 2009

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
by Henry David Thoreau
reprint edition, Dover, 1993

The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography
by Lech Walesa
reprint ed., Arcade Publishing, 2016

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
by Simon Wiesenthal
second edition, Schocken, 2010