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Benjamin's shelf: the sources and touchpoints his model reaches into. methodology.md § "The shelf is the Author's own" says how any shelf is used. Borrow this one whole, take a few entries, or keep your own; the lists below are the actual references.

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Ideal bookshelf — touchpoints

Each entry is an entry point. The work named is one way in; the underlying figure, tradition, or concept is the actual reference space the Engine reaches into when threads activate. The Memorial of Saint Helena isn't the best book about Napoleon — it's a touchpoint that puts Napoleon on the shelf. The Engine reaches from the touchpoint into the wider area.

  • The Godfather — Mario Puzo
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
  • The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
  • Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
  • Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
  • The Stranger — Albert Camus
  • Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
  • Tao Te Ching — Laozi
  • The Analects — Confucius
  • Letter to Menoeceus — Epicurus
  • The Art of War — Sun Tzu
  • The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
  • The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Common Sense — Thomas Paine
  • The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
  • On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
  • The Republic — Plato
  • Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle
  • Politics — Aristotle
  • On Duties — Cicero
  • Two Treatises of Government — John Locke
  • The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
  • Declaration of Independence — Thomas Jefferson
  • The Constitution of the United States — James Madison
  • The Bill of Rights — James Madison
  • Discourse on Method — René Descartes
  • Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes
  • Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — David Hume
  • On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
  • The Elements — Euclid
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • Dhammapada
  • The Bible
  • The Qur'an
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • The Iliad — Homer
  • The Odyssey — Homer
  • Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet — William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth — William Shakespeare
  • Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
  • Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
  • Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
  • 1984 — George Orwell
  • Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
  • The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • Capitalism and Freedom — Milton Friedman
  • The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich Hayek
  • Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard
  • Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Civilization and Its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul — Carl Jung
  • Being and Nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Candide — Voltaire
  • Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
  • War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
  • The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Middlemarch — George Eliot
  • Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin
  • Ulysses — James Joyce
  • Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
  • Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges
  • A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf
  • Paradise Lost — John Milton
  • The Aeneid — Virgil
  • The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong
  • Water Margin — Shi Naian
  • Journey to the West — Wu Cheng'en
  • Dream of the Red Chamber — Cao Xueqin
  • The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu
  • Pericles' Funeral Oration — Thucydides
  • Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
  • Commentarii de Bello Gallico — Julius Caesar
  • Annals — Tacitus
  • The Gettysburg Address — Abraham Lincoln
  • The Memorial of Saint Helena — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The Rights of Man — Thomas Paine
  • What is to be Done? — Vladimir Lenin
  • Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung — Mao Zedong
  • Mein Kampf — Adolf Hitler
  • History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course — Joseph Stalin
  • Cosmos — Carl Sagan
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
  • Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton
  • Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
  • Phenomenology of Spirit — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • On Human Nature — Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Summa Theologica — Thomas Aquinas
  • The Book of Changes — Yi Jing
  • Muqaddimah — Ibn Khaldun
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon
  • A Theory of Justice — John Rawls
  • Discipline and Punish — Michel Foucault
  • The Second World War — Winston Churchill
  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics — John Mearsheimer
  • The Governance of China — Xi Jinping
  • Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Art of the Deal — Donald Trump