Homer, The Iliad

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

The Federalist Papers

Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week

Sophocles, Oedipus

Ian McEwan, Atonement

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and other essays

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

Ronald Brownstein, The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity

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