A masterpiece by Dostoevsky, taking place at the center of a murderer’s mind. This book opened my eyes to the complexity of human motivations, and taught me that the only inescapable punishment of immoral behavior is one’s own conscience.

Dostoevsky’s magnum opus. This book jumps from one philosophical discussion to next, exploring life’s most difficult questions with unbelievable depth and gut-wrenching clarity. This book has taught me more about humans than I could ever learn from psychology books. Freud even said of The Brothers Karamazov that it was “the most magnificent novel ever written.”

A book I’ve returned to more times than I can count. Thus Spoke Zarathustra never fails to strike me as a uniquely beautiful and profound book. Its pages are dripping with frightening depth and aphorisms that shake me to my very core. As Nietzsche himself would say, this is “A book for All and None” ; a book everyone must tread, but that no one can read. Not an easy read, but a very worthwhile one that can’t leave you unchanged.