As a follow-up to my last post, one of the things I really wanted to do with my USyd fellowship time was to read more. I asked my friends and colleagues to recommend to me a philosophy text (broadly defined) that was influential to them or that changed the way they thought. I collated those responses below. For the next 2 years, I’m going to work my way through these 85 books. If anyone is interested in following along, here is a download link to almost all of them.

1. Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble
2. Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
3. Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies
4. Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe *
5. Fyodor Dstoyesvsky, Notes from the Underground
6. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Fear
7. Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies
8. Anna Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World
9. Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times
10. Andrew Culp, Dark Deleuze
11. Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times
12. Giambattista Vico, New Science
13. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
14. M. Cioran, On the Height of Despair
15. Fernand Braudel, Memory and the Mediterranean
16. Michel de Montaigne, The Essays
17. Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks
18. Timothy Morton, Humankind *
19. Bertrand Russell, The History of Western Philosophy
20. Plato, Symposium
21. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
22. Luce Irigaray, To Be Born
23. Eugene Thacker, After Life
24. Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
25. Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out
26. Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
27. Ben Woodward, On and Underground Earth
28. Carl Sagan, Cosmos
29. Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
30. Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia
31. Bjornar Olsen, In Defense of Things
32. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment (Part I)
33. Sarah Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness
34. Michel Serres, The Five Senses
35. Elizabeth Grosz, The Incorporeal
36. Giles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Antioedipus
37. Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment
38. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
39. Annmarie Mol, The Body Multiple
40. Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of the Mind
41. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
42. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
43. Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
44. Roy Wagner, The Invention of Culture
45. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
46. Antonio Negri, The Politics of Subversion
47. Nicholas Abraham & Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel
48. Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life
49. John Berger, Confabulations
50. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
51. Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future
52. Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
53. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
54. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
55. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey
56. John Law, Aircraft Stories
57. Judith Butler, Frames of War
58. Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities
59. Annie Dillard, The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
60. Michael Taussig, Defacement
61. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction
62. Jacques Ranciere, Disagreement
63. Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Woman, Native, Other
64. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer
65. Erin Manning, Relationscapes
66. Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought
67. Julia Kristeva, Black Sun
68. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
69. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
70. Jean Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
71. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
72. Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
73. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift
74. Catherine Malabou, Ontology of the Accident
75. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
76. Bernard Stiegler, Techniques and Time 1
77. Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman
78. Alexander Weheliye, Habeas Viscus
79. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
80. Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands
81. Richard Rorty, Achieving our Country
82. K. Gibson Graham, The End of Capitalism
83. Peter Burger, Theory of the Avant Garde
84. Jürgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action
85. Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude