Minimum of what everybody needs to read before they can converse intelligently

 Here is Robert Anton Wilson's recommended book list, as taken from the Books section of the official Web site. Again, Wilson says, "Not the 'best' or even my favorites, exactly: Just the bare minimum of what everybody needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about the 21st Century.

 

 

1. THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM, Wilhelm Reich.

2. ULYSSES, James Joyce.

3. FINNEGAN'S WAKE, James Joyce.

4. THE CANTOS, Ezra Pound.

5. MACHINE ART, Ezra Pound.

6. SELECTED PROSE, Ezra Pound.

7. HARLOT'S GHOST, Norman Mailer.

8. GO DOWN, MOSES, William Faulkner.

9. THE ALPHABET VS. THE GODDESS, Leonard Shlain.

10. THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES, Karl Popper (two volumes).

11. CONFUCIUS: THE GREAT DIGEST, THE UNWOBBLING PIVOT, THE ANALECTS, translated by Ezra Pound.

12. THE ANTI-CHRIST, Friedrich Nietzsche.

13. CHAOS AND CYBERCULTURE, Timothy Leary, Ph.D.

14. CRITICAL PATH, R. Buckminster Fuller.

15. INSTEAD OF A BOOK, Benjamin Tucker.

16. DIGITAL McLUHAN, Paul Levinson.

17. SAHARASIA, James DeMeo, Ph.D.

18. SCIENCE AND SANITY, Alfred Korzybski.

19. PROGRESS AND POVERTY, Henry George.

20. THE NATURAL ECONOMIC ORDER, Silvio Gesell.

Found here:

http://www.rawillumination.net/2010/09/raws-recommended-reading-list-following.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

I wanted to add that I haven't read these books yet but decided publishing them will insure I have the list at my disposal later.