This is amazing! Thank you so much:) will look into these!

Yeah what you’re explaining is what I want to experience. If I want to know where to go, it would help to know where I came from.

Any books you recommend from the non-west?

Thanks for the thoughtful response!

I am an avid but slow reader. I think the main appeal for me to read many of the classic (western) books is so that I can get a better understanding of each author’s inspirations, which would hopefully finally help explain how we got to where we are today. But I think your answer is pulling me in the direction of starting with the books I want, and moving backwards in time for each book I want to delve further into, and then moving forwards when questions can’t be answered by the past.

I read more about HTRB today and it seems totally fine to just skim a full book briefly, and decide it’s not for me. So I think I’ll use that as well.

Thanks for mentioning HTRB!

But why is it this way? Why wouldn’t they want to charge both groups more for a higher profit margin?

Have you tried reading the books from the list recommended by Adler? I am just starting to get (deeper) into classic literature, and have looked for recommendations regarding book chronology.

I mostly see 2 camps:

1. read what you enjoy, which I find hard to determine beforehand; and
2. read some specified list in some order, which seems doable - there’s just so many different lists one could start with…

Any insight is appreciated!