- Political Philosophy
- Plato. The Republic. Translated by Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee and Melissa Lane. Penguin Classics, 2007.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo. Prince, The, 2021.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Hackett Publishing, 1992.
- Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Penguin Classics, 2017.
- Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government. Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated, 1980.
- Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Penguin Classics, 2015.
- Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty, 2017.
- Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classics, 2017.
- Strauss, Leo. What Is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Political Science
- Heywood, Andrew. Politics. Red Globe Press, 2019.
- Aristotle. Aristotle’s “Politics”: Second Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Dahl, Robert A. Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City. Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
- Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism. Routledge, 1998.
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 2006.
- Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.
- Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Sartori, Giovanni. The Theory of Democracy Revisited (I&II), 1987.
- Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 – 1992. Wiley-Blackwell, 1993.
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Cleveland, William L., and Martin Bunton. A History of the Modern Middle East. Westview Press, 2016.
- Said, Edward W. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. Penguin, 2003.
- Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Random House, 1981.
- Barr, James. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
- Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
- Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. Pluto Press (UK), 2004.
- Provence, Michael. The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove/Atlantic, 1963.
- Porsche-Ludwig, Markus, and Ying-Yu Chen. Handbook of Asian States: Geography – History – Culture – Politics – Economy, 2021.
- Philosophy
- Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Penguin Classics, 2006.
- Epictetus. Discourses and Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2008.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur. The Metaphysics of the Sexual Love. Independently Published, 2018.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One. Penguin Classics, 1961.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil. Penguin Classics, 2003.
- Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2013.
- Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Verso Books, 2020.
- Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
- Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. Guilford Press, 1991.
- Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Psychology
- Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontent. Penguin Classics, 2002.
- Adler, Alfred. Understanding Human Nature: The Psychology of Personality. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
- Jung, C. G. Four Archetypes: (From Vol. 9, Part 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) [New in Paper]. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.
- Hollis, James. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. Penguin, 2006.
- Hollis, James. Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, 1994.
- Yalom, Irvin D. Existential Psychotherapy. London, England: Basic Books, 1980.
- Yalom, Irvin D. When Nietzsche Wept. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
- Bly, Robert. Iron John: A Book About Men. Da Capo Press, 1990.
- Burns, David D. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Harper Collins, 1999.
- Levine, Amir, and Rachel Heller. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find–and Keep– Love. TarcherPerigee, 2012.
- Literature
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Vintage, 1993.
- Tolstoy, Leo. Resurrection. Penguin Classics, 2009.
- Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms (Classic Reprint). Forgotten Books, 2017.
- Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
- De Laclos, Pierre Choderlos. Dangerous Liaisons. Penguin Classics, 2007.
- Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Royal Tunbridge Wells, England: Atlantic Books, 1989.
- Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 11th ed. London, England: Vintage, 2010.
- Zweig, Stefan. Chess Story. NYRB Classics, 2006.
- Camus, Albert. The Plague: A New Translation by Laura Marris. Vintage, 2022.
- Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Penguin Classics, 2016.
- Philosophy of Science
- Chalmers, Alan. What Is This Thing Called Science? (Fourth Edition). Hackett Publishing, 2013.
- Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Feyerabend, Paul Karl. Against Method. Verso, 1993.
- Feyerabend, Paul Karl. Science in a Free Society. Verso, 1978.