Cynics reading list

Explore the ultimate Cynics reading list: handpicked books that challenge conventions, sharpen wit, and inspire critical thinking. Perfect for skeptics and free thinkers.

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The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

The caustic aphorisms collected in "The Devil's Dictionary" helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San …
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The Bible According to Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Compiles letters, essays, diaries, and excerpts about heaven, hell, sinners, and saints
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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable …
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The loved one

 

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Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis

A young Englishman embarks on a humorous crusade against traditional class structures.
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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a …
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The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all — a Park …
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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library …
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Chandler

 

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Changing Places

by David Lodge

Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first …
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Towing Jehovah

by James Morrow

A satirical novel on the death of God. For inexplicable reasons he dies and falls into the sea, and the Vatican hires a supertanker to …
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