It is a self-made list. Started with a Christian Sufi masquerading as an English Moslem and his cites. Then those cites led to other cites and next thing there is Emerson and Goethe sitting next to my PC. It’s the usual stuff they tell you to read in college but you never have time then. I’m retired and now I have made time to read this pile of #$%^. Veco, von Herder, Ockham, Bacon (both), there is no end. I just had to order yet more from Amazon.
In no way and at no time would I recommend any of this to anyone.
What went to the dump was Adlai Stevenson and Dag Hamerskjold. Should have dumped those black pessimists sooner even if they are Sufis.
On second thought, I’ll keep my money... I’m a true sadist, not a masochist.
Like cake_crumb I read mostly fiction, with the addition of required texts (and anything that looks useful/interesting) in my field of study, which is special education. I discovered that a social studies teacher had to be a coach to get hired around here, and I don’t (and won’t) coach.