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Here is a partial reading list I'd recommend to anyone hoping to make themselves more critical and rational in their understanding of the world.

Normally, I dislike lists without some explanation for each element; lists without reasons are boring. But I hope the links here will help stand for what would otherwise be somewhat lengthy descriptions of these works and their value to developing a really comprehensive personal epistemology.

• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
  
  
• Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
  
  
• A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
  
  
• The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll (a bit lighter than the others, you might enjoy Martin Gardner's mathematical annotations as a good entry point.)
  
  
• The Post Card by Jacques Derrida. (Kind of cheating, since it's semiotics disguised as a novel.)
  
  
• A Humument by Tom Phillips.
  
  Once you've gotten through those, you'll have a really dense and textured appreciation for the world, I think. Real think-food, those books are.
  
  Hope you enjoy them!
  
  
  

http://www.amazon.com/A-Voyage-Arcturus-David-Lindsay/dp/1604591455

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