The art of war. I would say anything by George Orwell but I know for a fact kids are forced to read his shitty fairy tales in high school as a part of their ideological brainwashing
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I think they're good books, it's just that they're again and again referred to as "proof that communism was horrible" by people who have not the slightest clue how communism actually was besides what the western governments tell them about it
Really I found them dull 1984 especially
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For certain sets of people:
Das Capital by Marx
A Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Conquest of Bread
hey I read the first third of it before getting bored
Faust. It's a pain in the ass to actually read. You're better off watching a play.