A SOCIETY THAT SEPARATES ITS WARRIORS FROM ITS SCHOLARS WILL HAVE ITS FIGHTING DONE BY FOOLS AND ITS THINKING DONE BY COWARDS - Thucydides
>read these in picrel
>CLASSIC FICTION
ovid's metamorphoses is fantastic if you're into the whole greco-roman lore stuff
dantes divine comedy, particularly the inferno, has been referenced a billion times so reading that gives you insight into all the works that have drawn from it
iliad and odyssey are classics and pretty easy to work through (don't get a cringe postmodernist translation, get one from 1980 or earlier)
tolkien's lord of the rings (and the hobbit) are masterpieces as well, if you enjoyed the movies you'll surely enjoy the books
shakespeares got a ton of good stuff if you're into more plays rather than novels, I'm personal to othello, the merchant of venice, and henry v but it's hard to go wrong
>FOR LIBERTARIANS
hoppe's democracy the god that fails is essential reading if you're a libertarian type and don't want to be an intellectual lolcow. he's a far more bright libertarian than the chicago school types and ayn rand. beyond that there's the work of von mises, fa hayek, and murray rothbard but at a certain point there's just better stuff to read
>FOR RIGHTWINGERS
basically anything by spengler or evola is essential work for the intellectual neoreactionary, with spengler's decline of the west and evola's revolt against the modern world more or less seminal texts in the discipline
>HISTORICAL WORKS
carlyle's work on the french revolution (and his work in general) is a classic, he's got a great way with words
filmer's patriarcha is another absolute classic, haven't gotten the chance to read it yet sadly
>POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
i'd recommend gaetano mosca's the ruling class or wilfredo pareto's the mind and society. if you read the above two as well as carl schmitt's concept of the political, james burnham's managerial revolution, and sam francis's leviathan and its enemies you will understand the world better