📖Ink & Insight

Books have always been quiet companions to me — not just something to read, but something to feel.

Some books held me when I was falling apart. Others cracked open questions I didn't even know I was carrying. A few changed the way I see people, the world, and myself entirely. And some I'm still slowly sitting with, taking my time.

This page is my attempt to gather them all in one place — an always-growing archive of the voices and ideas that have left a real mark on me.

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📚 What's Inside

• 🧠 Philosophy & Ethics — Kant, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Rousseau
• 📖 Literature & Fiction — Tolstoy, Orwell, Kazantzakis, Tolkien, Shakespeare
• 🔬 Science & Psychology — Sapolsky, Baron-Cohen, Dawkins
• 🎭 Ancient Drama — Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Homer
• ☭ Political Thought — Marx, Bakunin, Chomsky, Žižek
• ✨ Spirituality & Mysticism — Jung, Krishnamurti, Iamblichus
• 📚 Greek Literature — Kazantzakis, Apostolidis, Cavafy
• 🌱 …and more, always growing

👉 Open the Full Reading List

Opens in Google Drive · free to view

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🔬 Science & Psychology ▾ open

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Robert Sapolsky

1. A Primate's Memoir (2001)
2. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (1994)
3. The Trouble with Testosterone (1997)
4. Monkeyluv (2005)
5. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017)
6. Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will (2023)

Simon Baron-Cohen

1. Mindblindness (1995)
2. The Essential Difference (2003)
3. Prenatal Testosterone in Mind (2004)
4. Zero Degrees of Empathy / The Science of Evil (2011)
5. The Pattern Seekers (2020)

Richard Dawkins

1. The Selfish Gene (1976)
2. The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
3. The Ancestor's Tale (2004)
4. The God Delusion (2006)
5. The Greatest Show on Earth (2009)

🧠 Philosophy & Ethics ▾ open

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Plato

1. The Republic
2. Phaedrus
3. Phaedo
4. Symposium
5. Timaeus
6. The Laws

Aristotle

1. Nicomachean Ethics
2. Politics
3. Poetics
4. Metaphysics
5. On the Soul
6. Rhetoric

Immanuel Kant

1. Critique of Pure Reason
2. Critique of Practical Reason
3. Critique of Judgment
4. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
5. Perpetual Peace

Hegel

1. The Phenomenology of Spirit
2. The Science of Logic
3. Philosophy of Right
4. Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Nietzsche

1. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2. Beyond Good and Evil
3. The Birth of Tragedy
4. The Gay Science
5. On the Genealogy of Morality
6. Ecce Homo

Rousseau

1. The Social Contract
2. Discourse on Inequality
3. Emile, or On Education
4. Confessions

Jean Baudrillard

1. Simulacra and Simulation
2. The Consumer Society
3. Symbolic Exchange and Death
4. America

📖 Literature & Fiction ▾ open

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Leo Tolstoy

1. War and Peace
2. Anna Karenina
3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
4. A Confession
5. The Kingdom of God Is Within You

George Orwell

1. 1984
2. Animal Farm
3. Homage to Catalonia
4. The Road to Wigan Pier
5. Down and Out in Paris and London

J.R.R. Tolkien

1. The Hobbit
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
3. The Silmarillion
4. The Children of Húrin

Isaac Asimov

1. Foundation series
2. I, Robot
3. The Gods Themselves
4. The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

🎭 Ancient Drama & Epic Poetry ▾ open

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Homer

1. The Iliad
2. The Odyssey
3. Homeric Hymns

Sophocles

1. Oedipus Rex
2. Antigone
3. Electra
4. Ajax

Euripides

1. Medea
2. The Bacchae
3. The Trojan Women
4. Electra

Aristophanes

1. Lysistrata
2. The Clouds
3. The Frogs
4. The Birds

William Shakespeare

1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth
3. King Lear
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream
5. The Merchant of Venice

☭ Political Thought ▾ open

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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Das Kapital (Vol. I–III)
3. The German Ideology
4. Critique of the Gotha Programme

Mikhail Bakunin

1. Statism and Anarchy
2. God and the State
3. The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State

Noam Chomsky

1. Manufacturing Consent (1988)
2. Syntactic Structures (1957)
3. Hegemony or Survival (2003)
4. Who Rules the World? (2016)

Slavoj Žižek

1. The Sublime Object of Ideology
2. Violence
3. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
4. The Courage of Hopelessness

✨ Spirituality & Mysticism ▾ open

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Carl Gustav Jung

1. The Red Book
2. Man and His Symbols
3. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
4. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1. Freedom from the Known
2. The First and Last Freedom
3. Think on These Things
4. The Awakening of Intelligence

Iamblichus

1. On the Mysteries
2. Life of Pythagoras

📚 Greek Literature ▾ open

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Nikos Kazantzakis

1. Zorba the Greek
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Freedom or Death
4. Report to Greco
5. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Renos Apostolidis

1. Pyramid 67
2. I Accuse
3. The Furies
4. Anthology of Modern Greek Literature

Herodotus

1. Histories

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The full list lives on Google Drive — open, free to browse, and yours to save.

👉 Open the Full Reading List

Reading, for me, has never been just about information. It has been about finding myself in other people's words — and slowly understanding the world a little more deeply.

— Elli 🌿