No novels (Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, Orwell, Aytmatov, etc), history, poems, art generally? OpenStax (Nathan Smith) - Introduction to Philosophy (2022 to 2024), English, United States Simon BlackBurn - Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (1999), English, United Kingdom Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny (2017), English, United States Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), French, France Leon Trotsky - The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Russian, France Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy (1912), In Praise of Idleness (1935), English, United Kingdom Vladimir Lenin - The State and Revolution (1917), Russian, Russian Republic Leo Tolstoy - Patriotism and Government (1900), Bethink Yourselves! (1904), Russian Peter Kropotkin - The State: Its Historic Role (1896) Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886), German, Germany John Stuart Mill - On Liberty (1859), English, United Kingdom * Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (1781), German, Russian Empire David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), English John Locke - Two Treatises of Government (1689), English, England Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (1651), English and Latin, England Rene Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Latin, France Michel de Montaigne - Essays (1580), France, Middle French Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince (1532), Italy, Italian Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (180 CE), Koine Greek, Roman Empire Seneca the Younger - Of Benefits, Of a Happy Life (c. 58 CE), Latin, Ancient Rome Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics and Politics (335 to 322 BCE), Ancient Greek Plato - The Republic (c. 375 BCE), Ancient Greek, Ancient Greece