As a compulsive book hunter — in fact not really compulsive, it takes me hours, days and sometimes weeks and months in order to select and buy a title— I asked some books-lovers Twitter accounts to share their special paper bricks. Sometimes, they would tag someone else.
It resulted in the below quality lists. The plan is to keep this article alive, and correct the content along the way.
The lists below are a quality inspiration to me. So, in no particular order,
Let’s hit it.
@AdoniLabanon
- Kamal Salibi (1976). Crossroads to Civil War, Lebanon 1958–1976
- Itamar Rabinovich (1985). The War for Lebanon, 1970–1985
- Theodor Hanf (1993). Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon
- Johnson Michael (2001). All Honorable Men: The Social Origins of the War in Lebanon
- Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab (2017). The Shi’ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists
@AmadeaBeyrouthi
- Albert Camus (1956). La Chute
- François Mauriac (1932). Le noeud de vipères
- Boris Vian (1947). L’Écume des jours
- Mai Ghoussoub (2014). Leaving Beirut
- Milan Kundera (1984). L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être
- Barbara (1998). Il était un piano noir
- Jean d’Ormesson (1951). La Création du monde
- Romain Gary (1960). La Promesse de l’aube
- Daulphine de Vigan (2011). Rien ne s’oppose à la nuit
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943). Le Petit Prince
@Decafquest
- Seneca (c. 64 A.D.). Letters from a Stoic
- Bryan Magee (1997). Confessions of a Philosopher
- Paul Feyerabend (1994). Killing Time
- Robert Greene (2009). The 50th Law
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile
(new) @encrier
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1873 & 1880). The Possessed & The Brothers Karamazov
- Antoine Douaihy (1995 & 2003). كتاب الحالة & عبور الركام
- Ivan Vazov (1893). Under the Yoke/Sous le joug
- Françoise Dolto (1983). Les Évangiles et la foi au risque de la psychanalyse ou La vie du désir
- Bashô, Issa, Shiki (compilation, 2010). L’art du Haiku
- Selim Abou (1978). Liban déraciné
- Stephane Groueff (1987). Crown of Thorns
- Flannery O’Connor (1953). The River
- Serafin Fanjul (2000). Al Andalous, l’invention d’un mythe
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1916). Cours de linguistique générale
- Pascal (1670). Pensées
- C.S. Lewis (1950 & 1955). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe & The Magician’s Nephew
- George Orwell (1949). Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Hadewijch (compilation, 2008). Écrits mystiques des béguines
(updated)@Extrachelle
- Babylonian Talmud
- Salvador Dalí (1948). 50 Secrets of Magic Craftmanship
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1800). Sudelbücher
- C. S. Lewis (1961). A Grief Observed
- Maria de Lourdes Modesto (1982). Traditional Portuguese cooking
- Franco Cassano (2011). Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1778). Ernst und Falk
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1961). Die Physiker
- (new) G. K. Chesterton (1908). Orthodoxy
- (new) Brian E. Colless (2008).The Wisdom Of The Pearlers: An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism
- (new)Saint Aphrahat (c. 344). Demonstrations
@GhassanDahhan
- Cicero (45 B.C.). On the Nature of the Gods
- Longinus (1st century A.D.). On the Sublime
- Lucian (2nd century A.D.). The Dream + Dialogues of the Dead
- Plutarch (120 A.D.). Parallel lives
- Pliny the Elder (77 A.D.). Natural History
- Diogenes Laertius (?). Lives & Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- Seneca (c. 64 A.D.). Letters from a Stoic
- Ibn Khaldun (1337). The Muqadimmah
- Al Masudi (947?). The Meadows of Gold
- Ikhwan al-Safa (9th-10th century). The Case of the Animals Versus Man
- Narayana (9th-10th century). Hitopadesha
- Michel de Montaigne (1580). Essays
- Johann Wolfgang van Goethe (1808). Faust, Part One
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1862). The House of the Dead
- Peter Kropotkin (1880–1914). Revolutionary pamphlets
@Hraoui17
- Stefan Zweig (1943). Le Joueur d’échecs
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1963). Les Mots
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1942). Pilote de guerre
- André Malraux (1930). La Voie Royale
- Gérard de Nerval (1851). Voyage en Orient
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1977). Histoires et messages de l’au-delà
- J. K. Rowling (1997–2007). Harry Potter
- J. R. R. Tolkien (2001–2003). The Lord of the Rings
@Iyadboustany
- Alain Peyrefitte (1995). La société de confiance
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835). De la démocratie en Amérique
- Will Kumlicka (1995). Multicultural Citizenship
- Selim Abou (2002). Culture et droits de l’homme
- Blandine Kreigel (1998). Philosophie de la république
@jadabdala
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932). Voyage au bout de la nuit
- Seneca (c. 64 A.D.). Letters from a Stoic
- Dino Buzzati (1940). Le désert des tartares
- Paul Morand (1941). L’homme pressé
- Rawi hage (2006). De Niro’s Game
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile
- Ghassan Tuéni (1985). Une guerre pour les autres
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1982). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
@levantophile
- Michael Young (2014). Ghosts of Martyrs Square
- Ted J. Gorton (2013). Renaissance Emir
- Franck Salameh (2018). Lebanon’s Jewish Community
- William Dalrymple (1997). From the Holy Mountain
- Gerard Russell (2014). Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
- Philip Mansel (2010). Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2017). Skin in the Game
- Douglas Murray (2017). The Strange Death of Europe
- Douglas Murray (2019). The Madness of Crowds
- George Orwell (1949). 1984
- Roger Scruton (2014). How to Be a Conservative
@MercelRebel
- Gibran Khalil Gibran (1928). Jesus, The Son of Man
- Kamal Salibi (2011). الموارنة (The Maronites)
- Jacques Duquesne (1997). Jesus: An Unconventional Biography
- Tawfiq Yusuf ‘Awwad (1939). الرغيف (The Loaf)
- Andrea De Carlo (2002). I veri nomi
- Samuel P. Huntington (1996). Clash of Civilizations
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985). Love in the Time of Cholera
- Charles Perry (2017). Scents and Flavors
@MaryyZahra
- Elif Shafak (2006), La bâtarde d’Istanbul
- Ursula Poznanski (2010), Erebos
- Lori Gottlieb (2019), Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- Ste. Thérèse de Lisieux (1898), Histoire d’une âme
- Tom Holland (2019), Dominion
@oldlevantine
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1802). Génie du christianisme
- Charles Corm (1934?). La montagne inspirée
- Marcel Proust (1913–1927). À la recherche du temps perdu
- Mario Pei (1949). The Story of Language
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1982). Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
- Benjamin Tammuz (1984). The Orchard
- Maurice Barrès (1923?). Enquête aux pays du Levant
- Ernest Renan (1862). Vie de Jésus
@romytweeting
- Frédéric Bastiat (1850). The Law
- Henry David Thoreau (1854). Walden
- Alexandre Jardin (1990). Fanfan
- Marcus Aurelius (161–180 A.D.). Parallel lives
@Sobalaan
- Ibn Al-Muqaffa (translation work, 8th century), Kalila wa Dimna
- Isaac Asimov (1942–1993), Foundation Series
- Timothy Hogan (2012), Entering the Chain of Union
- Arif Ahmed (2010), Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
- Eliezer Yudkowsky (2015), Rationality from A to Z
- Alan Watts (1966), The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
@the_levantist
- Theodor Hanf (1993). Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon
- Bruce Masters (2001). Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World
- Ussama Makdisi (2019). Age of Coexistence
- Naveed Saleh (2013). The Complete Guide to Article Writing
- Hannah Arendt (1963). Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Eugene Rogan (2015). The Fall of the Ottomans
@VaniPalomo
- Esnesto Sábato (1961). On Heroes and Tombs
- José Saramago (1995). Blindness
- Gabriel García Márquez (1994). Of Love and Other Demons
- Peter Bieri (2004). Night train to Lisbon
- Julio Cortázar (1956). End of the Game
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (17th century, whole bibliography)
- Richard Miles (2010). Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilisation
@vtchakarova
- The New Testament
- The Book of John the Evangelist
- Corpus Hermeticum
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2019). Incerto
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869). The Idiot
- Alexandre Dumas (1846). Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
@wael_atallah
- Leo Tolstoy (1878). Anna Karenina
- Marquis de Sade (1930). Justine, les Infortunes de la vertu
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile
- Luis Buñuel (1982). Mon dernier soupir
- Amin Maalouf (1993). Le Rocher de Tanios
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1835). De la démocratie en Amérique
- Albert Camus (1942). L’étranger
- Ludwig von Mises (1948). Human Action
- Mikhail Naimy (1956). Akaber
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866). Crime et châtiment
- Ludwig von Mises (1948). Human Action
- Marcel Pagnol (1957). Souvenirs: La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère
