Suggestions for Slytherin: Sun Tzu's Art of War and some Nietzsche, maybe The Will to Power?
Suggestion for Ravenclaw: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume.
I don't think Nietzsche fits very easily into any House shelf, but Slytherin least of all.
A while back in the Columbus Rationality group, we started wondering: What books would the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality houses have in each of their libraries? We had fun categorizing different subjects:
And so, I found myself taking all my books off their shelves this weekend and picking the best to represent each rationality!House and made them into Facebook cover-image-sized pictures. Click each image to see it larger, with a list on the left:
(first posted at Measure of Doubt)
I’m always open to book recommendations and suggestions for good fits. What other books would be especially appropriate for each shelf?