How do I start studying philosophy?

Familiarize yourself with the history of Western Thought You don’t need to spend a lot of time on this one. But if you have never studied philosophy before or you need a refresher, its helpful to know where various thinkers fit in on the time line of history and what ideas shaped the world as we know it today.

What is the best book to read right now?

The Best Books of 2020

The Lying Life of Adults. amazon.com. $26.00.
Rodham. bookshop.org. $25.76.
Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel. amazon.com.
The Glass Hotel: A novel. amazon.com.
My Dark Vanessa: A Novel. amazon.com.
The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel. amazon.com.
Real Life: A Novel. amazon.com.
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays. amazon.com.

What are the top 100 books?

100 must-read classic books, as chosen by our readers

Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen. buy the book.
To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee. Buy the book.
The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
One Hundred Years of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Buy the book.
In Cold Blood. Truman Capote.
Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys.
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley.
I Capture the Castle. Dodie Smith.

What is the most popular story?

Here they explain why.

The Odyssey (Homer, 8th Century BC)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958)
One Thousand and One Nights (various authors, 8th-18th Centuries)

What makes a good story?

A good story is about something the audience decides is interesting or important. A great story often does both by using storytelling to make important news interesting. The public is exceptionally diverse. The Elements of Journalism, in fact, describes journalism as “storytelling with a purpose.”