Recs if you like Letters from a Stoic...

puts beret on a jaunty angle ‘why yes i went to Oxbridge and go skiing on my holibobs with papa, why do you ask?’ takes a hit of tobacco flavoured vape, puts asterisk in margin of the obscure classic i’m ‘reading’

the list for people who want to look ‘well read’ and need some books to name drop - look no further if you have read them, more power to you, but this is explicitly about the people who claim to have read them but can’t read instructions on pasta

a collection of fiction and nonfiction texts on gender, race, culture, history, politics that feel like absolute must reads

Everything I read during my Classics BA at KCL

Justice. Courage. Temperance. Wisdom. This is capital S Stoicism, none of that misattributed Spock nonsense.

Works written in Latin I would consider to be classics, ranging from prose to poetry to plays.

Remember, traveler: the soul is dyed the color of its books. Start with Plato’s late-night dialogues, stroll past Seneca’s inbox-zero tips, then high-five Epictetus for the no-whining rule. This scroll-sized playlist toughens the mind, tickles fate, and still leaves room for afternoon naps. The universe applauds—turn the page.