Children awaiting food distribution
Children awaiting food distribution from President Hoover's American Relief Administration in Poland (photograph, 1919). Courtesy of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

An Essay on Principle of Population - Thomas Robert Malthus

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Arthur Schopenhauer

World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer

Viktor Frankl
Photo borrowed from British Paperback Edition, Random House/Rider, London 2008

Man's search for meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Albert Camus

Rebel - Albert Camus

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Plato

The Republic - Plato