Novels that INTPs will enjoy

[Toru]

Hello, noob here, stumbled across this forum after a google search about INTP apathy

I was thinking that this group of like-minded people could be an excellent place to get reading suggestions. Do you read books by other INTPs? Do you enjoy pure stream of consciousness ramblings? Do you associate with 'outsiders' or 'steppenwolves'? If so please share your recommendation here!

A few of my favourites (new and old) in no particular order:

The Steppenwolf - Hesse
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
A Fraction of the Whole - Toltz
The Gift of Rain - Tan Twang Eng
Sanshiro - Soseki
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

If anyone has any authors they like along a similar theme please share!

T

 

[EditorOne]

Books by Nevada Barr, detective fiction.. Don't be put off by the name. Her protagonist is an INTP National Park Service detective.

 

[SandMizzle]

Hi there!

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: (all 5 books of the triology)
Highly analytical social critisism combined with absolute sencelessness, science fiction and British Humor.

After struggling to read a book for almost seven years (I just lost interest after the first 100 pages most of the time), I finally found my love for written words again.
Oh yeah, Adams is probably *NTP, and the main character is an introvert and outsider (in my opinion).

 

[Turniphead]

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: (all 5 books of the triology)
Highly analytical social critisism combined with absolute sencelessness, science fiction and British Humor..

You might want to try some Terry Pratchett. Similar, but in a (mostly)fantasy setting.

 

[SandMizzle]

You might want to try some Terry Pratchett. Similar, but in a (mostly)fantasy setting.

Absolutely, I've absorbed "The Hogfather" and "Thief of Time" before my reading-blockade. Good suggestion!

 

[Brontosaurie]

Hi there!

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: (all 5 books of the triology)
Highly analytical social critisism combined with absolute sencelessness, science fiction and British Humor.

After struggling to read a book for almost seven years (I just lost interest after the first 100 pages most of the time), I finally found my love for written words again.
Oh yeah, Adams is probably *NTP, and the main character is an introvert and outsider (in my opinion).

Athur Dent is likely the funniest and most charismatic ISTJ ever conceived

 

[Pizzabeak]

Does anyone have a goodreads account? Might be getting too personal though.. There are a few threads like this which I ran through and there appeared to be some noteworthy things in there. Some stuff that could be relevant to your interests or just extra material to check out if you ever run out or because it is important to you to be continually exposed to literature or nonfiction/readingwriting.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

All of Dostoyevsky's stuff, especially:
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
Demons
The Brothers Karamazov
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

 

[rjioej23]

Proust. All of Proust. Watching, taking minimal part in the society around him, observing, thinking about his environment.

 

[Cavalli]

I loved The Beginners Guide To Living by Lia Hills. It's not a challenging read at all, but it was nice to read. A few interesting, thought provoking references to the most well known Philosophers (Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche etc).

 

[Imaginary Numb3r]

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

The sheer amount of own fantasy created by Lovecraft is astonishing. I'm not really a reader and haven't finished it, but it fascinates and inspires me unlike anything before.

Screw those generic modern sci-fi/fantasy books.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Screw those generic modern sci-fi/fantasy books.

 

[Mr Write]

I'm particularly fond of the Vorkosigan Saga - INFJ sci fi.

 

[samjonathan]

Do you enjoy pure stream of consciousness ramblings? Do you associate with 'outsiders' or 'steppenwolves'? If so please share your recommendation here!

while i do quite enjoy books about 'outsiders' i often feel a bit like i'm self-indulgently feeding my special snowflake affliction

i did very much enjoy the great gatsby and the catcher in the rye, i did not however enjoy steppenwolf, i didn't manage to get very far into it because i found the writing style upsetting

other books you may enjoy are nausea by jean paul satre, the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky and perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick süskind

 

[Septapus]

Im reading the Jerry Cornelius series by Moorcock. An interdimentional secret agent bouncing through the multiverse? Yes please.
I also like Walter Moers' books. And Bukowski. There's a great deal of literary space between them. I wonder the most direct bridge...


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[Imaginary Numb3r]

I completely forgot to mention "Who goes there" by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Dunno if it really interests anybody since it's a rather old collection of his (short) stories, but the way he percieved sci-fi and how he belived how the world could develop is absolutely fascinating.

You can interpret a lot of philosophy into every story and feature many unique ideas. It also features the short which inspired John Carpenter's "The Thing".

 

[Marcel]

“The drive of his own nature to keep developing prevents him from believing that anything is final and complete, yet everything he encounters behaves as though it were final and complete. He suspects that the given order of things is not as solid as it pretends to be; no thing, no self, no form, no principle, is safe, everything is undergoing an invisible but ceaseless transformation, the unsettled holds more of the future than the settled, and the present is nothing but a hypothesis that has not yet been surmounted. What better can he do than hold himself apart from the world, in the good sense exemplified by the scientist's guarded attitude toward facts that might be tempting him to premature conclusions? Hence he hesitates in trying to make something of himself; a character, a profession, a fixed mode of being, are for him concepts that already shadow forth the outlines of the skeleton, which is all that will be left of him in the end.”

“An impractical man – which he not only seems to be, but really is – will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.”


Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails
Vintage 1996, 752 pp.

Vol. 2: Into the Millennium
Vintage 1996, 1056 pp.


Roger Kimball: The Qualities of Robert Musil

“It is worth stressing the wit. The Man Without Qualities, the book upon with Musil’s claim to greatness chiefly rests, is regularly cited alongside Joyce’s Ulysses, Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg, and Hermann Broch’s Die Schlafwandler as a triumph of high modernism. Like those other novels, The Man Without Qualities is a book of weighty seriousness and deep erudition. It is also, in parts, an exceptionally funny book. Few readers with any sympathy for Musil’s writing will be able to read far without laughing aloud, at least as they make their way through the first volume. Whatever else one can say about it, The Man Without Qualities stands as one of the great modern works of satire. [...]”

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-qualities-of-Robert-Musil-3658

 

[Anktark]

I imploded quite a few works of Sergej Lukianenko: Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors and the Watch series.