Never forget: firstly, reading offers you the possibility of penetrating the most complex and brilliant minds that ever walked Earth, so any moment spent reading is not lost (well, unless you read self-help/sci-fi/fantasy/thriller/erotic non-sense, but with this list you should have enough for a lifetime of reading). Secondly, you shall buy physical books and build your own library, so that you can do whatever you want with your books (take notes, mark pages…), and you’ll build a treasure that hopefully your kids and grand kids can profit of (we don’t know what might happen to books in the future…). And as Cicero said, if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Philosophy

Start with (introductions to philosophy and philosophers) :

• Learning to Live: A User's Manual - Luc Ferry
• A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes - Gombrowicz
• The History of Philosophy from Thomas Aquinas to Kant - Heidegger

Then :

• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (sounds cliché but should be your bedside book)
• Euthyphro - Plato
• Enchiridion - Epictetus
• Meditations On First Philosophy - Descartes
• On The Happy Life - Seneca
• Peace of Mind - Seneca
• On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
• The art of love - Ovid
• Letter to Descartes (The mind body problem) - Princess Elizabeth
• Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion - Hume
• The Concepts of Law - Hart