Speaking in general, books that enhance intelligence are practically any edition of the classics and all literature on psychology and self-improvement. Any book you read slightly changes your worldview, and it depends on it, and what will be your reality. From this article you will learn what is worth reading for the development of intelligence.
Books to enhance intelligence: scientific literature
Of course, you will not be able to cover all the scientific literature. Choose those areas that are of interest to you: culture, biology, art, history, geography. Take for a rule every day to read through 1-2 chapters from these books. Examples include the following books:
- "Universe. A life. Reason "IS Shklovsky - an interesting book about the most important, the language of which will be understood by every person;
- "Entertaining Physics" J.Perelman is a classic for those who want to expand the boundaries of their perception;
- "Brief history of almost everything" B. Bryson - witty, entertaining book, covering a wide range of disciplines;
- "How a man became a giant" M. Ilyin, E. Sigal - this book tells about the development of civilizations.
This will not only increase your intellect, but will also expand your horizons and better understand the world in which we live.
Books for Intelligence: serious fiction
In this category, whether romance novels or detectives will not be included. In this category, you can include only those books that are offered to their students by teachers of philological faculties. In such a list of books that enhance intelligence , can include such works:
- "Shagreen Skin" Honore de Balzac - a book that tells about the amazing history of a man whose desires always come true;
- "Chapaev and Emptiness" In, Pelevin is an amazing novel in which the past and the present are intertwined;
- "Anna Karenina" by L. Tolstoy - many times filmized, an amazing story of love and honor;
- "Steppe Wolf" G. Hesse - a book that tells of a strange man alone;
- "The Hero of Our Time" M. Lermontov is a novel that an adult will perceive in a completely different way, not as a schoolboy, and who will never lose his modernity;
- "451 degrees Fahrenheit" Ray Bradberry is a novel-anti-utopia of the great master of the word from the USA;
- "Castle" F. Kafka - a novel from the greatest writer, who is full of unusual situations and makes a lot of rethinking.
Reading such literature, you will not only replenish your vocabulary, but you will also be able to slightly change your view of life, immersed in the various epochs presented in these books.
Books that enhance intelligence: poetry
Arguing about which books raise the intellect, few people remember poetry. But it is precisely such literature that expresses feelings and emotions much better than any prose. Recommend individual poems or collections of meaning there. Just find the author who will like you and study what he wrote. Among the poets, which are worth paying attention to , you can list:
- I. Brodsky;
- M. Lermontov;
- O. Mandelstam;
- A. Tarkovsky;
- A. Block;
- N. Gumilev;
- Paul Verlaine;
- V. Vysotsky;
- A. Fet;
- A. Akhmatova;
- M. Tsvetaeva;
- A. Voznesensky;
- S. Yesenin;
- V. Bryusov;
- V. Polozkova;
- G. Apolinner;
- F. Tyutchev;
- W. Shakespeare;
- J. Byron;
- O. Wilde;
- Transtremer;
- Charles Baudelaire;
- Federico Garisa Lorca;
- Heinrich Heine;
- N. Zabolotsky;
- E. Asadov.
Poetic texts in the original consonance have always been highly valued, and if you learn to perceive them correctly and appreciate the beauty of the word, then your intellect will actively develop. After all, to understand poetry, you need to be able to read between the lines, to see not what is written, but what is put into this text.