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SCRIPTURES

In Nomromism, there is no one central piece of holy scripture but rather a wide variety of books and literature from which believers may feel free to pick and choose. Nomromists are encouraged to read from a large selection of both religious and non-religious texts, many of which may be found listed below. These texts and writings are meant to be a great source of advice, wisdom, knowledge, and inspiration for the readers and grant many different perspectives on a near infinite number of subjects.

 

I. RELIGION

Prior Unity, by Adi Da

The Knee of Listening, by Adi Da

Confessions in Thirteen Books, by Augustine of Hippo

Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, by Augustine of Hippo

Hidden Words, by Bahá'u'lláh

Kitáb-i-Aqdas, by Bahá'u'lláh

Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, by Bahá'u'lláh

The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, by Bahá'u'lláh

On Loving God, by Bernard of Clairvaux

The Teaching of Buddha, by Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai

Female Ministry: Woman’s Right to Preach the Gospel, by Catherine Booth

The Analects of Confucius, by Confucius

Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis

The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle

Steps to Christ, by Ellen G. White

The Great Controversy, by Ellen G. White

The Catechism of Montpellier, by François-Aimé Pouget

The Dhammapada, by Gautama Buddha

Contacts with the Gods from Space, by George King

The Book of Shadows, by Gerald Gardner

The Charge of the Goddess, by Gerald Gardner

The Epistles of Wisdom, by Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad

The Homeric Hymns, by Homer

Exposition on the Doctrine of the Catholic Church, by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture, by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Speech of Universal History, by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches, by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

The Book of Nomrom, by Jashan Khandal

The Book of Mormon, by Joseph Smith

The Doctrine and Covenants, by Joseph Smith

The Pearl of Great Price, by Joseph Smith

The Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

Treatise On the Response of the Tao, by Lao Tzu

Dianetics, by L. Ron Hubbard

The Way to Happiness, by L. Ron Hubbard

The Principia Discordia, by Malaclypse the Younger and Lord Omar

The Gospel of Mani, by Mani

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy

God Speaks, by Meher Baba

The Kojiki, by Ō no Yasumaro

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, by Padmasambhava

Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda

Amritbani Guru Ravidass Ji, by Ramanand Dass

The Babylonian Talmud, by Rav Ashi and Ravina II

The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

The Holy Piby, by Robert Athlyi Rogers

The Udānavarga, by the Sarvāstivādins

The Guru Granth Sahib, by the Sikh Gurus

The Necronomicon, by Simon

The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Sin-Leqi-Unninni

The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis

The Summa Contra Gentiles, by Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologiae, by Thomas Aquinas

The Bhagavad Gita, by Vyasa

The Mahābhārata, by Vyasa

The Vedas, by Vyasa

The Avesta, by Zoroaster

The Bible

The Diamond Sūtra

The Hadith

Nitnem

The Quran

The Tripiṭaka

The Yazidi Black Book

The Yazidi Book of Revelation

II. PHILOSOPHY

The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus

The Rebel, by Albert Camus

Summer in Algiers, by Albert Camus

The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

The Poetics, by Aristotle

Politics, by Aristotle

The World as Will and Representation, by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Catechism of Positive Religion, by Auguste Comte

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

System of Positive Polity, by Auguste Comte

The City of God, by Augustine of Hippo

Account of Lake Tai Hu Rock, by Bai Juyi

Pensées, by Blaise Pascal

The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius

Considérations sur les Mœurs de ce Siècle, by Charles Pinot Duclos

Moral Essays, by Cicero

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, by David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume

Essay on the Beautiful, by Denis Diderot

On the Interpretation of Nature, by Denis Diderot

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke

All Gall Is Divided, by Emil Cioran

A Short History of Decay, by Emil Cioran

On the Heights of Despair, by Emil Cioran

The Temptation to Exist, by Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born, by Emil Cioran

The Enchiridion, by Epictetus

Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon

Maxims, by François de La Rochefoucauld

Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy, by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science, by Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human, by Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche

Untimely Meditations, by  Friedrich Nietzsche

Elements of the Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Phenomenology of Spirit, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Science of Logic, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant

Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason, by  Immanuel Kant

Of Grammatology, by Jacques Derrida

Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre

Du Pape, by Joseph de Maistre

Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein

A Mother's Advice to Her Son, by Madame de Lambert

A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, by Madame de Lambert

Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, by Marquis de Condorcet

Reflections and Maxims, by Marquis of Vauvenargues

Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger

Essays, by Michel de Montaigne

The Birth of the Clinic, by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality, by Michel Foucault

Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault

Treatise on Rocks, by Mi Fu

Maximes et Pensées, by Nicolas Chamfort

Crito, by Plato

The Apology of Socrates, by Plato

The Laws, by Plato

Meno, by Plato

The Republic, by Plato

The Symposium, by Plato

Discourse on the Method, by René Descartes

Rules for the Direction of the Mind, by René Descartes

De Consolatione ad Marciam, by Seneca the Younger

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, by Seneca the Younger

Either/Or, by Søren Kierkegaard

The Concept of Anxiety, by Søren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling, by Søren Kierkegaard

The Sickness Unto Death, by Søren Kierkegaard

III. SCIENCE

A Theory of Human Motivation, by Abraham Maslow

History of Astronomy, by Adam Smith

Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, by Adrien-Marie Legendre

Elements of Algebra, by Alexis Clairaut

Elements of Geometry, by Alexis Clairaut

Eléments des Sciences Naturelles, by André-Marie Constant Duméril

Elements of Physiology, by Anthelme Richerand

Elements of Chemistry, by Antoine Lavoisier

Elementary Treatise on Analytic Geometry, by Auguste Comte

Popular Astronomy, by Auguste Comte

Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided Into Five Parts, by Baruch Spinoza

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle​

Éloges des Savants, by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle​ and Marquis de Condorcet

Psychological Types, by Carl Jung

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

Art of Prolonging Life, by Christopher William Hufeland

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, by Claude Bernard

Chemical Statistics, by Claude Louis Berthollet

The Course of Analysis, by Claude-Louis Navier

Histoire Naturelle, by Comte de Buffon

Letter on the Blind, by Denis Diderot

Letter on the Deaf and Dumb, by Denis Diderot

Mechanical Physics, by E. G. Fischer

Commentaires des Propositions de Pathologie, by François-Joseph-Victor Broussais

History of Chronic Phlegmasi, by François-Joseph-Victor Broussais

On Irritation and Insanity, by François-Joseph-Victor Broussais

On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts, by Franz Joseph Gall

The Intelligence and Perfectibility of Animals, by George Leroy

On the organization of animals, by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

Upon Air, Water, and Situation, by Hippocrates

Zoological Philosophy, by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Manual of Anatomy, by Johann Friedrich Meckel​

Alphabetical Manual of Practical Philosophy, by John Carr

Theory of Analytic Functions, by Joseph-Louis Lagrange​

The Companion in the Environment of Birds, by Konrad Lorenz

Histoire et Systématisation Générale de la Biologie, by Louis Auguste Segond

Traité d'Anatomie Générale, by Louis Auguste Segond

The Elements of Statics, by Louis Poinsot

Memoirs on Mechanics, by Louis Poinsot

Discourses on the Sober Life, by Luigi Cornaro

General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, by Marie François Xavier Bichat

Physiological Researches Upon Life and Death, by Marie François Xavier Bichat​

Elementary Arithmetic, by Marquis de Condorcet

Fundamental Principles of Equilibrium and Motion, by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nouveaux Elements de la Science de l'Homme, by Paul-Joseph Barthez

Theory of the Beautiful in Nature and in Art, by Paul Joseph Barthez

Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme, by Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis

The Edge of the Sea, by Rachel Carson

The Sea Around Us, by Rachel Carson

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson

Under the Sea Wind, by Rachel Carson

La Géométrie, by René Descartes

The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins

Trigonometry, by Sylvestre François Lacroix

Elements of Chemistry, by Thomas Graham

IV. LITERATURE

The Dramas of Aeschylus

Gil Blas, by Alain-René Lesage

V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore

Watchmen, by Alan Moore

The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni

The Stranger, by Albert Camus

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

Fables Nouvelles, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte

The Comedies of Aristophanes

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens

Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

Sonnets, by Francesco Petrarca

The Last of the Abencerrages, by François-René de Chateaubriand

The Martyrs, by François-René de Chateaubriand

Dune, by Frank Herbert

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell

A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin

Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

Epistles, by Horace

Odes, by Horace

The Iliad, by Homer

The Odyssey, by Homer

At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft

Paul et Virginie, by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

The Fables of La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine

Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Fables of Florian, by by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

Andromaque, by Jean Racine

Britannicus, by Jean Racine

Phèdre, by Jean Racine

Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

The Lyric Poetry of John Milton

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad

Satires, by Juvenal

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fabliaux Or Tales, by Legrand d'Aussy

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

The Giver, by Lois Lowry

Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus

Madness in Valencia, by Lope de Vega

The Dog In The Manger, by Lope de Vega

Child Harold's Pilgrimage, by Lord Byron

Don Juan, by Lord Byron

Manfred, by Lord Byron

Pharsalia, by Lucan

Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto

La Princesse de Cleves, by Madame de La Fayette

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Poems of Matsuo Bashō

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

Comedies, by Molière

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

The Metamorphoses, by Ovid

Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The Mayor of Zalamea, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Cinna, by Pierre Corneille

Le Cid, by Pierre Corneille

Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille

The Death of Pompey, by Pierre Corneille

Didone abbandonata, by Pietro Metastasio

Victory Odes, by Pindar

Comedies, by Plautus

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles

It, by Stephen King

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Ariel, by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

Comedies, by Terence

The Idylls of Theocritus

The Elegies of Tibullus

The Liberation of Jerusalem, by Torquato Tasso

The Aeneid, by Virgil

The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

Brutus, by Voltaire

Tancrède, by Voltaire

Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Beowulf

Cantar de mio Cid

One Thousand and One Nights

V. HISTORY

Memoirs on Music, by André Grétry

A Manual of Ancient History, by Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren

A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe, by Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren

The Anabasis of Alexander, by Arrian

La Historia De Espana, by Ascargorta

Political Testament, by Cardinal Richelieu

Revolutions D'Italie, by Carlo Denina

Ecclesiastical History, by Claude Fleury

Universal Geography, by Conrad Malte-Brun

The History of England, by David Hume

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon

Histoire de la Révolution Française, by François-Auguste-Marie Mignet

Geographical Dictionary, by Grégoire Louis Domeny de Rienzi

The State of Europe during the Middle Ages, by Henry Hallam

The Histories, by Herodotus

Abrégé de l'Histoire de France, by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Voyages en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient, by Jean Chardin

Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece, by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

History of the Art of Antiquity, by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Commentarii de Bello Gallico, by Julius Caesar

A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci

Parallel Lives, by Plutarch

The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides

The Age of Louis XIV, by Voltaire

History of the Reign of Charles V., by William Robertson

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

The Life of Cromwell

Memoirs of Madame de Motteville

The Memoirs of Philip de Commines

The Voyages of Captain James Cook

The Works of Tacitus

VI. CINEMA

Wuthering Heights (2011), by Andrea Arnold

Shrek (2001), by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson

Selma (2014), by Ava DuVernay

The Pink Panther (1963), by Blake Edwards

Parasite (2019), by Bong Joon-ho

The Incredibles (2004), by Brad Bird

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), by Brian Henson

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), by Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jane Eyre (2011), by Cary Joji Fukunaga

The Great Dictator (1940), by Charlie Chaplin

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), by Chris Columbus

Four Lions (2010), by Chris Morris

Inception (2010), by Christopher Nolan

Interstellar (2014), by Christopher Nolan

Memento (2000), by Christopher Nolan

The Dark Knight (2008), by Christopher Nolan

About a Boy (2002), by Chris and Paul Weitz

Trainspotting (1996), by Danny Boyle

Fight Club (1999), by David Fincher

Gone Girl (2014), by David Fincher

The Social Network (2010), by David Fincher

Brief Encounter (1945), by David Lean

Lawrence of Arabia (1962), by David Lean

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), by David Lean

Shaun of the Dead (2004), by Edgar Wright

A Serious Man (2009), by Ethan and Joel Coen

The Big Lebowski (1998), by Ethan and Joel Coen

Fargo (1996), by Ethan and Joel Coen

Hail, Caesar! (2016), by Ethan and Joel Coen

The Godfather (1972), by Francis Ford Coppola

It's a Wonderful Life (1946), by Frank Capra

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), by George Miller

10 Things I Hate About You (1999), by Gil Junger

Sausage Party (2016), by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon

Spirited Away (2001), by Hayao Miyazaki

Play It Again, Sam (1972), by Herbert Ross

Titanic (1997), by James Cameron

The Purge (2013), by James DeMonaco

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), by James Gunn

Juno (2007), by Jason Reitman

The Babadook (2014), by Jennifer Kent

Frozen (2013), by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck

The Breakfast Club (1985), by John Hughes

Toy Story (1995), by John Lasseter

Conan the Barbarian (1982), by John Milius

Moana (2016), by John Musker and Ron Clements

Hairspray (1988), by John Waters

Little Miss Sunshine (2006), by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Knocked Up (2007), by Judd Apatow

The Matrix (1999), by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

Brave (2012), by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

Shaun the Sheep (2015), by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak

Mean Girls (2004), by Mark Waters

Shutter Island (2010), by Martin Scorsese

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), by Martin Scorsese

American Psycho (2000), by Mary Harron

Sex and the City (2008), by Michael Patrick King

Office Space (1999), by Mike Judge

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), by Milos Forman

Paddington (2015), by Paul King

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), by Peter Jackson

The Truman Show (1998), by Peter Weir

Pulp Fiction (1994), by Quentin Tarantino

Forrest Gump (1994), by Robert Zemeckis

The Lion King (1994), by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff

Aladdin (1992), by Ron Clements and John Musker

Samsara (2011), by Ron Fricke

1917 (2019), by Sam Mendes

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), by Sam Taylor-Johnson

Aparajito (1956), by Satyajit Ray

Pather Panchali (1955), by Satyajit Ray

The World of Apu (1959), by Satyajit Ray

Doctor Strange (2016), by Scott Derrickson

The Virgin Suicides (1999), by Sofia Coppola

A Clockwork Orange (1971), by Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), by Stanley Kubrick

Dr. Strangelove (1964), by Stanley Kubrick

The Shining (1980), by Stanley Kubrick

From Russia with Love (1963), by Terence Young

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), by Terry Jones

Ed Wood (1994), by Tim Burton

Cats (2019), by Tom Hooper

The Room (2003), by Tommy Wiseau

Patch Adams (1998), by Tom Shadyac

Moonrise Kingdom (2012), by Wes Anderson

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), by Wes Anderson

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), by Wes Anderson

Annie Hall (1977), by Woody Allen

Watchmen (2009), by Zack Snyder

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