Here is some of mine... I wish you'll give me yours.
Novels :
William Faulkner - Sanctuary
Robert Musil - The man without qualities
Ernesto Sabato - Abaddon
Louis Ferdinand Céline - Le voyage au bout de la nuit
F. S. Fitzgerald - Tender is the night
Philosophy :
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics...
I understand that energy depends on mass but why multiply it by C² and not some other constant ?
Several subquestions pops up from the previous one : how Einstein ended up with this equation ? Why a fundamental limit of nature as C should be squared (what does a squared limit mean) ? Is it...