The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir (1948)
It has been a long time since i've read any Sartre or Hegel. So i feel unprepared to evaluate this book. de Beauvoir could have been clearer on her fundamental point about human consciousness. It is hard to disagree with most of what she builds on top of that foundation. Her critiques of what Sartre called "bad faith" are cogent. Her ethics succeeds in showing that existentialism need not lead to nihilism, and in challenging me to will my life as a never-finished expression of freedom. Even if i'm not sure what that means.