- The I Ching
- The Old Testament
- The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
- The Upanishads*
- The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu
- The Avesta
- Analects, Confucius*
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
- Works, Hippocrates*
- Works, Aristotle*
- History, Herodotus*
- The Republic, Plato
- Elements, Euclid
- The Dhammapada
- Aeneid, Virgil
- On the Nature of Reality, Lucretius
- Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Philo of Alexandria
- The New Testament
- Lives, Plutarch
- Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus, Cornelius Tacitus
- The Gospel of Truth
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius*
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus
- Enneads, Plotinus
- Confessions, Augustine of Hippo
- The Koran*
- Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides
- The Kabbalah*
- Summa Theologicae, Thomas Aquinas*
- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri*
- In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus
- The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli*
- On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
- On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, Nicolaus Copernicus
- Essays, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Don Quixote, Parts I and II, Miguel de Cervantes
- The Harmony of the World, Johannes Kepler
- Novum Organum, Francis Bacon
- The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare*
- Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei
- Discourse on Method, René Descartes
- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes*
- Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz*
- Pensées, Blaise Pascal
- Ethics, Baruch de Spinoza*
- Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
- The Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley
- The New Science, Giambattista Vico
- A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
- The Encyclopedia, Denis Diderot, ed.
- A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson
- Candide, François-Marie de Voltaire
- Common Sense, Thomas Paine*
- An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
- Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
- Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
- Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft
- An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, William Godwin
- An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Robert Malthus
- Phenomenology of Spirit, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel*
- The World as Will and Idea, Arthur Schopenhauer
- Course in the Positivist Philosophy, Auguste Comte
- On War, Carl Marie von Clausewitz
- Either/Or, Søren Kierkegaard
- The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels*
- "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau*
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin*
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
- First Principles, Herbert Spencer
- "Experiments with Plant Hybrids," Gregor Mendel
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell
- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
- Pragmatism, William James
- Relativity, Albert Einstein
- The Mind and Society, Vilfredo Pareto
- Psychological Types, Carl Gustav Jung
- I and Thou, Martin Buber
- The Trial, Franz Kafka
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes*
- Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich von Hayek
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
- Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
- Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Syntactic Structures, Noam Chomsky
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T. S. Kuhn
- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung [The Little Red Book], Mao Zedong
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Those Are Some Good Books, Right There
I was wondering if there were some sort of definitive list of important books to read. I figured that Google would yield more than a few. But the one that came up first, and over and over, was Martin Seymour-Smiths "100 Most Influential Books Ever Written." I copied this chronological version from interleaves and have marked in bold all of the things I've read so far. (I've read selections and excerpts from others, marked with an asterisk. I mean, who hasn't read some Shakespeare?) Considering that I read most of it at least 20 years ago, I can see I've been wasting a lot of time. I was a bit surprised to not see The Art of War on the list.
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