Recommended reading list from [[Book – How To Read a Book]] and part of [[Great Input Sources]]. ## In progress - [[Homer für Eilige]] - [[Marcus Aurelius – Meditations]] - [[Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra]] ## To read 3. The Old Testament 4. Aeschylus – Tragedies 5. Sophocles – Tragedies 6. Herodotus – Histories 7. Euripides – Tragedies 8. Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War 9. Hippocrates – Medical Writings 10. Aristophanes – Comedies 11. Plato – Dialogues 12. [[Aristotle – Works]] 13. Epicurus – Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus 14. Euclid – Elements 15. Archimedes – Works 16. Apollonius of Perga – Conic Sections 17. Cicero – Works 18. Lucretius – On the Nature of Things 19. Virgil – Works 20. Horace – Works 21. Livy – History of Rome 22. Ovid – Works 23. Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia 24. Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania 25. Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic 26. Epictetus – Discourses; Encheiridion 27. Ptolemy – Almagest 28. Lucian – Works 30. Galen – On the Natural Faculties 31. The New Testament 32. Plotinus – The Enneads 33. St. Augustine – On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine 34. The Song of Roland 35. The Nibelungenlied 36. The Saga of Burnt Njál 37. St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica 38. [[Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy]];The New Life; On Monarchy 39. Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales 40. Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks 41. Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy 42. Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly 43. Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 44. Thomas More – Utopia 45. Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises 46. François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel 47. John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion 48. Michel de Montaigne – Essays 49. William Gilbert – On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies 50. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote 51. Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene 52. Francis Bacon – Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis 53. [[William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays]] 54. Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences 55. Johannes Kepler – Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World 56. William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals 57. Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan 58. René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy 59. John Milton – Works 60. [[Molière – Comedies]] 61. Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises 62. Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light 63. Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics 64. John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education 65. Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies 66. Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics 67. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology 68. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe 69. Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal 70. William Congreve – The Way of the World 71. George Berkeley – Principles of Human Knowledge 72. Alexander Pope – Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man 73. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws 74. Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary 75. Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones 76. Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets 77. David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 78. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract 79. Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 80. Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations 81. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace 82. Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography 83. James Boswell – Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. 84. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry) 85. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers 86. Jeremy Bentham – Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions 87. [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust]]; Poetry and Truth 88. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat 89. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History 90. [[Work by William Wordsworth – Poems]] 91. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems; Biographia Literaria 92. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma 93. Carl von Clausewitz – On War 94. Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love 95. Lord Byron – Don Juan 96. Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism 97. Michael Faraday – Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity 98. Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology 99. Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy 100. Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet 101. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal 102. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter 103. Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America 104. John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography 105. Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography 106. Charles Dickens – Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times 107. Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine 108. Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden 109. Karl Marx – Capital; Communist Manifesto 110. George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch 111. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; Billy Budd 112. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov 113. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories 114. Henrik Ibsen – Plays 115. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales 116. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger 117. William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism 118. Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors 119. [[Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power 120. Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method 121. Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 122. George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces 123. Max Planck – Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography 124. Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion 125. John Dewey – How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic: the Theory of Inquiry 126. Alfred North Whitehead – An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas 127. George Santayana – The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places 128. Vladimir Lenin – The State and Revolution 129. Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past 130. Bertrand Russell – The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits 131. Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers 132. Albert Einstein – The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics 133. James Joyce – '[[The Dead]]' in [[Dubliners]]; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses 134. Jacques Maritain – Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism 135. Franz Kafka – The Trial; The Castle 136. Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study of History; Civilization on Trial 137. Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness 138. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The First Circle; The Cancer Ward ## Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books