The St. John's College Great Books Reading List

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The books of the St. John’s College Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Liberal Arts.

i.e., the Great Books of history which formed Western Civilization.

The list is now located here – http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/readlist.shtml

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  1. 1.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  2. 2.
    The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics)
    by Richmond Lattimore

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  3. 4.
    Prometheus Bound
    by Aeschylus

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  4. 5.
    Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics)
    by Sophocles

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  5. 7.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

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  6. 8.
    Philoctetes
    by Sophocles

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  7. 9.
    The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

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  8. 10.
    Euripides' Hippolytus (Focus Classical Library)
    by Michael Halleran

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  9. 12.
    The Histories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

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  10. 15.
    Gorgias (Clarendon Plato Series)
    by Plato

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  11. 16.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

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  12. 17.
    Plato: Apology
    by Plato

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  13. 18.
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    Crito
    by Plato

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  15. 23.
    Timaeus
    by Plato

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  16. 24.
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    Phaedrus (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

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  17. 25.
    Poetics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle

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  18. 26.
    Physics: Books I and II (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
    by Aristotle

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  19. 27.
    Aristotle's Metaphysics
    by Aristotle

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  20. 29.
    On Generation And Corruption
    by Aristotle

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  21. 30.
    Aristotle's Politics: a Treatise on Government
    by Aristotle

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  22. 32.
    On The Generation Of Animals
    by Aristotle

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  23. 33.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid

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  24. 34.
    On the Nature of Things
    by Lucretius

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  25. 35.
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    Lycurgus
    by Plutarch

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  26. 36.
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    Solon
    by Plutarch

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  27. 37.
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    Arithmetic
    by Nicomachus

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  28. 38.
    Elements of Chemistry
    by Antoine Lavoisier

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  29. 39.
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    by William Harvey

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  31. 41.
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    De Anima (Clarendon Aristotle series)
    by Aristotle

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  32. 43.
    Treatise on Conic Sections
    by of Perga Apollonius

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  33. 44.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

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  34. 45.
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    Plutarch: the Younger Cato

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  35. 47.
    Discourses of Epictetus
    by Epictetus

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  36. 48.
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    The Manual of Epictetus
    by Sanford J. Epictetus

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  37. 50.
    Ptolemy's "Almagest"
    by Ptolemy

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Comments

punkie4god
Colorado

Started the second year... — 2 years ago

I’m about halfway through and having a tough time finding the books :/


asterisk
United States

added Plato — 2 years ago

but there’s still much more to go! The list is here.

[UPDATE] The whole first year is now on the list.


Untitled — 2 years ago

I started to add books, but still have a long way to go. I will be adding more later.


corbett
Cambridge

Untitled — 2 years ago

I’m looking for this list on listofbests!