How to Read a Book

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by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

Source: Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book. Appendix A: "A Recommended Reading List." Rev. and updated ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. © 1972 by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren.

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  1. 1.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    The Old Testament

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    Aeschylus Two (Complete Greek Tragedies)
    by Aeschylus

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  5. 5.
    Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
    by Sophocles

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  6. 6.
    Herodotus The Histories
    by Herodotus

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    Euripides, Tragedies

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  8. 8.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

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  9. 9.
    Hippocrates (Loeb Classical Library)
    by Hippocrates

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  11. 14.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid

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  12. 15.
    The Works of Archimedes
    by Archimedes

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    Apollonius Conics Books I-IV (two volume set)
    by Apollonius of Perga

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  14. 19.
    On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics)
    by Titus Lucretius Carus

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  15. 21.
    The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
    by Horace

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  16. 23.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

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  17. 26.
    Complete Works of Tacitus
    by Tacitus

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  18. 27.
    The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean
    by Nicomachus

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  20. 29.
    Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Epictetus

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  21. 30.
    Ptolemy's "Almagest"
    by Ptolemy

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  22. 31.
    The Works of Lucian of Samosata
    by Lucian of Samosata

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  23. 32.
    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
    by Marcus Aurelius

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  24. 34.
    The New Testament

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  25. 35.
    The Six Enneads
    by Plotinus

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    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine

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    Political Writings of St. Augustine
    by Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine

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  28. 38.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  29. 39.
    Das Nibelungenlied
    by Ursula Schultzw

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  30. 43.
    The New Life Of Dante Alighieri
    by Dante Alighieri

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  31. 44.
    De Monarchia (On the Monarchy)
    by Dante Alighieri

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  32. 45.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  33. 46.
    Troilus and Cressida (Thrift Edition)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  34. 47.
    The Da Vinci Notebooks
    by Leonardo Da Vinci

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  35. 49.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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