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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
  2. 2.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  3. 3.
    ?
    The Old Testament

  4. 4.
    ?
    Aeschylus Two (Complete Greek Tragedies)
    by Aeschylus
  5. 5.
    Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
    by Sophocles
  6. 6.
    Herodotus The Histories
    by Herodotus
  7. 7.
    ?
    Euripides, Tragedies

  8. 8.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides
  9. 9.
    Hippocrates (Loeb Classical Library)
    by Hippocrates
  12. 12.
  14. 14.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid
  15. 15.
    The Works of Archimedes
    by Archimedes
  16. 16.
    ?
    Apollonius Conics Books I-IV (two volume set)
    by Apollonius of Perga
  19. 19.
    On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics)
    by Titus Lucretius Carus
  21. 21.
    The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
    by Horace
  23. 23.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid
  26. 26.
    Complete Works of Tacitus
    by Tacitus
  27. 27.
    The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean
    by Nicomachus
  29. 29.
    Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Epictetus
  30. 30.
    Ptolemy's Almagest
    by Ptolemy
  31. 31.
    Works Of Lucian Of Samosata, V1, The
    by Lucian of Samosata
  32. 32.
    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
    by Marcus Aurelius
  34. 34.
    The New Testament

  35. 35.
    The Six Enneads
    by Plotinus
  36. 36.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine
  37. 37.
    ?
    Political Writings of St. Augustine
    by Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine
  38. 38.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  39. 39.
    Das Nibelungenlied
    by Ursula Schultzw
  41. 41.
    The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas (Five Volumes)
    by Thomas Aquinas
  43. 43.
    The New Life Of Dante Alighieri
    by Dante Alighieri
  44. 44.
    De Monarchia (On the Monarchy)
    by Dante Alighieri
  45. 45.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  46. 46.
    Troilus and Cressida (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  47. 47.
    The Da Vinci Notebooks
    by Leonardo Da Vinci
  49. 49.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  50. 50.
    ?

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