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How to Read a Book

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.

(found at: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtadler.html)

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1. The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
2. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
3.
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 The Old Testament  
4.
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 Aeschylus Two (Complete Greek Tragedies)
by Aeschylus
  
5. Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics)
by Sophocles
  
6. Herodotus The Histories
by Herodotus
  
7.
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 Euripides, Tragedies  
8. The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
  
9. Hippocrates (Loeb Classical Library)
by Hippocrates
  
10. Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics)
by Aristophanes
  
11. The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI)
by Plato
  
12. The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)
by Aristotle
  
13. The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics)
by Epicurus
  
14. Euclid's Elements
by Euclid
  
15. The Works of Archimedes
by Archimedes
  
16.
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 Apollonius Conics Books I-IV (two volume set)
by Apollonius of Perga
  
17. Cicero on Oratory and Orators (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)  
18. Cicero: On Old Age On Friendship On Divination (Loeb Classical Library No. 154)
by Cicero
  
19. On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics)
by Titus Lucretius Carus
  
20. Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1-6: Revised Edition (Loeb Classical Library)
by Virgil
  
21. The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
by Horace
  
22. Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics)
by Titus Livy
  
23. Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
by Ovid
  
24. Plutarch Lives, IX, Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library)
by Plutarch
  
25. Plutarch: Moralia, Volume VII, On Love of Wealth. On Compliancy. On Envy and Hate. On Praising Oneself Inoffensively. On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance. On Fate... (Loeb Classical Library No. 405)
by Plutarch
  
26. Complete Works of Tacitus
by Tacitus
  
27. The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean
by Nicomachus
  
28. The Discourses of Epictetus (Everyman's Library (Paper))
by Epictetus
  
29. Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Epictetus
  
30. Ptolemy's "Almagest"
by Ptolemy
  
31. The Works of Lucian of Samosata
by Lucian of Samosata
  
32. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius
  
33.
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 Galen. On the natural faculties (Loeb classical library) (Loeb classical library)
by Galen
  
34.
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 The New Testament  
35. The Six Enneads
by Plotinus
  
36. The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Augustine
  
37.
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 Political Writings of St. Augustine
by Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine
  
38. The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
39. Das Nibelungenlied
by Ursula Schultzw
  
40. Njal's Saga: or, The Story of Burnt Njal  
41. St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set)
by Thomas Aquinas
  
42. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
by Dante Alighieri
  
43. The New Life Of Dante Alighieri
by Dante Alighieri
  
44. De Monarchia (On the Monarchy)
by Dante Alighieri
  
45. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
46. Troilus and Cressida (Thrift Edition)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
47. The Da Vinci Notebooks
by Leonardo Da Vinci
  
48.
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 William Gilbert of Colchester: Physician of London: on the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet the Earth...
by P. Fleury [Translator] Mottelay
  
49. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
50.
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 Prothalamion ;: & Epithalamion : the wedding songs of Edmund Spenser
by Edmund Spenser
  
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