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My short list of books to read

  1. 1.
    The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library)
    by James Boswell

  2. 2.
    Lilith
    by George MacDonald

  3. 3.
    Phantastes
    by George Macdonald

  4. 4.
    The Scottish Chiefs
    by Jane Porter

  5. 5.
    The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus
    by Aeschylus

  6. 6.

  7. 7.
    El Cid (Oxford Classic Tales)
    by Geraldine McCaughrean

  8. 8.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine

  9. 9.
    The City of God [The Modern Library]
    by Saint Augustine

  10. 10.
    Meditations (Modern Library Classics)
    by MARCUS AURELIUS

  11. 11.
    Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Lawrence Graver

  12. 12.
    The Cost of Discipleship
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  13. 13.
    Mother Courage And Her Children
    by Bertolt Brecht

  14. 14.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  15. 15.
    The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
    by Geddes

  16. 16.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  17. 17.
    A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  18. 18.
    Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  19. 19.
    The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan)
    by Tom Clancy

  20. 20.
    Childhood's End
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  21. 21.
    On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series)
    by Nicolaus Copernicus

  22. 22.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Michael Crichton

  23. 23.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  24. 25.
    The Game of Kings (Lymond Chronicles, 1)
    by Dorothy Dunnett

  25. 26.
    Queens' Play: Second in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles
    by Dorothy Dunnett

  26. 27.

  27. 28.

  28. 29.
    The Ringed Castle: Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles
    by Dorothy Dunnett

  29. 30.
    Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles
    by Dorothy Dunnett

  30. 31.
    King Hereafter
    by Dorothy Dunnett

  31. 32.
    The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
    by T. S. Eliot

  32. 33.

  33. 34.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid

  34. 35.
    The Essential Euripides: Dancing in Dark Times
    by Euripides

  35. 36.
    ?

  36. 38.
    Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  37. 39.
    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  38. 40.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Frederick Forsyth

  39. 41.
    The Golden Bough
    by James George Frazer

  40. 42.
    ?

  41. 45.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  42. 46.
    The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Hamilton

  43. 47.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  44. 49.
    The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

  45. 50.
    Hippocrates (Loeb Classical Library)
    by Hippocrates

  46. 51.
    Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hobbes

  47. 52.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

  48. 53.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  49. 54.
    The toilers of the sea, by Victor Hugo...
    by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

  50. 55.
    The Waning of the Middle Ages
    by Johan Huizinga

  51. 56.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  52. 57.
    Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
    by Thomas Ingoldsby

  53. 58.
    Washington Irving's Sketch Book
    by Washington Irving

  54. 59.
    Beast in the Jungle
    by Henry James

  55. 60.
    Pragmatism (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by William James

  56. 62.

  57. 63.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

  58. 64.
    ?
    The Penal Colony, Stories and Short Pieces
    by Franz Kafka

  59. 65.
    Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
    by Immanuel Kant

  60. 66.
    Harmonies of the World (On the Shoulders of Giants, Book 5)
    by Johannes Kepler

  61. 67.
    Epitome/Copernican Astronomy/Harm (Great Minds Series)
    by Johannes Kepler

  62. 69.
    ?
    The Prussian Officer (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  63. 70.
    Structural Anthropology
    by Claude Levi-strauss

  64. 71.
    Pilgrim's Regress
    by C. S. Lewis

  65. 72.
    Two Treatises of Government
    by John Locke

  66. 75.
    The Prince (Bantam Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  67. 76.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

  68. 77.
    Das Kapital, Gateway Edition
    by Karl Marx

  69. 79.
    Return to Paradise
    by James A. Michener

  70. 80.
    The Complete Poetry of John Milton
    by John Milton

  71. 83.
    ?
    George Orwell's Animal Farm (Monarch Notes)
    by George Orwell

  72. 84.
    Pensees (Penguin Classics)
    by Blaise Pascal

  73. 86.
    Great Dialogues of Plato (Signet Classics)
    by Plato

  74. 87.
    Plotinus: The Enneads (LP Classic Reprint Series)
    by Stephen MacKenna

  75. 88.
    Science and Hypothesis
    by Henri Poincare

  76. 89.
    Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set
    by Marcel Proust

  77. 90.
    Ptolemy's Almagest
    by Ptolemy

  78. 91.
    Gargantua & Pantagruel (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
    by Francois Rabelais

  79. 92.
    Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
    by Kim Stanley Robinson

  80. 93.
    ?
    GREEN MARS
    by Kim Stanley Robinson

  81. 94.
    ?
    BLUE MARS (Mars Trilogy) (Robinson, Kim Stanley. Mars Trilogy.)
    by Kim Stanley Robinson

  82. 95.
    The Comedy of Errors (Signet Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

  83. 96.
    Henry VI (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  84. 97.
    Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  85. 98.
    Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  86. 99.
    The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
    by Adam Smith

  87. 100.
    The Complete Plays of Sophocles
    by Sophocles

  88. 103.
    Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
    by Neal Stephenson

  89. 104.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  90. 105.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

  91. 106.
    War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  92. 108.
    From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
    by Max Weber

  93. 109.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  94. 110.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  95. 112.
    Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Great Minds Series)
    by Galileo Galilei

  96. 113.
    On Motion of Heart & Blood in Animals (Great Minds Series)
    by William C. Harvey

  97. 115.
    The Advancement of Learning (The Oxford Francis Bacon)
    by Francis Bacon

  98. 116.
    New Atlantis and the Great Instauration (Crofts Classics)
    by Francis Bacon

  99. 117.
    Discourse on Method (Everyman's Library (Paper))
    by Rene Descartes

  100. 118.

  101. 119.
    Opticks (Great Minds Series)
    by Isaac Newton

  102. 122.
    The Spirit of Laws (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

  103. 124.
    The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  104. 125.
    On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill

  105. 126.
    Utilitarianism
    by John Stuart Mill

  106. 127.
    ?
    Representative government, Chapters I-VI; by John Stuart Mill
    by John Stuart Mill

  107. 128.
    Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
    by Antoine Lavoisier

  108. 129.
    The Analytical Theory of Heat (Dover Phoenix Editions)
    by Joseph Fourier

  109. 130.
    Experimental Researches in Electricity
    by Michael Faraday

  110. 131.
    Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel

  111. 132.

  112. 133.
    The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Darwin

  113. 134.
    An Introduction to Metaphysics
    by Henri Bergson

  114. 135.
    Experience And Education
    by John Dewey

  115. 136.
    Science and the Modern World
    by Alfred North Whitehead

  116. 137.
    The Problems of Philosophy
    by Bertrand Russell

  117. 138.
    Introduction to Metaphysics (Nota Bene)
    by Martin Heidegger

  118. 139.
    Philosophical Investigations
    by Ludwig Wittgenstein

  119. 140.
    ?
    Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers.
    by Max K. Planck

  120. 142.
    Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
    by Albert Einstein

  121. 144.
    A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
    by G. H. Hardy

  122. 146.
    What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches"
    by Erwin Schrödinger

  123. 147.
    ?
    The nature of life
    by C. H Waddington

  124. 148.
    The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thorstein Veblen

  125. 149.
    The Acquisitive Society
    by R. H. Tawney

  126. 151.
    Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work
    by Eugene H. Peterson

  127. 152.
    Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity
    by Eugene H. Peterson

  128. 153.
    Lament for a Son
    by Nicholas Wolterstorff

  129. 154.
    Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
    by Frederick Buechner

  130. 155.
    Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
    by Richard J. Foster

  131. 156.
    The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
    by Dallas Willard

  132. 157.

  133. 158.
    Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
    by Dallas Willard

  134. 159.

  135. 160.
    Disappointment with God
    by Philip Yancey

  136. 161.
    Following Jesus
    by Wright N T

  137. 162.
    Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    by Anne Lamott

  138. 163.
    The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation
    by Luke Timothy Johnson

  139. 164.
    Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel
    by Luke Timothy Johnson

  140. 168.

  141. 169.
    Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
    by Rob Bell

  142. 170.

  143. 171.
    The Secret Message of Jesus
    by Brian D. McLaren

  144. 173.
    Tuesdays With Morrie
    by Mitch Albom

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