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  1. 1.
    How to Read a Book
    by Mortimer J. Adler

  2. 3.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
    by Anonymous

  3. 5.
    The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
    by James George Frazer

  4. 6.
    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
    by Mary White Rowlandson

  5. 7.
    Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647
    by William Bradford

  6. 9.
    The Principles of Scientific Management
    by Frederick Winslow Taylor

  7. 10.
    The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  8. 11.
    Colors of the Mountain
    by Da Chen

  9. 12.
    NRSV Standard Bible (tan/black)
    by Harper Bibles

  10. 14.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  11. 15.
    The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
    by Shelby Foote

  12. 16.
    The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
    by Harold Bloom

  13. 17.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  14. 18.
    The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

  15. 19.
    Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
    by Herman Melville

  16. 20.
    The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One)
    by J. R. R. Tolkien

  17. 21.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  18. 22.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Chieko N. Okazaki

  19. 23.
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  20. 24.
    ?
    The Greek Myths (Voumes I and II)
    by Robert Graves

  21. 25.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

  22. 26.
    Baudolino
    by Umberto Eco

  23. 27.
    The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  24. 28.
    Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
    by Stephen Jay Gould

  25. 29.
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    The Illiad/Homer

  26. 30.
    Plato's Ion & Meno
    by Plato

  27. 31.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

  28. 35.
    Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
    by Plutarch

  29. 36.
    The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle
    by Aristotle

  30. 38.
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    Medea - Hippolytus - The Bacchae
    by Euripides (Translated By Philip Vellacott)

  31. 39.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

  32. 42.
    Plato's Symposium
    by Stanley Rosen

  33. 43.
    Machiavelli's The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  34. 45.
    Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Thrift Edition)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  35. 46.

  36. 47.
    King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
    by William Shakespeare

  37. 48.
    Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea : The Bachae
    by Paul Roche

  38. 49.
    The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Herodotus

  39. 50.
    Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
    by Aristophanes

  40. 51.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid

  41. 52.

  42. 53.
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    Introduction to arithmetic
    by Nicomachus

  43. 54.
    Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
    by Antoine Lavoisier

  44. 55.
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    by William Harvey

  45. 56.
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    The human body
    by William Clevenger

  46. 57.
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    The Outline of Science, A Plain Story Simply Told
    by J. Arthur Thomson

  47. 58.
    ?

  48. 59.
    The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2
    by William James

  49. 60.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  50. 61.
    The Jungle Book (Books of Wonder)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  51. 62.
    Ninety-Three
    by Victor Hugo

  52. 63.
    Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
    by Guy de Maupassant

  53. 64.
    The Short Stories (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  54. 65.
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  55. 66.
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    A Passion for Excellence The Leadership Difference
    by Tom and Austin, Nancy Peters

  56. 69.
    Edward's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    by Jonathan Edwards

  57. 70.
    The Way to Wealth (Little Books of Wisdom)
    by Benjamin Franklin

  58. 71.
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    Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

  59. 73.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  60. 74.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  61. 75.
    Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    by Michael Lewis

  62. 76.
    Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
    by Bill Bryson

  63. 77.
    The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
    by Bill Bryson

  64. 79.

  65. 80.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  66. 81.
    The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle (Signet Classics)
    by Hugh Lofting

  67. 82.
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    Sophocles (The Complete Greek tragedies)
    by Sophocles

  68. 83.
    The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

  69. 84.
    Hippocrates (Medicine and Culture)
    by Jacques Jouanna

  70. 86.
    The Works of Archimedes
    by Archimedes

  71. 87.
    Conics (Books 1-3)
    by Apollonius Of Perga

  72. 88.
    Selected Works (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Tullius Cicero

  73. 89.
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    Virgil's Works: The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics. Modern Library Edition
    by Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro). Translated By J. W. Mackail

  74. 90.
    ?
    Complete Works of Horace
    by Horace/kraemer

  75. 92.
    ?
    Ovid: Selected Works Everyman's Library Series
    by Ovid; Edited By J.C. And M.J. Thornton

  76. 93.
    ?
    The Principles of Psychology, Vols. 1-2 (2 Volumes in 1)
    by William James

  77. 94.
    Complete Works of Tacitus
    by Tacitus

  78. 95.
    Discourses of Epictetus
    by Epictetus

  79. 96.
    Ptolemy's Almagest
    by Ptolemy

  80. 98.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

  81. 99.
    Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Living History Library)
    by Jeanne Bendick

  82. 100.
    The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by Plotinus

  83. 101.
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    The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works
    by Lewis Caroll

  84. 102.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  85. 103.
    On Genesis (Works of Saint Augustine)
    by Saint Augustine

  86. 104.

  87. 105.

  88. 106.
    The Tale of Genji
    by Murasaki Shikibu

  89. 107.
    Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation
    by Thomas Aquinas

  90. 108.

  91. 109.
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    The New Life
    by Dante

  92. 111.
    ?

  93. 112.
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    The Canterbury tales
    by Chaucher

  94. 113.
    Leonardo's Notebooks
    by Leonardo da Vinci

  95. 114.
    Discourses
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  96. 115.
    Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
    by Desiderius Erasmus

  97. 116.
    On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
    by Nicolaus Copernicus

  98. 117.
    Utopia: Thomas More
    by Thomas More

  99. 118.
    Three Treatises Paper
    by Martin Luther

  100. 119.
    The Table Talk of Martin Luther
    by Martin Luther

  101. 120.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

  102. 121.
    The Institutes of Christian Religion
    by John Calvin

  103. 122.
    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

  104. 124.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  105. 125.
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    Prothalamion ;: Epithalamion
    by Edmund Spenser

  106. 126.
    Spenser: Faerie Queene
    by A. Hamilton

  107. 127.
    Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Francis Bacon

  108. 128.
    William Shakespeare Complete Works (Modern Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  109. 129.
    Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
    by Peter Sís

  110. 131.
    Harmonies of the World (On the Shoulders of Giants, Book 5)
    by Johannes Kepler

  111. 132.
    Epitome/Copernican Astronomy/Harm (Great Minds Series)
    by Johannes Kepler

  112. 133.

  113. 134.

  114. 135.
    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Milton

  115. 137.
    Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Blaise Pascal

  116. 138.
    Treatise on Light
    by Christiaan Huygens

  117. 139.
    Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Benedict de Spinoza

  118. 141.
    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    by John, Locke

  119. 142.
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    Racines Mid Career Tragedies
    by Jean Racine

  120. 143.

  121. 145.
    Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
    by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz

  122. 146.
    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  123. 147.
    The Way of the World and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by William Congreve

  124. 149.
    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pope

  125. 150.
    The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)
    by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

  126. 152.
    The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library)
    by Voltaire

  127. 153.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  128. 154.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

  129. 155.
    Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Johnson

  130. 156.
    Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Johnson

  131. 157.
    A Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume

  132. 158.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    by David Hume

  133. 159.
    Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by David Hume

  134. 160.
    Basic Political Writings
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  135. 161.
    A Sentimental Journey
    by Laurence Sterne

  136. 163.
    The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
    by Adam Smith

  137. 165.
    Basic Writings of Kant (Modern Library Classics)
    by Immanuel Kant

  138. 166.

  139. 168.
    Life of Johnson
    by James Boswell

  140. 169.
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    The Book of Great American Documents
    by Vincent, Jr. (Ed.) Wilson

  141. 172.
    Selected Works (Everyman's Library)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  142. 173.
    Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  143. 174.
    The Analytical Theory of Heat (Unabridged)
    by Joseph Fourier

  144. 175.
    Phenomenology of Spirit
    by G. W. F. Hegel

  145. 176.
    The Philosophy of History (New Edition)
    by Hegel

  146. 178.
    The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  147. 179.
    The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  148. 180.

  149. 181.
    Emma
    by Jane Austen

  150. 182.
    On War (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Carl von Clausewitz

  151. 183.
    Love (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  152. 184.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal

  153. 185.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  154. 186.
    Don Juan
    by Lord George Gordon Byron

  155. 187.
    The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism
    by Arthur Schopenhauer

  156. 188.
    Experimental Researches in Electricity
    by Michael Faraday

  157. 190.
    Principles of Geology (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Lyell

  158. 191.
    Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Part 1
    by Auguste Comte

  159. 192.
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    The Best of Blazac
    by Alexander Jessup

  160. 195.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne : Tales and Sketches (Library of America)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  161. 196.
    Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America)
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

  162. 198.

  163. 199.
    The Art of The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings)
    by Gary Russell

  164. 200.
    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

  165. 201.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  166. 202.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  167. 203.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  168. 204.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  169. 205.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  170. 206.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  171. 207.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  172. 208.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  173. 210.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

  174. 212.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

  175. 213.
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    Charles Dickens' Complete Works
    by Charles Dickens

  176. 214.
    An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
    by Claude Bernard

  177. 217.

  178. 218.

  179. 219.
    The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Karl Marx

  180. 220.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  181. 221.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  182. 223.
    Adam Bede: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  183. 226.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  184. 227.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.M. Dostoevsky

  185. 228.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  186. 229.
    Three Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  187. 230.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

  188. 232.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  189. 233.
    Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales
    by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

  190. 234.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  191. 235.
    What Is Art?
    by Leo Tolstoy

  192. 239.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

  193. 242.

  194. 244.
    Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  195. 245.
    The Will to Power
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  196. 246.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  197. 248.
    Science and Hypothesis
    by Henri Poincare

  198. 249.
    Science and Method
    by Henri Poincare

  199. 250.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund, Freud

  200. 251.
    ?
    Civilisation & Its Discontents
    by Sigmund Freud

  201. 253.
    George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  202. 255.
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    Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers.
    by Max K. Planck

  203. 256.
    Where Is Science Going?
    by Max Planck

  204. 257.
    Wide Sargasso Sea
    by Jean Rhys

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