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sknier's "Lifetime Reading List"

Titles completed and to be read, collected from multiple sources.

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1. How to Read a Book
by Mortimer J. Adler
  
2.
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 Introduction & Syntopical Guide (Gateway To The Great Books, 1)  
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
by Anonymous
  
4. The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy)
by Daniel J. Boorstin
  
5. The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
by James George Frazer
  
6. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
by Mary White Rowlandson
  
7. Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647
by William Bradford
  
8. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
by Peter F. Drucker
  
9. The Principles of Scientific Management
by Frederick Winslow Taylor
  
10. The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
11. Colors of the Mountain
by Da Chen
  
12. NRSV Standard Bible (tan/black)
by Harper Bibles
  
13. The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, and Ideas
by Andrea Gabor
  
14. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
15. The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
by Shelby Foote
  
16. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by Harold Bloom
  
17. Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
18. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman
  
19. Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
by Herman Melville
  
20. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One)
by J. R. R. Tolkien
  
21. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
22.
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 Cat's Cradle
by Chieko N. Okazaki
  
23. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
24.
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 The Greek Myths (Voumes I and II)
by Robert Graves
  
25. Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
  
26. Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
  
27. The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
by Arthur C. Clarke
  
28. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
by Stephen Jay Gould
  
29.
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 The Illiad/Homer  
30. Plato's Ion & Meno
by Plato
  
31. The Odyssey by Homer
by Homer
  
32. Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)
by Aeschylus
  
33. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation-bearers, And the Eumenides
by Aeschylus
  
34. The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 1: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, Menexenus (The Dialogues of Plato)
by Plato
  
35. Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
by Plutarch
  
36. The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle (Modern Library College Editions)
by Aristotle
  
37. Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sophocles
  
38.
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 Medea Hippolytus The Bacchae
by Euripides
  
39. The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
  
40. Porphyry Introduction (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)  
41. Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics (Loeb Classical Library)
by Aristotle
  
42. Plato's Symposium
by Stanley Rosen
  
43. Machiavelli's The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
44. Hobbes's The Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy) (Longman Library of Primary Sources)
by Thomas Hobbes
  
45. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Thrift Edition)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
46. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
47. King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
by William Shakespeare
  
48. Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea : The Bachae
by Paul Roche
  
49. The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
by Herodotus
  
50. Aristophanes: The Complete Plays  
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Created by sknier on May 16, 2007.