Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life

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The list of books about which Professor J. Rufus Fears lectures in his <a href="http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=4600">course</a> of the same name from the Teaching Company.

Notes:
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<li>In place of the books of Exodus, Job, and Mark, I have included the entire Bible for the sake of ease.</li>
<li>For the Greek tragedies, The Oresteia, The Bacchae, and Prometheus Bound I chose from the series The Complete Greek Tragedies.</li>
<li>For Plato’s Phaedo, I chose the Penguin Classics edition which includes other works.</li>
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  1. 1.
    Letters and Papers from Prison
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  2. 2.
    The Iliad
    by Homer

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  3. 3.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

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  4. 4.
    The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  6. 6.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  7. 8.
    Beowulf (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  8. 9.
    Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
    by Aeschylus

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  9. 10.
    The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
    by Euripides

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  10. 12.
    Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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  11. 13.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  12. 15.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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  13. 16.
    Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  14. 17.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  15. 18.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

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  16. 19.
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    The Funeral Oration of Pericles
    by Pericles (Trans E H Blakeney

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  17. 20.
    The Gettysburg Address
    by Abraham Lincoln

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  18. 21.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  19. 22.
    The Analects of Confucius (Norton Paperback)
    by Confucius

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  20. 23.
    Machiavelli's The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  21. 24.
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    Plato, The Republic (The Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

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  22. 25.
    On Liberty (Penguin Classics)
    by John Stuart Mill

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  24. 27.
    Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Malory

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  25. 28.
    Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  26. 29.
    Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  27. 30.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  28. 32.
    The History Of Freedom And Other Essays
    by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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  29. 34.
    Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
    by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

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  30. 35.
    My Early Life: 1874-1904
    by Winston Churchill

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  31. 36.
    Painting as a Pastime
    by Winston S. Churchill

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  32. 37.
    The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set)
    by Winston S. Churchill

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