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

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. Letters and Papers from Prison
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  
2. The Iliad
by Homer
  
3. Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius
  
4. The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
5. Holy Bible: King James Version, Black  
6. The Koran (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
7. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
8. Beowulf (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous
  
9. Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
by Aeschylus
  
10. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
by Euripides
  
11. The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
12. Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
13. Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
14. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
by Aeschylus
  
15. The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  
16. Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
17. 1984
by George Orwell
  
18. The Aeneid
by Virgil
  
19.
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 The Funeral Oration of Pericles
by Pericles (Trans E H Blakeney
  
20. The Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
  
21. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
22. The Analects of Confucius (Norton Paperback)
by Confucius
  
23. Machiavelli's The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
24.
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 Plato, The Republic (The Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
25. On Liberty (Penguin Classics)
by John Stuart Mill
  
26.
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 Le Morte D'Arthur -- Volume 1 (I) (One) (Penguin Classics, Volume I)
by Sir Thomas Mallory
  
27. Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Malory
  
28. Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
29. Faust: Part Two (Oxford World's Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
30. Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)
by Henry David Thoreau
  
31. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Library Classics)
by Edward Gibbon
  
32. The History Of Freedom And Other Essays
by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
  
33. Cicero, Volume XXI. On Duties (De Officiis): De Officiis (Loeb Classical Library No. 30)
by Cicero
  
34. Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
  
35. My Early Life: 1874-1904
by Winston Churchill
  
36. Painting as a Pastime
by Winston S. Churchill
  
37. The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set)
by Winston S. Churchill
  
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