The New Lifetime Reading Plan

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A chronological list by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major.

Note: They purposely omit The Bible, as they assume everyone has already read it. If you wanted to include this in your plan, simply place it between Aurelius’ Meditations and St Augustine’s Confessions.

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer

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    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  4. 4.
    ?
    Analects of Confucius
    by Confucius

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    Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
    by Aeschylus

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    SOPHOCLES I
    by David Grene

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    The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
    by Euripides

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    The Histories (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

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    The Art of War (Shambhala Classics)
    by Sun Tzu

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  10. 14.
    Plato Complete Works
    by Plato

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  12. 17.
    Ramayana
    by William Buck

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    Mahabharata
    by William Buck

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    The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  15. 21.
    On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics)
    by Titus Lucretius Carus

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    The Aeneid: Virgil
    by Virgil

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    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
    by Marcus Aurelius

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    Cloud Messenger Translated from the Sanskrit Megha
    by Kalidasa

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    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
    by Sei Shonagon

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    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

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    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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    The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri

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    Purgatorio (Penguin Classics)
    by Alighieri Dante

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    The Romance of Three Kingdoms, Vol. 2
    by Guanzhong Luo

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Francois Rabelais

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    Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set)
    by Cheng'en Wu

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  33. 42.
    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

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    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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    The Riverside Shakespeare
    by William Shakespeare

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    Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems
    by Galileo Galilei

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    Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hobbes

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Comments

tip of the hat — 40 weeks ago

even in college we only read excerpts from most of these—so if you’ve read something from cover to cover, know that you have my undying respect!


markhoenig
Vancouver

Edited "The Stranger" — 2 years ago

I removed a study guide to “The Stranger” and replaced with the actual book by Camus.


juniorbonner
London

Untitled — 2 years ago

twat


Untitled — 2 years ago

i completely disagree with this list – there is far too much history/ politics and not enough real literature! where is Stephen King or Ian McEwan? In addition there is nothing of modern literature, which cannot possible be overlooked given its contribution!