Will Durant's 100 Best Books for an Education

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Taken from "One Hundred ‘Best’ Books For an Education" by the influential historian and philosopher, Will Durant.

Note that there are some multivolume works, and sometimes more than one work listed for an author that is counted as one book.

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  1. 1.
    The Outline Of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told
    by John Arthur Thomson

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    The Human Body
    by Logan Clendening

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    H. G Wells.: The Outline of History.
    by H.G Wells

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  6. 6.
    FOLKWAYS: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
    by William Graham Sumner

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  7. 7.
    The Golden Bough
    by James, George Frazer

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    Human Adventure Being Conquest of Civilization & The Ordeal of Civilization
    by James H. Breasted & James Harvey Robinson

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  9. 10.
    The New Jerusalem Bible: Standard edition
    by Henry Wansbrough

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  10. 12.
    A History of Science
    by Williams, Henry Smith

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  11. 13.
    History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
    by J. B. Bury

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  12. 14.
    The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
    by Robert B. Strassler

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  13. 16.
    Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
    by Plutarch

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  14. 17.
    A History of Ancient Greek Literature
    by Gilbert Murray

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  15. 18.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer

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  16. 19.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  17. 20.
    Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
    by Paul Roche

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  18. 22.
    Ten Plays (Signet Classics)
    by Euripides

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  19. 23.
    The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    by Diogenes Laertius

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  20. 24.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

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  21. 25.
    Five Dialogues
    by Plato

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  22. 26.
    The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle

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  23. 27.
    The Politics of Aristotle
    by Aristotle

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  24. 28.
    The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics)
    by Trans. Alicia Stallings Lucretius

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  25. 30.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

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  26. 33.
    The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)
    by Peter Abelard

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  27. 34.
    The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri

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    Taine's History of English Literature: Volume 2
    by Hippolyte A. Taine

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  29. 36.
    The Riverside Chaucer (Oxford Paperbacks)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The History of Music (The History of Civilization)
    by Cecil Gray

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    Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini illustrated by Salvador Dali
    by John Addington Symonds

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    Vasari's Lives of Italian painters
    by Giorgio Vasari

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  33. 42.
    A Brief History Of Modern Philosophy
    by Harald Hoffding

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  34. 43.
    The Prince (AD Classic Library Edition)
    by Niccolò Machiavelli

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  35. 44.
    The Age of the Reformation, Volume I (Dodo Press)
    by Preserved Smith

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  36. 45.
    The Age of the Reformation, Volume II (Dodo Press)
    by Preserved Smith

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  37. 46.
    A Literary History Of France (1907)
    by Emile Faguet

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  38. 47.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

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  39. 48.
    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  40. 49.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  41. 50.
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
    by William Shakespeare

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