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
  2. 2.
    ?
    The Human Body
    by Logan Clendening
  3. 3.
    ?
  5. 5.
    H. G. Wells: The Outline of History (2 Volumes)
    by H.G Wells
  6. 6.
    FOLKWAYS: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
    by William Graham Sumner
  7. 7.
    The Golden Bough
    by James, George Frazer
  8. 8.
    ?
    Human Adventure Being Conquest of Civilization & The Ordeal of Civilization
    by James H. Breasted & James Harvey Robinson
  10. 10.
    The New Jerusalem Bible: Standard edition
    by Henry Wansbrough
  12. 12.
    A History of Science
    by Williams, Henry Smith
  13. 13.
    History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
    by J. B. Bury
  14. 14.
    The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
    by Robert B. Strassler
  16. 16.
    Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
    by Plutarch
  17. 17.
    A History of Ancient Greek Literature
    by Gilbert Murray
  18. 18.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Homer
  19. 19.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer
  20. 20.
    Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
    by Paul Roche
  22. 22.
    Ten Plays (Signet Classics)
    by Euripides
  23. 23.
    The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    by Diogenes Laertius
  24. 24.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato
  25. 25.
    Five Dialogues
    by Plato
  26. 26.
    The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle
  27. 27.
    The Politics of Aristotle
    by Aristotle
  28. 28.
    The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics)
    by Lucretius
  30. 30.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius
  32. 32.
    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    by Paramhansa Yogananda
  33. 33.
    The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)
    by Peter Abelard
  34. 34.
    The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri
  35. 35.
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    Taine's History of English Literature: Volume 2
    by Hippolyte A. Taine
  36. 36.
    Riverside Chaucer (Oxford Paperbacks)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  38. 38.
    The History of Music (The History of Civilization)
    by Cecil Gray
  40. 40.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by John Addington Symonds
  41. 41.
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    Vasari's Lives of Italian painters
    by Giorgio Vasari
  42. 42.
    A Brief History Of Modern Philosophy
    by Harald Hoffding
  43. 43.
    The Prince (AD Classic Library Edition)
    by Niccolò Machiavelli
  44. 44.
    The Age of the Reformation, Volume I (Dodo Press)
    by Preserved Smith
  45. 45.
    The Age of the Reformation, Volume II (Dodo Press)
    by Preserved Smith
  46. 46.
    A Literary History Of France (1907)
    by Emile Faguet
  47. 47.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais
  48. 48.
    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne
  49. 49.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  50. 50.
    The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works 2nd Edition
    by William Shakespeare

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