The Utne Reader's "The Loose Canon"

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"They will stretch your thinking, stir your soul, and maybe even offer some startling insights on what to cook for dinner tonight. We created this list out of thousands of recommendations from authors, activists, professors, book club members, spiritual teachers, and bemused observers of the human condition. It’s offered not as a checklist to measure your intellectual standing, but as an inspiration, to give you an incentive to pursue your own blissful course of study.

"The real value of self-learning is that it connects you with a whole web of knowledge, each new discovery moving you in the direction of further insights. That’s why every one of the main selections here points to another work we’ve listed, which of course will lead you to more and more. Please let us know where this list takes you, and what else you would include."

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    Isaiah

  2. 2.
    Zohar (5 Volume set)

  3. 6.
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    Works and Days
    by Hesiod

  4. 7.
    Mahabharata
    by William Buck

  5. 8.
    I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
    by Nisargadatta Maharaj

  6. 9.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

  7. 10.
    The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)
    by Apuleius

  8. 11.
    Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality)
    by Hildegard of Bingen

  9. 15.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

  10. 16.
    Monkey: Folk Novel of China
    by Wu Ch'eng-en

  11. 17.
    Coriolanus (Signet Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

  12. 18.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  13. 19.
    Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6

  14. 20.

  15. 21.
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  16. 22.
    ?

  17. 23.
    Mozart: Don Giovanni

  18. 26.
    Illuminated Poems
    by Allen Ginsberg

  19. 28.
    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

  20. 30.
    Mahler: Symphony No. 4

  21. 31.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

  22. 32.
    New and Selected Poems, Volume One
    by Mary Oliver

  23. 33.
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    Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

  24. 34.
    A Muriel Rukeyser Reader
    by Muriel Rukeyser

  25. 35.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  26. 36.
    My Past and Thoughts
    by Alexander Herzen

  27. 37.
    The Penguin Gandhi Reader
    by Mohandas K. Gandhi

  28. 39.
    ?

  29. 40.
    Made in America
    by Bill Bryson

  30. 41.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

  31. 42.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

  32. 43.
    Duino Elegies
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

  33. 44.
    The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
    by Tu Fu

  34. 45.
    Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    by Antonio Gramsci

  35. 46.
    Shadows of Tender Fury
    by Frank Bardacke

  36. 47.

  37. 48.
    Dr. Strangelove [Blu-ray]
    by Stanley Kubrick

  38. 49.
    Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
    by Robert Johnson

  39. 50.
    Message
    by Grandmaster Flash

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