Good Reading's "101 Significant Books"

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Good Reading began as a list of college reading. It has since been much expanded to include significant works in literature, history, regional studies, humanities, social sciences, and science. At the front are four checklists of "101 Significant Books," "A Short List of Books to Read on Vacation," "A Short List of Books to Read Before Entering College," and "A Short List of Books to Read After Retirement."

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  3. 3.
    Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
    by Aristophanes
  4. 4.
    The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aristotle
  5. 5.
    The New Jerusalem Bible: Standard edition
    by Henry Wansbrough
  6. 6.
    The Analects (Penguin Classics)
    by Confucius
  8. 8.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
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    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  10. 10.
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    Chan, Tr. the Way of Lao Tzu
    by Tao-Te Ching Translated By Wing-Tsit Chan
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    On the Nature of Things
    by Titus Lucretius Carus
  12. 12.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato
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  18. 18.
    The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete
    by Anonymous
  19. 19.
    Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Francis Bacon
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    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio
  21. 21.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
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    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  23. 23.
    Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri
  24. 24.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  25. 25.
    Le Morte Darthur (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Sir Thomas Malory
  26. 26.
    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne
  27. 27.
    Utopia
    by Thomas More
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    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais
  31. 31.
    Complete Works (Oxford Shakespeare S.)
    by William Shakespeare
  32. 32.
    The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin Classics)
    by James Boswell
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    The Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin Classics)
    by John Bunyan
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    Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  37. 37.
    The Poems of John Donne (Longman Annotated English Poets)
    by Robin Robbins
  38. 38.
    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    by Edward Gibbon
  39. 39.
    The Federalist Papers
    by Alexander Hamilton
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    Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics)
    by John Milton
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    Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Benedict de Spinoza
  50. 50.
    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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Created by K McQuage on May 19, 2010.
 

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