Lists of Bests: How to Read a Book http://www.listsofbests.com/list/10884 by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren Source: Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book. Appendix A: "A Recommended Reading List." Rev. and updated ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. © 1972 by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:08:41 GMT en-us 0 50 254 50 0 The Iliad (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3332 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3332"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Old Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002097 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Aeschylus Two (Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/849101 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Sophocles: The Complete Plays (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128757 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/128757"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527844.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Herodotus The Histories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307910 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307910"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Euripides, Tragedies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1924824 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The History of the Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307969 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00096S0X4.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> Hippocrates (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673345 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673345"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674995228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hippocrates</div> Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71020 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71020"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452007178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20081 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691097186.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45103238_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60715 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386039 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872202410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61464182_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Epicurus</div> Euclid's Elements http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673271"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1888009195.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euclid</div> The Works of Archimedes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1924832 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1924832"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486420841.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Archimedes</div> Apollonius Conics Books I-IV (two volume set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1254356 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Apollonius of Perga</div> Cicero on Oratory and Orators (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25001 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25001"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080931293X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Cicero: On Old Age On Friendship On Divination (Loeb Classical Library No. 154) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535386 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535386"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674991702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cicero</div> On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/441079 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/441079"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/048643446X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Lucretius Carus</div> Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1-6: Revised Edition (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236963 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236963"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067499583X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904931 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904931"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691004285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056466858_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674466 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Livy</div> Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044789X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Plutarch Lives, IX, Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/408032 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/408032"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674991125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> Plutarch: Moralia, Volume VII, On Love of Wealth. On Compliancy. On Envy and Hate. On Praising Oneself Inoffensively. On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance. On Fate... (Loeb Classical Library No. 405) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011462 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011462"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674994469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> Complete Works of Tacitus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2254 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2254"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0075536390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tacitus</div> The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1865978 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1865978"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0933999437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicomachus</div> The Discourses of Epictetus (Everyman's Library (Paper)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222041 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/222041"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0460873121.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056445126_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Epictetus</div> Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045695 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1045695"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486433595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Epictetus</div> Ptolemy's "Almagest" http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673868 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673868"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691002606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ptolemy</div> The Works of Lucian of Samosata http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1172510 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1172510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1414263309.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120899550_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucian of Samosata</div> The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982476 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982476"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1402179006.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55777627_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Aurelius</div> Galen. On the natural faculties (Loeb classical library) (Loeb classical library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1924918 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Galen</div> The New Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002340 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Six Enneads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1820638 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1820638"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419182668.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60651136_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plotinus</div> The Confessions of St. Augustine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56943 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56943"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800787242.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine</div> Political Writings of St. Augustine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114793 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine</div> The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3243 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3243"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Das Nibelungenlied http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905021 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905021"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3150006422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula Schultzw</div> Njal's Saga: or, The Story of Burnt Njal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1030744 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1030744"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486443671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61478832_.jpg" /></a></div> St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26685 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26685"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0870610635.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Aquinas</div> The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18494 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18494"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679433139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> The New Life Of Dante Alighieri http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1925006 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1925006"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425491340.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61161225_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> De Monarchia (On the Monarchy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1925011 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1925011"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/097695348X.01-A2SKVEFDUIYKU0._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52006180_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> Troilus and Cressida (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168344 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1168344"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486446581.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Da Vinci Notebooks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/620033 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/620033"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559707992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55823210_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonardo Da Vinci</div> William Gilbert of Colchester: Physician of London: on the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet the Earth... http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953476 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. Fleury [Translator] Mottelay</div> Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> Prothalamion ;: & Epithalamion : the wedding songs of Edmund Spenser http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953486 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Spenser</div>