Lists of Bests: Daniel Spils's "Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/24604 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:17:21 GMT en-us 0 50 292 50 0 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62016"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081450747_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Code of Hammurabi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2403302 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2403302"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419157035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59217690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard W. King</div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3332 <div id="position">3</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 Iliad (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3325 <div id="position">4</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 Odes (Penguin Classics L209) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/426548 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/426548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044209X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pindar</div> Aeschylus, 1 : The Oresteia : Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/247752 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/247752"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081221627X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39326176_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Aeschylus, 2 : The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/280891 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/280891"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38973418_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Histories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Sophocles, 1 : Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284117 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284117"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39327299_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3236 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3236"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122491287_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> Aristophanes, 1 : The Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195947 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195947"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39327395_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, the Sexual Congress (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278352 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278352"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39326036_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Aristophanes, 3: The Suits, Clouds, Birds (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964454 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1964454"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39325968_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Sophocles, 2 : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204736 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204736"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216660.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38971479_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224525 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224525"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114778373_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides, 2 : Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804439 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/804439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216296.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38973016_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides, 3 : Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, the Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776304 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/776304"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38972928_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Euripides, 4 : Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes (Penn Greek Drama Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962974 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962974"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812216970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38085351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60717"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948713 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/948713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879754966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/627035 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/627035"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573920622.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Laws: Plato (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1406809 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1406809"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573927996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Republic (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435767 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Metaphysics: Aristotle (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/497359 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/497359"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879756713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1130446751_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Treatise on Rhetoric (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435779 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435779"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879759763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504008_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Nicomachean Ethics (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147410 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879753781.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503988_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Politics (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435780 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435780"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879753463.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503987_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Poetics (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435781 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435781"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879757760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V57045074_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386040 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879758104.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504001_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Epicurus</div> The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66504 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66504"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446494.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aesop</div> The Great Indian Epics: The Stories of the Ramayana And the Mahabharata http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2425115 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2425115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1417975334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50357670_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Campbell Oman</div> The Nature of the Gods and on Divination (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/783261 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/783261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573921807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521747_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Tullius Cicero</div> On the Nature of Things (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435866 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573921793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521747_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Lucretius Carus</div> The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3241 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3241"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440518.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Georgics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904956 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140444149.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110572835_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Eclogues: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904955 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904955"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044419X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672758_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Complete Odes and Epodes: with the Centennial Hymn (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904650 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904650"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044422X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> The Satires of Horace and Persius (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1144872 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1144872"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140455086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> The Early History of Rome : Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1276785 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1276785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140441042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Livy</div> Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1215545 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1215545"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Livy</div> The war with Hannibal: Books XXI-XXX of The history of Rome from its foundation (Penguin classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1292233 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Livy</div> Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079874 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079874"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443185.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Titus Livy</div> The Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2041348 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2041348"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140422307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65732452_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Heroides (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337354 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140423559.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60599508_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Fasti (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624536 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624536"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446907.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672759_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3278 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3278"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> The Poems of Exile (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/422616 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/422616"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140444076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421352_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Essays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464152 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464152"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140445641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3259 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3259"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tacitus</div> The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673912 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673912"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440607.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tacitus</div>