Lists of Bests: sknier's "Lifetime Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/33404 Titles completed and to be read, collected from multiple sources. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:32:55 GMT en-us 0 50 260 50 0 How to Read a Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234680 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234680"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567310109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mortimer J. Adler</div> Introduction & Syntopical Guide (Gateway To The Great Books, 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1846979 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422424 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2422424"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141026286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1711007 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1711007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842122274.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel J. Boorstin</div> The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44559 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44559"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684818507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James George Frazer</div> Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784775 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784775"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01DMKpdryWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary White Rowlandson</div> Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1313578 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1313578"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0075542811.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Bradford</div> The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119099 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119099"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060833459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter F. Drucker</div> The Principles of Scientific Management http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2716720 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2716720"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596058897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Winslow Taylor</div> The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141047 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141047"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> Colors of the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10540 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439404_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Da Chen</div> NRSV Standard Bible (tan/black) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784781 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784781"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01HlxJfCr-L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Bibles</div> The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business -- Their Lives, Times, and Ideas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/875499 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/875499"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609808877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056460440_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrea Gabor</div> Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11213 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11213"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394749138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shelby Foote</div> The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65049 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573225142.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Bloom</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2200681 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2200681"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587264005.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7476 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7476"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345308239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42530325_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara W. Tuchman</div> Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28197 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28197"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940450003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part One) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784832 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2784832"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11vSHzV+FAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. R. R. Tolkien</div> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Cat's Cradle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35105 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chieko N. Okazaki</div> God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10106 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10106"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333471.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44914872_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Greek Myths (Voumes I and II) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2424718 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Mythology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6974 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6974"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316341517.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Hamilton</div> Baudolino http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4061 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4061"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156029065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6646 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312878605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur C. Clarke</div> Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16984 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16984"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0609801406.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> The Illiad/Homer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2652928 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Plato's Ion & Meno http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/757734 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/757734"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1887250107.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056535368_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Odyssey by Homer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232877 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232877"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014305824X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86734 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86734"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521010756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation-bearers, And the Eumenides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499867 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1499867"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420926055.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 1: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, Menexenus (The Dialogues of Plato) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/757387 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/757387"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300044887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63115 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63115"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438518_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle (Modern Library College Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89740 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89740"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0075546027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60675 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60675"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192835882.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Medea Hippolytus The Bacchae http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1093716 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The History of the Peloponnesian War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2424400 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2424400"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406809845.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37204932_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> Porphyry Introduction (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1192016 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1192016"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0199288690.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52797167_.jpg" /></a></div> Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285215 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285215"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674993594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464494_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Plato's Symposium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/628582 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/628582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1890318647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056535916_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Rosen</div> Machiavelli's The Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99676 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/99676"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312149786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Hobbes's The Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy) (Longman Library of Primary Sources) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843001 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843001"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0321276124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50227970_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div> Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963540 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/963540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486434141.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9356 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757376.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1004634 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1004634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019832054X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea : The Bachae http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10777 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393093123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Roche</div> The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199559 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/199559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192824252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Aristophanes: The Complete Plays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139243 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/139243"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451214099.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div>