Lists of Bests: The New Lifetime Reading Plan http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5227 A chronological list by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major. Note: They purposely omit The Bible, as they assume everyone has already read it. If you wanted to include this in your plan, simply place it between Aurelius' Meditations and St Augustine's Confessions. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:09:09 GMT en-us 0 50 193 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 Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2977"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140275363.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532534_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140268863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> Analects of Confucius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1152636 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Confucius</div> Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69929 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69929"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> SOPHOCLES I http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307960 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Grene</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69745 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69745"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides III (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69747 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69747"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4962 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307840.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Histories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">10</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> The History of the Peloponnesian War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195946 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thucydides</div> The Art of War (Shambhala Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14753 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14753"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486425576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sun Tzu</div> Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71020 <div id="position">13</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> Plato Complete Works http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26781 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26781"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872203492.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></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">15</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 Book of Mencius (Wisdom of the East Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195950 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195950"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804818444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Ramayana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215176 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215176"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Buck</div> Mahabharata http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904609 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904609"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227042.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114035973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Buck</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> Records of the Grand Historian of China: Translated From the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195966 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Burton Watson</div> On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/441079 <div id="position">21</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> The Aeneid: Virgil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18722 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18722"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679729526.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgil</div> The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982476 <div id="position">23</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> Confessions, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404559 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine of Hippo</div> Cloud Messenger Translated from the Sanskrit Megha http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1187132 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kalidasa</div> The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65089 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65089"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019283911X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kalidasa</div> The Koran (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/271845"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449205.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111040 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111040"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231083610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426590_.jpg" /></a></div> Shah Nameh or The Persian Poet Firdausi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195985 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195985"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/076617722X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55716257_.jpg" /></a></div> The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5094 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5094"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231073372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426578_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sei Shonagon</div> The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3701 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3701"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014243714X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Murasaki Shikibu</div> Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22574 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22574"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0766176673.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3706 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437220.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Purgatorio (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734106 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734106"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448969.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V48191483_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alighieri Dante</div> The Divine Comedy III:Paradise (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905105 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante</div> The Romance of Three Kingdoms, Vol. 2 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1196002 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1196002"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596542756.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56283108_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guanzhong Luo</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">37</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> Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61215018_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Prince (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905184 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/905184"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672760_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65097 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679431373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Rabelais</div> Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35186 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35186"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/7119016636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cheng'en Wu</div> Montaigne: Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2750"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014017897X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel de Montaigne</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> The Riverside Shakespeare http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96707 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/96707"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395754909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110582438_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Shakespeare</div> The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347969 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/347969"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757341.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Donne</div> The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. 1, The Gathering http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89360 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89360"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691016143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Tod Roy</div> The Plum in the Golden Vase or, "Chin P'ing Mei": Volume Two: The Rivals (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1196018 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1196018"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691126194.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45440649_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Tod Roy</div> The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160267 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160267"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691125341.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45439235_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Tod Roy</div> Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002467 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Galileo Galilei</div> Leviathan (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3163 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140431950.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39861507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div>