36 Mandatory Books-Recommendations

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RJT,

Thanks for the input. I think 3 a month might be tough during the months that contain some longer works (I might take Crime & Punishment off the list for this reason) but hopefully I can do it. If it seems to much, I'll cut the list down some. Like I said, I've never been much of a reader so I thought having some sort of goal in mind could help.

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Atlas Shrugged took me 3 months to read.

[hoopsie44]

James Ellroy's "LA Quartet":
LA Confidential
The Black Dahlia
White Jazz
The Big Nowhere

[Georgia Avenue]

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• HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
• AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
• SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
• THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
• EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
• HERODOTUS: Histories
• ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
• PLATO: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
• ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
• EUCLID: Elements
• LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
• PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon
• NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic
• LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry
• HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
• THE BIBLE
• ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
• APOLLONIUS: Conics
• VIRGIL: Aeneid
• PLUTARCH: "Caesar" and "Cato the Younger"
• EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual
• TACITUS: Annals
• PTOLEMY: Almagest
• PLOTINUS: The Enneads
• AUGUSTINE: Confessions
• ST. ANSELM: Proslogium
• AQUINAS: Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles
• DANTE: Divine Comedy
• CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales
• DES PREZ: Mass
• MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses
• COPERNICUS: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
• LUTHER: The Freedom of a Christian
• RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel
• PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli
• MONTAIGNE: Essays
• VIETE: "Introduction to the Analytical Art"
• BACON: Novum Organum
• SHAKESPEARE: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets
• POEMS BY: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
• DESCARTES: Geometry, Discourse on Method
• PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections
• BACH: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
• HAYDN: Quartets
• MOZART: Operas
• BEETHOVEN: Sonatas
• SCHUBERT: Songs
• STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
• CERVANTES: Don Quixote
• GALILEO: Two New Sciences
• DESCARTES: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• MILTON: Paradise Lost
• LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maximes
• LA FONTAINE: Fables
• PASCAL: Pensees
• HUYGENS: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
• ELIOT: Middlemarch
• SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise
• LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government
• RACINE: Phaedre
• NEWTON: Principia Mathematica
• KEPLER: Epitome IV
• LEIBNIZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
• SWIFT: Gulliver's Travels
• HUME: Treatise of Human Nature
• ROUSSEAU: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
• MOLIERE: The Misanthrope
• ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations
• KANT: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
• MOZART: Don Giovanni
• JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice
• DEDEKIND: "Essay on the Theory of Numbers"
• Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• Supreme Court opinions
• HAMILTON, JAY, AND MADISON: The Federalist Papers
• DARWIN: Origin of Species
• HEGEL: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)
• LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels
• TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America
• LINCOLN: Selected Speeches
• KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
• MARX: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
• DOSTOEVSKI: Brothers Karamazov
• TOLSTOY: War and Peace
• MELVILLE: Benito Cereno
• TWAIN: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• O'CONNOR: Selected Stories
• FREUD: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.: Selected Writings
• DUBOIS: The Souls of Black Folk
• HEIDEGGER: What is Philosophy?
• HEISENBERG: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
• MILLIKAN: The Electron
• CONRAD: Heart of Darkness

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[BWebb]

Okay, maybe I should trim my goal down a little. What I'll probably do is make a poll of 36 suggested here and go with the top whatever, 15 or so.

[recondite7]

Not a classic but an awesome book. THE BEACH by alex garland. The diCRAPio movie wasn't nearly as good as the book.

[Bobb]

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"The Grapes Of Wrath", John Steinbeck
"The Catcher In The Rye", J.D. Salinger
"Moby Dick", Herman Melville
"The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare"
"Jack: The Great Seducer", Edward Douglas


Disclaimer: I have not read any actual non-Jack Nicholson related books since college.

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You're heinous.

[larrylegend]

This Blinding Absence of Light - Tahar Ben Jelloun

I nominate Blood Meridian, Catch 22, and Brave New World to be added to your already started list. I would say Atlas Shrugged as well but its too long to fit in.

East of Eden is my favorite Steinbeck but its longer than Grapes so you may want to go for Grapes....Of Mice and Men can be read in a couple of hours if you are pressed for time and need a Steinbeck.

Also, Alice in Wonderland is excellent. Lots of cool paradoxes and puns

[bobman0330]

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - Le Carre
*The End of the Affair* - Greene - starred for exceptional awesomeness
The Name of the Rose - Eco
My Name is Red - Pamuk

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6. The Great Gatsby

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if this is on there simply because its a classic, leave it, but "this side of paradise" and (especially) "tender is the night" are far better fitzgerald novels.

[Jeff W]

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RJT,

Thanks for the input. I think 3 a month might be tough during the months that contain some longer works (I might take Crime & Punishment off the list for this reason) but hopefully I can do it. If it seems to much, I'll cut the list down some. Like I said, I've never been much of a reader so I thought having some sort of goal in mind could help.

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Atlas Shrugged took me 3 months to read.

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Incongruously, it took 3 seconds to toss it with the rest of my garbage.