The 100 Best Books For An Education
(according to Will Durant, taken from "The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time")
Outline of Science by J. Arthur Thompson
The Human Body by Logan Clendening
The New Dietetics by John H. Kellogg
The Principles of Psychology by William James
The Outline of History by H.G. Wells
Folkways by William Sumner
The Golden Bough by Sir John Frazer
The Human Adventure by Breasted and Robinson
The Wisdom of the Chinese by Brian Brown
The Bible - both The King James version and the 1749 Challoner edition of the Douay-Rheims bible
History of Art by Elie Faure
A History of Science by Henry Williams
History of Greece by J.B. Bury
History by Herodotus
History of the Peloponessian War by Thucydides
Lives of Illustrious Men by Plutarch
History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
The Dramas of Sophocles, Everyman Library Edition
The Plays of Euripides
- Alcestis, Electra, Iphigenia of Taurus, Medea, The Trojan Women, Hippolyte and The Bachae
The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
The Dialogues of Plato
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Politics by Aristotle
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
Heloise and Abelard by George Moore
The Divine Comedy by Dante
History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
The History of Music by Cecil Gray
The Renaissance in Italy by John A. Symond
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari
A History of Modern Philosophy by Harald Høffding
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Age of Reformation by Preserved Smith
A Literary History of France by Emile Faguet
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Shakespeare's Plays
Reflections by Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
The Plays of Moliere
Essays of Francis Bacon
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Ethics and On the Improvement of Understanding by Baruch Spinoza
Portraits of the Eighteenth Century by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Voltaire
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Origins of Contemporary France by Hippolyte Taine
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Treatise Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Vindication on the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Brande
Faust by Johann Goethe
Conversations with Goethe by John Peter Eckermann
Poems by Heinrich Heine
Poems by John Keats
Complete Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poems by Lord Byron
Pere Goirot by Honore de Balzac
Salammbo and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Penguin Island by Anatole France
Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle
Works by Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Frederick Nietzsche
Rise of the American Civilization by Charles and Mary Beard
Poems and Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Letters and Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
Jean Christophe by Romain Rolland
Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
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