I hope to read all books from this list: https://gutenberg.edu/academics/reading-list/
The Epic of Gilgamesh (December 2019)
Enuma Elish
Genesis
Exodus
Deuteronomy
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
Hesiod’s Works and Days (February 2020)
Herodotus’s Histories (January 2020)
Aristophanes’s The Clouds (February 2020, also read Archanians and Frogs)
Aeschylus’s Agamemnon (read all 7 plays in January 2020 -- I, II)
Sophocles’s Oedipus the King (January 2020), read the full Oedipus cycle
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Plato, Collected Works (in progress. The Republic, February 2020)
Aristotle, Collected Works
Archimedes
Virgil, Aeneid
Cicero
Tacitus, Annals
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Gospel of Matthew
I Corinthians
Acts of the Apostles
Galatians
Plutarch, Lives
Augustine, Confessions, City of God
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Dante, Divine Comedy
Machiavelli, The Prince
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly, Freedom of the Will
Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Luther, Freedom of the Will
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Macbeth
Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Kepler
Hobbes, Leviathan
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Newton, Principia Mathematica
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire, Candide
Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Kant, Critique of Judgment
Goethe, Faust (2020)
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
Austen, Mansfield Park
Federalist Papers
U.S. Constitution
Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
Hawthorne
de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Darwin, On the Origin of the Species
Kierkegaard, Works of Love, Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Thoreau, Walden (September 2011)
Marx, Das Kapital
George Eliot, Silas Marner
Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov (2009)
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina,
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych (October 2023)
James, Pragmatism
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Einstein, various papers
Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2010)
Joyce, Dubliners (selection)
Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac
T. S. Eliot, poems
Keynes, The General Theory
MacIntyre, After Virtue
Galbraith, The New Industrial State (selection)
Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Ellul, The Technological Society, Propoganda
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces, The Discarded Image
Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, “Harvard Address”
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Francis Schaeffer, Escape from Reason
Flannery O’Connor, stories
Kafka, Metamorphosis (2008)
Foucault, Discipline and Punish
