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In clear, simple language, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible—their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today—so you can uncover the inexhaustible wealth of God's Word.

More than three quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth to inform their reading of the Bible. This fourth edition features revisions that keep pace with current scholarship, resources, and culture. Changes include:Updated language for better readability.
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Used all around the world, this Bible resource covers everything from how to choose a good translation to how to understand the different genres of biblical writing.

Understanding the Bible isn't just for the few, the gifted, and the scholarly. The Bible is meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from casual readers to seminary students. Even a few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your twenty-first-century life.
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"A practical approach to Bible study in an easy-to-understand style." -Bookstore Journal


What makes this book different from other "understanding the Bible" books?

A strong focus on the vital differences in genres within the Bible and how to read and understand each genre differently.
Not just guidelines for studying the Bible, but practices to help you appreciate simply reading the Bible.
The authors, Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, are two experienced seminary professors who strongly believe in understanding, obeying, and applying biblical text as carefully as possible.
Attention is given to both exegesis and hermeneutics to help you understand the original textual meaning and also what it means for us today. You will be given practical guidelines for learning to ask the right questions.





How to Read the Bible Book by BookHow to Read the Bible through the Jesus LensHow to Read the Bible as LiteratureHow to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its WorthHow to Choose a Translation for All Its WorthHow to Read the Bible Pack, Second Edition
Content A guided tour from Genesis through Revelation A guide to Christ-focused reading of Scripture Why the Good Book is a great read Learn how to teach the depth of the Old Testament in your sermons A guide to understanding and using Bible versions How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth and five companion books
Authors Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart Michael Williams Leland Ryken Christopher J.H. Wright Gordon D. Fee and Mark L. Strauss Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart, Christopher J.H. Wright, Mark L. Strauss, Michael Williams, Leland Ryken
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Gordon D. Fee (PhD, University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Douglas Stuart is Professor of Old Testament and Chair of the Division of Biblical Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He holds the B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Among his earlier writings are Studies in Early Hebrew Meter, Old Testament Exegesis: A Primer for Students and Pastors,and Favorite Old Testament Passages.


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5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the two best books available
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I would suggest that How to Read The Bible For All It's Worth by Fee and Stuart and Grasping God's Word, Fourth Edition: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting,
and Applying the Bible by J. Scott Duvall, and J. Daniel Hays are the two best books available today. 

However no book will work unless the people who read them continually practice what those books teach. Hermeneutics is something that must be practiced or it will soon be forgotten. I have been teaching hermeneutics in the church since 1996 and have seen many good results when people begin to understand how they interpret on a daily basis and how many of those same principles apply to the Bible.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A bargain at $3.95 if you want to better understand your Bible!
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The Kindle formatting could be a bit better especially with graphs and examples, but that may be why the price is only $3.95! 

A super bargain in my book!:) (Update 11/21/14 - based on the book preview, the formating has been fixed, but now the price is up to $12.99 - still reasonable for the most Biblically sound, while not overly academic, book on hermeneutics.)

In summary, Fee and Stuart book serves as a bridge between academics and lay people on the subject of understanding and applying scripture. Because of the excellent structure of the book, people can read the book with Fee and Stuart's opinions, and then form their own ideas. The breath of their knowledge will definitely help one interact with the Bible better.

Ok first the facts: my seminary professor forced me to do a book critique on this book. At first I hated it, especially because I had the third edition. I took my teacher to task three times and had to stop reading the third edition. Then-hooray-I found out the fourth edition was published and even though the content isn't all that different; at least I didn't have to deal with ten year old scholarship and the TNIV notations. I made it through the first three chapters, and it was mostly clear sailing after then!:) This book is a book on hermeneutics (understanding what scriptures meant back then and applying it correctly to your life) of the various types of writing types found in the Bible so that people can understand their Bibles better in their devotional and study times. This book bridges the gap between scholarly hermeneutics textbooks and the general public. While it is tough to wade through at times, it is probably the best popular hermeneutics book, because of its easy chapter structure.The book would be best for people who have tried to understand the Scriptures but need some extra help. The best idea in the book is to read books of the Bible in one sitting. A close second is to consider whether the type of literature one is reading can be applied in one's life. The best advice I can give is for your first reading of this book, skip the sections that attack doctrines that you hold dear and move on so you can learn from their scholarly opinions.
The outline: Bible study starts with a good Bible translation uses the latest scholarship, is egalitarian, and uses the best Hebrew and Greek manuscripts like the NIV or NRSV. Read a book through a few times, then break it into sections and paragraphs for concentrated study. A passage should generally mean what it did to the original hearer; unless it is prophecy, and then it can be forward-looking as well. Some culturally-relative things that applied then are not useful now.
The Epistles are generally letters that arise from a certain event. Old Testament narratives are non-allegorical and written on three levels: the universal plan of God, the covenant formed with Israel, and the individual narratives. Acts is a mostly non-normative story of the Holy Spirit-led mission to the Gentiles that shows the practice of the Early Church. In the four Gospels, Jesus used parables, metaphors, similes, and proverbs in different contexts to teach people things, especially about the "already here, but not yet" Kingdom of God. The key to understanding parables is to identify who the audience was and what they would have understood from it. These can be translated into culturally relevant language, to get an equivalent response. Old Testament laws and covenants are important because of their relationship between God and Israel, while only those commandments repeated in the New Testament (like the Ten Commandments and morality codes) apply to Christians. The Prophets were sent to specific people at a specific time, to usually warn Israelites when they were not following God's Law revealed to Moses. Psalms are different types of generally metaphorical poetic songs of worship from humanity to God that can be used today in similar situations. Read the books of Wisdom Literature in full to find theological truth. Revelation is an apocalyptic warning to Christians for a future time grounded in Old Testament imagery.

Doctrines this writer thought might in error included Stuart and Fee's biases toward the anti-properity/health Gospel, egalitarianism, and the NIV Bible. I believe in a God who is my Shepherd and I shall not want, and wants me to have good things. I can figure out when "humanity/women is/are in view" and I'd rather have the original pronouns. Everyone has a favorite translation- mine is the NKJV- I think the Greek textus receptus is better with about a thousand similar books compared to the three very early but contradictory books of the critical text. Some rules, like "personal applications of the scriptures must have occurred to the original hearers," and no "proof texting," without considering a whole chapter, book and /or Bible theology, reduce chances of a scripture getting misinterpreted. But, they seem arbitrary. Personal revelation is discounted while plain meaning is trumpeted to rightly guard against misinterpretation. But scripture (Deut. 29:29, Ps 25:14, Eph. 3:5, 1 Cor. 2:10) indicates that there is personal revelation and the Holy Spirit isn't limited to teaching the original plain meaning. Fee and Stuart make good points about how people emphasize certain scriptures and not others, especially in 1 Corinthians. But they have their own opinions about scriptural verses, like the story of the rich man going through the eye of a needle, which many others, including Jews by birth, would dispute.

To understand their biases here's a quick biography on them both: Dr. Gordon Fee received his Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from the University of Southern California. Fee taught at Wheaton College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is at Regent now. Fee is an ordained Assemblies of God minister and pastored several churches. He is a member of the "Board of Reference" for "Christians for Biblical Equality." Fee has published more than 15 books, including many New Testament Commentaries like Philippians, 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy and 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Fee is the retiring editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament. In 1985 Fee wrote the book The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels. Fee is a member of the Committee on Bible Translation, which produces the New International Version Bible (NIV). Douglas Stuart is the current Old Testament Professor at Gordon-Conwell, an independent evangelical seminary. He is the Senior Pastor of Linebrook Church, an independent church, where he describes himself as a conservative Baptist minister. He has written Old Testament Commentaries on Hosea, Ezekiel, Malachi, and Jonah, a book on Old Testament exegesis and many articles for popular Christian and Hebrew magazines. He is active in the Evangelical Theological Society.
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Robert A., Philadelphia, PA
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone wanting to seriously study the Bible.
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Explains the history of translating ancient texts and the rules involved.
Explains the best way to study the Bible to really understand what it says and how to check your understanding.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A book with depth
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I listen to this book on audible so I would have to say that it would be much better to read an actual copy because it is a very dense book with a lot of detailed material. It would’ve been easier to “see” what I was reading and therefore we read paragraphs if needed. I would recommend this book, but in hardcover
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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for those who already have a reasonable grounding in Christian theology
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An excellent book for those who already have a reasonable grounding in Christian theology but who wish to enrich their Bible study

The book is well structured. It sets out how to undertake Exegesis (discover the original, intended meaning of the Bible to those it was originally written for) and Hermeneutics (how to apply that meaning to contemporary situations). It is split into themes with separate chapters on how to read the Gospels, the History, Law, Acts, the Epistles etc. I did find it hard to hold all the guidance together in my head and needed to take notes as I read the book.

The book is not for a beginner. I have attempted to read this book 3 times over the last 3-4 years (I had a previous older edition) and this was the first time I succeeded. My grounding was too limited when I first started (re)exploring Christianity and the book was too dense for me at that stage. Returning to it a few years down the line, however, was deeply enriching.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Really helps you to learn to read the bible more independently
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This is a fantastic guide to how to read the bible both old and New Testament. Probably not for beginners but people who want to be able to read and analyse the bible on their own in conjunction with commentaries it teaches you what you need to know in order to be able to study the bible more independently. It goes through the different genres in the bible, law, poetry,meters,mparables etc and how we need to approach each genre differently and I found that particularly helpful. Everyone I have spoken to who has read this book from friends to ministers has been full of praise for it. The authors also wrote the less well known "how to read the bible book by book" which I am going to try next.
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I bought this because it was on a recommended reading list for a theological course I am taking. It’s a great book, easy to read and very informative. I wish I had found it thirty years ago. I can’t recommend it enough. If you have any interest in the Bible you need this book!
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A great book. I read the first edition years ago and it was a great help. The authors are scholarly teachers but have the gift of explaining concepts rigorously yet simply. The first chapters on translations, historical distance etc. are so helpful, and the grouping of different types of book and how to interpret them are outstanding. Few people have the gift of explaining deep concepts in a simple way. These guys have that gift. As I said, a great book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good for teaching the skills for exegesis.
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Good for teaching the proper skills of exegesis. Too many people think that bible interpretation is a matter of personal understanding instead of a science guided by the Holy Spirit.
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Episode 3 shows how reading the Bible wisely requires that we learn about the ancient literary styles used by the biblical authors. These writers expressed their ideas and claims through a variety of different types of literature, and this video will explore why it's important to tell them apart so we can hear their message on their terms.
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The Bible is a gift from God that announces the good news of Jesus Christ to all of creation. It is also a remarkable book that collects diverse pieces of literature spanning thousands of years and numerous genres. In light of these truths, the church should read the Bible as more than literature but never less than literature. This practice means being attentive to the special ways in which the human authors shaped their texts, and honoring these texts as the powerful instruments by which God is shaping us into his people.

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Thank you so much for this video! Ive had a few sour faces when ive explained i read and analyze the bible as a book beautifully written and read it from the eyes of a writer learning new ways of expression. Its such a wholesomely beautiful book that gives you stories and accounts so magnificent, it gives you something to look up to 😊



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Hello, and thanks for this video. When I first clicked to watch this video, I was kind of nervous about what would be said, but I was pleasantly surprised. Although I am unsure about the human wordsmith part, I like the respect and sense of beauty that Mr. Grubbs conveyed concerning the Bible. That was good to hear, and perhaps next time I read Psalms or Ruth I will think about what he said. Thank again.



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I think the bible and old texts in general would actually be very important to read to everyone who seeks knowledge as it gives us a view on how people lived back then and also on many ancient Civilisations and the nature of the Human mind.



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The Master Works of Western Civilization

The Master Works of Western Civilization

A hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others

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The interactive version of the Master Works of Western Civilization Web page is now in the prototype stage. Features and data are still being added, but the page is interesting and useful as it now stands. Try it out.

Introduction

Several publishers, writers, and thinkers have drawn lists of the quintessential works of Western Civilization. This page presents several such lists along with links to the texts available on the Web.

The table below contains three of the lists. Other lists are collected below the table. Maybe someday I'll collate all these lists into a single table -- but you know how Web page work goes -- maybe I won't.

Dr. Mortimer Adler, who edited The Great Books of the Western World at the University of Chicago, believed that by reading his selections you would obtain a thorough liberal arts education.

For more information about books available on the Web and by FTP and gopher, see Carnegie-Mellon's On-Line Books, the service I used to generate many of the links on this page. collections of electronic texts. Project Gutenberg has blazed the path for making classic literature available electronically and they are responsible for many texts referenced here.

The Master Works of Western Civilization

AuthorThe Great Books of the Western WorldThe Easton PressDr. Eliot
Ancient
God, Moses, Jesus, Paul et aliaThe Bible
Homer (c. 850 B.C.E. ?)The Iliad and The OdysseyThe Iliad and The Odyssey
Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.)Analects
Aeschylus (c. 525- c. 456 B.C.E.)PlaysPlays
Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 B.C.E.)plays, including:Oedipus Rex
Herodotus (c. 485-425 B.C.E.)The History
Euripides (480 or 484-406 B.C.E.)plays, including:plays (see list at left)
Thucydides (c. 460-c. 400 B.C.E.)The History of the Peloponesian War
Hippocrates (c. 460?-377 or 359 B.C.E.)works, including Aphorisms
Aristophanes (c. 448- c. 388 B.C.E.)plays, includingThe Birds and The Frogs
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 B.C.E.)works, including:The Republic and SymposiumApology, Crito, and Phaedo
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)works, including:Politics
Euclid (taught c. 300 B.C.E.)The Elements
Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.E.)works
Apollonius of Perga (fl 250-220 B.C.E.)On Conic Sections
Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.)Letters
Nicomachus of GerasaIntroduction to Arithmetic
Lucretius (c. 99-55 B.C.E.)On the Nature of Things
Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.)The Ecologues, The Georgics, and The AeneidThe AeneidThe Aeneid
Livy (59 B.C.E.-17 C.E.)History of Early Rome
First through Fifth Centuries
Epictetus (c. 50-?)The DiscoursesGolden Sayings
Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120)The Lives of the Noble Grecians and RomansThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
P. Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-120)The Annals and The Histories
Pliny, the Younger (62-c. 114)Letters
Ptolemy (c. 90-168)The Almagest
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)The MeditationsMeditations
Galen (c. 130-201)On the Natural Faculties
Plotinus (205-270)The Six Enneads
Saint Augustine (354-430)Confessions, The City of God, and On Christian DoctrineConfessionsConfessions
Sixth through Tenth Centuries
Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries
Omar Khayyam (c. 1050-c. 1123)The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)Summa Theologica
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)The Divine ComedyThe Divine ComedyThe Divine Comedy
Boccaccio (1313-1375)The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1345-1400)The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and CressidaThe Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales
Thomas à Kempis (1379-1471)The Imitation of Christ
Fifteenth Century
Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)The PrinceThe Prince
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553?)Gargantua and Pantagruel
Sixteenth Century
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)Essays
William Gilbert (1540-1603)On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)The History of Don Quixote de la ManchaThe History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, and New AtlantisEssaysNew Atlantis and Essays
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)WorksWorks
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)Doctor Faustus
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
Thomas Middleton (c. 1570-1627)The Changeling (see: The Plays of Thomas Middleton)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and The Harmonies of the World
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)Volpone
John Donne (1572?-1631)Poems, including Devotions
William Harvey (1578-1657)On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Circulation of the Blood, and On the Generation of Animals
John Webster (c. 1580-c. 1625)The Duchess of Malfi
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) & John Fletcher (1579-1625)The Maid's Tragedy
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Leviathan
Izaak Walton (1593-1683)The Compleat Angler, The Life of John Donne, and The Life of George Herbert
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Objections Against the Meditations and Replies, and The Geometry
Seventeenth Century
Thomas Browne (1605-1682)Religio Medici
John Milton (1608-1674)minor poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and AreopagiticaParadise LostAreopagitica and Tractate on Education
Moliere (1622-1673)Plays
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)works, including: Pensees and Provincial Letters
John Bunyan (1628-1688)Pilgrim's ProgressPilgrim's Progress
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1693)Treatise on Light
John Dryden (1631-1700)All for Love
John Locke (1632-1704)essays, including
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)Ethics
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and Optics
William Penn (1644-1718)Fruits of Solitude
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)Gulliver's TravelsGulliver's Travels
George Berkeley (1685-1753)The Principles of Human Knowledge A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)The Spirit of Laws
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)Candide
Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)The History of Tom Jones, A FoundlingThe History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
David Hume (1711-1776)An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social ContractConfessions
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)Tristam Shandy
John Woolmann (1720-1772)Journal of John Woolman
Adam Smith(1723-1790)An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)The Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, and other works
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)She Stoops to Conquer
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)Rights of Man
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
James Boswell (1740-1795)The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)Elements of Chemistry
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)FaustFaustFaust
Alexander Hamilton(1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), and John Jay (1745-1829)The FederalistThe Federalist
Robert Burns (1759-1796)Tam O'Shanter
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)The Philosophy of Right and The Philosophy of History [Also: Phenomenology of Mind]
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)Ivanhoe and Talisman
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1772-1837)Analytical Theory of Heat
Jane Austen (1775-1817)Pride and Prejudice
American State PapersThe Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and The Constitution
Washington Irving (1783-1859)Alhambra
Stendhal (1783-1842)Red and the Black
The Brothers Grimm (Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, 1785-1863, and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, 1786-1859)Grimm's Fairy Tales
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)The Last of the Mohicans
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)Experimental Researches in Electricity
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)The Cenci
John Keats (1795-1821)Poetical Works
Nineteenth Century
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)The Three Musketeers [Available on the Web is The Man in the Iron Mask.]
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)EssaysEssays and English Traits
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)The Scarlet Letter
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)Becket
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)The Origin of Species [Also available on the Web is The Voyage of the Beagle.]The Origin of Species and The Descent of ManThe Origin of Species
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)Tales of Mystery and Imagination [See Selected Works of Poe.]
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863)Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Short Stories, and A Tale of Two Cities [Also available by Dickens on the Web are: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth.]
Robert Browning (1812-1889)poems, several of which are in Dramatic Lyrics [Also see: Introduction to Robert Browning.]A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)Jane Eyre
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)Walden
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)Fathers and Sons
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)Wuthering Heights
Karl Marx (1818-1883)Capital
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)Manifesto of the Communist Party
Walt Whitman (1819-1891)Leaves of Grass
George Eliot (1819-1880)The Mill on the Floss [Also available on the Web are Middlemarch: a study of provincial life and Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.]
Herman Melville (1819-1891)Moby Dick; or, the WhaleMoby Dick; or, the Whale
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)Flowers of Evil
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)Madame Bovary
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)The Brothers KaramzovThe Brothers Karamzov and Crime and Punishment
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)War and PeaceAnna Karenina and War and Peace
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)plays, including Peer Gynt and The Wild Duck
Jules Verne (1828-1905)Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Sir Richard Burton (1829-1890)Tales from the Arabian NightsTales from the Arabian Nights
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Also available on the Web are:
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)Little Women
Mark Twain (1835-1910)Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)The Way of All Flesh
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)Jude the Obscure and Return of the Native
William James (1842-1910)The Principles of Psychology
Henry James (1843-1916)Portrait of a Lady
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)Tales
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Short Stories [Also available on the Web are The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Poems.]
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis, Selected Papers on Hysteria, The Sexual Enlightenment of Children, The Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic Therapy, and other essays
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)plays
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim [Also available on the Web are: The Secret Agent, The Secret Sharer, and The Shadow Line.]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekkov (1860-1904)plays
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)The Jungle Book
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)poems
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)The Red Badge of Courage
Jack London (1876-1916)Sea Wolf
James Joyce (1882-1941)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)Brave New World
Twentieth Century
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)Of Mice and Men

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  • A Recommended Reading List

    from Appendix A of How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren The Liberal Studies Great Books Program at Malaspina University-College bases its program on the list of Drs. Adler and Van Doren.
    1. Homer (9th Century B.C.?)
      Iliad
      Odyssey
    2. The Old Testament
    3. Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.)
      Tragedies
    4. Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.)
      Tragedies
    5. Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.)
      History
    6. Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)
      Tragedies
    7. Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
      History of the Peloponnesian War
    8. Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.)
      Medical Writings
    9. Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.)
      Comedies
    10. Plato (c.427-347 B.C.)
      Dialogues
    11. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
      Works
    12. Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.)
      ``Letter to Herodotus'' ``Letter to Menoecus''
    13. Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.)
      Elements
    14. Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.)
      Works
    15. Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.)
      Conic Sections
    16. Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
      Works
    17. Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.)
      On the Nature of Things
    18. Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
      Works
    19. Horace (65-8 B.C.)
      Works
    20. Livy (59 B.C.--A.D. 17)
      History of Rome
    21. Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)
      Works
    22. Plutarch (c.45-120)
      Parallel Lives
      Moralia
    23. Tacitus (c.55-117)
      Histories
      Annals
      Agricola
      Germania
    24. Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. 100 A.D.)
      Introduction to Arithmetic
    25. Epictetus (c.60-120)
      Discourses
      Encheiridion
    26. Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151)
      Almagest
    27. Lucian (c.120-c.190)
      Works
    28. Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
      Meditations
    29. Galen (C. 130-200)
      On the Natural Faculties
    30. The New Testament
    31. Plotinus (205-270)
      The Enneads
    32. St. Augustine (354-430)
      On the Teacher
      Confessions
      City of God
      On Christian Doctrine
    33. The Song of Roland
      (12th century?)
    34. The Nibelungenlied
      (13th century?)
      (Volsunga Saga
      as Scandinavian version)
    35. The Saga of Burnt Njal
    36. St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
      Summa Theologica
    37. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
      The New Life
      On Monarchy
      The Divine Comedy
    38. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
      Troilus and Criseyde
      The Canterbury Tales
    39. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
      Notebooks
    40. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
      The Prince
      Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
    41. Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469-1536)
      The Praise of Folly
    42. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
      On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    43. Sir Thomas More (c.1478-1535)
      Utopia
    44. Martin Luther (1483-1546)
      Table Talk
      Three Treatises
    45. Francois Rabelais (c.1495-1553)
      Gargantua and Pantagruel
    46. John Calvin (1509-1564)
      Institutes of the Christian Religion
    47. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
      Essays
    48. William Gilbert (1540-1603)
      On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
    49. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
      Don Quixote
    50. Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
      Prothalamion
      The Faerie Queene
    51. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
      Essays
      Advancement of Learning
      Novum Organum
      New Atlantis
    52. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
      Poetry and Plays
    53. Galieo Galilei (1564-1642)
      The Starry Messenger
      Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
    54. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
      Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
      Concerning the Harmonies of the World
    55. William Harvey (1578-1657)
      On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
      On the Circulation of the Blood
      On the Generation of Animals
    56. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
      The Leviathan
    57. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
      Rules for the Direction of the Mind
      Discourse on the Method
      Geometry
      Meditations on First Philosophy
    58. John Milton (1608-1674)
      Works
    59. Moliere (1622-1673)
      Comedies
    60. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
      The Provincial Letters
      Pensees
      Scientific Treatises
    61. Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
      Treatise on Light
    62. Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
      Ethics
    63. John Locke (1632-1704)
      Letter Concerning Toleration
      ``Of Civil Government''
      Essay Concerning Human Understanding
      Thoughts Concerning Education
    64. Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
      Tragedies
    65. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
      Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
      Optics
    66. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
      Discourse on Metaphysics
      New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
      Monadology
    67. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
      Robinson Crusoe
    68. Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
      A Tale of a Tub
      Journal to Stella
      Gulliver's Travels
      A Modest Proposal
    69. William Congreve (1670-1729)
      The Way of the World
    70. George Berkeley (1685-1753)
      Principles of Human Knowledge
    71. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
      Essay on Criticism
      Rape of the Lock
      Essay on Man
    72. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
      Persian Letters
      Spirit of Laws
    73. Voltaire (1694-1778)
      Letters on the English
      Candide
      Philosophical Dictionary
    74. Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
      Joseph Andrews
      Tom Jones
    75. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
      The Vanity of Human Wishes
      Dictionary
      Rasselas
      The Lives of the Poets
    76. David Hume (1711-1776)
      Treatise on Human Nature
      Essays Moral and Political
      An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    77. Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)
      On the Origin of Inequality
      On the Political Economy
      Emile
      The Social Contract
    78. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
      Tristram Shandy
      A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
    79. Adam Smith (1723-1790)
      The Theory of Moral Sentiments
      Wealth of Nations
    80. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
      Critique of Pure Reason
      Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
      Critique of Practical Reason
      The Science of Right
      Critique of Judgment
      Perpetual Peace
    81. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
      The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
      Autobiography
    82. James Boswell (1740-1795)
      Journal Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
    83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
      Elements of Chemistry
    84. John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
      Federalist Papers
      (together with Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States, and Declaration of Independence)
    85. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
      Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
      Theory of Fictions
    86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
      Faust
      Poetry and Truth
    87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
      Analytical Theory of Heat
    88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
      Phenomenology of Spirit
      Philosophy of Right
      Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    89. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
      Poems
    90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
      Poems Biographia Literaria
    91. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
      Pride and Prejudice
      Emma
    92. Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
      On War
    93. Stendhal (1783-1842)
      The Red and the Black
      The Charterhouse of Parma
      On Love
    94. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
      Don Juan
    95. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
      Studies in Pessimism
    96. Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
      Chemical History of a Candle
      Experimental Researches in Electricity
    97. Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
      Principles of Geology
    98. Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
      The Positive Philosophy
    99. Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
      Pere Goriot
      Eugenie Grandet
    100. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
      Representative Men
      Essays
      Journal
    101. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
      The Scarlet Letter
    102. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
      Democracy in America
    103. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
      A System of Logic
      On Liberty
      Representative Government
      Utilitarianism
      The Subjection of Women
      Autobiography
    104. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
      The Origin of Species
      The Descent of Man
      Autobiography
    105. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
      Works
    106. Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
      Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
    107. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
      Civil Disobedience
      Walden
    108. Karl Marx (1818-1883)
      Capital
      (together with Communist Manifesto)
    109. George Eliot (1819-1880)
      Adam Bede
      Middlemarch
    110. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
      Moby Dick
      Billy Budd
    111. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
      Crime and Punishment
      The Idiot
      The Brothers Karamazov
    112. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
      Madame Bovary
      Three Stories
    113. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
      Plays
    114. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
      War and Peace
      Anna Karenina
      What is Art?
      Twenty-Three Tales
    115. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
      The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
      The Mysterious Stranger
    116. William James (1842-1910)
      The Principles of Psychology
      The Varieties of Religious Experience
      Pragamatism
      Essays in Radical Empiricism
    117. Henry James (1843-1916)
      The American
      The Ambassadors
    118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
      Thus Spoke Zarathustra
      Beyond Good and Evil
      The Geneology of Morals
      The Will to Power
    119. Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
      Science and Hypothesis
      Science and Method
    120. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
      The Interpretation of Dreams
      Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
      Civilization and Its Discontents
      New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    121. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
      Plays and Prefaces
    122. Max Planck (1858-1947)
      Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
      Where Is Science Going?
      Scientific Autobiography
    123. Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
      Time and Free Will
      Matter and Memory
      Creative Evolution
      The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
    124. John Dewey (1859-1952)
      How We Think
      Democracy and Education
      Experience and Nature
      Logic, the Theory of Inquiry
    125. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
      An Introduction to Mathematics
      Science and the Modern World
      The Aims of Education and Other Essays
      Adventures of Ideas
    126. George Santayana (1863-1952)
      The Life of Reason
      Skepticism and Animal Faith
      Persons and Places
    127. Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924)
      The State and Revolution
    128. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
      Remembrance of Things Past
    129. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
      The Problems of Philosophy
      The Analsysis of Mind
      An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
      Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits
    130. Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
      The Magic Mountain
      Joseph and His Brothers
    131. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
      The Meaning of Relativity
      On the Method of Theoretical Physics
      The Evolution of Physics (with L. Infeld)
    132. James Joyce (1882-1941)
      ``The Dead'' in Dubliners
      Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      Ulysses
    133. Jaques Maritain (1882- )
      Art and Scholasticism
      The Degrees of Knowledge
      The Rights of Man and Natural Law
      True Humanism
    134. Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
      The Trial
      The Castle
    135. Arnold Toynbee (1889- )
      A Study of History
      Civilization on Trial
    136. Jean Paul Sartre (1905- )
      Nausea
      No Exit
      Being and Nothingness
    137. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
      The First Circle
      The Cancer Ward
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  • The Library of America

    1. Herman Melville, Typee, Omoo, Mardi
    2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tales and Sketches
    3. Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose
    4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Three Novels
    5. Mark Twain, Mississippi Writings
    6. Jack London, Novels and Stories
    7. Jack London, Novels and Social Writings
    8. William Dean Howells, Novels 1875-1886
    9. Herman Melville, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby Dick
    10. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novels
    11. Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, vol. I
    12. Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, vol. II
    13. Henry James, Novels 1871-1880
    14. Henry Adams, Novels, Mont Sant Michel, The Education
    15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Lectures
    16. Washington Irving, History, Tales, and Sketches
    17. Thomas Jefferson, Writings
    18. Stephen Crane, Prose and Poetry
    19. Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry and Tales
    20. Edgar Allan Poe, Essays and Reviews
    21. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It
    22. Henry James, Essays, American & English Writers
    23. Henry James, European Writers & The Prefaces
    24. Herman Melville, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales, & Billy Budd
    25. William Faulkner, Novels 1930-1935
    26. James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales vol. I
    27. James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales vol. II
    28. Henry David Thoreau, A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
    29. Henry James, Novels 1881-1886
    30. Edith Wharton, Novels
    31. Henry Adams, History of the United States during the Administration of Jefferson
    32. Henry Adams, History of the United States during the Administration of Madison
    33. Frank Norris, Novels and Essays
    34. W.E.B. Du Bois, Writings
    35. Willa Cather, Early Novels and Stories
    36. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men
    37. Benjamin Franklin, Writings
    38. William James, Writings 1902-1910
    39. Flannery O'Connor, Collected Works
    40. Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1913-1920
    41. Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1920-1931
    42. Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1932-1943
    43. Henry James, Novels 1886-1890
    44. William Dean Howells, Novels 1886-1888
    45. Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832-1858
    46. Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1859-1865
    47. Edith Wharton, Novellas and Other Writing
    48. William Faulkner, Novels 1936-1940
    49. Willa Cather, Later Novels
    50. Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters
    51. William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs
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  • 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, by Anthony Burgess

      1939

    1. Party Going, Henry Green
    2. After Many a Summer, Aldous Huxley
    3. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
    4. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien

      1940

    5. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
    6. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
    7. Strangers and Brothers (to 1970), C.P. Snow

      1941

    8. The Aerodrome, Rex Warner

      1944

    9. The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary
    10. The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham

      1945

    11. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

      1946

    12. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake

      1947

    13. The Victim, Saul Bellow
    14. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

      1948

    15. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
    16. Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley
    17. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
    18. No Highway, Nevil Shute

      1949

    19. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
    20. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
    21. The Body, William Sansom

      1950

    22. Scenes from Provincial Life, William Cooper
    23. The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg

      1951

    24. A Dance to the Music of Time (to 1975), Anthony Powell
    25. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
    26. The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (to 1969), Henry Williamson
    27. The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk

      1952

    28. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
    29. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
    30. The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy
    31. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
    32. Sword of Honour (to 1961), Evelyn Waugh

      1953

    33. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler

      1954

    34. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

      1957

    35. Room at the Top, John Braine
    36. The Alexandria Quartet (to 1960), Lawrence Durrell
    37. The London Novels (to 1960), Colin MacInnes
    38. The Assistant, Bernard Malamud

      1958

    39. The Bell, Iris Murdoch
    40. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
    41. The Once and Future King, T.H. White

      1959

    42. The Mansion, William Faulkner
    43. Goldfinger, Ian Fleming

      1960

    44. Facial Justice, L.P. Hartley
    45. The Balkans Trilogy (to 1965), Olivia Manning

      1961

    46. The Mighty and Their Fall, Ivy Compton-Burnett
    47. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
    48. The Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes
    49. Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
    50. The Old Men at the Zoo, Angus Wilson

      1962

    51. Another Country, James Baldwin
    52. An Error of Judgment, Pamela Hansford Johnson
    53. Island, Aldous Huxley
    54. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
    55. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

      1963

    56. The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark

      1964

    57. The Spire, William Golding
    58. Heartland, Wilson Harris
    59. A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
    60. The Defence, Vladimir Nabokov
    61. Late Call, Angus Wilson

      1965

    62. The Lockwood Concern, John O'Hara
    63. The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark

      1966

    64. A Man of the People, Chinua Achebe
    65. The Anti-Death League, Kingsley Amis
    66. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
    67. The Late Bourgeois World, Nadine Gordimer
    68. The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy

      1967

    69. The Vendor of Sweets, R.K. Narayan

      1968

    70. The Image Men, J.B. Priestley
    71. Cocksure, Mordecai Richler
    72. Pavane, Keith Roberts

      1969

    73. The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
    74. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth

      1970

    75. Bomber, Len Deighton

      1973

    76. Sweet Dreams, Michael Frayn
    77. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

      1975

    78. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
    79. The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury

      1976

    80. The Doctor's Wife, Brian Moore
    81. Falstaff, Robert Nye

      1977

    82. How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong
    83. Farewell Companions, James Plunkett
    84. Staying On, Paul Scott

      1978

    85. The Coup, John Updike

      1979

    86. The Unlimited Dream Company, J.G. Ballard
    87. Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud
    88. A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
    89. Sophie's Choice, William Stryon

      1980

    90. Life in the West, Brian Aldiss
    91. Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
    92. How Far Can You Go?, David Lodge
    93. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

      1981

    94. Lanark, Alasdair Gray
    95. Darconville's Cat, Alexander Theroux
    96. The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
    97. Creation, Gore Vidal

      1982

    98. The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies

      1983

    99. Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer
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  • The Lifetime Reading Plan, by Clifton Fadiman (3rd edition)

    The Beginning

    1. Homer, The Iliad
    2. Homer, The Odyssey
    3. Herodotus, The Histories
    4. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
    5. Plato, Selected Works
    6. Aristotle, Ethics, Politics
    7. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
    8. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
    9. Euripides, Alcestis, Medea, Hipploytus, Trojan Women, Electra, Bacchae
    10. Lucretius, Of the Nature of Things
    11. Virgil, The Aeneid
    12. Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

    The Middle Ages

    1. Saint Augustine, Confessions
    2. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
    3. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

    Plays

    1. William Shakespeare, Complete Works
    2. Moliere, Selected Plays
    3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
    4. Henrik Ibsen, Selected Plays
    5. George Bernard Shaw, Selcted Plays and Prefaces
    6. Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard
    7. Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night
    8. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape
    9. Contemporary Drama, edited by E. Bradlee Watson and Benfield Pressey

    Narratives

    1. John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
    2. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
    3. Jonathon Swift, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Meditations upon a Broomstick, Resolutions when I Come to be Old
    4. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
    5. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
    6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma
    7. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    8. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    9. Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit
    10. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch
    11. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
    12. Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    13. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
    14. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
    15. James Joyce, Ulysses
    16. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves
    17. D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love
    18. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Collected Essays
    19. George Orwell, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
    20. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
    21. Franz Kafka, The Trial, The Castle, Selected Short Stories
    22. Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
    23. Voltaire, Candide and Selected Works
    24. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    25. Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet
    26. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    27. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
    28. Andre Malraux, Man's Fate
    29. Albert Camus, The Plague, The Stranger
    30. Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories and Other Works
    31. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Selcted Tales
    32. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener
    33. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
    34. Henry James, The Ambassadors
    35. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
    36. Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories
    37. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift
    38. Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, Don Quixote
    39. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Dreamtigers
    40. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    41. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Dead Souls
    42. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
    43. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
    44. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, War and Peace
    45. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Pale Fire, Speak, Memory
    46. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle, Cancer Ward

    Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Essays

    1. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    2. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
    3. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    4. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
    5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
    6. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra,

    Selected Other Works

    1. Sigmund Freud, Selected Works
    2. Niccolo Macchiavelli, The Prince
    3. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Selected Essays
    4. Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
    5. Blaise Pascal, Thoughts
    6. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
    7. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Works
    8. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Civil Disobedience
    9. William James, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism and Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience
    10. John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct
    11. George Santayana, Skepticism and Animal Faith, Selected Other Works

    Poetry

    1. John Donne, Selected Works
    2. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica
    3. William Blake, Selected Works
    4. William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 1800
    5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare
    6. William Butler Yeats, Collected Poems, Collected Plays, The Autobiography
    7. T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems and Collected Plays
    8. Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855), A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
    9. Robert Frost, Collected Poems
    10. Poets of the English Language, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson
    11. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair

    History, Biography, Autobiography

    1. Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris The Federalist Papers, edited by Clinton Rossiter
    2. Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
    3. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
    4. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
    5. Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century

    Annex

    1. William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization
    2. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People Page Smith, A People's History of the United States
    3. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
    4. Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics
    5. E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
    6. Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book
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  • Recommended Reading in Great Literature, Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois

    Ancient World

    1. The Bible
    2. Aristophanes, The Birds
    3. Aristotle, Poetics
    4. Homer, Odyssey, Iliad
    5. Horace, Odes, etc.
    6. Pindar, Olympians, etc.
    7. Plato, Republic
    8. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    9. Theocritus, Idylls
    10. Virgil, Aeneid, etc.
      For background & lighter reading
    11. E. Hamilton, Mythology, etc.
    12. M. Renault, The King Must Die, etc.
    13. J. William, Augustus

    Middle Ages

    1. Bede, History of the English Church and People
    2. Beowulf
    3. A.C. Cawley, Everyman & Miracle Plays
    4. G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales
    5. Dante, Divine Comedy
    6. W. Langland, Piers the Ploughman
    7. T. Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
      For background & lighter reading
    8. Ackerman, Backgrounds to Medieval Literature
    9. J. Gardner, Grendel
    10. M. Stewart, The Crystal Cave, etc.
    11. T.H. White Once and Future King

    Renaissance & 17th Century

    1. M. Cervantes, Don Quixote
    2. J. Donne, Collected Poems
    3. J. Dryden, MacFlecknoe, etc.
    4. B. Jonson, Epigrams, Plays
    5. C. Marlowe, Poems, Doctor Faustus
    6. J. Milton, Paradise Lost, L'Allegro
    7. W. Shakespeare, Sonnets, Plays
    8. E. Spenser, Shephearde's Calender

    18th Century

    1. H. Fielding, Joseph Andrews
    2. T. Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard
    3. S. Johnson, Life of Milton, etc.
    4. A. Pope, Rape of the Lock, etc.
    5. J. Swift, Gulliver's Travels

    19th Century

      Poetry
    1. M. Arnold, Dover Beach
    2. R. Browning, Collected Works
    3. S.T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner
    4. E. Dickinson, Collected Works
    5. J. Keats, Collected Works
    6. E.A. Poe, The Raven
    7. P.B. Shelley, Collected Works
    8. A. Tennyson, Idylls of the King, etc.
    9. W. Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    10. W. Wordsworth, Collected Works
      Prose
    11. J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    12. C. Bronte, Jane Eyre
    13. E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    14. L. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    15. W. Cather, My Antonia, etc.
    16. J. Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
    17. C. Dickens, Great Expectations, etc.
    18. F. Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment, etc.
    19. G. Eliot, Adam Bede
    20. R.W. Emerson, American Scholar, etc.
    21. G. Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    22. T. Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, etc.
    23. N. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, etc.
    24. W. Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    25. H. Melville, Billy Budd, Moby Dick, etc.
    26. W. Scott, Ivanhoe, etc.
    27. W.M. Thackery, Vanity Fair
    28. H.D. Thoreau, Walden
    29. L. Tolstoy, War and Peace
    30. M. Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It

    Late 19th & 20th Century

      Drama
    1. S. Becket, Waiting for Godot
    2. B. Brecht, Mother Courage
    3. A. Chekhov, Cherry Orchard
    4. L. Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
    5. H. Ibsen, A Doll's House, etc.
    6. A. Miller, Death of a Salesman
    7. E. O'Neill, Ah Wilderness, etc.
    8. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search...
    9. G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, etc.
    10. A. Strindberg, Miss Julie, etc.
    11. J. Synge, Playboy of the Western World
    12. O. Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest
    13. T. Wilder, Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth
    14. T. Williams, Streetcar Named Desire
      Poetry
    15. W.H. Auden, Collected Works
    16. e.e. cummings, Collected Works
    17. T.S. Eliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    18. R. Frost, Collected Works
    19. G.M. Hopkins, Collected Works
    20. A.E. Housman, Collected Works
    21. T. Roethke, Collected Works
    22. W.B. Yeats, Collected Works
      Essays, Short Stories, Expository Works
    23. J. Didion, Collected Works
    24. A. Dillard, Collected Works
    25. L. Eiseley, Immense Journey, etc.
    26. J. McPhee, Collected Works
    27. F. O'Connor, Collected Works
    28. Saki (Munro), Collected Short Stories
    29. L. Thomas, Collected Works
    30. J. Thurber, Carnival, etc.
    31. E.B. White, Essays
      Prose
    32. S. Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
    33. J. Conrad, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
    34. W. Faulkner, Sound and the Fury
    35. F.S. Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
    36. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
    37. J. Galsworthy, Forsyte Saga
    38. E. Hemingway, The Sun also Rises
    39. A. Huxley, Brave New World
    40. H. James, The Ambassadors, etc.
    41. J. Joyce, Portrait of the Artist..., etc.
    42. D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
    43. S. Lewis, Main Street
    44. J. Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    45. V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    46. R. Wright, Native Son

    Contemporary

      Prose
    1. K. Amis, Lucky Jim
    2. J. Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain
    3. S. Beckett, Murphy
    4. J. Barth, The End of the Road
    5. R. Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
    6. A. Burgess, Enderby, A Clockwork Orange
    7. A. Camus, Outsider, Plague
    8. R. Ellison, Invisible Man
    9. F.M. Ford, The Good Soldier
    10. J. Gardner, October Light
    11. W. Golding, Lord of the Flies
    12. J. Heller, Catch-22
    13. J. Herriot, All Creatures Great & Small
    14. J. Knowles, A Separate Peace
    15. H. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    16. N. Mailer, Armies of the Night
    17. T. Morrison, Song of Solomon
    18. G. Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984
    19. A. Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
    20. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
    21. J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
    22. J. Watson, The Double Helix
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  • Classics Revisited and More Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth

      From Classics Revisited

    1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
    2. Homer, The Iliad
    3. Homer, The Odyssey
    4. Beowulf
    5. Njal's Saga
    6. Job
    7. The Mahabharata
    8. The Kalevala
    9. Sappho, Poems
    10. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
    11. Sophocles, The Theban Plays
    12. Euripides
    13. Herodotus, History
    14. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
    15. Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates
    16. Plato, The Republic
    17. The Greek Anthology
    18. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
    19. Livy, Early Rome
    20. Julius Caesar, The War in Gaul
    21. Petronius, The Satyricon
    22. Tacitus, Histories
    23. Plutarch, Parallel Lives
    24. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    25. Apuleius, The Golden Ass
    26. Medieval Latin Lyrics
    27. Tu Fu, Poems
    28. Classic Japanese Poetry
    29. Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
    30. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
    31. Rabelais, The Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel
    32. Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo
    33. Thomas More, Utopia
    34. Machiavelli, The Prince
    35. Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
    36. Montaigne, Essays
    37. Cervantes, Don Quixote
    38. Shakespeare, Macbeth
    39. Shakespeare, The Tempest
    40. Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
    41. Ben Jonson, Volpone
    42. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
    43. John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
    44. Tsao Hsueh Chin, The Dream of the Red Chamber
    45. Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life
    46. Henry Fielding Tom Jones
    47. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
    48. Restif de la Bretonne, Monsieur Nicolas
    49. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    50. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    51. Baudelaire, Poems
    52. Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    53. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    54. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    55. Gustave Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
    56. Tolstoy, War and Peace
    57. Rimbaud, Poems
    58. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal
    59. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
    60. Chekhov, Plays

      From More Classics Revisited

    61. The Song of Songs
    62. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    63. Euripides, Hippolytus
    64. Aristotle, Poetics
    65. Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius
    66. The Bhagavad-Gita
    67. Ssu-Ma Chien, Records of the Grand Historian of China
    68. Catullus
    69. Virgil, The Aeneid
    70. The Early Irish Epic
    71. Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book
    72. Abelard and Heloise
    73. Heike Monogatari
    74. St. Thomas Aquinas
    75. The English and Scottish Popular Ballad
    76. Racine, Phedre
    77. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
    78. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
    79. Jonathon Swift, Gulliver's Travels
    80. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    81. Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Acquaintances
    82. Gilbert White, A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
    83. Robert Burns
    84. William Blake
    85. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    86. Honore de Balzac
    87. The Journal of John Woolman
    88. Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    89. Francis Parkman, France and England in North America
    90. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
    91. Frederick Douglass
    92. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
    93. Arthur Conan Doyle, ``Sherlock Holmes''
    94. Alexander Berkman
    95. Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You
    96. H.G. Wells
    97. William Butler Yeats, Plays
    98. Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
    99. Franz Kafka, The Trial
    100. Herbert Read, The Green Child
    101. William Carlos Williams, Poems
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  • The UWM Bookstore's Select 100 as of April, 1989

    1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
    2. Animal Farm, Orwell
    3. Art of War, Sun Tsu
    4. As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
    5. Atlas Shrugged, Rand
    6. The Bible
    7. Brave New World, Huxley
    8. Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
    9. Candide, Voltaire
    10. Canticle for Liebowitz, Miller
    11. Catch-22, Heller
    12. Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
    13. City in History, Mumford
    14. Clockwork Orange, Burgess
    15. Color Purple, Walker
    16. Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
    17. Complete Works, Shakespeare
    18. Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
    19. Confessions, St. Augustine
    20. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
    21. Crucible, Miller
    22. Cry, the Bleoved Country, Paton
    23. Dancing Wu-Li Masters, Zukav
    24. Divine Comedy, Dante
    25. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak
    26. Don Quixote, Cervantes
    27. Double Helix, Watscon
    28. Dune Trilogy, Herbert
    29. Elements of Style, Strunk & White
    30. Entropy, Rifkin
    31. Ethan Frome, Wharton
    32. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
    33. Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
    34. Faust, Goethe
    35. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson
    36. Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, Jay
    37. Flatland, Abbott
    38. Forbidden Colors, Mishima
    39. Foundation Trilogy, Asimov
    40. Fountainhead, Rand
    41. Free to Choose, Friedman
    42. Godel, Escher, Bach, Hofstadter
    43. Gone with the Wind, Mitchell
    44. Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
    45. Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
    46. Great Expectations, Dickens
    47. Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
    48. Gulliver's Travels, Swift
    49. Handmaid's Tale, Atwood
    50. Hiroshima, Hersey
    51. How Democracies Perish, Revel
    52. Iliad, Homer
    53. Invisible Man, Ellison
    54. Jane Eyre, Bronte
    55. Leaves of Grass, Whitman
    56. Little Prince, St. Exupery
    57. Lord of the Flies, Golding
    58. Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
    59. Madame Bovary, Flaubert
    60. Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl
    61. Mere Christianity, Lewis
    62. Moby Dick, Melville
    63. Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey
    64. My Antonia, Cather
    65. 1984, Orwell
    66. Odyssey, Homer
    67. Of Human Bondage, Maugham
    68. Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
    69. Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
    70. On the Road, Kerouac
    71. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
    72. Origin of Species, Darwin
    73. Paradise Lost, Milton
    74. Plague, Camus
    75. Pride and Prejudice, Austen
    76. Prince, Machiavelli
    77. Qu'ran
    78. Republic, Plato
    79. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer
    80. Road Less Travelled, Peck
    81. Room of One's Own, Woolf
    82. Sand County Almanac, Leopold
    83. Second Sex, de Beauvoir
    84. Seven Story Mountain, Merton
    85. Siddhartha, Hesse
    86. Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
    87. Small Is Beautiful, Schumacher
    88. Steppenwolf, Hesse
    89. Stranger, Camus
    90. Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
    91. Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn
    92. Tao of Physics, Capra
    93. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
    94. Third Wave, Toffler
    95. Ulysses, Joyce
    96. Unsettling of America, Berry
    97. Utopia, More
    98. Walden, Thoreau
    99. War and Peace, Tolstoy
    100. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig
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