The Lifetime Reading Plan,<\/i> 3rd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. (c) 1960, 1978, 1988 by Clifton Fadiman.
\nSee also the 1997 4th Edition .<\/p>\n
The Beginning<\/b><\/p>\n
Homer. The Iliad.
\nHomer. The Odyssey.
\nHerodotus. The Histories.
\nThucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War.
\nPlato. Selected Works.
\nAristotle. Ethics; Politics.
\nAeschylus. The Oresteia.
\nSophocles. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone.
\nEuripides. Alcestis; Medea; Hipploytus; Trojan Women; Electra; Bacchae.
\nLucretius. Of the Nature of Things.
\nVirgil. The Aeneid.
\nAurelius, Marcus. Meditations.<\/p>\n
The Middle Ages<\/b><\/p>\n
Augustine, Saint. Confessions.
\nAlighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy.
\nChaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.<\/p>\n
Plays<\/b><\/p>\n
Shakespeare, William. Complete Works.
\nMoli\u00e8re. Selected Plays.
\nGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.
\nIbsen, Henrik. Selected Plays.
\nShaw, George Bernard. Selcted Plays and Prefaces.
\nChekhov, Anton. Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard.
\nO’Neill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey into Night.
\nBeckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp’s Last Tape.
\nWatson, E. Bradlee and Benfield Pressey. Contemporary Drama<\/p>\n
Narratives<\/b><\/p>\n
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s Progress.
\nDefoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
\nSwift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels; A Modest Proposal; Meditations upon a Broomstick; Resolutions when I Come to be Old.
\nSterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy.
\nFielding, Henry. Tom Jones.
\nAusten, Jane. Pride and Prejudice; Emma.
\nBront\u00eb, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
\nThackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair.
\nDickens, Charles. Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend; Little Dorrit.
\nEliot, George. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch.
\nCarroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass.
\nHardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge.
\nConrad, Joseph. Nostromo.
\nForster, E, M,. A Passage to India.
\nJoyce, James. Ulysses.
\nWoolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; The Waves.
\nLawrence, D. H.. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love.
\nHuxley, Aldous. Brave New World; Collected Essays.
\nOrwell, George. Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four.
\nMann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain.
\nKafka, Franz. The Trial; The Castle; Selected Short Stories.
\nRabelais, Fran\u00e7ois. Gargantua and Pantagruel.
\nVoltaire. Candide and Other Works.
\nStendhal. The Red and the Black.
\nBalzac, Honor\u00e9 de. P\u00e8re Goriot; Eug\u00e9nie Grandet.
\nFlaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
\nProust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past.
\nMalraux, Andr\u00e9. Man’s Fate.
\nCamus, Albert. The Plague; The Stranger.
\nPoe, Edgar Allan. Short Stories and Other Works.
\nHawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter; Selcted Tales.
\nMelville, Herman. Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener.
\nTwain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn.
\nJames, Henry. The Ambassadors.
\nFaulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying.
\nHemingway, Ernest. Short Stories.
\nBellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; Humboldt’s Gift.
\nSaavedra, Miguel de Cervantes de. Don Quixote.
\nBorges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths Dreamtigers.
\nM\u00e1rquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
\nGogol, Nikolai Vasilievich. Dead Souls.
\nTurgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich. Fathers and Sons.
\nDostoevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov.
\nTolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich. War and Peace.
\nNabokov, Vladimir. Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory.
\nSolzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich. The First Circle; Cancer Ward.<\/p>\n
Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Essays<\/b><\/p>\n
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.
\nLocke, John. Second Treatise of Government.
\nHume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
\nMill, John Stuart. On Liberty.
\nEngels, Karl Marx and Friedrich. The Communist Manifesto.
\nNietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spake Zarathustra; Selected Other Works.
\nFreud, Sigmund. Selected Works.
\nMacchiavelli, Niccol\u00f2. The Prince.
\nMontaigne, Michel Eyquem de. Selected Essays.
\nDescartes, Ren\u00e9. Discourse on Method.
\nPascal, Blaise. Thoughts (Pens\u00e9es).
\nTocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America.
\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo. Selected Works.
\nThoreau, Henry David. Walden; Civil Disobedience.
\nJames, William. The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism and Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth; The Varieties of Religious Experience.
\nDewey, John. Human Nature and Conduct.
\nSantayana, George. Skepticism and Animal Faith; Selected Other Works.<\/p>\n
Poetry<\/b><\/p>\n
Donne, John. Selected Works.
\nMilton, John. Paradise Lost; Lycidas; On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity; Sonnets; Areopagitica.
\nBlake, William. Selected Works.
\nWordsworth, William. The Prelude; Selected Shorter Poems; Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 1800.
\nColeridge, Samuel Taylor. The Ancient Mariner; Christabel; Kubla Khan; Biographia Literaria; Writings on Shakespeare.
\nYeats, William Butler. Collected Poems; Collected Plays; The Autobiography.
\nEliot, T. S.. Collected Poems, Collected Plays.
\nWhitman, Walt. Selected Poems; Democratic Vistas; Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855); A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads.
\nFrost, Robert. Collected Poems.
\nPoets of the English Language, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson.
\nThe Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair.<\/p>\n
History, Biography, Autobiography<\/b><\/p>\n
Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris
\nThe Federalist Papers, edited by Clinton Rossiter. Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Confessions.
\nBoswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.
\nAdams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams.
\nBraudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II; Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century.<\/p>\n
Annex<\/b><\/p>\n
McNeill, William H.. The Rise of the West
\nDurant, Will and Ariel. The Story of Civilization.
\nMorison, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People
\nSmith, Page. A People’s History of the United States.
\nWhitehead, Alfred North. Science and the Modern World.
\nWhitehead, Alfred North. An Introduction to Mathematics.
\nGombrich. The Story of Art.
\nAdler, Mortimer J.. How to Read a Book (co-authored with Charles Van Doren)<\/p>\n
(Here’s an excerpt from one of Charlotte Bronte’s letters<\/a> – I love it. In it, she answers a friend’s request for a reading list.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Lifetime Reading Plan, 3rd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. (c) 1960, 1978, 1988 by Clifton Fadiman. See also the 1997 4th Edition . The Beginning Homer. The Iliad. Homer. The Odyssey. Herodotus. The Histories. Thucydides. The History … Continue reading