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Acesta este un exemplu de listă de cărți considerate cele mai bune listate cronologic pe baza cărților How to Read a Book [1] de Mortimer Adler (1940) și How to Read a Book , ediția a 2-a de Mortimer Adler și Charles Van Doren (1972). Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902 – 2001) a fost un filozof, pedagog și editor american.
Homer – Iliada ; Odiseea
Vechiul Testament
Aeschylus – Tragedies
Sophocles – Tragedies
Herodotus – Histories
Euripides – Tragedies
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
Hippocrates – Medical Writings
Aristophanes – Comedies
Plato – Dialogues
Aristotle – Works
Epicurus – "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoecus"
Euclid – Elements
Archimedes – Works
Apoloniu din Perga – Conics
Cicero – Works (esp. Orations ; On Friendship ; On Old Age ; Republic ; Laws ; Tusculan Disputations ; Offices )
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
Virgil – Works (esp. Aeneid )
Horace – Works (esp. Odes and Epodes ; The Art of Poetry )
Titus Livius – Ab Urbe condita
Ovid – Works (esp. Metamorphoses )
Quintilian – Institutes of Oratory
Plutarch – Parallel Lives ; Moralia
Tacitus – Histories ; Annals ; Agricola ; Germania ; Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory )
Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
Epictetus – Discourses; Enchiridion
Ptolemy – Almagest
Lucian – Works (esp. The Way to Write History ; The True History ; The Sale of Creeds ; Alexander the Oracle Monger ; Charon ; The Sale of Lives ; The Fisherman ; Dialogue of the Gods ; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods ; Dialogues of the Dead )
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Galen – On the Natural Faculties
The New Testament
Plotinus – The Enneads
St. Augustine – "On the Teacher"; Confessions ; City of God ; On Christian Doctrine
The Volsungs Saga or Nibelungenlied
The Song of Roland
The Saga of Burnt Njál
Maimonides – The Guide for the Perplexed
St. Thomas Aquinas – Of Being and Essence ; Summa Contra Gentiles ; Of the Governance of Rulers ; Summa Theologica
Dante Alighieri – The New Life (La Vita Nuova ); "On Monarchy"; Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury Tales
Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ
Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince ; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly ; Colloquies
Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Thomas More – Utopia
Martin Luther – Table Talk ; Three Treatises
François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Michel de Montaigne – Essays
William Gilbert – On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion ; The Faerie Queene
Francis Bacon – Essays ; The Advancement of Learning ; Novum Organum ; New Atlantis
William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger ; Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler – The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy ; Harmonices Mundi
William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals ; On the Circulation of the Blood ; Generation of Animals
Grotius – The Law of War and Peace
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan ; Elements of Philosophy
René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind ; Discourse on the Method ; Geometry ; Meditations on First Philosophy ; Principles of Philosophy ; The Passions of the Soul
Corneille – Tragedies (esp. The Cid, Cinna )
John Milton – Works (esp. the minor poems; Areopagitica ; Paradise Lost ; Samson Agonistes )
Molière – Comedies (esp. The Miser ; The School for Wives ; The Misanthrope ; The Doctor in Spite of Himself ; Tartuffe ; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman ; The Imaginary Invalid ; The Affected Ladies )
Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters ; Pensées ; Scientific Treatises
John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
Boyle – The Sceptical Chymist
Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light
Benedict de Spinoza – Political Treatises ; Ethics
John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies (esp. Andromache ; Phaedra ; Athalie (Athaliah ))
Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ; Opticks
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics ; New Essays on Human Understanding ; Monadology
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe ; Moll Flanders
Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books ; A Tale of a Tub ; A Journal to Stella ; Gulliver's Travels ; A Modest Proposal
William Congreve – The Way of the World
George Berkeley – A New Theory of Vision ; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism ; The Rape of the Lock ; An Essay on Man
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters ; The Spirit of the Laws
Voltaire – Letters on the English ; Candide ; Philosophical Dictionary
Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews ; Tom Jones
Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes ; Dictionary ; Rasselas ; Lives of the Poets
David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature ; Essays Moral and Political ; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; History of England
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality ; On Political Economy ; Emile: or, On Education ; The Social Contract ; Confessions
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy ; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments ; The Wealth of Nations
William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England
Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason ; Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals ; Critique of Practical Reason ; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment ; Perpetual Peace
Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ; Autobiography
James Boswell – Journal ; The Life of Samuel Johnson
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry )
Alexander Hamilton , John Jay , and James Madison – Federalist Papers (together with the Articles of Confederation ; United States Constitution and United States Declaration of Independence )
Jeremy Bentham – Comment on the Commentaries ; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ; Theory of Fictions
Johann Wolfgang Goethe – Faust ; Poetry and Truth
Thomas Robert Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population
John Dalton – A New System of Chemical Philosophy
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit ; Science of Logic ; Elements of the Philosophy of Right ; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
William Wordsworth – Poems (esp. Lyrical Ballads ; Lucy poems; sonnets; The Prelude )
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems (esp. Kubla Khan ; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ); Biographia Literaria
David Ricardo – On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice ; Emma
Carl von Clausewitz – On War
Stendhal – The Red and the Black ; The Charterhouse of Parma ; On Love
François Guizot – History of Civilization in France
Lord Byron – Don Juan
Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism
Michael Faraday – The Chemical History of a Candle ; Experimental Researches in Electricity
Nikolai Lobachevsky – Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology
Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy
Honoré Balzac – Works (esp. Le Père Goriot ; Le Cousin Pons ; Eugénie Grandet ; Cousin Bette ; César Birotteau )
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men ; Essays ; Journal
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic ; Principles of Political Economy ; On Liberty ; Considerations on Representative Government ; Utilitarianism ; The Subjection of Women ; Autobiography
Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species ; The Descent of Man ; Autobiography
William Makepeace Thackeray – Works (esp. Vanity Fair ; The History of Henry Esmond ; The Virginians ; Pendennis )
Charles Dickens – Works (esp. Pickwick Papers ; Our Mutual Friend ; David Copperfield ; Dombey and Son ; Oliver Twist ; A Tale of Two Cities ; Hard Times )
Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
George Boole – The Laws of Thought
Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience ; Walden
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Das Kapital (Capital ); The Communist Manifesto
George Eliot – Adam Bede ; Middlemarch
Herman Melville – Typee ; Moby-Dick ; Billy Budd
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment ; The Idiot ; The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary ; Three Stories
Henry Thomas Buckle – A History of Civilization in England
Francis Galton – Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development
Bernhard Riemann – The Hypotheses of Geometry
Henrik Ibsen – Plays (esp. Peer Gynt ; Brand ; Hedda Gabler ; Emperor and Galilean ; A Doll's House ; The Wild Duck ; The Master Builder )
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace ; Anna Karenina ; "What Is Art? "; Twenty-Three Tales
Richard Dedekind – Theory of Numbers
Wilhelm Wundt – Physiological Psychology ; Outline of Psychology
Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad ; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ; The Mysterious Stranger
Henry Adams – History of the United States ; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres ; The Education of Henry Adams ; Degradation of Democratic Dogma
Charles Peirce – Chance, Love, and Logic ; Collected Papers
William Sumner – Folkways
Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Common Law ; Collected Legal Papers
William James – The Principles of Psychology ; The Varieties of Religious Experience ; Pragmatism ; A Pluralistic Universe ; Essays in Radical Empiricism
Henry James – The American ; The Ambassadors
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra ; Beyond Good and Evil ; On the Genealogy of Morality ; The Will to Power ; Twilight of the Idols ; The Antichrist
Georg Cantor – Transfinite Numbers
Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis ; Science and Method ; The Foundations of Science
Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams ; Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality ; Introduction to Psychoanalysis ; Beyond the Pleasure Principle ; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego ; The Ego and the Id ; Civilization and Its Discontents ; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces
Max Planck – Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory ; Where Is Science Going? ; Scientific Autobiography
Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will ; Matter and Memory ; Creative Evolution ; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
John Dewey – How We Think ; Democracy and Education ; Experience and Nature ; The Quest for Certainty ; Logic – The Theory of Inquiry
Alfred North Whitehead – A Treatise on Universal Algebra ; An Introduction to Mathematics ; Science and the Modern World ; Process and Reality ; The Aims of Education and Other Essays ; Adventures of Ideas
George Santayana – The Life of Reason ; Scepticism and Animal Faith ; The Realms of Being (which discusses the Realms of Essence, Matter and Truth); Persons and Places
Vladimir Lenin – Imperialism ; The State and Revolution
Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past )
Bertrand Russell – Principles of Mathematics ; The Problems of Philosophy ; Principia Mathematica ; The Analysis of Mind ; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth ; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain ; Joseph and His Brothers
Albert Einstein – The Theory of Relativity ; Sidelights on Relativity ; The Meaning of Relativity ; On the Method of Theoretical Physics ; The Evolution of Physics
James Joyce – "The Dead" in Dubliners ; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ; Ulysses
Jacques Maritain – Art and Scholasticism ; The Degrees of Knowledge ; Freedom and the Modern World ; A Preface to Metaphysics ; The Rights of Man and Natural Law ; True Humanism
Franz Kafka – The Trial ; The Castle
Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study of History ; Civilization on Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea ; No Exit ; Being and Nothingness
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The First Circle ; Cancer Ward
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