Reading classic books can boost your learning experience. There are some reasons why classic books can do that: they have stood the test of time, they give you different “lenses” to look through, and they will most likely be relevant even to the far future. Reading the classics is an excellent intellectual exercise which will arm you with a lot of powerful intellectual tools.
To find good classic books, there are trusted recommendations that can help us. The recommendations are found in the books How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren, and The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer, both of which I believe are high-quality books. You can read the books for complete information about their recommendations (with suggestions on how to read them), but here I will directly give you the titles of the books which are recommended by both of them.
While I believe a book which is recommended by any of them is good, I think it’s safe to say that a book which is recommended by both of them is great.
So without further ado, here are the recommended classic books along with the Amazon and free download links (if any):
Novel
- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) – Download
- Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) – Download
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) – Download
- Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) – Download
- The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) - Download
- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) – Download
- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) – Download
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) – Download
- Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) – Download
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) – Download
- The Trial (Franz Kafka) – Download
Autobiography and Memoir
- The Confessions (Augustine) – Download
- The Complete Essays (Michel de Montaigne) – Download
- Meditations on First Philosophy (Rene Descartes)
- Walden (Henry David Thoreau) – Download
History
- The Histories (Herodotus) – Download vol 1 – vol 2
- The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) – Download
- The Republic (Plato) – Download
- Lives (Plutarch) – Download vol 1 – vol 2 – vol 3
- City of God (Augustine)
- The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) – Download
- Utopia (Sir Thomas More) – Download
- The Social Contract (Jean Jaques Rousseau)
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon) – Download vol 1 – vol 2 – vol 3 -vol 4 – vol 5 – vol 6
- Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville) – Download vol 1 – vol 2
- The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx) – Download
Drama
- Agamemnon (Aeschylus) – Download
- Oedipus the King (Sophocles) – Download
- Medea (Euripides)
- The Birds (Aristophanes) – Download
- Poetics (Aristotle) – Download
- Richard III (William Shakespeare) – Download
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare) – Download
- Hamlet (William Shakespeare) – Download
- Tartuffe (Moliere) – Download
- The Way of the World (William Congreve) – Download
- A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen) – Download
- Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)
- No Exit (Jean Paul Sartre)
Poet
- The Iliad (Homer) – Download
- The Odyssey (Homer) – Download
- Odes (Horace) – Download
- Inferno (Dante Alighieri) – Download
- The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) – Download
- Sonnets (William Shakespeare) – Download
- Paradise Lost (John Milton) – Download
- Selected Poetry (William Wordsworth) – Download vol 1 – vol 2 – vol 3
- The Complete Poems (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) – Download
It may take years to read all these books, but it undoubtedly will be a very rewarding intellectual journey; they are among the best books of human civilization.

Comment by S
#1 12. October 2007, 6:51 pm o'clock |
Terrific. Your canon has one book by a woman.
Comment by Quotes
#2 12. October 2007, 8:54 pm o'clock |
Great list. I’d include The Count of Monte Cristo in novels and Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography.
As Thoreau said, “how many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
Comment by Dean T
#3 12. October 2007, 11:03 pm o'clock |
Thanks for your post… Please dont forget Les Miserables by Victor Hugo on your next one!!
Comment by Sue Berg
#4 12. October 2007, 11:20 pm o'clock |
Where is American poet Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”???
Comment by Anon
#5 13. October 2007, 1:26 am o'clock |
Nice to know that the “best books of human civilization” come exclusively from the Europe or North America.
Comment by michele
#6 13. October 2007, 5:05 am o'clock |
but it takes AGES to read them all! and there’s no book without its context…
Comment by CS
#7 13. October 2007, 9:03 am o'clock |
S: Classical literature equals little to no female authors.
Anon: I’d imagine the author of the post is referring to Western Civilization. Home of the printing press and all that. Regardless, they’re not all from those two continents. Augustine was from Africa and spent the last third of his life has the Bishop of Hippo (which is in modern day Algeria.)
As far as the list itself, I’d drop numbers 8 and 11 (The Social Contract (Jean Jaques Rousseau) and The Communist Manifesto by Marx.) To replace them, I’d add The Law by Frederic Bastiat and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (though Moral Sentiments by Smith would work almost as well.) Some other additions would include The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, nearly any of Cicero’s work, and the works of Edmund Burke.
Comment by Donald Latumahina
#8 13. October 2007, 10:42 am o'clock |
S,
I’m not sure why that happens, but I guess CS’s comment is a good explanation.
Quotes, Dean T, Sue Berg,
Thanks for your suggestions! In this list I included only the books which are mentioned by both sources. There are some good books like Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography which are mentioned only by one source, so I did not include them.
Anon,
That’s why I wrote in the post that these are ‘among the best books of human civilization’. I believe there are some other good books which are not included here, since my two sources mainly focus on Western civilization. One example of such books is The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Michele,
Yes, it will take a long time to read them all. To provide the context, generally it is advised to read the books in chronological order (from the oldest book). Fortunately, the list here is already in chronological order within each category.
CS,
Thanks for your insights and suggestions!
Comment by Harold
#9 13. October 2007, 12:17 pm o'clock |
Good list. More context on the books is available at enotes. You can also read some better quality versions of the hypertext there or at online-literature.com
Comment by HelpLife
#10 13. October 2007, 1:13 pm o'clock |
Awesome post dude trackback;)
Comment by Felix
#11 13. October 2007, 5:17 pm o'clock |
I recently made a similar list titled ‘100 best books for an education’. It good to know that many of the books are on both lists. http://www.cloudcraft.com/knowledge
Comment by Chris
#12 13. October 2007, 5:49 pm o'clock |
Great collections, it is a comprehensive list, must read. There are other download versions like palm, pdf, mobile versions for some of these book at http://www.cmadras.com.
Comment by wellread
#13 13. October 2007, 5:54 pm o'clock |
This seems about as useful as a list of the greatest bands of the sixties. Well, perhaps it’s even worse in a few ways. The definition of “well read” is about as personal a decision as, say whether you believe in God and what that means to you. Not surprisingly, a number of the titles that make this list are Christian religious tracts.
I’d say the Mahabrata of which the sacred Hindu text Bahagavad Gita represents a single chapter is the only book you need. Of course you’ll need quite a few shelves to store all the volumes. The translations are not complete for all volumes, but you can start off with the Bahagavad Gita which is translated into English by about a dozen different organizations and also freely available.
That advice is at least equally sound as Augustine. I gagged when I saw that. Augustine is the great grandaddy of all wing-nuts.
Finally, what in the world is Richard III on there for instead of Richard II, the latter being the classic for its sublime portrayal of Falstaff.
No Goethe? No beats? No Lewis Caroll? I’d say this is a rather conservatively bent list. And I use the word bent with its full implocations of repressed male Christian homosexuality.
Comment by Milander
#14 13. October 2007, 8:07 pm o'clock |
For goodness sake, this is a list of books designed to turn people off reading. With the possible exception of Huckleberry Finn not one of these books would ever be chosen by any right minded person as a ‘good read’ except some anal retentive book fetishist who has snobbish pretensions of quality. While they may be ‘classics of literature in no way will they ever be read by anyone outside of academia and as I can testify will only be read out of a necessity to pass a test.
Personally I believe that you have just matched up the two list you mention and have posted. I do not belive that YOU Donald have read even half of the books you have listed if that otherwise you would have been more cautious in your assumptions.
“Anon,
That’s why I wrote in the post that these are ‘among the best books of human civilization’. I believe there are some other good books which are not included here, since my two sources mainly focus on Western civilization. One example of such books is The Art of War by Sun Tzu” – That’s just a ‘get out of jail free’ card comment. Sun Tzu… please, can’t you even think of another eastern book of philosophy except that tired old cliché,
Disgusted.
Comment by penny
#15 13. October 2007, 8:43 pm o'clock |
I read all of these books as a young child–they were my sister’s
college texts. Basically, they are all drivel! Especially the ones that are mere novels and stories.
You want to boost your learning experience, read math and science books. Read the Feynman lectures–learn calculus and linear algebra
and statistical mechanics and electronics and control theory, and biochemistry etc.
Liberal arts is drivel, for inferior minds.
“The purpose of the brain is to cool the blood.”–Aristotle
Comment by Raymond
#16 13. October 2007, 9:55 pm o'clock |
Good list. Ok, maybe I think it’s a good list because I’ve read most of them. Actually enjoyed a lot of them too.
Comment by Bob
#17 13. October 2007, 11:49 pm o'clock |
I just have to comment about all the posts about the list sucking. It is sad that people don’t have the mental strength to make it though these books and enjoy them. It takes little to read some 6th grade book and say,”That was enjoyable.”
It takes someone else to actually invest the days or weeks that most of these selections take to appreciate. Nice. I, unlike most of the idiots posting, do not support a dumbing down of actual scholarship. I’m glad you think that your study of sciences instead of liberal arts will be remembered in the future.
Comment by RobRistroph
#18 14. October 2007, 12:07 am o'clock |
Hi,
If you are interested in classic books, I have a set of the Brittanica “Great Books” set, from 1952. It is missing a few volumes and is cloth covered, not leather, and thus it is not worth anything for re-sale as far as I can tell. It is probably not worth shipping either, so if you are in the Austin, Texas area and can arrange to meet me sometime, you can have them for free. I would feel baddly if this books were to be tossed in the garbage, but I have been hauling them about and storing them for too long.
Most of the authors mentioned in this post are included in the set. Jane Austen and Nathaniel Hawthorne were not, I haven’t checked all of them. There are more than 60 books.
My email is rgristroph@gmail.com
–Rob
Comment by matt
#19 14. October 2007, 12:53 am o'clock |
I would have to agree with the comment by wellread. This is an extremely narrow list of “books to boost your learning experience”. It completely neglects anything but the standard western texts and even there, where is Joyce? Pynchon? Beckett? Hemingway? Steinbeck? Chekov? What about writers like Mishima, Lu Xun, Abe? I, too, gagged when I saw Augustine on that list. He was tedious and a wing-nut in both translation and in the original Latin.
Comment by Donald Latumahina
#20 14. October 2007, 11:38 am o'clock |
Thanks for stopping by, everyone! I really appreciate your comments, links, and suggestions. There are a lot of useful insights and resources there.
I’m just a beginner in the world of classic books, so my intention of creating this list is to help me in my journey there. I published it with a hope that it might also be useful to others. No doubt most of you have (much) more experience than me, which is why I enjoy reading your comments and constructive criticisms.
I realize that this list can’t satisfy everyone. It lists only 48 books which is far from comprehensive. The list in How to Read a Book for example, has more than 200 books in it. However, I personally find such huge list overwhelming. Since I’m a beginner, I need a shorter list to start with and this is the list I came up with. If you need a more comprehensive list, I’d suggest you check the lists in How to Read a Book and The Well-Educated Mind.
Comment by Quint
#21 15. October 2007, 11:25 am o'clock |
@penny – If you think great literature is drivel – mere novels and stories – then you are depriving yourself of valuable learning. This list isn’t comprehensive, as the author himself admits, but it does contain some of the most important western literature. Reading Feynman and learning advanced mathematics is valuable as well, but excluding literature does not create a well rounded human being.
To all the naysayers – It is easy to criticize but harder to contribute. If you have your own list, get your own blog and publish it! Let us know what literature or other reading has been essential for your growth and development. Donald stepped out from the crowd and was willing to share a little piece of himself. You all would do well to do likewise.
Comment by Roberto
#22 15. October 2007, 11:59 am o'clock |
Any list of this kind without science books is empty. (Sorry about my English).
Comment by mina
#23 15. October 2007, 8:37 pm o'clock |
dari novels, saya suka banget Oliver Twist. Don Quixote dan Anna Karenina adalah novel yang benar-benar menguji kesabaran, saking panjangnya :D
Canterbury Tales saya sampai punya 2 biji, karena tertarik tebalnya dan murahnya, sampe lupa bahwa suda punya ;p
Comment by John
#24 16. October 2007, 1:04 am o'clock |
This list, while obviously not comprehensive and very notably lacking in eastern philosophies, is a good list. I am especially happy to see Montaigne’s essays.
Comment by Anon.
#25 16. October 2007, 3:25 am o'clock |
This lisst smells like Leo Strauss. I’d suggest you check his pupil’s, Alan Bloom, “The Closing of the American Mind”, second part.
Comment by JIR
#26 19. October 2007, 6:46 am o'clock |
What a splendid list! If only I had it in me to read them all (part I have!!)
Juha
Comment by Tammy
#27 20. October 2007, 10:30 am o'clock |
Wow, cool list bro…
Punya ‘The Decline and The Fall of Roman Empire’, buku tua peninggalan bapak saya. Kualitasnya masih bagus, memang rencana mo baca… tapi belum sempat2 :-(
Bahkan Oedipus The King (juga buku peninggalan ayah saya), suka saya baca waktu kecil dulu… Jadi kenal dengan istilah Oedipus Complex sewaktu SD (haha)
Thanxx for the list…(jadi berburu ebook lg nih ^_^)
Comment by Christopher
#28 7. November 2007, 9:08 pm o'clock |
I’ve only read about a third of these titles. When I was in my early 20’s I had a job as a college gardener in England. I spent so much time sitting out the rain and reading Penguin Classics (paperbacks).That was more than thirty years ago. More recently, I found the Teaching Company. They have some amazing lectures on the humanities which are given by what they call super-star lecturers. Some are better than others, but their products are well worth looking at.
Your reading list really is an investment of time, so you should be sure you really want to read these. I think the experience is more profound when you read in a group and can discuss ideas. Many of these books are written from a worldview so very different from the world we are thrown into. When I was studying my A level French (at night school in the UK) I very much appreciated the teacher being able to put the books we were reading in their socio-historical perspective.
I don’t think it is a matter of ‘getting through’ these books, but savoring them and taking your time to have an experience. The problem with education is it’s so goal-oriented and not about learning and experience. I am all for slow learning that makes a difference, rather than skimming across the surface and touching on many ideas only for them to be forgotten.
I love paper. A short blog post is OK to read on screen, but for a classic book I want the luxury of the printed page.
Comment by Léo A. Mittaraquis
#29 27. November 2007, 7:08 pm o'clock |
This site is wonderful.
Congratulations!
Comment by Donald Latumahina
#30 28. November 2007, 9:05 pm o'clock |
Leo,
Thanks for the encouragement! I appreciate it.
Comment by uarelle
#31 24. January 2008, 10:33 pm o'clock |
I am considering buying an electronic book reader. So far I have heard good things about the…grrr now i cant remember the name….
…
oh yea – kindle reader
I know that kindle has a lot of books and many are supported by this device. Does anyone here have one? Please post your comments on it.
I’m going to wait about a week to buy it if I dont hear any negative stuff about it.
–> ok I just checked and they’re all out of them, ok so it looks like its a really hot item —yeeepeee! back later…off doing more research.
cheers
:wave:
Comment by bringwedding
#32 15. April 2008, 1:42 pm o'clock |
nice list, hopefully I don’t fall asleep when read one :)
Comment by Donald Latumahina
#33 16. April 2008, 5:50 am o'clock |
Thanks, bringwedding :)
Comment by virtue
#34 12. June 2008, 6:08 am o'clock |
koleksinya bagus – bagus ya..
ijin download ya :)
Comment by Sarah
#35 4. July 2008, 3:51 am o'clock |
This list is really helpful; i better go to the library fast… I better start reading now…
@.@
Comment by Alexa
#36 7. July 2008, 4:03 pm o'clock |
This is an excellent list! I just started The Odyssey this morning, after finishing Great Expectations, which is not on the list, but it’s still Dickens. Next, I hope to read The Doll’s House or the Oedipus trilogy! I think the reason I like this list so much is because I either own or have read almost all of these, so it seems really surmountable. Anyway, great list, great blog. Have a lovely day!
Comment by kelsey
#37 29. July 2008, 9:55 am o'clock |
these books are awesome!! I’ve already read some of them but i think i’ll check out the rest.. thanks everyone byebye now **kelsey**
Comment by Ian
#38 30. July 2008, 6:15 pm o'clock |
What about “The Great Gatsby” Of the five books I have read it is my favorite. Also anyone have a good book they can sugest I read next.
Comment by Fred
#39 31. July 2008, 2:30 pm o'clock |
Among the novels you have mentioned, WebLiterature.Net hosts almost all of them and many more of similar classic genre – after Gutenberg.Org (which unfortunately mizes categories), this is one of the biggest websites on only classic literature as of today.
Comment by ebookey
#40 9. September 2008, 1:00 pm o'clock |
George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 can be found at gutenberg.net.au, created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia.
Comment by Raghav
#41 2. November 2008, 12:09 am o'clock |
Thanks for this great article. It is an eye-opener. Classic literature can bring the best of peace in mind if the right book is chosen at the right time of life and mindset.
Also thanks for referring webliterature.net to one of the commentors. I was amazed to see such a great collection and all for free – surely I saved $1000 if not more on buying books.
Comment by allie
#42 16. November 2008, 10:31 am o'clock |
i think to kill a mockingbird should be there. it shows the time period excellently and is amazingly written as well as has stood the test of time.
Comment by Taffy
#43 8. January 2009, 6:45 am o'clock |
Cannot find Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’, Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables’ or Scott’s ‘Treasure Island’ on this list.
They would all be in my top five.
Comment by J
#44 14. January 2009, 10:27 pm o'clock |
The Importance of being Earnest?
A tale of two cities?
Candide?
Come on!
Comment by Leslie
#45 28. January 2009, 9:18 pm o'clock |
As others mentioned, too many books are missing. Books as Candide (Voltaire) or The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran) deserve to be in the list.
Also, the sites http://www.webliterature.net and http://www.gutenberg.org both seem to have too many great books to cover in a lifetime – definitely more than 48.
Comment by zal
#46 5. March 2009, 8:19 pm o'clock |
and where is the best adventure classics by the Great Fennimore Cooper ???…Chechov..?…Pushkin..?…
Karl Marx..??!!!…why should we read his screwed up mind that caused so many wars and conflicts in the world, that still exist today ????????
Comment by Danielle
#47 11. March 2009, 8:15 am o'clock |
I think Bram Stokers Dracula counts as a classic! And The story of my life by Giacomo Casanova
Comment by Mendicant
#48 25. March 2009, 2:16 pm o'clock |
Why do people always cut up Dante’s Comedy? It’s meant to be read as a whole, so Purgatorio and Paradiso should be included as well.
Comment by anonymous poster
#49 29. March 2009, 4:32 pm o'clock |
Zal: Your failure at historic knowledge has been noted.
Comment by anonymous poster
#50 29. March 2009, 4:35 pm o'clock |
To clarify, zal’s assessment of history is entirely backwards (mostly due to the fact that countries with Marxism-derived ideologies failed to continue for very long, and were not the cause of that many wars… especially when compared to countries with capitalist-derived ideology)
Comment by Jonathan Aquino
#51 2. April 2009, 3:41 am o'clock |
Donald – Here’s a list of the titles in the Great Books of the Western World with 1-line summaries of each. Might be helpful for people trying to decide which to read. http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2009/03/capsule-summaries-of-great-books-of.html
Comment by Donald Latumahina
#52 5. April 2009, 12:00 pm o'clock |
Jonathan,
Thanks for compiling such a helpful list!
Comment by Mark M.
#53 10. April 2009, 7:31 am o'clock |
The good of http://www.gutenberg.org is that they have audio books. The other one, http://www.webliterature.net can be searched easily but they don’t have audio books, have only written books.
Comment by Aillison Key
#54 22. May 2009, 5:58 pm o'clock |
Pride and Prejudice is such a breathtaking book
Comment by Elizabeth Politano
#55 22. May 2009, 11:14 pm o'clock |
Thanks, this is just what I needed:) I’m going to try for 3 years. Maybe it will give me a better chance of winning a scholarship, which is my only shot at a good college.
Comment by Yanto
#56 24. May 2009, 2:40 pm o'clock |
Have you ever read Chinese Classics?
Comment by Alexis
#57 3. June 2009, 11:31 pm o'clock |
I am 10 years old and reading these books. i am reading them cause my teacher suggested I read classics. I have a 9th grade level in reading and I am in 4th grade.
Comment by Sammie
#58 20. June 2009, 12:29 am o'clock |
@Milander
With the exception of most of the Histories, Agamemnon (Aeschylus) and Tartuffe (Moliere), I have read every book on this list.
Your opinion that no “not one of these books would ever be chosen by any right minded person as a ‘good read’ except some anal retentive book fetishist who has snobbish pretensions” is largely insulting to one such as myself as I do consider myself to be right minded and am in no way aware that I am an anal retentive book fetishist or hold snobbish pretensions.
Let it be known that I am 16 years old and from New Zealand. If a teenager from down under can take the time to read these books (and enjoy them) how can the list be “a list of books designed to turn people off reading”?
- Samantha.
Comment by Shanon Swilley
#59 2. July 2009, 10:48 am o'clock |
You should consider including at least one more book that covers the African American Experience.
Comment by Kelly
#60 8. July 2009, 10:02 pm o'clock |
Come on people! Give this guy a break! This is only his opinion, and there is no way (as he stated) to list and read all of the good books out there!!!! There are sooo many! If you have a different list-post it please! I for one need recommendations for good books to read myself, and for my children. Classics are a great start and stand the test of time, but again-there are many, and we all have different tastes. Thanks for taking the time to compile and place your list on the web!
Comment by linda
#61 16. July 2009, 10:28 am o'clock |
Yea where is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Comment by Shakespeare's best friend
#62 22. July 2009, 8:48 pm o'clock |
These book are quite the classics :)
But I believe ur missing a few : ‘Animal Farm’, ‘Of Mice and Men’, Their eyes were watching God, Lord of Flies, The Chosen, :]
Great books for classic reading :]
Comment by G Diddy
#63 2. August 2009, 3:54 am o'clock |
Hall Caine – The Eternal City
Luo Guangzhou – Three Kingdoms
These are two of my most favorite of all classics; up there with the likes of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Hugo’s Les Miserables, Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, and Plato’s Republic.
I strongly encourage every serious readers to search out these books. Eternal City is not as well known (published first in 1898) as most classics, but I am convinced that its message will stand the test of time.
Three Kingdoms is one of the four pillars of Chinese literature, the other three being:
Outlaws of the Marsh (aka The Water Margin)
Dream of the Red Chamber
Journey to the West
Comment by christian g
#64 10. September 2009, 5:36 pm o'clock |
this is a response to Anan,
Anan the best books from human civilization does not come exclusively from Europe and North America, they come from all over the world such India, china, and lot of lost books i believe from Africa during the Egyptian and Moorish civilization were destroyed during wars of conquest, example the burning of the biggest library in the world at that time which was in Egypt
Comment by Jessica Lalan
#65 10. September 2009, 11:43 pm o'clock |
I love classics i have read a few of these but i think im going to have to try some more on this list. My favorites are little women and pride of prejudice
Comment by DaveGalt
#66 4. October 2009, 6:39 pm o'clock |
Readspeeder.com has a collection of over 100 classic novels which can be read for free. ReadSpeeder will keep your reading place for you between visits, so you can pick up where you left off by logging in on any other computer or even your iPhone. ReadSpeeder uses a new technology that divides the text into its ‘Natural’ phrases and presents these in sequence to improve your reading speed and comprehension. You can also add any other text you want and save it for later reading, or even share it with friends.
Comment by Jennifer
#67 12. October 2009, 4:05 pm o'clock |
I love these books historical but still intriguing! Awesome books!
Comment by Anon
#68 29. December 2009, 1:58 pm o'clock |
Quite a list! but perhaps what I find most telling is that no matter how precise a list of this sort can be it can never be perfect, Such unforgetables like Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel and even Shakespeare’s Macbeth are left out! Good list though
Comment by dognip
#69 1. January 2010, 8:35 pm o'clock |
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Comment by Lucky
#70 24. January 2010, 4:48 pm o'clock |
you can read those books sooner if
1. you listen to them in auiobook format
2. listen for pleasure, rather then number count
Enjoy.
End thanks for list and suggestions.
Comment by Montag
#71 2. February 2010, 8:55 am o'clock |
wow. Very nice.
I’ll start with them.
could u also suggest some eastern literature?
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#6 15. October 2007, 4:22 pm o'clock |
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#7 16. October 2007, 1:18 am o'clock |
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#8 16. October 2007, 2:20 am o'clock |
[...] 48 Classic Books to Boost Your Learning Experience | Life Optimizer Reading classic books can boost your learning experience. There are some reasons why classic books can do that: they have stood the test of time, they give you different “lenses” to look through, and they will most likely be relevant even to the far f (tags: download fiction free books magazine reference teachers publishing) Search [...]
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#10 16. October 2007, 6:23 am o'clock |
[...] Eu estava dando uma olhada no artigo 48 Clássicos Para Turbinar Sua Experiência de Aprendizado (em inglês) e descobri uma lista com os livros mais vendidos da história na Wikipedia. [...]
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#11 19. October 2007, 5:27 am o'clock |
[...] Exemplare aus der Literatur gefällig? 48 Literatur-Klassiker zum Herunterladen (englisch). [...]
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#12 19. October 2007, 6:40 am o'clock |
[...] As I have said before, I love to read. Nothing gets me more excited than a good book and a quiet place to read it. Here is a list of 48 classical books that I think everyone should read. Best of all, most of them have links to free downloads at Project Gutenberg. [...]
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#13 5. November 2007, 11:53 am o'clock |
[...] few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled 48 Classic Books to Boost Your Learning Experience. It lists 48 classic books which are mentioned by both How to Read a Book (by Mortimer J. Adler and [...]
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#14 7. November 2007, 7:42 pm o'clock |
[...] in Books, Daily life, Education at 5:35 pm by LeisureGuy From Life Optimizer, a short shelf of books that you should have read at least once. I think I would have gone with [...]
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#15 14. November 2007, 11:06 am o'clock |
[...] encontrei no blog Life Optimizer, uma lista que se baseia nas indicações de dois livros: How to read a book, de [...]
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#16 29. November 2007, 12:56 am o'clock |
[...] two quick links: 48 great books (plus links to download most of them) here. Also, Google’s browser sync extension for Firefox is a way to keep multiple computers [...]
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#17 21. February 2008, 5:03 am o'clock |
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#18 6. October 2008, 7:10 am o'clock |
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#19 26. October 2008, 2:51 pm o'clock |
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#22 6. March 2009, 9:58 am o'clock |
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#23 18. March 2009, 11:21 pm o'clock |
[...] searching on the web for Best Classic Books to Read, I stumbled into this amazing Life Optimizer website. At a first glance, I particularly found [...]
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#24 15. April 2009, 10:16 am o'clock |
[...] vezes me bate uma tristeza que não lerei todos os livros que queria ler nessa minha vida, porém,nesse site em inglês, descobri 48 bons livros clássicos para ser lidos em vários gêneros. Alguns até dei uma lidinha e conheço a história e do que se trata e realmente são muito bons! [...]