100 Books to understand reality, Then & Now.
This is a list I am compiling for myself to read/re-read. 1-49 are pre-Constitution, 50 is the Constitution, and 51-100 are from the Constitution to today. I would love to hear what books you would add & subtract from this list.
Iliad, Odyssey - Homer
Histories - Herodotus
History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Medical Writings - Hippocrates
Dialogues - Plato
Aristotle - Works
The Old Testament with the 14 missing books
Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus - Epicurus
Elements - Euclid
Archimedes - Works
Conic Sections - Apollonius of Perga
On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
Virgil - Works
Horace - Works
History of Rome - Livy
Ovid - Works
Parallel Lives; Moralia - Plutarch
Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania - Tacitus
Introduction to Arithmetic - Nicomachus of Gerasa:
Discourses; Encheiridion - Epictetus
Almagest - Ptolemy
Lucian - Works
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Selected Works - Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Natural Faculties - Galen
The New Testament with missing books
The Enneads -Plotinus
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine - St. Augustine
Saved by the Light - Dannion Brinkley
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek
Utopia - Thomas More
Summa Theologica - St. Thomas Aquinas
The Divine Comedy; The New Life; On Monarchy - Dante Alighieri
Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci
The Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus
Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire
The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography - Edward Gibbon
Ethics - Benedict De Spinoza
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke
A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Declaration of Indipendance
The Constitution & Bill of Rights
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
Progressive Principles, Social and Political, Essays on Practical Politics - Teddy Roosevelt
How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry - John Dewey
Representative Men; Essays; Journal - Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Milton: Works
Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
1984; Animal Farm - George Orwell
Rules for Radicals -Saul Alinsky
Capital; Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The State and Revolution - Lenin
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The First Circle; The Cancer Ward; Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics - Albert Einstein
D-Day - Stephen E. Ambrose
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
A Conflict of Visions; Charter Schools and Their Enemies - Thomas Sowell
The combined works of Samuel S. Adams - Samuel S. Adams
The Carnivore Diet - Shawn Baker
Red Hot Lies - Christopher Horner
The Communist - Paul Kengor
Justice Corrupted; One Vote Away - Ted Cruz
Killing Patton - Bill O’Reilly
Man who killed Kennedy; Nixon’s Secrets - Roger Stone
Rigged - Mollie Hemingway
America: Imagine a World Withoug Her; 2000 mules - Dinesh D’Souza
911, The Big Lie - Thierry Meyssan
The Great Reset - Alex Jones
American Betrayal - Diana West
Righteous Indignation - Andrew Breitbart
Follow the money, Spygate - Dan Bongino
Lies my Doctor Told me - Dr. Ken Berry
Rise of the Fourth Reich - Steve Deace & Daniel Horowitz
The Poetry of Robert Frost - Edward Connery Lathem
Becoming Supernatural, You are thee Placebo, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself - Joe Dispenza
The Field - Lynne McTaggart
Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls - Michael Newton
DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Nicholas Sansbury Smith
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Energy Anatomy - Caroline Myss
Love Wins - Rob Bell
The Final Quest Trilogy - Rick Joyner
The Ancient Alien Question - Philip Coppens, Kevin Foley,
God-Man: The Word Made Flesh - George W. Carey
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss and Neil Howe
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill
How an economy grows and why it crashes - Peter Schiff
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
Economics In One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
End the Fed; The Revolution - Ron Paul
Bitcoin Standard, Fiat Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Poems
If
Half lovers and friends?
Road not traveled
Rage Rage
Man in the arena
Oh Captain! My Captain!
The Tyger - William Blake
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Desiderata
How did you die?
Dream within a dream
A Psalm of Life
The Man Who Can by Edgar A. Guest
The Will to Win
So live your life - Chief Tecumseh
Mortimer Adlers 100
The Nibelungenlied
Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Martin Luther: Table Talk; Three Treatises
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
Molière: Comedies
Blaise Pascal: The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light
Jean Baptiste Racine: Tragedies
Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology
Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver’s Travels; A Modest Proposal
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
William Wordsworth: Poems
Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism
Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories
Henrik Ibsen: Plays
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; 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
Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places
Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
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; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial