100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)

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Amazon just released their "100 books to read in a lifetime." The oldest of which was published in 1813. That's a crying shame. Let's compile and vote on a list of the rest.
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Meditations on First Philosophy
de René Descartes
3,893 membros
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Le Morte d'Arthur
de Thomas Malory
7,089 membros
52 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 63
30 Members
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karenb : Taking Chretien de Troyes instead.
camainc : A better choice would be Idylls of the King by Tennyson.
: boring and more white dudes
Betelgeuse: Idylls of the King is too recent: published between 1859-1885.
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The Sonnets
de William Shakespeare
8,620 membros
67 resenhas
½ 4.3
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aulsmith : I just read through them all and a lot of them are boring, repetitive and some of them are clearly drafts. Go with the ones that are anthologized.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
de Edward Gibbon
3,225 membros
41 resenhas
½ 4.3
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Explicações
camainc : One only needs to read Augustine's City of God to know that Gibbon was so very wrong about the reasons for Rome's "decline and fall."
Turambar: Whether Gibbon was wrong or not is irrelevant to whether The Decline and Fall ought to be read. We don't read Herodotus because he was right. We read him because he helped shape how a civilization thought, as did Gibbon in his own, later way.
JacobKirckman: Gibbon's not 'on my list', as I have it (just not catalogued on LT yet)! Commenting purely to counter Camainc's claim that Gibbon was wrong. I'd take an historian (even an 18th century one) over a Bible-Basher any day...
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Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
7,320 membros
111 resenhas
3.8
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aulsmith: Silverbooks is correct, but I found it engaging. Of course, I was only 12 and never reread it, so I'm not sure how it would come off now.
: mostly propaganda
Turambar: True, Franklin does a good deal of propagandizing, but the book is a sparkling example of Enlightenment Plain Style as well as being one of our earliest examples of American Exceptionalism and a sort of Pragmatism. It doesn't matter if you agree with his views or not; it's undeniably significant.
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The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin Pʻing Mei
de Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
285 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.7
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The Campaigns of Alexander
de Arrian
1,422 membros
12 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 94
22 Members
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: more glorification of war? nah
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On the Nature of Things
de Titus Lucretius Carus
5,259 membros
46 resenhas
3.8
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Phaedo
de Plato
1,643 membros
18 resenhas
3.9
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The Upanishads
de Anonymous
3,425 membros
20 resenhas
4
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Tamburlaine
de Christopher Marlowe
368 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
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Cicero: On the Commonwealth
de Marcus Tullius Cicero
372 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
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The Koran (Dawood, 1956)
de al-Qur'an
3,008 membros
15 resenhas
3.1
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
de Samuel Pepys
529 membros
6 resenhas
4.1
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
de Eusebius
4,196 membros
27 resenhas
½ 3.7
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Tom Jones (1/2)
de Henry Fielding
147 membros
4
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
de Raymond O. Faulkner
1,038 membros
10 resenhas
4.1
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Metaphysics
de Aristotle
2,160 membros
25 resenhas
4
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A History of the Franks
de Saint Gregory of Tours
1,072 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
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The Poem of the Cid
de Anonymous
2,440 membros
38 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 167
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The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
de Flavius Josephus
2,121 membros
27 resenhas
3.9
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Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
de Michael Psellus
527 membros
6 resenhas
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Piers Plowman
de William Langland
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10 resenhas
½ 3.6
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Critique of Pure Reason
de Immanuel Kant
6,563 membros
44 resenhas
3.9
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
de Bede
3,449 membros
22 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 156
10 Members
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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
de Samuel Richardson
1,502 membros
29 resenhas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 154
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Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
de Daniel Defoe
737 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.6
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aulsmith : Awful. Instead of an adventure story, I got a White Man triumphs over nature with a sermon.
Betelgeuse: Wonderful. A gripping adventure and morality tale. More than a shipwreck story, it is also about repentance and humility. Defoe's novel has several Biblical parallels, including Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, the parable of Jonah, and the sufferings of Job. Lessons can be learned from this book, if one overlooks Crusoe's anachronistic imperialism. But Robinson Crusoe is not a dour sermon. It is surprisingly fast-paced, and the first-person narrative gives it even more immediacy. Everyone knows the basics of the plot: the shocking discovery of the footprint, the appearance of Friday, the threat of cannibals, Crusoe's mastery of the island and its elements. There are also lesser known action sequences, such as the exciting wolfpack scene near the end of the book. A great early novel.
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FANNY HILL OU MEMÓRIAS DE UMA MULHER DE PRAZER
de John Cleland
3,323 membros
58 resenhas
3.2
Global Rank 146
10 Members
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, 1953}
de Meriwether Lewis
1,196 membros
8 resenhas
4
Global Rank 139
11 Members
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
de Patrick Henry
28 membros
½ 3.5
Global Rank 153
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Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English
de John Bunyan
941 membros
4 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 409
8 Members
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aulsmith : There are four editions of this work on this list. One is more than enough.
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A Pilgrim's Journey: The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola
de Ignatius of Loyola
591 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 200
5 Members
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Idylls
de Theocritus
368 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 287
3 Members
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The History of the Kings of Britain
de Geoffrey of Monmouth
2,668 membros
21 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 193
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History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen
de Adam of Bremen
98 membros
1 resenha
3.8
Global Rank 293
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The Dark Night of the Soul
de St. John of the Cross
2,551 membros
14 resenhas
4
Global Rank 181
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Veilleur_de_nuit: Des poèmes flamboyants et enflammés par le plus bref poète de la langue espagnole.
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A Treatise of Human Nature
de David Hume
2,855 membros
15 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 162
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Principia Mathematica
de Isaac Newton
1,302 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 185
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The Conquest of Constantinople
de Robert de Clari
84 membros
3.2
Global Rank 300
3 Members
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Captain Cook's Voyages
de James Cook
326 membros
2 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 306
4 Members
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The Faerie Queene
de Edmund Spenser
2,550 membros
24 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 141
13 Members
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Tales from the Decameron
de Giovanni Boccaccio
351 membros
2 resenhas
4
Global Rank 195
9 Members
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cemanuel : Not knocking the choice but there's another version of this on the first page of the rankings. I'd suggest switching your vote to that one so one edition gets all the votes. I did the same thing myself.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
de Anonymous
65 membros
½ 4.7
Global Rank 157
8 Members
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The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
221 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.5
Global Rank 27
54 Members
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lorax : Thumbing down just to counteract psdavid's proselytizing. I think parts are worth reading for basic cultural literacy, but nobody likes being preached at in a forum like this.
aulsmith : Again, parts of it. But the whole thing? Knowing some of it was done from unreliable manuscripts? Nah.
psdavid: A book in two parts, the old testament which is the new testament hidden and the new testament which is the old testament revealed. Every one of the 66 books (39 Old testament and 27 new testament) interlinks and joins with every other, written in original languages by 40+ authors spanning 2,000 years and many cultures. A book that attracts lively debate as to authenticity and yet every day sees more of its writings and dates confirmed by archaeological finds.
: Why not read one of the better translations, if you're going to read the whole wretched Bible in the first place?