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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The Sonnets
de William Shakespeare
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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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Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
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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 Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
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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?
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Le Morte d'Arthur
de Thomas Malory
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52 resenhas
3.9
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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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A arte da guerra
de Sun Tzu
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252 resenhas
3.8
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: We need a little LESS war, please! Even though it's not old enough for this list, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENCE by Gene Sharp should be on everyone's must-read list.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
de Edward Gibbon
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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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Njal's Saga
de Anonymous
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22 resenhas
3.9
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The Poetic Edda
de Anonymous
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26 resenhas
4.1
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Doctor Faustus
de Christopher Marlowe
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72 resenhas
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karenb: Original version please! (No, really, the right one this time ;)
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The Clouds
de Aristophanes
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Theogony / Works and Days
de Hesiod
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The Poems of Francois Villon
de François Villon
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The Upanishads
de Anonymous
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20 resenhas
4
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The Campaigns of Alexander
de Arrian
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12 resenhas
3.9
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22 Members
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: more glorification of war? nah
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The Argonautica
de Apollonius of Rhodes
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Ars amatoria [in translation]
de Ovid
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
de Nicolaus Copernicus
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lorax : I really don't think everyone needs to read a book that's been called "the book nobody read" (see http://www.librarything.com/work/16335 ). I have a PhD in astronomy and even I never read this; it's important to know about it, and why it was important, but actually reading it? Reading the old, old primary sources isn't important in science the way it is in history.
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The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
de Arthur Waley
256 membros
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
de Sei Shonagon
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4.1
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Natural History: A Selection
de Pliny the Elder
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Bacchae [Greek text]
de Euripides
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