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 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
de Anonymous
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Simplicissimus
de Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1,205 membros
17 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 163
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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
de Rudolf Erich Raspe
1,162 membros
16 resenhas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 123
10 Members
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Apicius, a Critical Edition With an Introduction And English Translation
de Christopher Grocock
43 membros
5
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Arthurian Romances
de Chrétien de Troyes
2,201 membros
14 resenhas
3.8
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15 Members
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Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
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111 resenhas
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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 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
de James Boswell
506 membros
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Brief Lives
de John Aubrey
693 membros
8 resenhas
4.1
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Castle Rackrent
de Maria Edgeworth
857 membros
23 resenhas
3.1
Global Rank 238
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A Christmas Carol
de Charles Dickens
24,626 membros
523 resenhas
4.1
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aulsmith : Published 1843
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
de Edward Gibbon
3,223 membros
41 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 36
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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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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
de Samuel Richardson
1,502 membros
29 resenhas
½ 3.5
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The Complete English Poems
de John Donne
1,737 membros
9 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 85
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aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.
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The Consolation of Philosophy
de Boethius
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45 resenhas
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The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Penguin Classics)
de Géza Vermes
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Description of the northern peoples
de Olaus Magnus
69 membros
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Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
de Jakob Walter
494 membros
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
de Samuel Pepys
529 membros
6 resenhas
4.1
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
de Bede
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22 resenhas
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King John
de William Shakespeare
1,391 membros
28 resenhas
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Global Rank 270
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Richard II
de William Shakespeare
4,157 membros
54 resenhas
3.8
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Henry IV, Part 1
de William Shakespeare
5,040 membros
39 resenhas
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Henry IV, Part 2
de William Shakespeare
2,547 membros
28 resenhas
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Henry V
de William Shakespeare
6,018 membros
53 resenhas
4
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Egil's Saga
de Snorri Sturluson
1,072 membros
10 resenhas
4
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Electra [3 plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides]
de Sophocles
689 membros
10 resenhas
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Lyrical Ballads
de William Wordsworth
1,135 membros
9 resenhas
4
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Organon
de Aristotle
149 membros
10 resenhas
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Letters from an American Farmer
de J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
451 membros
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Journals of the Western Islands
de Samuel Johnson
820 membros
10 resenhas
4.1
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, 1953}
de Meriwether Lewis
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8 resenhas
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The History of the Kings of Britain
de Geoffrey of Monmouth
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21 resenhas
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A History of the Franks
de Saint Gregory of Tours
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7 resenhas
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Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings
de Snorri Sturluson
813 membros
9 resenhas
4.1
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The Greek New Testament
de Eberhard Nestle
6,305 membros
21 resenhas
½ 4.5
Global Rank 264
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The Greek Myths: Complete Edition
de Robert Graves
4,309 membros
36 resenhas
4
Global Rank 397
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The Faerie Queene
de Edmund Spenser
2,551 membros
24 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 141
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
de Jan Potocki
1,574 membros
32 resenhas
4.1
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The Memoirs of Madame Roland: A Heroine of the French Revolution
de Madame Roland
40 membros
3.2
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Le Morte d'Arthur
de Thomas Malory
7,084 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 Mysteries of Udolpho
de Ann Radcliffe
2,916 membros
62 resenhas
½ 3.4
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Oedipus at Colonus
de Sophocles
545 membros
17 resenhas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 186
6 Members
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On the Good Life
de Marcus Tullius Cicero
918 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 209
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Cicero: On the Commonwealth
de Marcus Tullius Cicero
372 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 142
10 Members
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
de Nicolaus Copernicus
445 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 108
16 Members
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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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Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
de Samuel Richardson
2,554 membros
43 resenhas
2.9
Global Rank 159
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
de Edmund Burke
1,054 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 213
5 Members
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Physics
de Aristotle
797 membros
9 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 291
3 Members
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Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore
de Michael J. Curley
48 membros
4
Global Rank 242
4 Members
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Piers Plowman
de William Langland
1,748 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 148
11 Members
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Principia Mathematica
de Isaac Newton
1,302 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 185
9 Members
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Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
de Daniel Defoe
736 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 90
24 Members
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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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The Winter's Tale
de William Shakespeare
4,755 membros
59 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 210
5 Members
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Travels
de David Black
44 membros
Global Rank 243
4 Members
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
de Laurence Sterne
1,729 membros
24 resenhas
3.2
Global Rank 152
8 Members
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90
The Scottish Chiefs
de Jane Porter
789 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 296
2 Members
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