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 Conference of the Birds
de Farid Ud-Din Attar
1,331 membros
13 resenhas
4
Global Rank 254
3 Members
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19
Theogony / Works and Days
de Hesiod
2,039 membros
16 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 112
13 Members
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The Poetic Edda
de Anonymous
2,681 membros
26 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 95
18 Members
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43
Le Morte d'Arthur
de Thomas Malory
7,093 membros
52 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 63
30 Members
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Explicações
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.
45
The Sonnets
de William Shakespeare
8,633 membros
68 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 37
41 Members
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Explicações
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
3,227 membros
41 resenhas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 36
39 Members
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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...
50
The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
221 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.5
Global Rank 27
54 Members
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Explicações
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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Doctor Faustus
de Christopher Marlowe
5,069 membros
72 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 70
26 Members
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Explicações
karenb: Original version please! (No, really, the right one this time ;)
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The Argonautica
de Apollonius of Rhodes
2,112 membros
21 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 117
15 Members
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62
The Clouds
de Aristophanes
813 membros
16 resenhas
½ 3.3
Global Rank 114
14 Members
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Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
7,326 membros
111 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 43
38 Members
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Explicações
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.
70
The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin Pʻing Mei
de Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
285 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 188
5 Members
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75
The Poems of Francois Villon
de François Villon
1,054 membros
7 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 104
16 Members
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77
The Campaigns of Alexander
de Arrian
1,422 membros
12 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 94
22 Members
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Explicações
: more glorification of war? nah
78
On the Nature of Things
de Titus Lucretius Carus
5,263 membros
46 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 155
9 Members
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79
Epodes and Odes
de Horace
969 membros
8 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 224
5 Members
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80
Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz
de Hafiz
65 membros
4
Global Rank 281
3 Members
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82
Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino
de Clement Salaman
89 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.5
Global Rank 327
2 Members
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83
The Consolation of Philosophy
de Boethius
5,156 membros
45 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 119
13 Members
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85
Tamburlaine
de Christopher Marlowe
368 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 183
7 Members
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87
Revelations of Divine Love
de Julian of Norwich
2,308 membros
12 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 228
7 Members
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88
The Upanishads
de Anonymous
3,427 membros
20 resenhas
4
Global Rank 102
17 Members
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89
Phaedo
de Plato
1,645 membros
18 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 91
18 Members
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90
The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
de Arthur Waley
257 membros
3.8
Global Rank 178
6 Members
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94
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
de Ibn Battuta
336 membros
5 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 107
13 Members
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96
De Architectura
de Vitruvius Pollio
1,224 membros
8 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 265
5 Members
henkl, janimar, southernbooklady, cemanuel, PyrrhicVctry,
97
Canzoniere
de Francesco Petrarca
788 membros
10 resenhas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 192
6 Members
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98
Reflections on the Revolution in France
de Edmund Burke
2,840 membros
26 resenhas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 103
16 Members
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Explicações
Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que Burke a une vision lucide sur ce que va devenir la Révolution Française, en particulier dans ses dérives.
malmorrow: This is an English polemic of the Enlightenment. 'Reflections' is unsurpassed in this, and equalled only by pamphlets by Paine and Wollstonecraft. Burke set an extremely high standard for sustained rhetoric, providing a foundation for the classic speeches and political writing of the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
100
Cicero: On the Commonwealth
de Marcus Tullius Cicero
373 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 142
10 Members
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