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SCPlato
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States249 Posts
February 06 2011 16:23 GMT
#1
Hello TL, I am an avid reader and was wondering about everyone's reading lists/recommended books to read. I am always looking for more stuff to dive into. Usually I like reading philosophy and non-fictional stuff, but I enjoy everything. Looking for suggestions for my reading list. Below is a majority of my reading list with checks by ones I have read. Let me know if there is some good stuff out there that I should get my hands on.

These are in no particular order, I just sat down for 20 minutes one day and made this list. If I had to pick favorites, Classical philosophy would be at the top followed by everything else. lol


Everything by Leo Strauss
Waiting for Godot by Beckett [x]
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay [x]
1984 by Orwell [x]
Brave New World by Huxley [x]
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
The Complete Works of Albert Camus
The Koran [x]
The Trial by Kafka [x]
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky [x]
The Brothers Kazmarov by Dostoyevsky [x]
Blindness by Saramago
The Bible [x]
Summa Theological by Thomas Aquinas [x]
Hamlet by Shakespeare [x]
A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare [x]
Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne [x]
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
The Art of War by Frederick the Great [x]
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli [x]
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli [x]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon [x]
Anabasis by Xenophon
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers by Psellus
The Secret History by Procopius
The Wars. by Procopius
The Histories by Polybius [x]
The Iliad by Homer [x]
The Odyssey by Homer [x]
The Lives by Plutarch [x]
The History of Alexander by Curtius Rufus
The Campaigns of Alexander. Arrian
Gallic Wars by Caesar
The Civil Wars by Caesar
The Jewish War by Josephus
The Annals by Tacitus
The Histories by Tacitus
Agricola, Germania, Dialogus by Tactius
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
Life of Antony by Athanasius
Life of Paul of Thebes by Jerome
Life of Hilarion by Jerome
Life of Malchus by Jerome
Life of Martin of Tours by Sulpicius Severus
Life of Benedict by Gregory the Great
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Ed N.K. Sandars
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides [x]
The Histories by Herodotus [x]
Digenis Akritas: The Two-Blood Border Lord. Trans. Denison B. Hull
The Complete Poems by Catullus
A New Aristotle Reader by Ed J.L. Ackrill
The Satires by Juvenal
From the Founding of the City by Livy
The Republic by Plato [x] [x] [x]
Sources for the Study of Greek Religion by Rice & Stambaugh
Roman Religion by Warrior
Pompeii: A Sourcebook by Cooley & Cooley
The Hellenistic Period by Bagnall & Derow
From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsu by Harding
Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War by Fornara
Archaic and Classical Greece by Crawford & Whitehead
The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron
Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra by Chauveau
Hannibal by Dodge [x]
The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox
Cleopatra by Michael Grant [x]
Alexander to Actium by Peter Green.
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization by Victor Davis Hanson
A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson
The Western Way of War by Victory Davis Hanson
Cleopatra by Jones
The Oxford History of Byzantium by Ed Mango
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, & Scorpion Bombs by Mayor
Ancient Rome by Payne
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria by Pollard & Reid
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan & Roberts
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture From Ancient Greece to Modern America by Lynn
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Carnage and Culture by Victory Davis Hanson
The Templars by Piers Paul Read
Saladin: All-Powerful Sultan and the Unifier of Islam by Lane-Poole
The Medieval Machine by Gimpel.
Servants of Satan by Klaits
1215 The Year of the Magna Carta by Danziger & Gillingham
Broken Spears by Ed Leon-Portilla
Beowulf
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Nibelungenlied
The Battle of Magh Rath
The Song of Roland
The Song of My Cid
Medieval Combat. Talhoffer
The Divine Comedy. Dante [x]
Conflict After the Cold War. Betts.
The Gnostic Gospels. Pagels
Documents for the Study of the Gospels. Dungan
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Bart Ehrman
Medieval Handbooks of Penance. McNeill & Gamer
Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East. Matthews & Benjamin
Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets. Sawyer
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
and The Theory of Everything by Stepen Hawkings
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card [x]
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Perkins)
100 Years of Solitude (Márquez)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
Candide (Voltaire) [x]
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand [x]
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
"Violence" by James Gilligan
The Running Man by Stephen King
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Euthyphro [x]
Apology [x]
Crito [x]
Phædo, [x]
Euthydemus [x]
The Republic [x]
Nicomachean Ethics [x]
Politics [x]
The Athenian Constitution [x]
two treatises of Government
On Poetics [x]
The Meditations, [x]
The City of God [x]
Antigone [x]
History of the Peloponnesian War [x]
Battle of the Books [x]
A Modest Proposal [x]
Leviathan, or, Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil Concerning Civil Government [x]
Second Essay An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [x]
Manifesto of the Communist Party [x]
The Great Gatsby [x]
The Catcher in the Rye [x]
The Wealth of Nations [x]
The Grapes of Wrath
Call of the Wild [x]
Lord of the Flies [x]
Guns Germs and Steel [x]



All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -Plato
iGrok
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5142 Posts
February 06 2011 16:44 GMT
#2
Hmm, very nice list. If you don't mind I'll suggest a few of my favorites (those that aren't in this list)

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein - You'll really like this.
The History of Love - Very emotional, well-written novel.
Revelation Space (trilogy)- Alistair Reynolds - if you're into scifi, this is "hard" scifi at its finest.
Dune - Frank Herbert. 'Nuff said
Othello - William Shakespeare
Any short stories by Flannery O'Connor
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein - Don't let the movie fool you, this is a really good book.
If you can stomach it, Paradise Lost. Religious Epic Poem
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SCPlato
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States249 Posts
February 06 2011 16:48 GMT
#3
Thank you for the good suggestions, I will add them to my list!

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -Plato
tryummm
Profile Joined August 2009
774 Posts
February 06 2011 17:05 GMT
#4
1984 is a great book, and everybody should read it and see how its being implemented today.
LasTLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States428 Posts
February 06 2011 17:38 GMT
#5
There was a thread not too long ago with lists 'of books everyone should read.' If you've got extra time, you could probably comb through and maybe find some stuff that would interest you. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=185607

For my personal recommendations:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Saw you had some other books by Rand on your list. I've read Anthem and it was good, so if you like that you might like this.)
Poetic Edda and Prose Edda (They're two books that are all the Norse Mythology stories. They're good reads if you're interested in the subject.)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (When you read it, you have to know that it was written as a sort of joke to make fun of all the books being written at the time about knights and chivalry.)
Also, just in general, the works of Mark Twain and H.P. Lovecraft. Both great writers.

Hope I helped some.
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Karliath
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2214 Posts
February 06 2011 18:04 GMT
#6
Looking at your list, I think you would definitely enjoy Letters from a Stoic - Seneca.

"A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism, as expressed in the Letters, helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity, for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living, as well as expressing disgust for the harsh treatment of slaves and the inhumane slaughters witnessed in the Roman arenas. Seneca's major contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into a powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind."

http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Penguin-Classics-Lucius-Annaeus/dp/0140442103/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297015402&sr=1-1
tube
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1475 Posts
February 06 2011 18:32 GMT
#7
demian by herman hesse
I'm not even a reader and I loved this philosophical-ish book
Two in harmony surpasses one in perfection.
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