[close] Which Great Books have you read? This is the corner stop on the Goodreads trail to discuss the Great Books you have read and want to read. This is also the place to find links to Great Books lists. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for what constitutes a Great Book:

* The book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;

* The book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit;

* The book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries

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