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The Complete List: The Well-Educated Mind:
✓The Epic of Gilgamesh (2000 B.C., Poetry)
✓The Iliad by Homer (800 B.C., Poetry)
✓The Odyssey by Homer (800 B.C., Poetry)
✓Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore (600 B.C., Poetry)
✓The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon/The Libation-Bearers/The Furies by Aeschylus (458 B.C., Plays)
✓The Complete Plays by Sophocles (450 B.C., Plays)
✓The Histories: The Landmark Herodotus by Herodotus (441 B.C., History)
✓Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis/Medea/The Bacchae by Euripides (431 B.C., Plays)
✓The Birds by Aristophanes (400 B.C., Plays)
✓On Airs, Waters and Places by Hippocrates (400 B.C., Science)
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (400 B.C., History)
✓The Republic by Plato (375 B.C., History)
✓Physics by Aristotle (330 B.C., Science) - DNF
✓Poetics by Aristotle (330 B.C., Plays)
✓On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius (95 - 55 B.C., Science)
✓The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace (65-8 B.C., Poetry)
✓Lives, Vol 1 by Plutarch (125, History)
✓Confessions by Augustine (400, Autobiography)
✓City of God by Augustine (426, History)
✓The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Chronicle/Letter to Egbert by Bede (731, History)
✓Beowulf (1000, Poetry)
✓Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1320, Poetry)
✓Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1350, Poetry)
✓The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1390, Poetry)
✓The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe (1430, Autobiography)
✓Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (1495, Plays)
✓The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1513, History)
✓Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1516, History)
✓Commentariolus by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543, Science)
✓Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1564-1616, Poetry)
✓The Complete English Poems by John Donne (1562-1631, Poetry)
✓Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1580, Autobiography)
✓The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself by Teresa of Avila (1588, Autobiography)
✓Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1588, Plays)
✓Richard III by William Shakespeare (1593, Plays)
✓A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1595, Plays)
✓Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600, Plays)
✓Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605/1615, Novel) - Completed 2/24/17
Novum Organum by Francis Bacon (1620, Science)
Meditations by René Descartes (1641, Autobiography)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo (1632, Science)
Micrographia by Robert Hooke (1665, Science)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan (1666, Autobiography)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667, Poetry)
Tartuffe by Moliere (1669, Plays)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1679, Novel)
The Narrative of Captivity and Restoration by Mary Rowlandson (1682, Autobiography)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Issac Newton (1687, Science)
The True End of Civil Government by John Locke (1690, History)
The Way of the World by William Congreve (1700, Plays)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726, Novel)
The Histroy of England, Volume V by David Hume (1754, History)
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762, History)
The Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (1773, Plays)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776, History)
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake (1757-1827, Poetry)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, Poetry)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776, History)
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777, Plays)
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1781, Autobiography)
Autobiography & Selected Writingsby Benjamin Franklin (1791, Autobiography)
Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792, History)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, Poetry)
John Keats (1795-1821, Poetry)
Preliminary Discourse by Georges Cuvier (1812, Science)
✓Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813, Novel) - Completed 7/22/18
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882, Poetry)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1883, Poetry)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, Poetry)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, Poetry)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894, Poetry)
Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell (1830, Science)
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville (1835-1840, History)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838, Novel)
Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889, Poetry)
✓Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847, Novel) - Completed 4/26/16
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848, History)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850, Novel)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851, Novel)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851, Novel)
Walden and Civil Disobedience: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854, Autobiography)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857, Novel)
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859, Science)
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt (1860, History)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs (1861, Autobiography)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Poetry)
Experiments in Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel (1865, Science)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866, Novel)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906, Poetry)
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged by Robert Frost (1874-1963, Poetry)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877, Novel)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878, Novel)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967, Poetry)
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen (1879, Plays)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1881, Autobiography)
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry Jame (1881, Novel)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963, Poetry)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884, Novel)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972, Poetry)
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965, Poetry)
The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde (1899, Plays)
Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895, Novel)
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1901, Autobiography)
Heart of Darkness by Jospeh Conrad (1902, Novel)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967, Poetry)
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Boise (1903, History)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Webber (1904, History)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1904, Plays)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905, Novel)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973, Poetry)
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche (1908, Autobiography)
The Origin of Continents and Oceans by Alfred Wegener (1915, Science)
The General Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein (1916, Science)
The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory by Max Planck (1920, Science)
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey (1921, History)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985, Poetry)
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (1924, Plays)
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1925, Autobiography)
The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925, Novel)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925, Novel)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925, Novel)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997, Poetry)
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi (1929, Autobiography)
Adrienne Rich (1929-, Poetry)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963, Poetry)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (1933, TWEM Autobiography)
Mark Strand (1934-, Poetry)
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (1935, Plays)
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937, History)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (1938, Plays)
The New England Mind by Perry Miller (1939, History)
Seamus Heaney (1939-, Poetry)
Native Son by Richard Wright (1940, Novel)
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill (1940, Plays)
Robert Pinsky (1940-, Poetry)
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis by Julian Huxley (1942, Science)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942, Novel)
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (1944, Science)
No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre (1944, Plays)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947, Plays)
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995, Poetry)
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton (1948, Autobiography)
✓1984 by George Orwell (1949, Novel) - Completed 1/13/15
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949, Plays)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952, Novel)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952, Plays)
Rita Dove (1952-, Poetry)
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1955, History)
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis (1955, Autobiography)
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (1956, Novel)
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan (1959, History)
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt (1960, Plays)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962, Science)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963, History)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Macolm X (1965, Autobiography)
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris (1967, Science)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1967, Plays)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967, Novel)
The Double Helix by James D. Watson (1968, Science)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (1972, Novel)
Journal of a Solitude by Mary Sarton (1973, Autobiography)
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973, Autobiography)
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese (1974, History)
Equus by Peter Shaffer (1974, Plays)
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976, Science)
Born Again by Charles W. Colson (1977, Autobiography)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977, Novel)
The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (1977, Science)
On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1978, Science)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman (1978, History)
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock (1979, Science)
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (1981, Science)
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez (1982, Autobiography)
White Noise by Don Delillo (1985, Novel)
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1987, History)
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (1987, Science)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988, Science)
Battle Cry of Freedon: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (1988, History)
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (1989, Autobiography)
The Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785 - 1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1990, History)
Possessoion by A.S. Byatt (1990, Novel)
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (1992, History)
All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel (1994, Autobiography)
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez (1997, Science)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006, Novel)
My 2020 Reading PlanMy hope for this year is to be balanced and well-rounded, and part of that is being realistic about how many books I should aim to read. Per usual, I expect the majority of the books I read to be from TWEM list. However, I’d also like to round out my list with some more recent and different types of books, focusing on getting through some that I already own.
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I'm almost on part 2 of Don Quixote and I'm really enjoying it. I decided to watch the videos of the Yale course (http://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portu...) along with it. It's definitely adding some good commentary about how the book is parodying chivalric romances and how readers at the time would have understood some of the humor. But, be warned, the professor does spoil the ending in the first video.
Cleo wrote: "Welcome, Kendra! I'm beginning a Don Quixote buddy read on Nov 15th. It will be my second time reading it and I'm looking forward to forming some new impressions. Are you enjoying it?"I am, but I'm reading it on my kindle so I didn't realize just how long it was! I'm hoping I'll finish it by the end of the year. But I find it really funny and interesting. I've enjoyed it more as I've gone along - there's actually quite a bit of depth and complexity in it.
Overview of My Reading ProjectsThe Well Educated Mind List
I am reading through the lists chronologically, but I may skip around just a bit if I need a change of pace/genre.
The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
An 11-volume history of civilization up to the French Revolution. I am taking this series slowly and using it to give a historical context to the books I am reading.
U.S. History
I'd like to read a biography of each president and other influential Americans. I'd also like to read important documents and about other historical events.
Around the World in Books
I intend to read at least one novel from each country in the world. I prefer an author who was born and raised in that country and where the novel is set in their home country. I'm flexible with the classification for more obscure countries.
Miscellaneous
These are a collection of "great books" or classics that don't fit in to any of the categories above, but which I deem worthy of recording.
Here's to a lifetime of reading!
Hello! I'm Kendra and I joined this group a little while ago but haven't gotten around to really participating yet, so now I'm changing that. I graduated with my bachelors about a year ago and a thought I had as I finished was, "Now I can learn about whatever I want!" I started doing some research on self-education and stumbled on TWEM. I'm not sticking to this list solely - I'm also on a mission to read the entire Durant series "The Story of Civilization" which totals over 12,000 pages, as well as a few other topics that pique my interest - but it's a primary focus. I just started Don Quixote and am about a quarter of the way through. I also bought many of the books at a giant used book sale so I'm prepared! I can't wait to get started with all of you!
