Might have to create a Great Book list as well as a Great Western Book and classical education The Great Books where books of Literature, histories or philosophy
- The Harvard Classics
- Gateway to the great books
- The Great Books of Western World
Top five/six
- Ilad Odessey by homer
- enead by Virgil
- Divine Comedy by Dante
- Bible
- Plays of Shakespeare
Annual : Meditations , by Marcus aurelius Thinking fast and slow, by Daniel Kanaman Influence , by Robert D. Cialdini Antifragile , by Nassim Nicholas Teleb The Almanack of Naval Ravikant , by Naval Ravikant The One thing, by Gary Keller The most important thing, By Howard marks Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Teleb The Great Mental Models, by Farnam street The Power of Now, by Echard Tolle Show your work , by Austin Kleon Man’s search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl
Stoic list: Meditations, Marcus Aurelius - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… Discourses, Epictetus - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… Letters From A Stoic, Seneca - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… That One Should Disdain Hardships, Musonius Rufus - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… The Enchiridion, Epictetus - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… Courage Under Fire, James Stockdale - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… The Inner Citadel, Pierre Hadot - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… How To Think Like A Roman Emperor, Donald Robertson - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… Lives Of The Stoics, Ryan Holiday - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ… The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday - https://www.thepaintedporch.com/produ…
- 50 Gullivers Travels 1:49
- 49 The Colour Purple 2:42
- 48 The Red and the Black 3:42
- 47 The Sun Also Rises 4:35
- 46 A Passage to India 5:43
- 45 Absalom Absalom 6:57
- 44 David Copperfield 8:20
- 43 Gone With the Wind 9:22
- 42 On the Road 10:18
- 41 Frankenstein 11:35
- 40 Mrs Dalloway 13:21
- 39 The Master and Margarita 15:04
- 38 The Trial 16:47
- 37 The Magic Mountain 18:30
- 36 The Iliad 20:19
- 35 Invisible Man 21:21
- 34 Jane Eyre 22:38
- 33 Midnight’s Children 24:01
- 32 To the Lighthouse 25:26
- 31 Great Expectations 26:47
- 30 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 28:27
- 29 The Stranger 29:52
- 28 Beloved 31:18
- 27 The Lord of the Rings 32:35
- 26 The Divine Comedy 33:53
- 25 Middlemarch 35:30
- 24 The Bible 37:32
- 23 The Brothers Karamazov 38:32
- 22 Odyssey 39:29
- 21 Heart of Darkness 40:49
- 20 The Sound and the Fury 42:30
- 19 Madame Bovary 43:22
- 18 Catch-22 44:38
- 17 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 45:58
- 16 The Grapes of Wrath 47:13
- 15 War and Peace 48:14
- 14 Wuthering Heights 49:21
- 13 To Kill a Mockingbird 50:35
- 12 Anna Karenina 51:35
- 11 Moby Dick 52:51
- 10 Crime and Punishment 54:29
- 9 Don Quixote 55:42
- 8 Pride and Prejudice 56:58
- 7 Lolita
- 6 1984
- 5 The Cather in the Rye 1:00:33
- 4 In Search of Lost Time 1:02:09
- 3 The Great Gatsby
- 2 Ulysees
- 1 One Hundred Years of Solitude
Books that changed the world https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jd-uSs009Ok&si=5TMbEeMBEG7KGs_d
Great books prof Book recommendation https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsrUuITxFGJ3hjNtlKOxWWZXA1vkP2qLG&si=2wSgP48Rk6dzf0-S
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cQ5GatTJmy0&si=7kb3FXiP4C9FI2pC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Books_of_the_East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_to_the_Great_Books
How to Read a Book https://web.archive.org/web/20220508140428/http://www.cyberspacei.com/greatbooks/h2/how2read/h2r_016.htm
https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabritannicagreatbooksofthewesternworld
A plan for graded reading for the Gateway to the Great Books
Baquet’s Guide to the World’s Classics: A Plan of Graded Reading (PGR)
10 year reading plan - The 10 Year Reading Plan for the Great Books of the Western World - ThinkingWest
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html https://www.alexanderarguelles.com/great-books/
http://www.theworldsclassics.org/p/lists.html
https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120611_4 http://gutenberg.net.au/greatest-books-a.html
reading guides
https://westerntradition.wordpress.com/great-books-project/great-books-project-post-index/
https://blog.oup.com/2013/06/eastern-reading-list-oxford-worlds-classics/