Nat's Great Books List

	A	B	C
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2	Book	Author	Year

3	Epic of Gilgamesh	Gilgamesh	-2100
4	The Rigveda		-1500
5	Genesis	Old Testament	-1400
6	Exodus	Old Testament	-1400
7	Iliad	Homer	-800
8	The Odyssey	Homer	-800
9	Works and Days	Hesiod	-700
10	Theogony	Hesiod	-700
11	Deuteronomy	Old Testament	-700
12	The Book of Job	Old Testament	-700
13	Tao Te Ching	Lao Tzu	-600
14	Analects 1-20	Confucius	-500
15	Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu	Mo Tzu	-500
16	Peloponnesian War	Thucydides	-500
17	Prometheus Bound	Asechylus	-479
18	Agamemnon	Asechylus	-458
19	Antigone	Sophocles	-441
20	Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	-429
21	Clouds	Aristophanes	-423
22	Lysistrata	Aristophanes	-411
23	Bacchae	Euripides	-405
24	Oedipus at Colonius	Sophocles	-401
25	Rhetoric	Aristotle	-400
26	Last Days of Socrates	Plato	-400
27	Bhagavadgītā	Mahābhārata	-400
28	Symposium	Plato	-385
29	Meno	Plato	-380
30	Gorgias	Plato	-380
31	Republic	Plato	-375
32	Parmenides	Plato	-370
33	Phaedrus	Plato	-370
34	Theaetetus	Plato	-369
35	Sophists	Plato	-360
36	Timaeus	Plato	-360
37	Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle	-350
38	Physics	Aristotle	-350
39	Eudemian Ethics	Aristotle	-350
40	Elements	Euclid	-300
41	The Book of Chuang Tzu	Chuang Tzu	-300
42	Conics	Apollonius	-240
43	Early Buddhist Discourses	John Holder	-100
44	On the Nature of Things	Lucretius	-50
45	Aeneid	Virgil	-29
46	Metamorpheses	Ovid	8
47	New Testament	New Testament	50
48	Letters from a Stoic	Seneca	65
49	Lycurgus	Plutarch	75
50	Solon	Plutarch	75
51	Caesar	Plutarch	75
52	Cato the Younger	Plutarch	75
53	Arithmetic	Nicomachus	100
54	The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti		100
55	Discourses	Epictetus	108
56	Annals	Tacitus	109
57	Enchiridion	Epictetus	125
58	Manual	Epictetus	125
59	Almagest	Ptolemy	150
60	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	167
61	Confessions	Augustine	398
62	On The Origin of the Young God	Kālidāsa	400
63	Beowulf		700
64	The Difference Between Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism	Kukai	800
65	Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence	Kukai	800
66	The Meanings of Sound, Word, and Reality	Kukai	800
67	The Pillow Book	Shonagon	1002
68	Proslogium	St. Anslem	1077
69	The Gītagovinda	Jayadeva	1200
70	Summa Contra Gentiles	Aquinas	1259
71	On Christian Doctrine	Aquinas	1260
72	The Tale of the Heike		1371
73	Canterbury Tales	Chaucer	1392
74	Inferno	Dante	1400
75	Paradiso	Dante	1400
76	Purgatorio	Dante	1472
77	Summa Theologica	Aquinas	1485
78	In Praise of Folly	Erasmus	1511
79	The Freedom of a Christian	Luther	1520
80	Preface to Romans	Luther	1522
81	Friendly Admonition to Peace Concerning the Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants	Luther	1522
82	Concerning Governmental Authority	Luther	1523
83	The Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants	Luther	1525
84	Discourses	Machiavelli	1531
85	The Prince	Machiavelli	1532
86	Gargantua and Pantagruel	Rabelais	1532
87	On the Revolution of the Spheres	Copernicus	1542
88	Missa Papae Marcelli	Palestrina	1567
89	Essays	Montaigne	1580
90	Introduction on the Analytical Art	Viete	1591
91	Richard II	Shakespeare	1597
92	Essays	Francis Bacon	1597
93	Civil and Moral	Francis Bacon	1597
94	The Merchant of Venice	Shakespeare	1600
95	Twelfth Night	Shakespeare	1602
96	Hamlet	Shakespeare	1603
97	Don Quixote	Cervantes	1605
98	Advancement of Learning	Bacon	1605
99	Antony and Cleopatra	Shakespeare	1607
100	King Lear	Shakespeare	1608