100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)

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Ilias

tekijä: Homer

39,861 jäsentä

386 arvostelua

4

Global Rank 1

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Selitykset: Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que ce long poème dit les horreurs de la guerre et les douceurs de l'amour, et parce qu'il a façonné l'imaginaire occidental.
Mapguy314: Means I have it in my library, not necessarily that I have read it, although I have read some of them

2

Odysseia

tekijä: Homer

52,953 jäsentä

472 arvostelua

4

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Selitykset: -pilgrim- : There is another version on page 1 of list

3

Valtio

tekijä: Plato

21,897 jäsentä

141 arvostelua

3.9

Global Rank 21

4

Kadotettu paratiisi

tekijä: John Milton

13,871 jäsentä

112 arvostelua

4

Global Rank 20

5

Historiateos

tekijä: Herodotus

10,067 jäsentä

85 arvostelua

4.1

Global Rank 25

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

tekijä: William Blake

4,041 jäsentä

38 arvostelua

4.2

Global Rank 35

7

Peloponnesolaissota

tekijä: Thucydides

7,868 jäsentä

59 arvostelua

4

Global Rank 30

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Selitykset: Mapguy314: I read this many years ago.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tekijä: Benjamin Franklin

7,315 jäsentä

111 arvostelua

3.8

Global Rank 43

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Selitykset: aulsmith: Silverbooks is correct, but I found it engaging. Of course, I was only 12 and never reread it, so I'm not sure how it would come off now.
: mostly propaganda
Turambar: True, Franklin does a good deal of propagandizing, but the book is a sparkling example of Enlightenment Plain Style as well as being one of our earliest examples of American Exceptionalism and a sort of Pragmatism. It doesn't matter if you agree with his views or not; it's undeniably significant.

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Venetsian kauppias

tekijä: William Shakespeare

11,385 jäsentä

112 arvostelua

3.8

Global Rank 33

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Decamerone

tekijä: Giovanni Boccaccio

9,976 jäsentä

120 arvostelua

4

Global Rank 41

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Sodankäynnin taito

tekijä: Sun Tzu

23,057 jäsentä

252 arvostelua

3.8

Global Rank 32

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Selitykset: : We need a little LESS war, please! Even though it's not old enough for this list, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENCE by Gene Sharp should be on everyone's must-read list.

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Tao te ching

tekijä: Lao Tzu

18,476 jäsentä

217 arvostelua

4.2

Global Rank 39

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Medeia

tekijä: Euripides

2,904 jäsentä

48 arvostelua

3.8

Global Rank 44

14

Pidot

tekijä: Plato

6,502 jäsentä

70 arvostelua

4

Global Rank 38

15

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

tekijä: Edward Gibbon

3,223 jäsentä

41 arvostelua

½ 4.3

Global Rank 36

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Selitykset: camainc : One only needs to read Augustine's City of God to know that Gibbon was so very wrong about the reasons for Rome's "decline and fall."
Turambar: Whether Gibbon was wrong or not is irrelevant to whether The Decline and Fall ought to be read. We don't read Herodotus because he was right. We read him because he helped shape how a civilization thought, as did Gibbon in his own, later way.
JacobKirckman: Gibbon's not 'on my list', as I have it (just not catalogued on LT yet)! Commenting purely to counter Camainc's claim that Gibbon was wrong. I'd take an historian (even an 18th century one) over a Bible-Basher any day...