My list of the 25 most influential works that have shaped Western thought down through our day.
Almost every one has read them. Should be on people's bucket list, since you can't read everything in the world in a single lifetime.
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To: goldstategop
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
2 posted on
02/13/2017 11:12:01 PM PST by
Vendome
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To: goldstategop
Very good list. But no
The Brothers Karamazov? It's much better than
War and Peace.
And no Shakespeare, no Hamlet? I would not put Joyce, Proust, or Tolkien on this list.
To: goldstategop
Oops, I see you put a “Complete Works of Shakespeare.” Kind of a cheat, since it’s not one work. And we can’t even agree on what plays that would include.
To: goldstategop
The original Archie comics
Bubble gum wrappers
Playboy
the Hardy Boys
Anything by Louis L’Amour
National Geographic with pictures of tribes women
Weekly Reader
Kon Tiki
Lightfoot the deer
Robin hood
My little Pony
6 posted on
02/13/2017 11:18:11 PM PST by
Vendome
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To: goldstategop
that’s an excellent list! a couple missing for me: Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis... Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville... i am fortunate to have been able to cover much of this list with my sons as we homeschooled...
10 posted on
02/13/2017 11:23:39 PM PST by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: goldstategop
It’s incomplete without anything from Maya Angelou or Toni Morrison - or so I’ve been lead to believe.
11 posted on
02/13/2017 11:25:20 PM PST by
Sgt_Schultze
(If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
To: goldstategop
That’s a great start.
Gotta add Beowulf.
13 posted on
02/13/2017 11:27:41 PM PST by
pax_et_bonum
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To: goldstategop
The Prince by Machiavelli.
16 posted on
02/13/2017 11:31:25 PM PST by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: goldstategop
Good list. Most influential on English/American thought would need to include Pilgim’s Progress.
To: goldstategop
Atlas Shrugged.
The Road to Serfdom.
Animal Farm.
1984.
The collected works of Milton Friedman.
21 posted on
02/13/2017 11:34:52 PM PST by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: goldstategop
Surprised this didn't make the list :o). In all seriousness, good list.
To: goldstategop
My list of the 25 most influential works... Almost every one has read them.
What world do you live in? /* snicker */
27 posted on
02/13/2017 11:43:00 PM PST by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: goldstategop
The Bible is always a #1 in books. Why not here?
28 posted on
02/13/2017 11:45:19 PM PST by
taxesareforever
(Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
To: goldstategop
Almost every one has read them. I read the Cliff notes.
29 posted on
02/13/2017 11:47:56 PM PST by
P-Marlowe
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To: goldstategop
Tom Wolfe on the honorable mention list please. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers to Kingdom of Speech.
35 posted on
02/13/2017 11:57:44 PM PST by
wpjmd
(lex credendi lex orandi lex vivendi)
To: goldstategop
Apollonius to Eudemus greeting.
If you are in good health and matters are in other respects as you wish, it is well; I am pretty well too. - Greek Mathematical Works II, Loeb Classical Library
Time out of time. Yes that is THE Apollonius, and YOU ARE THERE!
36 posted on
02/14/2017 12:24:08 AM PST by
dr_lew
(I)
To: goldstategop
Western thought, OK. World Lit, it needs the Mahabharata, Tale of Genji, the Tao Te Ching, and the Analects of Confucius.
37 posted on
02/14/2017 12:24:28 AM PST by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: goldstategop
Number should be number one.
Sadly most people have not read many of the books on your list
39 posted on
02/14/2017 12:30:40 AM PST by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: goldstategop
Instead of Proust or Marx you should have included The Pilgrim’s Progress
And if you haven’t read it you should. I agree with another poster CS Lewis...any and all
41 posted on
02/14/2017 12:33:54 AM PST by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: goldstategop
Great list! You might have excluded non-fiction, but ok. And since “everyone has an opinion”...
- Faust by Goethe
- Rules for Radicals by Alinsky (sigh)
- Principia by Newton
- Two Treatises of Civil Government by Locke
- Atlas Shrugged by Rand
- Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
- 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez [Latin American representation]
- Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
- Civization and its Discontents by Freud (sigh)
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