[BufordP]

1. The I Ching. c. 1500 B.C..
2. The Old Testament. c. 1500 B.C..
3. Homer The Iliad.
4. The Odyssey. 9th century B.C..
5. The Upanishads. c. 700-400 B.CE.
6. Lao-Tzu The Way and Its Power. 3rd century B.C..
7. The Avesta. c. 500 B.C..
8. Confucius Analects. c. 5th-4th century B.C..
9. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War. 5th century B.CE.
10. Hippocrates Works. c. 400 B.C..
11. Aristotle Works. 4th century B.C.
12. Herodotus History. 4th century B.C..
13. Plato The Republic. c. 380 B.C..
14. Euclid Elements. c. 280 B.C..
15. The Dhammapada. c. 252 B.C..
16. Virgil The Aeneid. 70-19 B.C..
17. Lucretius On the Nature of Reality. c. 55 B.C..
18. Philo of Alexandria Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws. 1st century
19. The New Testament. c. 64-110 .
20. Plutarch Lives. c. 50-120 .
21. Cornelius Tacitus Annals, From the Death of the Divine Augustus. c.120
22. The Gospel of Truth (The Valentinian Speculation). c.1st century
23. Marcus Aurelius Meditations. 167 C.E.
24. Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Pyrrhonism. c. 150-210
25. Plotinus Enneads. 3d century
26. Augustine of Hippo Confessions. c. 400.
27. The Koran. 7th century .
28. Moses Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed. 1190
29. The Kabbalah (Quabala). 12th century .
30. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae. 1266-1273
31. Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy. 1321
32. Desiderius Erasmus In Praise of Folly. 1509
33. Niccolo Machiavelli he Prince. 1532
34. Martin Luther On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church. 1520
35. Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1534, 1532.
36. John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion. 1536
37. Nicolaus Copernicus On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs. 1543
38. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays. 1580
39. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote. Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615
40. Johannes Kepler The Harmony of the World. 1619
41. Francis Bacon Novum Organum. 1620
42. William Shakespeare The First Folio. 1623
43. Galileo Galilei Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems. 1632
44. Rene Desartes Discourse on Method. 1637
45. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan. 1651
46. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Works. 1663-1716
47. Blaise Pascal Pensees. 1670
48. Baruch de Spinoza. Ethics. 1677
49. John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress. 1678-1684
50. Isaac Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. 1687
51. John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding. 1689
52. George Berkeley The Principles of Human Knowledge. 1740, rev 1734
53. Giambattista Vico The New Science. 1725, rev 1730, 1744
54. David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature. 1739-1740
55. Denis Diderot, ed. The Encyclopedia. 1751-1772
56. Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language. 1755
57. Francois-Marie de Voltaire Candide. 1759 Thomas Paine Common Sense. 1776
58. Adam Smith An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1776
59. Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-87
60. Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason. 1781 rev 1787
61. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions. 1781
62. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790
63. Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1792
64. William Godwin An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. 1793
65. Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population. 1798 rev 1803
66. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit. 1807
67. Arnold Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea. 1819
68. Auguste Comte Course in the Positivist Philosophy. 1830-1842
69. Carl Marie von Clausewitz On War. 1832
70. Soren Kierkegaard Either/Or. 1843
71. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Manifesto of the Communist Party. 1848
72. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience. 1849
73. Charles Darwin The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 1859
74. John Stuart Mill On Liberty. 1859
75. Herbert Spencer First Principles. 1862
76. Gregor Mendel "Experiments With Plant Hybrids." 1866
77. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace. 1868-1869
78. James Clerk Maxwell Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. 1873
79. Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra. 1883-1885
80. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams. 1900
81. William James Pragmatism. 1908
82. Albert Einstein Relativity. 1916
83. Vilfredo Pareto The Mind and Society. 1916
84. Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types. 1921
85. Martin Buber I and Thou. 1923
86. Franz Kafka The Trial. 1925
87. Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery. 1934
88. John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. 1936
89. Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness. 1943
90. Friedrich von Hayek The Road to Serfdom. 1944
91. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex. 1948
92. Norbert Wiener Cybernetics. 1948, rev 1961
93. George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four. 1949
94. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. 1950
95. Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations. 1953
96. Noam Chomsky Syntactic Structures. 1957
97. Thomas Samuel Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962 rev 1970
98. Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique. 1963
99. Mao Zedong Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. 1966
100. B. F. Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity. 1971

Atlas Shrugged is missing

[StoneColdGOP]

Thanks.

I can do without Chomsky, otherwise a good list.

Time to add to the home library...

[Borges]

In the introduction to the book he calls Ayn Rand's work 'tawdry and third rate'.

[WhiteGuy]

Atlas Shrugged is missing.


My first thought.


Tragic

[Mr.Atos]

Bravo, BufordP!... on both counts. And welcome aboard Borges. We're a salty bunch at times, like old codgers fishing from a dock. But, you'll fit right in.

Look at the bright side. At least you weren't zotted !

[goodnesswins]

"Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique. 1963"

I TRIED reading that book in 1977......YECH!!!

[ZULU]

I think his dating of the Old Testament is a little off.

I would definitely place it post the Iliad and Odessy.

Based on the Qumran Texts, there were many versions of the Old Testament Books around as recently as a few years before the Birth of Christ.

Some of the individual books may be older, but the collection called the Old Testament is not.

[Huck]

I've read 3 or 4 of em. LOL. No Epictetus? too bad.

[ASA Vet]

#7 The Avesta is a collection of earlier writings going back to the seventeen Gatas (sacred songs) composed by Zoraster. The writings are in an ancient language called the Old Avestan. These writings should be in the #1 spot, as they were modified into the latter written Old Testament.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Candide! What a worthless piece of trash! This casts suspicion on the whole list!

[Steve_Seattle]

Can anyone tell me why "The Gospel of Truth" (an obscure gnostic text), "Gargantua and Pantagruel," "Candide," and "Don Quixote" are on this list?

[GretchenM]

Thank you for fixin' the list.

[miss marmelstein]

No Gone With the Wind???

[Robert Drobot]

Thank you for your efforts, both of you. I appreciate the use of FR, and the internet in this manner.

[BunnySlippers]

Atlas Shrugged is missing

Yet a number of diatribes are listed ...

[BunnySlippers]

Atlas Shrugged is missing

Yet a number of feminist diatribes are listed ...

[Feiny]

The Art of War by Sun Tzu should have made the list.