read the great books

Finished the 3 Theban plays about Oedipus.

Finished The Orestia, starting on Sophocles

Yup

So, I’m actually doing it.

I’ve started working my way through Adler and Van Doren’s list and it is utterly satisfying, if mentally exhausting. My goal is to get through around twenty-authours this year, which is pretty ambitious, so we’ll see what happens.

Right now I’m working my way through James Joyce and Homer…good stuff.

Number 1: Finish Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Number 2: Read Confessions by St. Augustine

I got my list from; http://www.literarycritic.com/gbww.htm

Good luck!

Well it would be time consuming to write them all out here but anyone can do a google search for “100 greatest books” or “lifetime reading plan”. For myself I contacted the Easton Press and had them send me the lists of books they sell in their collections.
100 greatest books ever written
Great books of the 20th century (50 books)
Books that changed the world (25 books)
Other collections of books they have include the library of military history and the science classics.

... would be easier if I knew what the great books were.

Is there a list that some organisation has created or something?

Anyone?

Im an avid reader, but I want to read all those “Great Books”. All the classics, and the women writers, and all of shakespear and all that stuff.

I’ve already read the Old Testament so now I’m on Aeschylus’ Tragedies.

Finished the Odyssey today