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The Big List
Edited by Diann Jeppson
Adult Literature
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Coleridge, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Moll Flanders
Dreiser, An American Tragedy
Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Fielding, Tom Jones
Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust
Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy, The Return of the Natives
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romances
Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Hammett, The Maltese Falcoln
Keats, The Complete Poems
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Main Street
Lewis, Kingsblood Royal
Malorty, Le Morte D'Arthur
Merimee, Carmen
Miller, Death of a Salesman
Milton, Paradise Lost
Scott, The Lady of the Lake
Scott, Ivanhoe
Stendahl, The Red and Black
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Voltaire, Candide
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Wilder, Our Town
Non-Fiction, Adult
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Aristotle, The Nichomachaen Ethics
Aristotle, Politics
Aurelius, The Meditations
Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Augustine, The City of God
Bhagavad Gita
Confucius, The Analects
Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Familes
Covey, Principle Centered Leadership
Covey, First Things First
Covey, The 8th Habit
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Darwin, The Origin of Species
Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
Descartes, Meditations
Dryden, Plutarch's Lives
Emerson, Nature
Emerson, Self-Reliance
Euclid, Elements
Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud
Freud, Totem and Taboo
Freud, Wit and its Relations
Galileo, Concerning Two New Sciences
Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Ibsen, Peer Gynt
Ibsen, A Doll's House
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Lewis, Mere Christianity
Lewis, The Great Divorce
Marx, Das Kapital
Moliere, Tartuffe
Montaine, Essays
Muir, The Story of Great Mathematicians
Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy
Nightengale, Florence Nightengale's Notes on Nursing
Pascal, Pensees
Peters, In Search of Excellence
Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates
Plato, The Republic
Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo
Reimer, Mathematicians are People Too
Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Schopenhaur, The World as Will and Idea
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Spengler, The Decline of the West
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
The Bible
The Book of Momon
The Koran
Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
Toffler, Future Shock
Toffler, The Third Wave
Tze, Tao Te Ching
Tzu, The Art of War
Virgil, The Aeneid
White, Essays of E.B. White
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde, Wit and Wisdom
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorites! Probably because I grew up just a few miles south of Macon and know that part of the country so well.
ReplyDeleteI love all of the Covey 7 habits books. Not "gospel" but founded in principles that when applied can change your life.
ReplyDeleteI also really like CS Lewis, although some say that he and some of his writings are part of the occult. He always makes me want to draw closer to God.
I've read the Importance of Being Earnest...quite a comical little book. I think if I was having an older child who was having a problem with honesty this would be a classic. For me I just enjoyed the good story, so it is good reference and a quick read. Infact I'd recommend getting a version that is in a audio play format that the kids will enjoy and make it a little easier to understand.