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The Great Books Foundation
20 books, 1,559,040 words, in reading order.
Books in this course
103.9 h read
The Republic
Plato
c. 380 BC
Poetics
Aristotle
c. 335 BC
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1532
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
1729
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1882
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2
Locke, John
1704
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
1886
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1864
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
1915
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
1899
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1892
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
1899
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
1941
The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
1963
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1866
Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave
1880
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
1879
Candide
Voltaire
1778
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1848