100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)

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Amazon just released their "100 books to read in a lifetime." The oldest of which was published in 1813. That's a crying shame. Let's compile and vote on a list of the rest.
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Homers Iliade
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Veilleur_de_nuit: Parce que ce long poème dit les horreurs de la guerre et les douceurs de l'amour, et parce qu'il a façonné l'imaginaire occidental.
Mapguy314: Means I have it in my library, not necessarily that I have read it, although I have read some of them
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Sonetter : med original engelsk tekst
af William Shakespeare
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aulsmith : I just read through them all and a lot of them are boring, repetitive and some of them are clearly drafts. Go with the ones that are anthologized.
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Selvbiografi
af Benjamin Franklin
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aulsmith: Silverbooks is correct, but I found it engaging. Of course, I was only 12 and never reread it, so I'm not sure how it would come off now.
: mostly propaganda
Turambar: True, Franklin does a good deal of propagandizing, but the book is a sparkling example of Enlightenment Plain Style as well as being one of our earliest examples of American Exceptionalism and a sort of Pragmatism. It doesn't matter if you agree with his views or not; it's undeniably significant.
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Krigskunsten
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: We need a little LESS war, please! Even though it's not old enough for this list, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENCE by Gene Sharp should be on everyone's must-read list.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
af Edward Gibbon
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camainc : One only needs to read Augustine's City of God to know that Gibbon was so very wrong about the reasons for Rome's "decline and fall."
Turambar: Whether Gibbon was wrong or not is irrelevant to whether The Decline and Fall ought to be read. We don't read Herodotus because he was right. We read him because he helped shape how a civilization thought, as did Gibbon in his own, later way.
JacobKirckman: Gibbon's not 'on my list', as I have it (just not catalogued on LT yet)! Commenting purely to counter Camainc's claim that Gibbon was wrong. I'd take an historian (even an 18th century one) over a Bible-Basher any day...
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The Golden Ass
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Om Guds stad
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: more Christianity?
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Gargantua og Pantagruel, 1-5
af François Rabelais
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The Poems of Catullus
af Catullus
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The Upanishads
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Richard III
af William Shakespeare
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The Satyricon
af Petronius Arbiter
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Lyrical Ballads
af William Wordsworth
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Njals saga 1 - 2
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The Campaigns of Alexander
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: more glorification of war? nah
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Den tragiske historie om doktor Faust
af Christopher Marlowe
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karenb: Original version please! (No, really, the right one this time ;)
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The Poems of Francois Villon
af François Villon
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English, Fourth Revised Edition
af James M. Robinson
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Tristram Shandys levned og meninger
af Laurence Sterne
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The Satires of Juvenal
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The Complete English Poems
af John Donne
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aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.