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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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
de Anonymous
65 membres
½ 4.7
Classificació global 157
8 Members
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6
L'Aventurer Simplicissimus
de Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1,206 membres
17 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 163
6 Members
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7
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
de Rudolf Erich Raspe
1,162 membres
16 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Classificació global 123
10 Members
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10
Apicius, a Critical Edition With an Introduction And English Translation
de Christopher Grocock
43 membres
5
Classificació global 244
4 Members
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12
Arthurian Romances
de Chrétien de Troyes
2,200 membres
14 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 100
15 Members
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
7,320 membres
111 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 43
38 Members
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Explicacions
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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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
de James Boswell
506 membres
9 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 239
3 Members
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Brief Lives
de John Aubrey
693 membres
8 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 255
3 Members
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20
Castle Rackrent
de Maria Edgeworth
857 membres
23 ressenyes
3.1
Classificació global 238
4 Members
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21
Conte de Nadal
de Charles Dickens
24,637 membres
523 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 396
7 Members
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Explicacions
aulsmith : Published 1843
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
de Edward Gibbon
3,224 membres
41 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Classificació global 36
39 Members
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Explicacions
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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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
de Samuel Richardson
1,502 membres
29 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Classificació global 154
8 Members
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The Complete English Poems
de John Donne
1,737 membres
9 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Classificació global 85
23 Members
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Explicacions
aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.
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Consolació de la filosofia
de Boethius
5,151 membres
45 ressenyes
3.9
Classificació global 119
13 Members
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The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Penguin Classics)
de Géza Vermes
2,690 membres
12 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 166
8 Members
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Description of the northern peoples
de Olaus Magnus
69 membres
3 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Classificació global 203
5 Members
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30
Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
de Jakob Walter
494 membres
8 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 294
2 Members
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
de Samuel Pepys
529 membres
6 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 109
12 Members
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
de Bede
3,449 membres
22 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 156
10 Members
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El Rei Joan
de William Shakespeare
1,390 membres
28 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Classificació global 270
3 Members
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Ricard II
de William Shakespeare
4,160 membres
54 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 223
4 Members
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Enric IV : primera part
de William Shakespeare
5,042 membres
39 ressenyes
3.9
Classificació global 202
5 Members
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Enric IV : segona part
de William Shakespeare
2,548 membres
28 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 205
5 Members
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Enric V
de William Shakespeare
6,022 membres
53 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 129
10 Members
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Egil's Saga
de Snorri Sturluson
1,072 membres
10 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 169
7 Members
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Electra
de Sophocles
689 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 237
4 Members
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Lyrical Ballads
de William Wordsworth
1,135 membres
9 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 99
17 Members
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Organon
de Aristotle
149 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Classificació global 222
4 Members
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47
Letters from an American Farmer
de J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
451 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Classificació global 207
6 Members
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48
Journals of the Western Islands
de Samuel Johnson
820 membres
10 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 251
4 Members
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, 1953}
de Meriwether Lewis
1,196 membres
8 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 139
11 Members
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The History of the Kings of Britain
de Geoffrey of Monmouth
2,668 membres
21 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Classificació global 193
7 Members
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A History of the Franks
de Saint Gregory of Tours
1,072 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 196
6 Members
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Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings
de Snorri Sturluson
813 membres
9 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 247
4 Members
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The Greek New Testament
de Eberhard Nestle
6,307 membres
21 ressenyes
½ 4.5
Classificació global 264
4 Members
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The Greek Myths: Complete Edition
de Robert Graves
4,313 membres
36 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 397
2 Members
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Four Comedies : The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classi
de Plautus
336 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Classificació global 214
5 Members
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60
The Faerie Queene
de Edmund Spenser
2,550 membres
24 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 141
13 Members
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El manuscrit trobat a Saragossa
de Jan Potocki
1,574 membres
32 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 168
6 Members
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63
The Memoirs of Madame Roland: A Heroine of the French Revolution
de Madame Roland
40 membres
3.2
Classificació global 406
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Le Morte d'Arthur
de Thomas Malory
7,088 membres
52 ressenyes
3.9
Classificació global 63
30 Members
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Explicacions
karenb : Taking Chretien de Troyes instead.
camainc : A better choice would be Idylls of the King by Tennyson.
: boring and more white dudes
Betelgeuse: Idylls of the King is too recent: published between 1859-1885.
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
de Ann Radcliffe
2,916 membres
62 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Classificació global 173
8 Members
smcwl, madpoet, writeslikeagirl, Bookkat33, Dr.Vickie, NinieB, PyrrhicVctry, ManWithAnAgenda,amanda4242
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Oedipus at Colonus
de Sophocles
545 membres
17 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Classificació global 186
6 Members
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71
On the Good Life
de Marcus Tullius Cicero
919 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 209
6 Members
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73
La República
de Marcus Tullius Cicero
372 membres
6 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 142
10 Members
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74
De les revolucions dels orbes celestes
de Nicolaus Copernicus
445 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 108
16 Members
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Explicacions
lorax : I really don't think everyone needs to read a book that's been called "the book nobody read" (see http://www.librarything.com/work/16335 ). I have a PhD in astronomy and even I never read this; it's important to know about it, and why it was important, but actually reading it? Reading the old, old primary sources isn't important in science the way it is in history.
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Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
de Samuel Richardson
2,554 membres
43 ressenyes
2.9
Classificació global 159
9 Members
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
de Edmund Burke
1,054 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 213
5 Members
smcwl, 2wonderY, anthonywillard, PyrrhicVctry, mspixieears
77
Física
de Aristotle
796 membres
9 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 291
3 Members
smcwl, anthonywillard, PyrrhicVctry
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Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore
de Michael J. Curley
48 membres
4
Classificació global 242
4 Members
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Piers Plowman
de William Langland
1,748 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Classificació global 148
11 Members
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Principia Mathematica
de Isaac Newton
1,302 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Classificació global 185
9 Members
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Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
de Daniel Defoe
737 membres
8 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Classificació global 90
24 Members
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Explicacions
aulsmith : Awful. Instead of an adventure story, I got a White Man triumphs over nature with a sermon.
Betelgeuse: Wonderful. A gripping adventure and morality tale. More than a shipwreck story, it is also about repentance and humility. Defoe's novel has several Biblical parallels, including Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, the parable of Jonah, and the sufferings of Job. Lessons can be learned from this book, if one overlooks Crusoe's anachronistic imperialism. But Robinson Crusoe is not a dour sermon. It is surprisingly fast-paced, and the first-person narrative gives it even more immediacy. Everyone knows the basics of the plot: the shocking discovery of the footprint, the appearance of Friday, the threat of cannibals, Crusoe's mastery of the island and its elements. There are also lesser known action sequences, such as the exciting wolfpack scene near the end of the book. A great early novel.
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Conte d'Hivern
de William Shakespeare
4,758 membres
59 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 210
5 Members
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87
Travels
de David Black
44 membres
Classificació global 243
4 Members
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89
Viatge sentimental
de Laurence Sterne
1,729 membres
24 ressenyes
3.2
Classificació global 152
8 Members
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90
The Scottish Chiefs
de Jane Porter
789 membres
8 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 296
2 Members
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