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30. George Orwell—Animal Farm 

19. Homer—Odyssey 

18. Aldous Huxley—Brave New World 

15. Columbus Finds a New World (1492) 

04. Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov 

03. Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience 

26. Menander—The Grouch 

08. Shakespeare—Hamlet 

15. Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde 

06. Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought 

17. Shakespeare—Macbeth 

24. T. E. Lawrence—Seven Pillars of Wisdom 

27. Machiavelli—La Mandragola 

23. Lewis and Clark—Journals 

09. Sophocles—Ajax 

07. Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther 

George Orwell, 1984 

Beowulf 

25. Aristophanes—Comedies 

32. Joseph Addison—Cato 

29. Thomas More—Utopia 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

28. Erasmus—In Praise of Folly 

34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War 

Aeschylus, Oresteia 

Plato, Republic 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 

21. The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure 

33. George Washington—Farewell Address 

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 

11. Cicero—“On Old Age” 

Lord Acton, the History of Freedom 

World Was Never the Same, Events That Changed History 

01. Seneca—“On Providence” 

Dante, the Divine Comedy 

05. Elie Wiesel—Night 

12. Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent 

16. Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 

16. Michelangelo Accepts a Commission (1508) 

35. Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography 

Machiavelli, the Prince 

31. Josephus—History of the Jewish War 

10. Plato—Epistle VII 

22. Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance 

36. The Wisdom of Great Books 

02. The Gospel of John 

14. Euripides—Medea 

13. Euripides—Alcestis