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01. Seneca—“On Providence” 

17. Shakespeare—Macbeth 

13. Euripides—Alcestis 

Dante, the Divine Comedy 

03. Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 

35. Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography 

19. Homer—Odyssey 

22. Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance 

31. Josephus—History of the Jewish War 

32. Joseph Addison—Cato 

28. Erasmus—In Praise of Folly 

14. Euripides—Medea 

34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War 

World Was Never the Same, Events That Changed History 

18. Aldous Huxley—Brave New World 

04. Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov 

Aeschylus, Oresteia 

02. The Gospel of John 

12. Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent 

11. Cicero—“On Old Age” 

16. Michelangelo Accepts a Commission (1508) 

Plato, Republic 

Lord Acton, the History of Freedom 

Beowulf 

10. Plato—Epistle VII 

15. Columbus Finds a New World (1492) 

16. Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra 

27. Machiavelli—La Mandragola 

29. Thomas More—Utopia 

30. George Orwell—Animal Farm 

36. The Wisdom of Great Books 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address 

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty 

21. The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure 

09. Sophocles—Ajax 

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 

07. Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur 

Machiavelli, the Prince 

25. Aristophanes—Comedies 

15. Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde 

05. Elie Wiesel—Night 

08. Shakespeare—Hamlet 

23. Lewis and Clark—Journals 

George Orwell, 1984 

26. Menander—The Grouch 

33. George Washington—Farewell Address 

06. Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought 

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