John's Ridiculous Reading List

1)	Holy Bible
2)	Qu’ran
3)	I Ching (2000 BC)
4)	Gilgamesh (1300 BC)
5)	Iliad/Odyssey – Homer (1100 BC)
6)	Poems – Sappho (600 BC)
7)	Tao Te Ching – Lao-tzu (500 BC)
8)	Analects – Confucius (500 BC)
9)	Art of War – Sun-Tzu (500 BC)
10)	Dhammapada – Buddha (500 BC)
11)	Early Greek Philosophy – Penguin (500 BC)
12)	Clouds, Birds – Aristophanes (423 BC)
13)	The Greek Sophists – Penguin
14)	1st Alcibiades, Apology, Crito, Ion, Meno, Parmenides, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Republic (I, II, VI, VII, X), Sophist, Symposium, Theaetetus – Plato; Plato – Kahn, Popper, Pine (400 BC)
15)	The Cynic Movement in Antiquity, Diogenes – Sayre (400 BC)
16)	History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides (400 BC)
17)	Aristotle – Shields; Nicomachean Ethics, On the Soul, Poetics, Metaphysics (I, III-VI, skim VIII-XI), Organon (Categories, On Intrpretation, Prior Analytics) – Aristotle (350 BC)
18)	Epicurus – O’Connor, Warren (300 BC)
19)	Greek Sceptic – Maccol; Outlines of Pyrrhonism – Bury translation (200 BC)
20)	Nature of Things – Lucretius (50 BC)
21)	On Duties, On Ends, Tusculan Disputations – Cicero (50 BC)
22)	Poems – Horace (50 BC)
23)	Aeneid – Virgil (19 BC)
24)	History of Rome – Livy (0 BC/AD)
25)	Moral Epistles, On Anger, On Benefits, On the Firmness of the Wise Person, On The Happy Life, On the Tranquility of Mind, Letters from a Stoic, On the Shortness of Life – Seneca (0 AD/BC)
26)	Metamorphoses, On Love – Ovid (8 AD)
27)	Antiquities of the Jews – Josephus (94 AD) [Loeb translation]
28)	Discourses, Handbook – Epictetus (100 AD)
29)	Lives (Lycurgus, Solon, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Antony, Brutus) – Plutarch (100 AD)
30)	Meditations – Marcus Aurelius (150 AD)
31)	Neoplatonism – Wallis, Gregory, Wallis (200 AD)
32)	The Enneads – Plotinus (200 AD)
33)	Gnosticism – Pearson (2), Robinson (200 AD)
34)	Tertullian – Barnes (200 AD)
35)	Mahabharata/Ramayana (300 AD)
36)	Augustine of Hippo – Brown; Confessions, Principle of Charity, Egyptian Gold, In the Beginning, Noah’s Ark  – Augustine (400 AD)
37)	Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius (500 AD)
38)	One Thousand and One Nights (800 AD)
39)	The Book of Healing – Avicenna (1027 AD)
40)	Guide for the Perplexed, The Language of Scripture, On Prophecy, On Divine Providence – Maimonides (1100 AD)
41)	Scholasticism, Medieval Phil. – Pieper, Kretzmann, Sirat, Laughlin, Rubenstein
42)	Saint Anselm – Southern; Monologion and Proslogion – Anselm (1100)
43)	Rubaiyat – Khayyam (1130 AD)
44)	Commentaries, The Incoherence of the Incoherence – Averroes (1170 AD)
45)	Poems – Rumi (1250)
46)	Thomas Aquinas – Gilson, McInerney, Pieper; Summa Theo.; On Metaphor, The Four Senses of Scripture, The Proper Name of God, Can There Be Creation Ex Nihilo? – Thomas Aquinas (1270)
47)	Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova – Dante (1295)
48)	Essays on Idleness – Kenko (1332)
49)	On the Connection of the Virtues, Summa of Logic – Ockham; Cambridge Companion (1340)
50)	The Decameron – Boccaccio (1350)
51)	On Solitude, Remedies for Good and Bad Fortune – Petrarch (1370)
52)	Treasure of the City of Ladies – Pisan (1405)
53)	Praise of Folly – Erasmus (1511)
54)	The Prince, Discourses on Livy – Machiavelli (1513)
55)	Utopia – More (1520)
56)	Calvin, McNeill; Institutes of the Christian Religion, The Wrestling of Jacob – Calvin (1541)
57)	Copernican Revolution – Kuhn (1543/1970)
58)	Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais (1550)
59)	Autobiography – St. Teresa of Avila (1580)
60)	General Renaissance – Schmitt, Hankins, Kristeller
61)	Fabric of the Heavens/Architecture of Matter/Discovery of Time – Toulmin
62)	New Organon, Essays – Bacon (1600)
63)	Complete Works – Shakespeare (1600)
a.	Esp: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV Part I/II, Henry V, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Tempest, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, and the sonnets
64)	Poems – Donne (1600)
65)	Don Quixote – Cervantes (1615)
66)	Rationalism – Stewart, Hall, Parkinson
67)	Anatomy of Melancholy – Burton (1621)
68)	Receptions of Descartes; Meditations, Discourse on Method, Passions of the Soul – Descartes (1637)
69)	Works – Moliere (1650)
70)	Spinoza – della Rocca; Ethics, Tractus, On the Interpretation of Scripture, The true Authorship of the Sacred Books, In What Respect Scripture is Called the Word of God – Spinoza (1650)
71)	Urn-Burial – Browne (1658)
72)	Pascal – Pensees (1662)
73)	Hobbes – Martinich, Gauthier; Leviathan, How God Speaks to Man, The Pentateuch was not Written By Moses  – Hobbes (1651)
74)	Paradise Lost – Milton (1667)
75)	Phedre – Racine (1677)
76)	Maxims – La Rochefoucauld (1680)
77)	Haikus – Basho (1694)
78)	Fables – La Fontaine (1694)
79)	Leibniz – Jolley; Monadology, Theodicy – Leibniz (1700)
80)	General Enlightenment – Blom, Roche
81)	Locke – Rowe; Human Understanding, Government – Locke (1700)
82)	Robinson Crusoe – Defoe (1719)
83)	The New Science – Vico (1725)
84)	Gulliver’s Travels – Swift (1730)
85)	Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio – Songling (1740)
86)	Hume – Bater (2), Howson; Understanding, Morals, Religion – Hume (1750)
87)	Berkeley – Berman; Principles of Human Knowledge – Berkeley (1750)
88)	On the Social Contract, Confessions – Rousseau (1762)
89)	Wealth of Nations, Moral Sentiments – Smith (1776)
90)	Common Sense – Paine (1776)
91)	Jacques the Fatalist – Diderot (1780)
92)	120 Days of Sodom – de Sade (1785)
93)	Kant – Guyer (2); Prolegomena, Groundwork, Critique of Pure/Practical Reason, Judgment, What is Enlightenment?, Conjectural Beginning of Human History  – Kant (1781)
94)	Foundations of a Natural Right – Fichte (1796)
95)	Works – Blake (1800)
96)	Philosophy of Nature, Transcendental Idealism – Schelling (1800)
97)	German Idealism – Deiser, Pinkard, Or Penguin Survey
98)	Hegel – Singer, Stepelevich, Taylor, Beiser; Phenomenology of Spirit, Spirit of Judaism – Hegel (Miller) (1807)
99)	Pride and Prejudice – Austen (1813)
100)	A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities – Laplace (1814)
101)	Poems – Byron (1820)
102)	Poems – Shelley (1820)
103)	Art of Doing Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Philosophical Ethics, On the Highest Good, On the Worth of Life – Schleiermacher (1820)
104)	Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey (1821)
105)	Essays – Hazlitt (1826)
106)	The Red and the Black/On Love (?) – Stendahl (1830)
107)	Poems – Coleridge (1830)
108)	Dialogue between Fashion and Death – Leopardi (1830)
109)	Faust – Goethe (1832)
110)	Queen of Spades and Stories – Pushkin (1834)
111)	The Human Comedy (Le Pere Goriot) – de Balzac (1835)
112)	Essays – Emerson (1836)
113)	A Hero of Our Time – Lermontov (Nabokov) (1841)
114)	Dead Souls – Gogol (1842)
115)	Kierkegaard – Poole; Fear and Trembling, Concept of Anxiety, Sickness – Kierkegaard (1843)
116)	Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas (1844)
117)	Wuthering Heights – Bronte (1847)
118)	Marx – Wheen, Cleever, Althusser; Capital, Communist Manifesto – Marx (1848)
119)	Poems and stories – Poe, Edgar Allen (1849)
120)	David Copperfield – Dickens (1850)
121)	Essays, Morality, Will and Representation – Schopenhauer (1850)
122)	Poems – Heine (1850)
123)	Essence of Christianity – Feuerbach (1854)
124)	Leaves of Grass – Whitman (1855)
125)	Madame Bovary/Sentimental Education – Flaubert (1857/69)
126)	Flowers of Evil – Baudelaire (1857)
127)	Utilitarianism, On Liberty – Mill (1859)
128)	Oblamov – Goncharov (1859)
129)	Fathers and Sons/First Love – Turgenev (1862/0)
130)	Les Miserables – Hugo (1862)
131)	Alice’s Adventures – Carroll (1865)
132)	The Idiot – Dostoevsky (1869)
133)	Les Chants de Maldoror – Lautreamont (1869) [Neil Strauss’ list]
134)	Nietzsche – Foucault, Richardson, Hollingdale, Reginster; Anti-Christ, Birth of Tragedy, Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals, The Grandeur of the Old Testament – Nietzsche (1870)
135)	Peirce – Eco; Logic of Relatives – Peirce (1900)
136)	Middlemarch – Eliot (1872)
137)	Portrait of a Lady – James, Henry (1881)
138)	The Dram Shop/Germinal – Zola (1885)
139)	Death of Ivan Ilyich/Kreutzner Sonata – Tolstoy (1886/9) (OWC)
140)	Sherlock Holmes – Doyle (1887)
141)	Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde (1890)
142)	Hunger – Hamsun (1890)
143)	Poems – Rimbaud (1891)
144)	Sense and Reference – Frege (1892)
145)	Action – Blondel (1893)
146)	Poems – Verlaine (1896)
147)	Works – Freud (1900)
148)	Art as Experience; Experience and Education; Experience and Nature; How We Think; Human Nature and Conduct; Reconstruction in Philosophy – Dewey (1900)
149)	Creative Mind, Time, Creative Evolution – Bergson
150)	Essays – Ruskin (1900)
151)	Logical Investigations, Crisis of European Sciences – Husserl (1901)
152)	Plays/Stories – Chekov (1903)
153)	Heart of Darkness – Conrad (1903)
154)	Protestant Ethic – Weber (1905)
155)	Three Lives/Making of Americans/Alice B. Tolkas – Stein (1906/11/33)
156)	Writings – James, Willaim (1910)
157)	Course in General Linguistics – de Saussure (1911)
158)	Writings – Durkheim (1912)
159)	Problems of Philosophy – Russell (1912)
160)	Swann’s Way – Proust (1913)
161)	Sons and Lovers/Women in Love – Lawrence (1913/20)
162)	Kokoro – Soseki (1914)
163)	Of Human Bondage – Maugham (1915)
164)	The Good Soldier – Ford (1915)
165)	Works – Maritain (1920)
166)	Russian Formalism – Erlich (1920)
167)	Dialogic Imagination – Bakhtin (1920)
168)	Essays – Orwell (1920)
169)	Wittgenstein – Cavell, Reed; Tractus, Investigations – Wittgenstein (1921)
170)	The Waste Land/Four Quartets – Eliot (1922/44)
171)	Magic Mountain – Mann (1924)
172)	A Passage to India – Forster (1924)
173)	Cuttlefish Bones – Montale
174)	Being and Time – Heidegger (1927)
175)	Steppenwolf – Hesse (1927)
176)	Death Comes for the Archbishop – Cather (1927)
177)	At the Mountains of Madness – Lovecraft (1931)
178)	Brave New World – Huxley (1932)
179)	Journey to the End of the Night – Celine (1932)
180)	Man’s Fate – Malraux (1933)
181)	Absalom, Absalom – Faulkner (1936)
182)	Illuminations – Benjamin (1936)
183)	Finnegans Wake – Joyce (1939)
184)	September 1, 1939 – Auden (1939)
185)	Ask the Dust – Fante (1939)
186)	At-Swim-Two-Birds – O’Brien (1939)
187)	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers (1940)
188)	Foundations Trilogy – Asimov (1942)
189)	Being and Nothingness – Sartre (1943)
190)	Works – Borges (1944)
191)	Phenomenology of Perception – Merleau-Ponty (1945)
192)	Eclipse of Reason, Dialectic of Enlightenment – Horkheimer (1947)
193)	Under the Volcano – Lowry (1947)
194)	Critique of Everyday Life – Lefebvre (1947)
195)	The Tunnel – Sabato (1948)
196)	Hero with a Thousand Faces – Campbell (1949)
197)	History – Toynbee (1950)
198)	Russell – Nasim (1950)
199)	Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexican Poetry (tr. Beckett) – Paz (1950)
200)	Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson – Gurdjieff (1950)
201)	Wise Blood/A Good Man/Everything that Rises – O’Connor (1952/55/65)
202)	Trilogy – Beckett (1953)
203)	Go Tell It On the Mountain – Baldwin (1953)
204)	The Burning Plain – Rulfo (1953)
205)	Collected Poems – Stevens, Wallace (1954)
206)	Under the Net, The Sea the Sea – Murdoch (1954)
207)	Lord of the Rings – Tolkien (1954)
208)	The Recognitions – Gaddis (1955)
209)	Howl – Ginsburg (1955)
210)	Tree of Man – White (1955)
211)	Long Day’s Journey into Night – O’Neill (1956)
212)	Anatomy of Criticism – Frye (1957)
213)	The Tin Drum – Grass (1959)
214)	Rabbit, Run – Updike (1960)
215)	Works – Adorno (1960)
216)	Truth and Method – Gadamer (1960)
217)	Foucault – Mills, Dreyfus, Rorty, Scott, Derrida; Writings – Foucault (1960)
218)	Stranger in a Strange Land – Heinlein (1961)
219)	Cancer Ward; The First Circle – Solzhenitsyn (1962)
220)	The Death of Artemio Cruz – Fuentes (1962)
221)	Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere – Habermas (1962)
222)	Cat’s Cradle – Vonnegut (1963)
223)	Poems – Williams, William Carlos (1963)
224)	The Feminine Mystique – Friedan (1963)
225)	Blow Up – Cortazar (1963)
226)	Herzog – Bellow (1964)
227)	Dream Songs – Berryman (1964)
228)	Short Fiction – Gallant, Mavis (1964)
229)	Crying of Lot 49/Gravity’s Rainbow – Pynchon (1966/73)
230)	Savage Mind, Myth and Meaning – Levi-Strauss  (1966)
231)	Death and the Dervish – Selimovic (1966)
232)	Poems – Hayden (1966)
233)	In the Heart of the Heart – Gass (1966)
234)	Master and Margarita – Bulgakov (1967)
235)	Derrida – Bennington, Norris; Of Grammatology, Dissemintion, Death – Derrida (1967)
236)	On Violence – Arendt (1970)
237)	Poems – Creeley (1970)
238)	Lacan – Zizek; Ecrits – Lacan (1970)
239)	S/Z, Pleasure of the Text, Mythologies – Barthes (1970)
240)	Beyond Freedom and Dignity – Skinner (1971)
241)	Laugh of the Medusa – Cixous (1975)
242)	The Stand – King (1977)
243)	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Dick (1977)
244)	The Word of God and the Word of Man – Barth (1978)
245)	Writings – Rorty (1979)
246)	Writings, Simulacra – Baudrillard (1980)
247)	From a Logical Point of View – Quine (1980)
248)	Name of the Rose – Eco (1980)
249)	Midnight’s Children – Rushdie (1981)
250)	The War of the End of the World – Llosa (1981)
251)	Writings/Resistance to Theory – de Man (1982)
252)	Powers of Horrors – Kristeva (1982)
253)	Distinction – Bourdieu (1984)
254)	Blood Meridian – McCarthy (1985)
255)	Norwegian Wood – Murakami (1987)
256)	Brief History of Time – Hawking (1988)
257)	Gender Trouble – Butler (1990)
258)	Postmodernism – Jameson (1991)
259)	The McGuffin – Elkin (1991)
260)	Blindness – Saramago (1995)
261)	Infinite Jest – Wallace (1996)
262)	Underworld – DeLillo (1997)
263)	American Pastoral – Roth (1997)
264)	Welcome to the Desert of the Real, First as Tragedy then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes – Zizek (2000)
265)	2666 – Bolano (2004)
266)	Europe Central, Fathers and Crows – Vollmann (2005)
267)	Anathem – Stephenson (2008)