The New Lifetime Reading Plan By Clifton Fadiman and John Major

The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature. By Clifton Fadiman and John Major

The book is pretty engaging. Read through Part 1 the moment I got the book in my hand. Introduction mentions that the books might take 50 years to read. Or more. Towards the end of the book, there is a list of 100 modern authors. One gets a feeling that there are too many great books to read and not enough time.

Part 1

1. Anonymous. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. Homer, The Iliad
3. Homer, The Odyssey
4. Confucius, The Analects
5. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
6. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
7. Euripides, Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae
8. Herodotus, The Histories
9. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
10. Sun-tzu, The Art of War
11. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
12. Plato, Selected Works
13. Aristotle, Ethics, Politics, Poetics
14. Mencius, The Book of Mencius
15. Valmiki, The Ramayana
16. Vyasa, The Mahabharata
17. Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
18. Ssu-ma Ch’ien, Records of the Grand Historian
19. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
20. Virgil, The Aeneid
21. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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References:

https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/book-lists/fadiman.htm