What are “The Great Books”? Professor Rufus J. Fears took up this question in “Life Lessons from The Great Books” and came up with this list. How many have you read? Are there any books you would add? Comment below!
- Seneca—“On Providence”
- The Gospel of John
- Boethius, Martin Luther King—Conscience
- Dostoevsky—The Brothers Karamazov
- Elie Wiesel—Night
- Schweitzer—Out of My Life and Thought
- Goethe—The Sufferings of Young Werther
- Shakespeare—Hamlet
- Sophocles—Ajax
- Plato—Epistle VII
- Cicero—“On Old Age”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer—The Penitent
- Euripides—Alcestis
- Euripides—Medea
- Von Strasburg—Tristan and Isolde
- Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra
- Shakespeare—Macbeth
- Aldous Huxley—Brave New World
- Homer—Odyssey
- Sophocles—Philoctetes
- The Song of Roland—Chivalric Adventure
- Nibelungenlied—Chivalric Romance
- Lewis and Clark—Journals
- T. E. Lawrence—Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Aristophanes—Comedies
- Menander—The Grouch
- Machiavelli—La Mandragola
- Erasmus—In Praise of Folly
- Thomas More—Utopia
- George Orwell—Animal Farm
- Josephus—History of the Jewish War
- Joseph Addison—Cato
- George Washington—Farewell Address
- Abraham Lincoln, George Patton—War
- Theodore Roosevelt—An Autobiography
