Up to Snuff #41: Book List Ancient to Modern Literature and Philosophy
Epic of Gilgamesh
Code of Hammurabi
Homer
Pythagoras
Aeschylus
Herodotus
Sophocles
Aristophanes
Euripides
Thucydides
Socrates
Xenophon
Plato
Aristotle
Menander
Epicurus
Zeno
Lucretius and Cicero
Virgil
Horace
Ovid
Livy
Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Moliere
Racine
Newton’s Principia
Swift
Pope
Leibnitz
Voltaire
Diderot: Encyclopedia of Sciences, Arts & Trades
Winckelmann
Code Justinian
Song of Roland
Anselm and Abelard
De contempt mundi
The Song of Brother Sun
Thomas Aquinas
Dante
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Wycliffe’s Translation of the Bible
Erasmus
John Colet
Thomas More
Luther
St. Ignatius Loyola
Calvin
Balzac
Comte: Positivism
Mill: Utilitarianism
Flaubert
Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy
Darwin: Origin of Species
Marx: Das Kapital
Dickinson
Zola
Nietzsche
Sartre
Camus
Existentialism
Beckett
Wiesel
Solzhenitsyn
Borges
Ionesco
Handke
Nabokov
Pinter
Robbe-Grillet
Barth
Burroughs
Coover
Doctorow
Marquez
Pynchon
Reference
Hobbs, Jack A. & Duncan, Robert L., Arts, Ideas and Civilization, Second Edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1992