100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years)

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Amazon just released their "100 books to read in a lifetime." The oldest of which was published in 1813. That's a crying shame. Let's compile and vote on a list of the rest.
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The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
221 membres
5 critiques
½ 4.5
Rang global 27
54 Members
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Explications
lorax : Thumbing down just to counteract psdavid's proselytizing. I think parts are worth reading for basic cultural literacy, but nobody likes being preached at in a forum like this.
aulsmith : Again, parts of it. But the whole thing? Knowing some of it was done from unreliable manuscripts? Nah.
psdavid: A book in two parts, the old testament which is the new testament hidden and the new testament which is the old testament revealed. Every one of the 66 books (39 Old testament and 27 new testament) interlinks and joins with every other, written in original languages by 40+ authors spanning 2,000 years and many cultures. A book that attracts lively debate as to authenticity and yet every day sees more of its writings and dates confirmed by archaeological finds.
: Why not read one of the better translations, if you're going to read the whole wretched Bible in the first place?
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Sonnets
de William Shakespeare
8,622 membres
67 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 37
41 Members
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Explications
aulsmith : I just read through them all and a lot of them are boring, repetitive and some of them are clearly drafts. Go with the ones that are anthologized.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
de Benjamin Franklin
7,321 membres
111 critiques
3.8
Rang global 43
38 Members
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Explications
aulsmith: Silverbooks is correct, but I found it engaging. Of course, I was only 12 and never reread it, so I'm not sure how it would come off now.
: mostly propaganda
Turambar: True, Franklin does a good deal of propagandizing, but the book is a sparkling example of Enlightenment Plain Style as well as being one of our earliest examples of American Exceptionalism and a sort of Pragmatism. It doesn't matter if you agree with his views or not; it's undeniably significant.
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L'Art de la guerre
de Sun Tzu
23,074 membres
253 critiques
3.8
Rang global 32
45 Members
timspalding, szarka, karenb, henkl, SaintSunniva, TCBard, benjfrank, xenophon, hvanloon, andejons, MusicalKnitter, WMGOATGRUFF, madpoet, cemanuel, Betelgeuse, toview, PietWester, thecoroner, MaskedMumbler, alex68, HxBuff, Roberto823, dontcallmeleslie, rubyman, humblemummble, drmom62, writeslikeagirl, al.vick, ahef1963, mattries37315, WriterWarrior, raperper, rancocas, Turambar, PyrrhicVctry, Tom_Huckstep, dberndtd, JohnMB, skylerboodie, Mapguy314, Newton_Books, Nicolebigelow3, puffintopia, NinaHer, itstheblob, ,jaysonwm
Explications
: We need a little LESS war, please! Even though it's not old enough for this list, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENCE by Gene Sharp should be on everyone's must-read list.
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Histoire du déclin et de la chute de l'Empire romain
de Edward Gibbon
3,225 membres
41 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 36
39 Members
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Explications
camainc : One only needs to read Augustine's City of God to know that Gibbon was so very wrong about the reasons for Rome's "decline and fall."
Turambar: Whether Gibbon was wrong or not is irrelevant to whether The Decline and Fall ought to be read. We don't read Herodotus because he was right. We read him because he helped shape how a civilization thought, as did Gibbon in his own, later way.
JacobKirckman: Gibbon's not 'on my list', as I have it (just not catalogued on LT yet)! Commenting purely to counter Camainc's claim that Gibbon was wrong. I'd take an historian (even an 18th century one) over a Bible-Basher any day...
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Roman du roi Arthur et des chevaliers de la table ronde - Le morte d'Arthur
de Thomas Malory
7,090 membres
52 critiques
3.9
Rang global 63
30 Members
lorax, szarka, Rtrace, MTL, smcwl, xenophon, southernbooklady, Nicole_VanK, MusicalKnitter, WMGOATGRUFF, madpoet, cemanuel, Betelgeuse, toview, perpender, BlueSkies305, dontcallmeleslie, TrulyAragorn, JoLynnsbooks, WriterWarrior, Turambar, Dr.Vickie, cjmills, PyrrhicVctry, dberndtd, mspixieears, JohnMB, Belarmino, Newton_Books, jaysonwm,karenb ,camainc , ,jeffza
Explications
karenb : Taking Chretien de Troyes instead.
camainc : A better choice would be Idylls of the King by Tennyson.
: boring and more white dudes
Betelgeuse: Idylls of the King is too recent: published between 1859-1885.
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Lyrical Ballads
de William Wordsworth
1,135 membres
9 critiques
4
Rang global 99
17 Members
yarb, smcwl, xenophon, southernbooklady, hvanloon, WMGOATGRUFF, madpoet, Betelgeuse, toview, Roberto823, dontcallmeleslie, drmom62, ahef1963, Dr.Vickie, walthoff, PyrrhicVctry, dberndtd
72
Le docteur faust (doctor faustus)
de Christopher Marlowe
5,065 membres
72 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 70
26 Members
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Explications
karenb: Original version please! (No, really, the right one this time ;)
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The Complete English Poems
de John Donne
1,737 membres
9 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 85
23 Members
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Explications
aulsmith : Not the whole thing. I took a seminar on Donne, and we didn't even read them all.
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Phédon
de Plato
1,643 membres
18 critiques
3.9
Rang global 91
18 Members
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89
Satires
de Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
1,776 membres
14 critiques
3.8
Rang global 105
17 Members
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91
The Campaigns of Alexander
de Arrian
1,422 membres
12 critiques
3.9
Rang global 94
22 Members
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Explications
: more glorification of war? nah
94
Poésies complètes
de François Villon
1,054 membres
7 critiques
4.2
Rang global 104
16 Members
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95
Des Révolutions des orbes célestes
de Nicolaus Copernicus
445 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 108
16 Members
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Explications
lorax : I really don't think everyone needs to read a book that's been called "the book nobody read" (see http://www.librarything.com/work/16335 ). I have a PhD in astronomy and even I never read this; it's important to know about it, and why it was important, but actually reading it? Reading the old, old primary sources isn't important in science the way it is in history.