50 plus one great books you should have read (and probably didn't)

Introduction

Plus One. The Bible: Old and New Testaments

Chapter 1. Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey

Chapter 2. Confucius: The Analects

Chapter 3. Aeschylus: The Oresteia

Chapter 4. Herodotus: The Histories

Chapter 5. Plato: The Republic

Chapter 6. Aristotle: Metaphysics

Chapter 7. Mahabharata

Chapter 8. Euclid of Alexandria: The Elements

Chapter 9. Cicero: On the Good Life

Chapter 10. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Chapter 11. St. Augustine: Confessions

Chapter 12. Muhammad: The Koran

Chapter 13. The Arabian Nights

Chapter 14. Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji

Chapter 15. Turold: The Song of Roland

Chapter 16. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica

Chapter 17. Marco Polo: The Adventures of Marco Polo

Chapter 18. Dante: The Divine Comedy

Chapter 19. Petrarch: Canzoniere

Chapter 20. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Chapter 21. Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d' Arthur

Chapter 22. Leonardo da Vinci: The Notebooks

Chapter 23. Sir Thomas More: Utopia

Chapter 24. Martin Luther: The 95 Theses

Chapter 25. Michel de Montaigne: Essays

Chapter 26. Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Chapter 27. William Shakespeare: Hamlet

Chapter 28. Galileo Galilei: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Chapter 29. Rene Descartes: Discourse on the Method

Chapter 30. John Locke: Two Treatises of Government

Chapter 31. Sir Isaac Newton: Principia

Chapter 32. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

Chapter 33. Thomas Jefferson: Writings

Chapter 34. William Wordsworth: The Prelude

Chapter 35. Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species

Chapter 36. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Chapter 37. Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

Chapter 38. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment

Chapter 39. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams

Chapter 40. Mahatma Gandhi: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Chapter 41. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

Chapter 42. Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Chapter 43. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Chapter 44. George Gamow: The Creation of the Universe

Chapter 45. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Chapter 46. Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media

Chapter 47. Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers

Chapter 48. Saul Bellow: Henderson the Rain King

Chapter 49. Nelson Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom

Chapter 50. Yukio Mishima: Confessions of a Mask

Appendix