As I mentioned in my last post, I plan to read books recommended by critics and readers. Here are four different web sites that I have collected lists from and compiled into an Excel spreadsheet.
Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
Random House publishers
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
The Guardian (London Newspaper)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews
Sybervision (an Audio book company - which may be a bit biased toward books they have in audio :) http://www.sybervision.com/Books/booksmain.htm
These lists will be used to supplement the reading that I will be doing from the "Great Books of the Western World" The GBWW has yearly reading "assignments" for each year of its suggested 10 year program. Following the schedule, I will be starting old school reading Plato.
Here is the GBWW reading list for year one:
Plato: Apology, Crito, The Republic
Sophocles: Oedipus the King and Antigone
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Politics
Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Old Testament: Book of Job
St. Augustine: The Confessions
Montaigne: The Essays
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Locke: Concerning Civil Government
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Federalist
Marx-Engles: Manifesto of the Communist Party
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