On January 9th, 2009 I started reading GBWW following the Year One schedule. It took 19 months rather than 12 to finish the first year, but I'm still pleased to have completed everything. Admittedly, writing a thoughtful blog entry about each book seems to double the effort. From my list, I think I enjoyed reading Hamlet the most. However the Communist Manifesto and Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire were the most stimulating.
Here is the list of GBWW that were finished this year:
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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