Epic Intellectual Reading Adventure
The Western Canon According to Jane Haddam, condensed and for my own reference:
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics - trans. W. D. Ross - begun 9/31/09
Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species
Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations
The Holy Bible (King James version?); esp. Job, Genesis, the Gospel according to St. John, the Revelation of St. John the Divine
Shakespeare, William: King Lear
Hitler, Adolph: Mein Kampf
Locke, John: Second Treatise on Government
Rousseau, Jean-Jaques: The Social Contract
Madison, James, et al: The Constitution of the United States
Siegel, Jerry and Joe Shuster: Superman
Homer: Odyssey (and Iliad?)
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Clausewitz, Karl von: On War
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: "Self-Reliance"
Thoreau, Henry David: "Civil Disobedience"
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Dostoyevsky, Feodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Kafka, Franz: "The Metamorphosis"
Ginsberg, Alan: Howl
Seuss, Dr.: How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Levy, Andrew: The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics - trans. W. D. Ross - begun 9/31/09
Darwin, Charles: The Origin of Species
Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations
The Holy Bible (King James version?); esp. Job, Genesis, the Gospel according to St. John, the Revelation of St. John the Divine
Shakespeare, William: King Lear
Hitler, Adolph: Mein Kampf
Locke, John: Second Treatise on Government
Rousseau, Jean-Jaques: The Social Contract
Madison, James, et al: The Constitution of the United States
Siegel, Jerry and Joe Shuster: Superman
Homer: Odyssey (and Iliad?)
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Clausewitz, Karl von: On War
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: "Self-Reliance"
Thoreau, Henry David: "Civil Disobedience"
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Dostoyevsky, Feodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Kafka, Franz: "The Metamorphosis"
Ginsberg, Alan: Howl
Seuss, Dr.: How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Levy, Andrew: The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves