Listă de cărți considerate cele mai bune

Acesta este un exemplu de listă de cărți considerate cele mai bune listate cronologic pe baza cărților How to Read a BookMortimer Adler - How to Read a Book, 1940 de Mortimer Adler (1940) și How to Read a Book, ediția a 2-a de Mortimer Adler și Charles Van Doren (1972). Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902 – 2001) a fost un filozof, pedagog și editor american.

Homer – Iliada; Odiseea Vechiul Testament Aeschylus – Tragedies Sophocles – Tragedies Herodotus – Histories Euripides – Tragedies Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War Hippocrates – Medical Writings Aristophanes – Comedies Plato – Dialogues Aristotle – Works Epicurus – "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoecus" Euclid – Elements Archimedes – Works Apoloniu din Perga – Conics Cicero – Works (esp. Orations; On Friendship; On Old Age; Republic; Laws; Tusculan Disputations; Offices) Lucretius – On the Nature of Things Virgil – Works (esp. Aeneid) Horace – Works (esp. Odes and Epodes; The Art of Poetry) Titus Livius – Ab Urbe condita Ovid – Works (esp. Metamorphoses) Quintilian – Institutes of Oratory Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania; Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory) Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic Epictetus – Discourses; Enchiridion Ptolemy – Almagest Lucian – Works (esp. The Way to Write History; The True History; The Sale of Creeds; Alexander the Oracle Monger; Charon; The Sale of Lives; The Fisherman; Dialogue of the Gods; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods; Dialogues of the Dead) Marcus Aurelius – Meditations Galen – On the Natural Faculties The New Testament Plotinus – The Enneads St. Augustine – "On the Teacher"; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine The Volsungs Saga or Nibelungenlied The Song of Roland The Saga of Burnt Njál Maimonides – The Guide for the Perplexed St. Thomas Aquinas – Of Being and Essence; Summa Contra Gentiles; Of the Governance of Rulers; Summa Theologica Dante Alighieri – The New Life (La Vita Nuova); "On Monarchy"; Divine Comedy Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly; Colloquies Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Thomas More – Utopia Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion Michel de Montaigne – Essays William Gilbert – On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene Francis Bacon – Essays; The Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Two New Sciences Johannes Kepler – The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Harmonices Mundi William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; Generation of Animals Grotius – The Law of War and Peace Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan; Elements of Philosophy René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy; The Passions of the Soul Corneille – Tragedies (esp. The Cid, Cinna) John Milton – Works (esp. the minor poems; Areopagitica; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes) Molière – Comedies (esp. The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself; Tartuffe; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman; The Imaginary Invalid; The Affected Ladies) Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensées; Scientific Treatises John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress Boyle – The Sceptical Chymist Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light Benedict de Spinoza – Political Treatises; Ethics John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Some Thoughts Concerning Education Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies (esp. Andromache; Phaedra; Athalie (Athaliah)) Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Opticks Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays on Human Understanding; Monadology Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub; A Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal William Congreve – The Way of the World George Berkeley – A New Theory of Vision; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; The Spirit of the Laws Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; Lives of the Poets David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; History of England Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality; On Political Economy; Emile: or, On Education; The Social Contract; Confessions Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography James Boswell – Journal; The Life of Samuel Johnson Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry) Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers (together with the Articles of Confederation; United States Constitution and United States Declaration of Independence) Jeremy Bentham – Comment on the Commentaries; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions Johann Wolfgang Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth Thomas Robert Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population John Dalton – A New System of Chemical Philosophy Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit; Science of Logic; Elements of the Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History William Wordsworth – Poems (esp. Lyrical Ballads; Lucy poems; sonnets; The Prelude) Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems (esp. Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ); Biographia Literaria David Ricardo – On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma Carl von Clausewitz – On War Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love François Guizot – History of Civilization in France Lord Byron – Don Juan Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism Michael Faraday – The Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity Nikolai Lobachevsky – Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy Honoré Balzac – Works (esp. Le Père Goriot; Le Cousin Pons; Eugénie Grandet; Cousin Bette; César Birotteau) Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal Victor Hugo - Les Misérables Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; Principles of Political Economy; On Liberty; Considerations on Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography William Makepeace Thackeray – Works (esp. Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond; The Virginians; Pendennis) Charles Dickens – Works (esp. Pickwick Papers; Our Mutual Friend; David Copperfield; Dombey and Son; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Hard Times) Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine George Boole – The Laws of Thought Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Das Kapital (Capital); The Communist Manifesto George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch Herman Melville – Typee; Moby-Dick; Billy Budd Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories Henry Thomas Buckle – A History of Civilization in England Francis Galton – Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development Bernhard Riemann – The Hypotheses of Geometry Henrik Ibsen – Plays (esp. Peer Gynt; Brand; Hedda Gabler; Emperor and Galilean; A Doll's House; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder) Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; "What Is Art?"; Twenty-Three Tales Richard Dedekind – Theory of Numbers Wilhelm Wundt – Physiological Psychology; Outline of Psychology Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; The Mysterious Stranger Henry Adams – History of the United States; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Degradation of Democratic Dogma Charles Peirce – Chance, Love, and Logic; Collected Papers William Sumner – Folkways Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Common Law; Collected Legal Papers William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; A Pluralistic Universe; Essays in Radical Empiricism Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality; The Will to Power; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist Georg Cantor – Transfinite Numbers Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method; The Foundations of Science Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality; Introduction to Psychoanalysis; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; The Ego and the Id; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces Max Planck – Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion John Dewey – How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for Certainty; Logic – The Theory of Inquiry Alfred North Whitehead – A Treatise on Universal Algebra; An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas George Santayana – The Life of Reason; Scepticism and Animal Faith; The Realms of Being (which discusses the Realms of Essence, Matter and Truth); Persons and Places Vladimir Lenin – Imperialism; The State and Revolution Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past) Bertrand Russell – Principles of Mathematics; The Problems of Philosophy; Principia Mathematica; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers Albert Einstein – The Theory of Relativity; Sidelights on Relativity; The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics James Joyce – "The Dead" in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses Jacques Maritain – Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; Freedom and the Modern World; A Preface to Metaphysics; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism Franz Kafka – The Trial; The Castle