Great Books Reading Plan

List of Books

  • Vol 1: The Great Conversation

  • Vol 2: The Great Ideas I

  • Vol 3: The Great Ideas II

  • Vol 4: Homer

  • Vol 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes

  • Vol 6: Herodotus, Thucydides

  • Vol 7: Plato

  • Vol 8: Aristotle I

  • Vol 9: Aristotle II

  • Vol 10: Hippocrates, Galen

  • Vol 11: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus

  • Vol 12: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

  • Vol 13: Virgil

  • Vol 14: Plutarch

  • Vol 15: Tacitus

  • Vol 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler

  • Vol 17: Plotinus

  • Vol 18: Augustine

  • Vol 19: Thomas Aquinas I

  • Vol 20: Thomas Aquinas II

  • Vol 21: Dante

  • Vol 22: Chaucer

  • Vol 23: Machiavelli, Hobbes

  • Vol 24: Rabelais

  • Vol 25: Montaigne

  • Vol 26: Shakespeare I

  • Vol 27: Shakespeare II

  • Vol 28: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey

  • Vol 29: Cervantes

  • Vol 30: Francis Bacon

  • Vol 31: Descartes, Spinoza

  • Vol 32: Milton

  • Vol 33: Pascal

  • Vol 34: Newton, Huygens

  • Vol 35: Locke, Berkeley, Hume

  • Vol 36: Swift, Sterne

  • Vol 37: Fielding

  • Vol 38: Montesquieu, Rousseau

  • Vol 39: Adam Smith

  • Vol 40: Gibbon I

  • Vol 41: Gibbon II

  • Vol 42: Kant

  • Vol 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, J.S. Mill

  • Vol 44: Boswell

  • Vol 45: Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday

  • Vol 46: Hegel

  • Vol 47: Goethe

  • Vol 48: Melville

  • Vol 49: Darwin

  • Vol 50: Marx, Engels

  • Vol 51: Tolstoy

  • Vol 52: Dostoevsky

  • Vol 53: William James

  • Vol 54: Freud


Reading Plan

Reading Goal

2 pages per day, approx. 14 pages per week.

Reading Plans per Volume

  1. GB Volume 4 - Homer - Reading Plan (25 weeks)

  1. GB Volume 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes - Reading Plan (44 weeks)

  1. TBD


Links to Other Reading Plans (External Links)

These reading plans are not chronological though. I’m yet to find one. My reading speed will take more than 10 years to finish.