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 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
GB Volume 4 - Homer - Reading Plan (25 weeks)
GB Volume 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes - Reading Plan (44 weeks)
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.
Great Conversation - 10 year reading list
The links below from other sites are same as the “Great Conversation list” but have links to reviews/notes/videos on select books)
https://fredrikvladimircoulter.com/the-great-books-of-the-western-world/ten-year-reading-plan/
https://westerntradition.wordpress.com/great-books-project/ (This says the Great Conversation - 10 year list (The link above) will not take you through the entire series. It is more of a “highlights” list.)