Great Books Reading Plan

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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

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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)

GB Volume 4 - Homer - Reading Plan

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

GB Volume 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes - Reading Plan

3. TBD

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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://gbwwblog.wordpress.com/reading-plan/

  • https://fredrikvladimircoulter.com/the-great-books-of-the-western-world/ten-year-reading-plan/

  • https://thinkingwest.com/10-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.)