{"id":322,"date":"2010-03-13T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2010-03-13T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:41:01","slug":"nicks-summary-of-great-books-lists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/books\/nicks-summary-of-great-books-lists","title":{"rendered":"Nick&#8217;s Summary of Great Books Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the original list of great books I compiled from thirteen &#8220;greatest books&#8221; lists.  You can read some of the background to this list on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/books\/nicks-catholic-classics-reading-list\">this page<\/a>, which introduces my Catholic Classics list.  Here are the thirteen lists used in the summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mortimer Adler &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671212095\/nickslists-20\"><em>How to Read a Book<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasaquinas.edu\/curriculum\/index.htm\">Thomas Aquinas College Reading List<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Harold Bloom &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1573225142\/nickslists-20\"><em>The Western Canon<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Columbia Reading List<\/li>\n<li>Cilfton Fadiman &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062720732\/nickslists-20\"><em>The New Lifetime Reading Plan<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Martin Seymour-Smith &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0806521929\/nickslists-20\"><em>100 Most Influential Books Ever Written<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjca.edu\/asp\/main.aspx?page=1302\">St. John&#8217;s College Reading List<\/a><\/li>\n<li>De Bary and Bloom &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0231070047\/nickslists-20\"><em>Approaches to the Asian Classics<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Barbara Stoler Miller &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1563242575\/nickslists-20\"><em>Masterworks of Asian Literature<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Rexroth &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/9999590748\/nickslists-20\"><em>Classics Revisited<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Philip Ward &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0900891742\/nickslists-20\"><em>A Lifetime&#8217;s Reading: The World&#8217;s 500 Greatest Books<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthony Burgess &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671554859\/nickslists-20\"><em>99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Funsten &#8211; <em>100 Books for the Modern Person<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this list is helpful for those of you who are looking for great books to read.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books that showed up on 13 of 13 lists:<\/span><br \/>\nThucydides &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0684827905\/nickslists-20\">History of the Peloponnesian War<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\nBooks that showed up on 12 of 13 lists<\/span><br \/>\nMiguel de Cervantes \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060934344\/nickslists-20\"><em>Don Quixote<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nHerodotus &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192824252\/nickslists-20\">The Histories<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>Homer<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0872203522\/nickslists-20\">The Iliad<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>Michel de Montaigne &#8211; <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0804704864\/nickslists-20\">Complete Essays<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books that showed up on 11 of 13 lists<\/span><br \/>\nLucretius &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192817612\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Of the Nature of the Universe<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nRabelais &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393308065\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gargantua and Pantagruel<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nVirgil &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679729526\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Aeneid<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\nBooks that showed up on 10 of 13 lists<\/span><br \/>\nSt. Augustine \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192833723\/nickslists-20\"><em>Confessions<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nHomer &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0872204847\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Odyssey<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMachiavelli &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553212788\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Prince<\/span><\/a><a style=\"color: red;\" href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/the-prince-by-niccolo-machiavelli\/\"><\/a><br \/>\nJonathan Swift &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451527321\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books that showed up on 9 of 13 lists:<\/span><br \/>\nAeschylus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140443339\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Oresteia<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAristotle &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/019283407X\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nichomachean Ethics<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nRene Descartes &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140446990\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Discourse on Method<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192835955\/nickslists-20\">Faust<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>Leo Tolstoy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140444173\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">War and Peace<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nVoltaire &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140440046\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Candide<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\nBooks that showed up on 8 of 13 lists:<\/span><br \/>\nAristotle &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140446362\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Poetics<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMarcus Aurelius &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140449337\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Meditations<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFyodor Dostoyevski &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192835092\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Brothers Karamazov<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nHenry Fielding &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192834975\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tom Jones<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nThomas Hobbes &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140431950\/nickslists-20\">Leviathan<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>John Stuart Mill &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140432078\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">On Liberty<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Milton &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451527925\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Paradise Lost<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBlaise Pascal &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192836552\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pensees<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlato &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140449140\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Republic<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSophocles &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140444254\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oedipus Rex, Antigone<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMark Twain &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/159308000X\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/159308000X\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books that showed up on 7 of 13 lists:<\/span><br \/>\nJane Austen<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553213105\/nickslists-20\">Pride and Prejudice<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>Geoffrey Chaucer &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140424385\/nickslists-20\">The Canterbury Tales<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>Dante Alighieri<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451208633\/nickslists-20\">The Divine Comedy<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nEdward Gibbon &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345478843\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlato &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192834274\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Symposium<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlutarch &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375756760\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lives<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWilliam Shakespeare &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0199267170\/nickslists-20\">Complete Works<\/a><br \/>\nMurasaki Shikibu<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/014243714X\/nickslists-20\">The Tale of Genji<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>Vyasa<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0520227042\/nickslists-20\">Mahabharata<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books that showed up on 6 of 13 lists<\/span><br \/>\nJane Austen &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451526279\/nickslists-20\">Emma<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>James Boswell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140431160\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Life of Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCharles Darwin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451529065\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Origin of Species<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nDaniel DeFoe<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375757325\/nickslists-20\">Robinson Crusoe<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>Fyodor Dostoyevski &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553211757\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crime and Punishment<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nGeorge Eliot &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451529170\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Middlemarch<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nEuripides &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553213636\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bacchae, Hippolytus<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nHamilton, Madison, Jay &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451528816\/nickslists-20\">The Federalist Papers<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>William James &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140437355\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pragmatism<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFranz Kafka &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805209999\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Trial<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Locke &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0915144867\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Second Treatise on Government<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nKarl Marx and Frederick Engels &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140447571\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Communist Manifesto<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nHerman Melville &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553213113\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Moby Dick<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140047484\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thus Spake Zarathustra<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nGeorge Orwell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451524934\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nineteen Eighty-four<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlato &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0879754966\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crito<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJean Jacques Rousseau &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192822756\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Confessions<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSai Shonagon &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0231073372\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Pillow Book<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBaruch Spinoza &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140435719\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ethics<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nStendhal &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192838717\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Red and the Black<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nLaurence Sterne &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192834703\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tristram Shandy<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nValmiki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0520227034\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Ramayana<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nVirginia Woolf &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0156907399\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">To the Lighthouse<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCao Xeugin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140442936\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Story of the Stone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books that showed up on 5 of 13 lists<\/span><br \/>\nAristophanes &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451214099\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Clouds<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a>Samuel Beckett &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802130348\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Waiting for Godot<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Bunyan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192834002\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAlbert Camus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679720200\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Stranger<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAnton Chekhov &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192834126\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Uncle Vanya<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nConfucius &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140443487\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Analects<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCharles Dickens &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140436111\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pickwick Papers<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nDesiderius Erasmus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140446087\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In Praise of Folly<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nEuclid &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0486600882\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Elements<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWilliam Faulkner &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679732241\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Sound and the Fury<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nGustave Flaubert &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553213415\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Madame Bovary<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSigmund Freud &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380010003\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Interpretation of Dreams<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJames Joyce &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679600116\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ulysses<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFranz Kafka &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805211063\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Castle<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nKalidasa &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/019283911X\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sakuntala<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nImmanuel Kant &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0486432548\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Critique of Pure Reason<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nLao-Tzu (Laozi) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679433163\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tao te Ching (Daodejing)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMencius &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140442286\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Book of Mencius<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Milton &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0882950576\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Areopagitica<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMoliere &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0156881802\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tartuffe<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nVladimir Nabokov &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679723161\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lolita<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/014044923X\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Beyond Good and Evil<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlato &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140440682\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Meno<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPlotinus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1419182668\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Enneads<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMarcel Proust &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0394712439\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Remembrance of Things Past<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSima Qian &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0231081693\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Records of the Grand Historian<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSophocles &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140444254\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oedipus at Colonnus<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nIvan Turgenev &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192833928\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Fathers and Sons<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAdam Smith &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679783369\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wealth of Nations<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nTacitus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140440607\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Annals<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSt. Thomas Aquinas &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0870610635\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Summa Theologica<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nHenry David Thoreau &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0940450275\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Walden<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAlexis de Tocqueville &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451528123\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Democracy in America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the original list of great books I compiled from thirteen &#8220;greatest books&#8221; lists. You can read some of the background to this list on this page, which introduces my Catholic Classics list. Here are the thirteen lists used in the summary: Mortimer Adler &#8211; from How to Read a Book Thomas Aquinas College Reading List Harold Bloom &#8211; The Western Canon Columbia Reading List Cilfton Fadiman &#8211; The New Lifetime Reading Plan Martin Seymour-Smith &#8211; 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written St. John&#8217;s College Reading List&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":254,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/POucj-5c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}