Literature Book List Challenge

• 1. Bhagavad Gita
• 2. Mahabharata
• 3. Gilgamesh
• 4. The Old Testament
• 5. Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
• 6. Herodotus: Histories
• 7. Sophocles: Plays
• 8. Aeschylus: Plays
• 9. Euripides: Plays (Hippolytus, The Bachantes, Electra, The Phoenician Women)
• 10. Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
• 11. Plato: Dialogues
• 12. Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Ethics, De Anima
• 13. Alexandrian Poetry: The Greek Anthology
• 14. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
• 15. Plutarch: Lives [presumably Parallel Lives]
• 16. Virgil: Aeneid, Bucolics, Georgics
• 17. Tacitus: Annals
• 18. Ovid: Metamorphoses, Heroides, Amores
• 19. The New Testament
• 20. Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars
• 21. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
• 22. Catullus: Poems
• 23. Horace: Poems
• 24. Epictetus: Discourses
• 25. Aristophanes: Plays
• 26. Claudius Aelianus: Historical Miscellany, On the Nature of Animals
• 27. Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica
• 28. Michael Psellus: Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
• 29. Edward Gibbon: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
• 30. Plotinus: The Enneads
• 31. Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History
• 32. Boethius: Consolations of Philosophy
• 33. Pliny the Younger: Letters
• 34. Byzantine verse romances
• 35. Heraclitus: Fragments
• 36. St. Augustine: Confessions
• 37. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
• 38. St. Francis of Assisi: The Little Flowers
• 39. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
• 40. Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy (Tr. By John Ciardi)
• 41. Franco Sacchetti: Novelle
• 42. Icelandic sagas
• 43. William Shakespeare (Anthony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V)
• 44. François Rabelais
• 45. Francis Bacon
• 46. Martin Luther: Selected Works
• 47. John Calvin: Institutio Christianae religionis
• 48. Michel de Montaigne: Essays
• 49. Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
• 50. René Descartes: Discourses
• 51. Song of Roland
• 52. Beowulf
• 53. Benvenuto Cellini
• 54. Henry Adams: Education of Henry Adams
• 55. Thomas Hobbes: The Leviathan
• 56. Blaise Pascal: Pensées
• 57. John Milton: Paradise Lost
• 58. John Donne
• 59. Andrew Marvell
• 60. George Herbert
• 61. Richard Crashaw
• 62. Baruch Spinoza: Treatises
• 63. Stendhal: Charterhouse of Parma, Red and Black, The Life of Henry Brulard
• 64. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
• 65. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
• 66. Choderlos de Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• 67. Baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters
• 68. John Locke: Second Treatise on Government
• 69. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
• 70. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics
• 71. David Hume: Everything
• 72. The Federalist Papers
• 73. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
• 74. Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, Philosophical Fragments
• 75. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From the Underground, The Possessed
• 76. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
• 77. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Italian Journey
• 78. Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine: Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia
• 79. Eric Auerbach: Mimesis
• 80. William H. Prescott: Conquest of Mexico
• 81. Octavio Paz: Labyrinths of Solitude
• 82. Sir Karl Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Open Society and Its Enemies
• 83. Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power

Mahabharata

Book 2 (Sabha Parva) of the Mahabharata