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A Canon

Updated 14 days ago
146 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound Seth G. Benardete (Translator) Euripides	3	1 read
#4	The Bible Robert Carroll Stephen Prickett	0	1 read
#5	The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Aeschylus Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.83	67 reads
#6	Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle	5	2 reads
#7	Compendium of Theology Thomas Aquinas Richard J. Regan (Translator)	4	1 read
#8	Politics Aristotle	3.52	39 reads
#9	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding	3.48	27 reads
#10	The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.86	348 reads
#12	Robinson Crusoe	3	5 reads
#13	Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift	3.44	351 reads
#14	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne	3.96	32 reads
#15	Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans Augustine of Hippo Henry Bettenson (Translator)	3.63	14 reads
#16	The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Selected Letters Baruch Spinoza Seymour Feldman Samuel Shirley (Translator)	0	0 reads
#17	Metaphysical Poetry Various	0	2 reads
#18	The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition Jonathan Swift	0	0 reads
#19	Plato's Dialogue on Friendship: An Interpretation of the Lysis Plato David Bolotin (Translator)	0	0 reads
#20	The solar system and back Plato	2.67	4 reads
#21	The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Robert Fagles (Translator) Sophocles	4.2	19 reads
#22	The Five Books of Moses Robert Alter	4	2 reads
#23	Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary Robert Alter	3	1 read
#24	The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary	4	1 read
#25	The Birds The Birds Aristophanes	4.33	3 reads
#26	Rhetoric Aristotle William Rhys Roberts (Translator)	3.76	28 reads
#27	The Confessions Saint Augustine Henry Chadwick	4.29	9 reads
#28	Euripides I Euripides Rex Warner (Translator) Ralph Gladstone (Translator)	0	3 reads
#29	Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen Euripides Witter Bynner (Translator)	5	1 read
#30	Euripides III Euripides III: Hecuba / Andromache / The Trojan Women / Ion William Arrowsmith (Translator) John Frederick Nims (Translator) Ronald Frederick Willetts (Translator) Euripides	5	1 read
#31	Euripides V Euripides	0	0 reads
#32	Theogony/Works and Days Hesiod	0	0 reads
#33	The Homeric Hymns Homer Susan C. Shelmerdine (Translator)	4.33	3 reads
#34	On the Nature of Things Lucretius William Ellery Channing Leonard (Translator)	3	3 reads
#35	Paradise Lost John Milton	3.71	208 reads
#36	Plato: Meno Plato Peter Kalkavage (Translator) Eric Salem (Translator) Eva Brann (Translator)	0	0 reads
#37	Lesser Hippias Lesser Hippias Plato	4	2 reads
#38	The Landmark Thucydides Thucydides Richard Crawley	4.75	5 reads
#39	The Aeneid Virgil Robert Fagles (Translator)	4.16	32 reads
#41	Metamorphoses Ovid Rolfe Humphries (Translator)	4.33	10 reads
#42	Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla Plutarch Bernadotte Perrin (Translator)	3.75	14 reads
#43	Plutarch's Lives: Volume II Plutarch John Dryden (Translator)	3.67	4 reads
#44	Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study Joe Sachs Aristotle	4.5	2 reads
#45	Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women Aristophanes Jeffrey Henderson (Translator)	0	0 reads
#46	Clouds Aristophanes	3.5	12 reads
#47	Frogs Aristophanes Jeffrey Henderson (translator)	0	0 reads
#48	Religio Medici and Hydiotaphia, or Urne-Buriall Religio Medici and Hydiotaphia, or Urne-Buriall Thomas Browne	0	1 read
#49	The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is Robert Burton	4.5	5 reads
#50	Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies René Descartes John Cottingham (Translator)	3.5	4 reads
#51	Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe George Madison Priest (Translator)	3.81	190 reads
#52	The Philosophy of Right Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Alan White (Translator)	5	0 reads
#53	Three More Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Politics Jeffrey Henderson	0	0 reads
#54	The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli Rufus Goodwin (Translator)	3.66	396 reads
#55	Shakespeare's Montaigne Michel de Montaigne	0	0 reads
#56	Gorgias and Rhetoric Gorgias and Rhetoric Plato Aristotle	3	1 read
#57	Symposion Plato	3.77	79 reads
#58	The Collected Works, Vol. 1 Scott McClanahan Manuel Alberto Vieira (Translator)	4.4	18 reads
#59	Apologies Plató Xenophon	0	0 reads
#60	Sophocles II Michael Jameson (Translator) Sophocles John Moore (Translator)	4.25	4 reads
#61	A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne	2.86	8 reads
#62	Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis, Euhemeros of Messene's Panchaia, Iamboulos' Island of the Sun, and Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis	0	0 reads
#63	Empire and the Ends of Politics Pericles Plato Susan Collins (Translator) Devin Stauffer (Translator)	0	0 reads
#64	The Republic of Plato Allan David Bloom	4	3 reads
#65	Theaetetus Plato Robin Waterfield (Translator)	4.2	13 reads
#66	Sophist: The Professor of Wisdom Plato Eva Brann (Translator) Peter Kalkavage (Translator) Eric Salem (Translator)	3	1 read
#67	Statesman Plato	4.5	2 reads
#68	Socrates and the Sophists Plato	0	0 reads
#69	Timaeus Plato	0	1 read
#71	Phaedrus Plato Benjamin Jowett (Translator)	3.4	14 reads
#73	Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus Plato Joe Sachs (Translator)	0	0 reads
#74	The Tragedy and Comedy of Life Plato	0	0 reads
#75	Four Texts on Socrates Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds Plato Aristophanes Grace Starry West (Translator)	4	1 read
#76	Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts: Plato's Alcibiades 1-2, Symposium 212c-223a, Aeschines' Alcibiades Plato Aeschines Socraticus David R. Johnson (Translator)	0	0 reads
#77	The collected dialogues of Plato, including the letters Plato	4.04	35 reads
#78	Strong as Death is Love: The Song of Songs / Ruth / Esther / Jonah / Daniel Robert Alter (Translator)	0	0 reads
#79	The Book of Psalms Robert Alter	0	1 read
#80	The Inferno Dante Alighieri Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator)	0	1 read
#81	The Paradiso Dante Alighieri	0	1 read
#82	The Purgatorio Dante Alighieri	0	0 reads
#83	On the Soul and on Memory and Recollection Aristotle Joe Sachs (Translator)	5	1 read
#84	Parva Naturalia Aristotle	0	0 reads
#85	Douay Rheims Bible Anonymous	0	0 reads
#86	The Riverside Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer	3.67	8 reads
#87	Plato's Meno Plato G.M.A. Grube (Translator)	3.82	16 reads
#88	The Histories Herodotus Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translator)	4.02	42 reads
#90	The Metamorphoses Ovid Horace Gregory (Translator)	4	85 reads
#92	Inferno Dante Alighieri	3.91	153 reads
#93	Purgatorio Dante Alighieri	4.25	12 reads
#94	Paradise Dante Alighieri	0	1 read
#95	Don Quixote De La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	0	1 read
#96	Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais M.A. Screech (Translator)	3.14	21 reads
#97	Euripides IV Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis William Arrowsmith (Translator) Charles R. Walker (Translator) Euripides	0	0 reads
#98	Gargantua et Pantagruel: Les Cinq Livres François Rabelais	0	0 reads
#99	The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance Thomas Aquinas Richard J. Regan	0	0 reads
#100	Rambam: Readings in the Philosophy of Moses Maimonides Maimonides Lenn E. Goodman	3	3 reads
#102	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation Unknown Simon Armitage (Translator)	3.81	23 reads
#103	The Republic Plato	3.82	259 reads
#104	Two Treatises of Government John Locke Mark Goldie	3.81	22 reads
#105	The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues Thomas L. Pangle	0	0 reads
#106	Symposium or Drinking Party Plato Peter Kalkavage (Translator) Eva Brann (Translator) Eric Salem (Translator)	0	1 read
#107	Memorabilia Xenophon Amy L. Bonnette (Translator)	0	1 read
#108	Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica Homer George Chapman (Translator)	0	0 reads
#109	Commentary on Aristotle's Politics Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Richard J. Regan	0	0 reads