50 Classics

50 Classics I’d like to read before I am 60:

1.     The Bible*

2.     Anabasis by Xenophon***

3.     Herodotus***

4.     Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden)***

5.     Oedipus Trilogy***

6.     The City of God*

7.     Metamorphoses by Ovid***

8.     The Consolation of Philosophy*

9.     Summa Theologica***

10. Interior Castle*

11. Pensees by Pascal*  I own this now and pick it up to read now and again.

12. The Life of Johnson**

13. The Faerie Queen***

14. Democracy in America***

15. Apologia Pro Vita Sua** (I tried this but it was too dry)

16. The Intellectual Life*

17. Nicomachean Ethics***

18. Rhetoric***

19. Shakespeare (as much as I can!)***

20. Utopia***

21. War and Peace (I have tried but never gotten into it)*

22. Crime and Punishment (ditto)**

23. The Story of Art by Gombrich**

24. Civilization by Kenneth Clark**

25. Life of Moses (Gregory of Nyssa)***

26. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain**

27. The Practice of the Presence of God*

28. The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall**

29. Out of Africa (this would be a reread)**

30. West with the Night**

31. Divine Comedy (I’ve read Inferno but not the other two books)***

32. The Betrothed**

33. Things Fall Apart**

34. Frankenstein**

35. Mythology by Edith Hamilton***

36. Fiction by Borges (He wrote mostly short stories)**

37. Wise Blood**

38. The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot***

39. The Moviegoer**

40. Winesburg, Ohio**

41. Go Tell It On the Mountain**

42. Up From Slavery**

43. Silent Spring**

44. The Road to Wigan Pier** (started it but gave up)

45. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wallstonecraft***

46. Hildegard of Bingen (Collection of her writings)*

47. Margery Kempe (memoirs, I think)**

48. Kathleen Thompson Norris (novelist)**

49. Kathleen Norris (poet/religious books)*

50. Helena by Evelyn Waugh**

*Religious books to read as part of morning prayer time.
** novels/non-fiction to read at night
*** books that will need dedicated study time