Nick's Summary of Great Books Lists, Part II

Here is part two of Nick’s Summary of Great Books Lists. See this page for a further explanation of where this list came from. [Note: An L indicates that this title is available as a free, unabridged audio download from Librivox.org.] Books that showed up on 7 of 13 lists: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - L1; L2 Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - L Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy - L Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Plato - Symposium Plutarch - Lives William Shakespeare - Complete Works Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji Vyasa - Mahabharata Books that showed up on 6 of 13 lists Jane Austen - Emma - L James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species Daniel DeFoe - Robinson Crusoe - L Fyodor Dostoyevski - Crime and Punishment George Eliot - Middlemarch Euripides - Bacchae, Hippolytus Hamilton, Madison, Jay - The Federalist Papers William James - Pragmatism Franz Kafka - The Trial John Locke - Second Treatise on Government Karl Marx and Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto - L Herman Melville - Moby Dick Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four Plato - Crito Jean Jacques Rousseau - Confessions Sai Shonagon - The Pillow Book Baruch Spinoza - Ethics Stendhal - The Red and the Black Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy Valmiki - The Ramayana Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse Cao Xeugin - The Story of the Stone Books that showed up on 5 of 13 lists Aristophanes - The Clouds Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress - L Albert Camus - The Stranger Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya Confucius - The Analects Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly Euclid - Elements William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams James Joyce - Ulysses Franz Kafka - The Castle Kalidasa - Sakuntala Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason Lao-Tzu (Laozi) - Tao te Ching (Daodejing) - L Mencius - The Book of Mencius John Milton - Areopagitica Moliere - Tartuffe Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil - L Plato - Meno Plotinus - Enneads Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past Sima Qian - Records of the Grand Historian Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonnus Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations Tacitus - Annals St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica Henry David Thoreau - Walden - L Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America