Nick's Summary of Great Books, Part I

Here is part one of Nick’s Summary of Great Books. 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 13 of 13 lists: Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War - L Books that showed up on 12 of 13 lists Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote Herodotus - The Histories Homer - The Iliad Michel de Montaigne - Complete Essays Books that showed up on 11 of 13 lists Lucretius - Of the Nature of the Universe Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel Virgil - The Aeneid Books that showed up on 10 of 13 lists St. Augustine — Confessions Homer - The Odyssey Machiavelli - The Prince - L Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels Books that showed up on 9 of 13 lists: Aeschylus - The Oresteia Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics Rene Descartes - Discourse on Method - L Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace Voltaire - Candide Books that showed up on 8 of 13 lists: Aristotle - Poetics - L Marcus Aurelius - Meditations Fyodor Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov Henry Fielding - Tom Jones Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan John Stuart Mill - On Liberty John Milton - Paradise Lost Blaise Pascal - Pensees Plato - Republic Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Antigone Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - L