future reading
My big goal is to read much of the canon in waves or topic clusters. I have Claude generate a general scaffolding, then pick out based on whatever topic I am currently interested in. Works out well I think.
Random
- Edward Fishman - Chokepoints
- Maggie Haberman - Confidence Man
- Walter Isaacson - Kissinger
- Walter Isaacson - Leonardo da Vinci
- Olivia Fox Cabene - The Charisma Myth
- Zach Carter - The Price of Peace
- Edith Stein - On the Problem of Empathy
- Ron Chernow - Washington
- Allen C Guelzo - Robert E. Lee
- Ron Chernow - Grant
- Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Claude Version
Wave 1 β Ancient (c. 800 BCE β 200 CE)
- Homer β Iliad
- Homer β Odyssey
- Hebrew Bible β Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah
- Aeschylus β The Oresteia
- Sophocles β Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) βοΈ
- Euripides β The Bacchae and Medea
- Herodotus β The Histories
- Thucydides β History of the Peloponnesian War β
- Plato β The Trial and Death of Socrates βοΈ
- Plato β Republic β
- Plato β Symposium and Phaedrus βοΈ
- Xenophon β Anabasis
- Aristotle β Nicomachean Ethics βοΈ β
- Aristotle β Politics
- Aristotle β Poetics
- Euclid β Elements (Books IβVI)
- Polybius β Histories Book VI
- Cicero β On Duties and On the Republic
- Lucretius β On the Nature of Things
- Virgil β Aeneid
- Ovid β Metamorphoses
- The Gospels β Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
- Paul β Letters (Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians)
- Seneca β Letters from a Stoic
- Epictetus β Discourses and Enchiridion
- Plutarch β Parallel Lives (selections)
- Tacitus β Annals
- Marcus Aurelius β Meditations βοΈ β
Wave 2 β Medieval and Early Modern (c. 400 β 1650)
- Augustine β Confessions βοΈ β
- Augustine β City of God (selections)
- Boethius β The Consolation of Philosophy
- Aquinas β Summa Theologica (selections) β
- Dante β Divine Comedy βοΈ
- Chaucer β Canterbury Tales (selections)
- Erasmus β The Praise of Folly
- More β Utopia
- Machiavelli β The Prince βοΈ
- Machiavelli β Discourses on Livy (selections)
- Luther β The Freedom of a Christian and 95 Theses
- Calvin β Institutes of the Christian Religion (selections)
- Montaigne β Essays (selections)
- Cervantes β Don Quixote
- Shakespeare β Hamlet β
- Shakespeare β King Lear β
- Shakespeare β Macbeth
- Shakespeare β The Tempest
- Shakespeare β Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2
- Shakespeare β Coriolanus
- Bacon β New Organon (selections) and Essays
- Galileo β Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (selections)
- Descartes β Meditations on First Philosophy
- Hobbes β Leviathan (Parts IβII) β
- Milton β Paradise Lost βοΈ
- Pascal β PensΓ©es
Wave 3 β Enlightenment (c. 1650 β 1800)
- Spinoza β Ethics
- Locke β Second Treatise of Government
- Locke β Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selections)
- Newton β Principia (selections) and Opticks (selections)
- Swift β Gulliver's Travels
- Montesquieu β The Spirit of the Laws (selections)
- Hume β An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Hume β Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (selections)
- Rousseau β Discourse on Inequality
- Rousseau β The Social Contract
- Adam Ferguson β Essay on the History of Civil Society
- Smith β The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Smith β The Wealth of Nations (selections)
- Kant β Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Kant β Critique of Practical Reason
- Kant β Critique of Pure Reason (selections) β
- Gibbon β Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (selections)
- Burke β Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Paine β Common Sense and Rights of Man
- Madison, Hamilton, Jay β The Federalist Papers β
- Wollstonecraft β A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Goethe β Faust, Part I
Wave 4 β 19th Century (c. 1800 β 1900)
- Austen β Pride and Prejudice
- Austen β Emma
- Hegel β Phenomenology of Spirit (Preface and Introduction) and Philosophy of History (selections) β
- Tocqueville β Democracy in America β
- Carlyle β On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
- Emerson β Essays (First and Second Series)
- Thoreau β Walden
- Melville β Moby-Dick
- Mill β On Liberty
- Mill β Utilitarianism
- Kierkegaard β Fear and Trembling
- Marx β Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, The Communist Manifesto, Capital Vol. I (selections)
- Darwin β On the Origin of Species
- Flaubert β Madame Bovary
- Dostoevsky β Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevsky β The Brothers Karamazov
- Tolstoy β War and Peace
- Tolstoy β Anna Karenina
- George Eliot β Middlemarch
- Whitman β Leaves of Grass (selections)
- Dickinson β Selected Poems
- Nietzsche β Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche β On the Genealogy of Morals β
- William James β The Varieties of Religious Experience
Wave 5 β 20th Century and After (c. 1900 β Present)
- Freud β Civilization and Its Discontents
- Weber β The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Conrad β Heart of Darkness
- Proust β Swann's Way (Volume 1 of In Search of Lost Time)
- Joyce β Ulysses
- Eliot β The Waste Land and Four Quartets
- Woolf β To the Lighthouse
- Kafka β The Trial and selected stories
- Faulkner β The Sound and the Fury or Absalom, Absalom!
- Heidegger β Being and Time (selections) β
- Wittgenstein β Philosophical Investigations
- Orwell β 1984 and Homage to Catalonia βοΈ
- Hayek β The Road to Serfdom
- Borges β Ficciones
- Camus β The Myth of Sisyphus and The Plague
- Arendt β The Origins of Totalitarianism (Part III) and The Human Condition
- Arendt β Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Solzhenitsyn β One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Solzhenitsyn β The Gulag Archipelago (abridged)
- Rawls β A Theory of Justice