Mortimer J. Adler's reading list

1.
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,462 ratings
2.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,649 ratings
3.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,629 ratings
4.
The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,845 ratings
5.
The Suppliants
The Suppliants
by: Aeschylus
3.42 avg rating — 1,879 ratings
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The Persians
The Persians
by: Aeschylus
3.60 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
7.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating — 45,633 ratings
8.
The Seven Against Thebes
The Seven Against Thebes
by: Aeschylus
3.72 avg rating — 3,770 ratings
9.
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound
by: Aeschylus
3.93 avg rating — 20,796 ratings
10.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,007 ratings
11.
Electra
Electra
by: Sophocles
3.82 avg rating — 13,851 ratings
12.
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by: Sophocles
3.75 avg rating — 15,986 ratings
13.
Philoctetes
Philoctetes
by: Sophocles
3.89 avg rating — 4,936 ratings
14.
Ajax
Ajax
by: Sophocles
3.92 avg rating — 6,782 ratings
15.
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal 4.02 avg rating — 48,425 ratings
16.
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock 3.54 avg rating — 16,926 ratings
17.
Women of Trachis
Women of Trachis
by: Sophocles
3.84 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
18.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,680 ratings
19.
Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch's Lives
by: Plutarch
4.16 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
20.
Moralia
Moralia
by: Plutarch
3.98 avg rating — 229 ratings
21.
The Dialogues of Plato
The Dialogues of Plato
by: Plato
4.14 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
22.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,558 ratings
23.
Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,347 ratings
24.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,517 ratings
25.
Letters on England
Letters on England
by: Voltaire
3.67 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
26.
Philosophical Dictionary
Philosophical Dictionary
by: Voltaire
4.05 avg rating — 2,222 ratings
27.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,037 ratings
28.
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews 3.28 avg rating — 5,982 ratings
29.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,968 ratings
30.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,022 ratings
31.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,102 ratings
32.
De Monarchia
De Monarchia 3.65 avg rating — 530 ratings
33.
Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova 3.88 avg rating — 8,351 ratings
34.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,684 ratings
35.
The Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied
by: Unknown
3.82 avg rating — 8,697 ratings
36.
Leonardo's Notebooks
Leonardo's Notebooks really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 51,938 ratings
37.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,918 ratings
38.
A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub 3.45 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
39.
The Journal to Stella
The Journal to Stella 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
40.
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
41.
The Institutes of Christian Religion
The Institutes of Christian Religion 4.14 avg rating — 11,765 ratings
42.
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy 4.07 avg rating — 9,585 ratings
43.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,399 ratings
44.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,003 ratings
45.
Treatise on Conic Sections
Treatise on Conic Sections 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
45.
The Vanity of Human Wishes
The Vanity of Human Wishes 3.49 avg rating — 251 ratings
47.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 3.46 avg rating — 6,727 ratings
48.
A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology
A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology 4.22 avg rating — 116 ratings
49.
The Lives of the Poets
The Lives of the Poets 4.05 avg rating — 102 ratings
50.
Persian Letters
Persian Letters 3.64 avg rating — 7,952 ratings
51.
The Spirit of the Laws
The Spirit of the Laws 3.98 avg rating — 5,314 ratings
52.
An Essay On Criticism
An Essay On Criticism 3.77 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
53.
An Essay on Man
An Essay on Man 3.70 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
54.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 3.72 avg rating — 3,370 ratings
55.
The Way of the World
The Way of the World 3.32 avg rating — 4,327 ratings
56.
G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students
G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students 3.88 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
57.
Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology 3.61 avg rating — 445 ratings
58.
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding 4.03 avg rating — 195 ratings
59.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 4.24 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
60.
Ethics
Ethics 4.10 avg rating — 20,277 ratings
61.
Treatise on Light
Treatise on Light 3.72 avg rating — 69 ratings
62.
A Letter Concerning Toleration
A Letter Concerning Toleration 3.80 avg rating — 3,589 ratings
63.
Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method 3.72 avg rating — 24,474 ratings
64.
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Rules for the Direction of the Mind 3.61 avg rating — 682 ratings
65.
The Enneads
The Enneads
by: Plotinus
4.07 avg rating — 3,123 ratings
66.
Odes and Epodes
Odes and Epodes
by: Horatius
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,078 ratings
67.
Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica
Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica
by: Horatius
4.10 avg rating — 737 ratings
68.
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
by: Horatius
3.63 avg rating — 57 ratings
69.
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres 4.09 avg rating — 981 ratings
70.
Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
by: Erasmus
3.83 avg rating — 19,731 ratings
71.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,259 ratings
72.
City of God
City of God 3.94 avg rating — 13,448 ratings
73.
On Christian Doctrine
On Christian Doctrine 4.06 avg rating — 3,847 ratings
74.
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
by: Livy
3.96 avg rating — 9,757 ratings
75.
On The Natural Faculties
On The Natural Faculties
by: Galen
3.04 avg rating — 113 ratings
76.
Andromaque
Andromaque 3.70 avg rating — 9,758 ratings
76.
Britannicus
Britannicus 3.51 avg rating — 3,889 ratings
78.
Bérénice
Bérénice 3.74 avg rating — 3,129 ratings
79.
Iphigénie
Iphigénie 3.58 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
80.
Athalie
Athalie 3.45 avg rating — 570 ratings
81.
Bajazet
Bajazet 3.49 avg rating — 469 ratings
82.
Esther
Esther 3.38 avg rating — 208 ratings
83.
Mithridate
Mithridate 3.54 avg rating — 275 ratings
84.
La Thébaïde ou Les Frères Ennemis
La Thébaïde ou Les Frères Ennemis 3.62 avg rating — 208 ratings
85.
Alexandre le Grand
Alexandre le Grand 3.10 avg rating — 182 ratings
86.
Phèdre
Phèdre 3.69 avg rating — 23,845 ratings
87.
The Agricola and The Germania
The Agricola and The Germania
by: Tacitus
3.97 avg rating — 5,966 ratings
88.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Tacitus
4.13 avg rating — 3,900 ratings
89.
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome
by: Tacitus
3.98 avg rating — 9,162 ratings
90.
The Table Talk of Martin Luther
The Table Talk of Martin Luther 4.02 avg rating — 416 ratings
91.
Three Treatises
Three Treatises 3.86 avg rating — 732 ratings
92.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
93.
Opticks; or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Inflections and Colours of Light: 1718
Opticks; or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Inflections and Colours of Light: 1718 4.26 avg rating — 331 ratings
94.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 3.86 avg rating — 17,028 ratings
95.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Some Thoughts Concerning Education 3.62 avg rating — 353 ratings
96.
Second Treatise of Government
Second Treatise of Government 3.78 avg rating — 23,639 ratings