Joseph Brodsky’s Reading List

1.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,700 ratings
2.
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita 4.19 avg rating — 78,218 ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars
by: Suetonius
4.02 avg rating — 22,149 ratings
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,172 ratings
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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
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The Way Things Are
The Way Things Are
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
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Argonautica
Argonautica 3.83 avg rating — 11,058 ratings
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Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus 4.02 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by: Eusebius
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,722 ratings
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The Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy
by: Boethius
4.05 avg rating — 17,140 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,399 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,259 ratings
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The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols 4.14 avg rating — 11,765 ratings
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,022 ratings
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Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,025 ratings
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The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams 3.63 avg rating — 4,868 ratings
18.
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,558 ratings
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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,050 ratings
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Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,182 ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 4.29 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
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The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings 4.10 avg rating — 14,441 ratings
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History Of The Conquest Of Peru
History Of The Conquest Of Peru 3.99 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Mahabharata
Mahabharata
by: Anonymous
4.32 avg rating — 11,794 ratings
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Poetics
Poetics
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating — 28,471 ratings
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Physics
Physics
by: Aristotle
3.98 avg rating — 4,370 ratings
27.
The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Holy Bible: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.44 avg rating — 308,845 ratings
27.
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,306 ratings
29.
The Iliad / The Odyssey
The Iliad / The Odyssey
by: Homer
4.07 avg rating — 82,151 ratings
29.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica 4.13 avg rating — 4,053 ratings
31.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,680 ratings
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Heroides
Heroides
by: Ovid
4.12 avg rating — 3,717 ratings
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
Sophocles: The Complete Plays
by: Sophocles
4.26 avg rating — 5,217 ratings
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The Art of Love
The Art of Love
by: Ovid
3.71 avg rating — 7,287 ratings
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The Mahabharata (Mahabharata, #1)
The Mahabharata (Mahabharata, #1) 4.45 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Plays of Euripides (BCP Classical World Series)
Plays of Euripides (BCP Classical World Series) 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponesian War and Their Relevance Today
Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponesian War and Their Relevance Today 4.62 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Plato: Complete Works
Plato: Complete Works
by: Plato
4.37 avg rating — 11,938 ratings
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The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1
The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1
by: Aristotle
4.41 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
40.
An Anthology of Alexandrian poetry (The Classical world special series) (English and Greek Edition)
An Anthology of Alexandrian poetry (The Classical world special series) (English and Greek Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Plutarch Anthology: The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Parallel Lives, Moralia
The Plutarch Anthology: The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Parallel Lives, Moralia
by: Plutarch
4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
by: Virgil
4.26 avg rating — 591 ratings
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome
by: Tacitus
3.98 avg rating — 9,162 ratings
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The Complete Ovid Anthology: Metamorphosis, Fasti, the Art of Love, the Art of Beauty, Loves Cure, the Amours, the Heroides, the Pontic Epistles, Ibis, Tristia
The Complete Ovid Anthology: Metamorphosis, Fasti, the Art of Love, the Art of Beauty, Loves Cure, the Amours, the Heroides, the Pontic Epistles, Ibis, Tristia
by: Ovid
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems
by: Catullus
4.10 avg rating — 11,443 ratings
46.
Poems
Poems
by: Horatius
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Discourses
The Discourses
by: Epictetus
4.27 avg rating — 5,536 ratings
48.
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes 4.18 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
49.
Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
by: Aelian
3.66 avg rating — 38 ratings
50.
Historical Miscellany (Loeb Classical Library, #486)
Historical Miscellany (Loeb Classical Library, #486)
by: Aelian
3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings
51.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 4.02 avg rating — 15,256 ratings
52.
The Enneads
The Enneads
by: Plotinus
4.07 avg rating — 3,123 ratings
53.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
The Letters of the Younger Pliny 3.92 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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Byzantine Literature: Suda, Agathias, Gazetteer, Alexander Romance, Chronicle of Monemvasia, Digenes Akritas, Belthandros and Chrysantza
Byzantine Literature: Suda, Agathias, Gazetteer, Alexander Romance, Chronicle of Monemvasia, Digenes Akritas, Belthandros and Chrysantza really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fragments
Fragments 4.18 avg rating — 7,705 ratings
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A Summa of the Summa
A Summa of the Summa 4.18 avg rating — 860 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,102 ratings
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Tales from Sacchetti
Tales from Sacchetti 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
59.
The Icelandic Sagas I
The Icelandic Sagas I 4.43 avg rating — 111 ratings
60.
The Complete Works
The Complete Works 4.48 avg rating — 57,543 ratings
61.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,003 ratings
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The Essays
The Essays 3.81 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
63.
Works of Martin Luther
Works of Martin Luther 4.25 avg rating — 51 ratings
64.
The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,558 ratings
65.
Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method 3.72 avg rating — 24,474 ratings
66.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,738 ratings
67.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini 3.98 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
68.
Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,347 ratings
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Pensées
Pensées 3.94 avg rating — 14,064 ratings
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
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The Complete English Poems
The Complete English Poems 4.15 avg rating — 9,888 ratings
72.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 3.99 avg rating — 1,732 ratings
73.
George Herbert: The Complete English Poems
George Herbert: The Complete English Poems 4.18 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
74.
The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw
The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
75.
Theological-Political Treatise
Theological-Political Treatise 4.09 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
76.
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma
by: Stendhal
3.79 avg rating — 19,482 ratings
77.
Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift 3.54 avg rating — 67 ratings
78.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,669 ratings
79.
Persian Letters
Persian Letters 3.64 avg rating — 7,952 ratings
80.
Second Treatise of Government
Second Treatise of Government 3.78 avg rating — 23,639 ratings
81.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,379 ratings
82.
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays 3.90 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
83.
Selected Essays
Selected Essays 3.96 avg rating — 436 ratings
84.
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Pure Reason 3.96 avg rating — 40,916 ratings
85.
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life 4.16 avg rating — 9,939 ratings
86.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,957 ratings
87.
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus 4.09 avg rating — 2,327 ratings
88.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,033 ratings
89.
The Possessed
The Possessed 4.30 avg rating — 59,722 ratings
90.
Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,630 ratings
91.
Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle 4.17 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Journey For Our Time: The Journals Of The Marquis De Custine, Russia 1839
Journey For Our Time: The Journals Of The Marquis De Custine, Russia 1839 4.09 avg rating — 440 ratings
93.
History of the Conquest of Mexico
History of the Conquest of Mexico 4.17 avg rating — 768 ratings
94.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery 4.03 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
95.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies 4.22 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
96.
Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power 4.07 avg rating — 2,054 ratings