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Classic Non-Fiction
Non Fiction Classics
Most of these titles have been taken from lists of the “great books” of Western Civilization. Some of them may be way too hard to read, so check with me first about trying to read some of these works.
The Dhammapada
The New Testament
The Upanishads
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The I Ching
Adams, Henry
The Education of Henry Adams
Aquinas
Summa Theologicae,
Aristotle
Works,
Bacon
Novum Organum,
Bacon,
Essays
Berkeley
The Principles of Human Knowledge,
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique,
Boswell,
Life of Samuel Johnson
Buber
I and Thou,
Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion,
Chomsky
Syntactic Structures
Comte
Course in the Positivist Philosophy,
Confucius,
Analects
Copernicus
On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs,
Darwin,
The Origin of Species
David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature,
De Beauvoir,
The Second Sex
de Tocqueville.
Democracy in America.
Descartes,
Discourse on Method
Desiderius Erasmus
In Praise of Folly
Diderot, ed.
The Encyclopedia,
Einstein,
The Meaning of Relativity
Emerson,
Essays
Euclid
Elements,
Francis Bacon
Novum Organum,
Frazer,
The New Golden Bough
Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams
Freud,
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Freud.
Selected Works.
Friedan
The Feminine Mystique,
Galileo Galilei
Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems,
Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Godwin
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice,
Gregor Mendel
"Experiments with Plant Hybrids,"
Hamilton, et al.,
Federalist Papers
Hegel George Wilhelm Friedrich
Phenomenology of Spirit,
Herodotus
History,
Hippocrates
Works,
Hobbes.
Leviathan.
Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature,
Hume.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
James William
Pragmatism
James, William
The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism and Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth; The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language,
Jung
Psychological Types
Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason
Kepler
The Harmony of the World,
Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Kierkegaard
Either/Or,
Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Lao-Tzu,
The Way and Its Power
Leibniz
Works,
Locke,
Essay Concering Human Understanding
Locke.
Second Treatise of Government.
Lucretius
On the Nature of Reality,
Lucretius,
On the Nature of Things
Luther
On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
Machiavelli,
The Prince
Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Marx and Friedrich Engels.
The Communist Manifesto.
Marx,
Capital
Maxwell, James Clerk
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Mill.
On Liberty.
Montaigne,
Essays
Moses Maimonides
Guide for the Perplexed,
Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,
Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Nietzsche,
The Will to Power
Paine
Common Sense,
Paine,
The Rights of Man
Pareto Vilfredo
The Mind and Society
Pascal
Pensées,
Philo of Alexandria
Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws,
Plato
The Republic,
Plutarch
Lives,
Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Rousseau
Confessions,
Rousseau,
The Social Contract
Sartre
Being and Nothingness
Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea,
Skinner
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
Spencer
First Principles
Spinoza,
Ethics
Tacitus
Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus,
Thoreau
"Civil Disobedience,"
Thoreau,
Walden
Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War,
Vico
The New Science,
von Clausewitz
On War,
von Hayek
The Road to Serfdom,
Wiener
Cybernetics
Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Wollstonecraft
Vindication of the Rights of Women