One of my personal goals, one that I believe is commendable for everyone is to be well read. I’ve been reading voraciously since I was 5 and while the busyness of life has pulled me away from it for some time, my goal is to get as far through this list as possible.
The Bible
Republic – Plato
The Ruling Class – Codevilla
The Federalist Papers
CS Lewis
The Gulag Archipelago
Democracy in America
1913
Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Bastiat – The Law
Plato – Republic
Leviathan
Locke – Second Treatise of Govt
Hegel – Philosophy of History
Marx – Communist Manifesto
Nietzsche – use and Disadvantage of History
Aristotle – Nocomachean Ethics
Dantes Inferno
Men in Black – Levin
Bloom – Closing of the American Mind
Gilder – Men and Marriage
Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom
Hayek – the Road to Serfdom
Last Child in the Woods
Something by John Muir
The case for Christ
Liberty Fund – Colonial Origins of the American Constitutions
Last of the Mohicans
Thoreau
Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations
Lord Acton – Essays in Freedom and Power
Lord Acton – essays in the history of Liberty
Aristotle – Politics
Francis Bacon – Advancement of Learning
Chris Brady – Rascal
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Cicero – Laws
Cicero – Republic
Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Emerson – Self-Reliance and other Essays
Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius (read after rise and fall of Roman Empire)
Outliers – Malcom Gladwell
How to win friends and influence people – Carnegie
Flow – Csikszentmihalyi
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Covey
Utopia – Thomas Moore
Gullivers Travels – Johnathan Swift
Candide – Voltaire
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Neitzsche
Flatland – Edwin Abbott
Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky
The Metamorphosis – Kafka
Siddhartha – Hesse
Brave New World – Huxley
The Age of Reason – John-Paul Sartre
Farenheit 451 – Bradbury
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Pirsig
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Kundera
The Invisible Man – Ellison
Red Badge of Courage
Catch 22 – Heller
Heart of Darkness – Conrad
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther – Bainton
A Secular Theory – Charles Taylor
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory – MacIntyre
Calvin – Bruce Gordon
Animal Farm
1984
Atlas Shrugged