Since I "graduated" a long time ago, I read such lists as "10 books I should read before I die or go blind (whichever comes first)." Anyway, The ISI list includes a few I've read, and a few I still haven't got around to.
Haven't read:
- Dante's Divine Comedy (I'll get to it one of these days.)
- St. Augustine's Confessions (what's taking me so long?)
- Milton's Paradise Lost (I've tried . . . I really have tried!)
- Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago (Not sure I'll ever find the time for that one!)
The rest of the books on this list I've read and I mostly agree with the assessments given. An exception might be Flannery O'Connor's Collected short stories, which I agree are a fine body of work, but I'm not sure I'd put it in the "must read" category.
Books I really think I should read someday:
- I really think I should finish Plato's Republic (I read the first half not long ago).
- And after that, Aristotle's Politics (and I also should reread his Nichomachean Ethics, since I read it back in college and didn't get much out of it at the time).
- John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (OK, I admit I'll probably never get around to this).
- The Anti-Federalist Papers (to be read before re-reading The Federalist Papers).
- Tom Sawyer. Nothing can explain why I haven't read this classic yet.
- Everything I still haven't read by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- At least one novel by Wendell Berry.
Finally, books I really should re-read:
- Huckleberry Finn, for sure.
- The Federalist Papers (see above).
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (actually, I've just begun it again).
- C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man, Screwtape Letters, just about everything else.
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