The Book Bucket List


Dear Henry,

Here is the list of all the books I want to read (yes, there are 550)

This bucket list began after reading "Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life" by Henry Cloud.  The book recommends actively making up for the things you feel like you have lost.  One of the biggest "losses" I have felt was not getting a Great Works degree, so I began reading the Great Works Curriculum from St. John's College.  But then realized I also wanted to read the Great Eastern Works and the Catholic Classics.  That's a lot of books.  We will see how far I get.

xoxo a.d. elliott

Author                                          Book                        

Homer

Iliad

Homer

Odyssey

Aeschylus

Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

Eumenides

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

Oedipus At Colonus

Sophocles

Antigone

Sophocles

Philocetes

Sophocles

Ajax

Thucydides

Peloponnesian War

Euripides

Hippolytus

Euripides

Bacchae

Herodotus

Histories

Aristophanes

Clouds

Plato

Meno

Plato

Gorgias

Plato

Republic

Plato

Apology

Plato

Crito

Plato

Phaedo

Plato

Symposium

Plato

Parmenides

Plato

Theaetetus

Plato

Sophist

Plato

Timaeus

Plato

Phaedrus

Aristotle

Poetics

Aristotle

Physics

Aristotle

Metaphysics

Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

On Generation and Corruption

Aristotle

Politics

Aristotle

Parts of Animals

Aristotle

Generation of Animals

Euclid

Elements

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

Plutarch

Lucurgus

Plutarch

Solon

Nicomachus

Arithmetic

Lavoisier

Elements of Chemistry

Harvey

Motion of the Heart and Blood

Archimedes

Essays

Fahrenheit

Essays

Avogadro

Essays

Dalton

Essays

Cannizzaro

Essays

Virchow

Essays

Mariotte

Essays

Driesch

Essays

Gay-Lussac

Essays

Spemann

Essays

Jj Thompson

Essays

Mendeleyev

Essays

Berthollet

Essays

Jl Proust

Essays

God

Old Testament

God

New Testament

Aristotle

De Anima

Aristotle

On Interpretation

Aristotle

Prior Analytics

Aristotle

Categories

Apollonius

Conics

Virgil

Aenid

Plutarch

Caesar

Plutarch

Cato the Younger

Plutarch

Antony

Plutarch

Brutus

Epictetus

Discourses

Epictetus

Manual

Tacitus

Annals

Ptolemy

Almagest

Plotinus

The Enneads

Augustine

Confessions

Maimonides

Guide for the Perplexed

St. Anselm

Proslogium

Aquinas

Summa Theologica

Dante

Divine Comedy

Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Machiavelli

The Prince

Machiavelli

Discourses

Kepler

Epitome IV

Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Palestrina

Missa Papae Marcelli

Montaigne

Essays

Viete

Introduction to the Analytical Art

Bacon

Novum Organum

Shakespeare

Richard II

Shakespeare

Henry IV

Shakespeare

The Tempest

Shakespeare

As You Like It

Shakespeare

Hamlet

Shakespeare

Othello

Shakespeare

Macbeth

Shakespeare

King Lear

Shakespeare

Sonnets

Marvell

Poems

Donne

Poems

Descartes

Geometry

Descartes

Discourse on Method

Pascal

Generations of Conic Sections

Bach

St. Matthew Passion

Bach

Inventions

Haydn

Quartets

Mozart

Operas

Beethoven

Third Symphony

Schubert

Songs

Monteverdi

L'Orfeo

Stravinsky

Symphony of Psalms

Cervantes

Don Quixote

Galileo

Two New Sciences

Hobbes

Leviathan

Descartes

Meditations

Descartes

Rules for the Direction of the Mind

Milton

Paradise Lost

La Rochefoucauld

Maximises

La Fontaine

Fables

Pascal

Pensees

Huygens

Treatise on Light

Huygens

On the Movement of Bodies by Impact

Eliot

Middlemarch

Spinoza

Theological-Political Treatise

Locke

Second Treatise of Government

Racine

Phaedre

Newton

Principia Mathematica

Leibniz

Monadology

Leibniz

Discourse on Metaphysics

Leibniz

Essay on Dynamics

Leibniz

Philosophical Essays

Leibniz

Principles of Nature and Grace

Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Hume

Treatise of Human Nature

Rousseau

Social Contract

Rousseau

The Origin of Inequality

Moliere

Le Misanthrope

Adam Smith

Wealth of Nations

Kant

Critique of Pure Reason

Kant

Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals

Mozart

Don Giovanni

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Dedekind

Essay on the Theory of Numbers

Founding Fathers

Articles of Confederation

Founding Fathers

Declaration of Independence

Founding Fathers

Constitution of the United States of America

Hamilton, Jay, And Madison

The Federalist

Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

Wordsworth

The Two-Part Prelude of 1799

Young

Essays

Taylor

Essays

Euler

Essays

D. Bernoulli

Essays

Orsted

Essays

Ampere

Essays

Faraday

Essays

Maxwell

Essays

Supreme Court

Opinions

Goethe

Faust

Darwin

Origin of Species

Hegel

Phenomenology of Mind

Hegel

Logic

Lobachevsky

Theory of Parallels

Tocqueville

Democracy in America

Lincoln

Selected Speeches

Frederick Douglass

Selected Speeches

Kierkegaard

Philosophical Fragments

Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

Wagner

Tristan and Isolde

Marx

Capital

Marx

Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844

Marx

The German Ideology

Dostoevski

Brothers Karamazov

Tolstoy

War and Peace

Melville

Benito Cereno

O'Connor

Selected Stories

William James

Psychology

William James

Briefer Course

Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

Freud

Introductory Lectures on Psychanalysis

Booker T. Washington

Selected Writings

Dubois

The Souls of Black Folk

Husserl

Crisis of the European Sciences

Heidegger

Basic Writings

Einstein

Selected Papers

Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Faulkner

Go Down Moses

Flaubert

Un Coeur Simple

Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Yeats

Poems

Ts Eliot

Poems

Wallace Stevens

Poems

Valery

Poems

Rimbaud

Poems

Milikan

Essays

Minkowski

Essays

Rutherford

Essays

Davisson

Essays

Schrodinger

Essays

Bohr

Essays

De Broglie

Essays

Heisenberg

Essays

Mendel

Essays

Boveri

Essays

Beadle & Tatum

Essays

Sussman

Essays

Watson & Crick

Essays

Jacob & Monod

Essays

Hardy

Essays

Kant

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Kant

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Calvin

Institutes

Hegel

Phenomenology of Spirit

Heidegger

Being and Time

Kierkegaard

Either/Or

Merleau-Ponty

Phenomenology of Perception

Nietzsche

On The Genealogy of Morals

Porete

Writings

Julian Of Norwich

Writings

Theresa Of Avila

Writings

Whitehead

Science and the Modern World

Whitehead

Process and Reality

Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

Xenophon

Education of Cyprus

Albert Camus

Essays and Novels on Rebellion

Albert Camus

History

Albert Camus

The Absurd Ethics

Descartes

Passions of the Soul

Carl Jung

Essential Readings

Montesquieu

The Spirit of Laws

Hegel

Philosophy of Right

Nozick

Anarchy

Nozick

State

Nozick

Utopia

Rousseau

Discourses

Weber

Protestant Ethic

Weber

The Spirit of Capitalism

Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Aristophanes

Frogs

Dostoevski

Demons

Ellison

Invisible Man

Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Laxness

Independent People

Anonymous

Icelandic Sagas

Borges

Ficcones

Joyce

Ulysses

Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Melville

Moby Dick

Proust

Remembrance of Things Past

Racine

Brittanicus

Racine

Athalie

Rousseau

Emilie

Rousseau

Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps

Shakespeare

A Winter's Tale

Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Virgil

Georgics

Woolf

To the Lighthouse

Woolf

Jacob's Room

Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

Polybius

Histories

Augustine

City of God

Livy

History of Rome

Gibbon

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Vico

The New Science

Kant

Idea For a Universal History From a Cosmopolitan Point of View

Kant

The Contest of Faculties

Nietzsche

The Use and Abuse of History

Husserl

The Vienna Lecture - Philosophy and the Crises of European Humanity

Heidegger

The Age of The World Picture

Adams

History of the United States During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson

Burke

Reflections On the Revolution in France

Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History

Hegel

The Philosophy of History

Husserl

The Crises of European Sciences

Tocqueville

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Augustine

On Christian Doctrine

Augustine

On the Free Choice of Will

Basil Of Caesaria

On the Holy Spirit

Athanasius

The Life of Antony

Athanasius

On the Incarnation

Benedict Of Nursia

The Rule of St. Benedict

Clement Of Alexandria

Protrepticus

Clement Of Alexandria

Paedagogus

Clement Of Alexandria

Stromata

Cyril Of Jerusalem

Catechetical Lectures

Gregory Of Nazianzus

Theological Orations

Gregory Of Nazianzus

Homilies on "Our Father"

Gregory Of Nyssa

Life of Moses

Boethius, Anicius

The Consolation of Philosophy

Irenaeus

Against Heresies

Justin Martyr

First Apology

Justin Martyr

Second Apology

Origen

On First Principles

Origen

Commentaries

Abelard, Peter

Sic et Non

Abelard, Peter

Letters

Anselm Of Canterbury

Monologion

Anselm Of Canterbury

Cur Deus Homo?

Anselm Of Canterbury

Proslogion

Aquinas, Thomas

Summa Contra Gentiles,

Aquinas, Thomas

Questiones de Veritate

Bede, Venerable

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Bernard Of Clairvaux

Commentary on the Song of Songs

Bernard Of Clairvaux

Sermons

Bonaventure

Life of St. Francis

Bonaventure

Itinerarium

Bonaventure

Collationes de Hexameron

Bonaventure

Sermons

Catherine Of Sienna

Dialogues

Eckhart, Meister

Sermons

Julian Of Norwich

Showings

Richard Of St. Victor

On the Trinity

Ruysbroeck, John

The Spiritual Espousals

Scotus, Duns

Ordinatio

Scotus, Duns

De Primo Principio

Thomas A Kempis

The Imitation of Christ

Bellarmine, Robert

Ordinatio

Borromeo, Charles

Tridentine Catechism

De Sales, Francis

Letters of Spiritual Direction

Erasmus, Desiderius

Praise of Folly

Erasmus, Desiderius

Enchiridion

Ignatius Of Loyola

Autobiography,

Ignatius Of Loyola

Spiritual Exercises

John Of The Cross

The Flame of Love

John Of The Cross

Ascent of Mount Carmel

Lamennais, Felicite De

Ouvres complètes de Lamennais

Liguori, Alphonsus

The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection

Newman, John Henry

Grammar of Assent,

Newman, John Henry

University Sermons

Newman, John Henry

The Idea of a University

Teresa Of Avila

Interior Castle

Adam, Karl

The Spirit of Catholicism

Blondel, Maurice

L'Action

Chenu, Marie-Dominique

Aquinas and His Role in Theology

Congar, Yves

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

Day, Dorothy

The Long Loneliness

Danielou, Jean

Prayer: The Heart of the Church

De Lubac, Henri

Surnatural,

De Lubac, Henri

The Drama of Atheistic Humanism

Dulles, Avery Cardinal

Models of the Church

Gilson, Etienne

The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy

Guardini, Romano

The Lord

Guardini, Romano

Letters from Lake Como

Gutierrez, Gustavo

A Theology of Liberation

Haring, Bernard

Free and Faithful in Christ

Lisieux, Therese Of

The Story of a Soul

Lonergan, Bernard

Insight,

Lonergan, Bernard

Method in Theology

Maritain, Jacques

The Degrees of Knowledge

Maritain, Jacques

Integral Humanism

Merton, Thomas

The Seven Storey Mountain

Metz, Johannes Baptist

Faith in History and Society

Mother Teresa

Letters

Murray, John Courtney

We Hold These Truths

Nouwen, Henri

The Wounded Healer

Rahner, Karl

Theological Investigations

Rahner, Karl

Foundations of Christian Faith

Ratzinger, Joseph

Introduction to Christianity

Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Sexism and God-Talk

Schillebeeckx, Edward

Jesus,

Schillebeeckx, Edward

Christ

Schillebeeckx, Edward

Church

Sertillanges, A.G.

The Intellectual Life

Teilhard De Chardin, Pierre

The Phenomenon of Man

Teilhard De Chardin, Pierre

The Divine Milieu

Von Balthasar, Hans Urs

Glory of the Lord

Wojtyla, Karol

Love and Responsibility

Aquinas, Thomas

Commentary on the Sentences

Bonaventure

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard

Cusa, Nicholas Of

On the Vision of God

Lombard, Peter

The Sentences

Ockham, William Of

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard

Scotus, John Duns

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard

Scotus, John Duns

De Primo Principio

Anscombe, Elizabeth

Collected Philosophical Papers

Copleston, Frederick

History of Philosophy

Gilson, Etienne

The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy

Macintyre, Alasdair

After Virtue

Marcel, Gabriel

Homo Viator

Pieper, Josef

Leisure: The Basis of Culture,

Pieper, Josef

The Cardinal Virtues

Maritain, Jacques

Degrees of Knowledge

Maritain, Jacques

Integral Humanism

Taylor, Charles

Sources of the Self,

Taylor, Charles

Varieties of Religion Today

Taylor, Charles

A Secular Age

Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne

Funeral Orations

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Poetry

Montaigne, Michel De

Meditations

Thompson, Francis

Poems

Vico, Giambattista

New Science

Belloc, Hilaire

Selected Essays

Boll, Heinrich

The Stories of Heinrich Boll

Bernanos, Georges

Diary of a Country Priest

Bloy, Leon

Le Désespéré

Bloy, Leon

La Femme pauvre

Cairns, Scott

Recovered Body

Chesterton, G. K.

Orthodoxy,

Chesterton, G. K.

The Man Who Was Thursday

Claudel, Paul

The Satin Slipper

Dillard, Annie

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dillard, Annie

Holy the Firm

Dubus, Andre

Meditations from a Movable Chair

Dubus, Andre

Stories

Endo, Shusaku

Silence,

Endo, Shusaku

Deep River

Endo, Shusaku

Jesus: A Life

Everson, William

Collected Poems

Gordon, Mary

The Company of Women

Greene, Graham

Monsignor Quixote

Greene, Graham

The End of the Affair

Greene, Graham

The Power and the Glory

Hampl, Patricia

Virgin Time

Hansen, Ron

Mariette in Ecstasy

Heaney, Seamus

Opened Ground: Selected Poems: 1966-1996

Helprin, Mark

A Soldier of the Great War

Hijuelos, Oscar

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Horgan, Paul

Great River

Jarman, Mark

Unholy Sonnets

Jones, David

Anathemata

Levertov, Denise

The Stream and the Sapphire

Levine, Philip

The Mercy

L'heureux, John

The Shrine at Altamira

Lowell, Robert

Lord Weary's Castle

Mariani, Paul

Salvage Operations

McDermott, Alice

Charming Billy

Merton, Thomas

New Seeds of Contemplation

Milosz, Czeslaw

Selected Poems

Moore, Brian

Black Robe

Morrison, Toni

Paradise

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Chronicles of Wasted Time

O’Connor, Flannery

Collected Works

Péguy, Charles

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope

Percy, Walker

The Last Gentleman

Percy, Walker

The Second Coming

Percy, Walker

The Moviegoer

Powers, J. F.

The Presence of Grace

Rodriguez, Richard

Hunger of Memory

Sayers, Dorothy

The Mind of the Maker

Schneider, Reinhold

Las Casas before Charles V

Sheen, Fulton

Life is Worth Living

Silone, Ignazio

Bread and Wine

Spark, Muriel

Memento Mori

Tate, Allen

Collected Poems

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Undset, Sigrid

Kristin Lavreansdatter

Waugh, Evelyn

Brideshead Revisited

Wilbur, Richard

New and Collected Poems

Wolff, Tobias

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Brownson, Orestes

No Church, No Reform

Hecker, Isaac

The Church and the Age

Lamennais, Felicite De

Paroles D'un Croyant

Ketteler, Bishop Wilhelm Von

Christian Social Reform

Ozanam, Frederic

Mélanges

Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal

A Consistent Ethic of Life: An American Catholic Dialogue

Delbrel, Madeleine

We the Ordinary People of the Streets

Gutierrez, Gustavo

A Theology of Liberation

Lafarge, John

The Catholic Viewpoint on Race Relations

Maritain, Jacques

The Person and the Common Good

Merton, Thomas

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Michel, Virgil

The Social Question

Murray, John Courtney

We Hold These Truths

Ryan, John

Distributive Justice

Confucius

Analects

Mencius

Books

Chaung Tzu

The Book of Chaung Tzu

Han Fei Tzu

Basic Writings of Mo Tzu

Han Fei Tzu

Hsun Tzu

Han Fei Tzu

Han Fei Tzu

Rishis

brihadaranyaka upanishad

Mo Tzu

Basic Writings of Mo Tzu

Mo Tzu

Hsun Tzu

Mo Tzu

Han Fei Tzu

Hsun Tzu

Basic Writings of Mo Tzu

Hsun Tzu

Hsun Tzu

Hsun Tzu

Han Fei Tzu

Lao Tzu

The Way of Lao Tzu

Rishis

The Rig Veda

Rishis

Katha Upanishad

Kalidasa

kumarasambhavam

Kalidasa

shakuntala

Rishis

purva mimamsa

Buddha

The Noble Quest

Buddha

Kalama Sutra

Buddha

The Great Discord on Cause

Buddha

samyutta nikaya

Buddha

malunkyaputta sutta

Buddha

Discourse on the parable of the water

Buddha

Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta

Buddha

Assalayana Sutta

Buddha

The Wheel-Turning Monarch

Buddha

The Sigalovada Sutta

Anandavardhana

The Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta

Buddha

Carvaka

Buddha

the greater discourse on the foundations of mindfulness

Buddha

the greater discourse on the destruction of craving

Buddha

Madhupindika Sutta: The Honeyball

Buddha

Discourses to Prince Abhaya

Buddha

discourses to potthapada

Buddha

Discourses on the Three-Fold Knowledge

Buddha

Lotus Sutra

Japan

The Tale of the Heike

Sei Shonagon

The Pillow Book

Dogen

Bendowa

Dogen

Genjokoan

Dogen

Uji

Basho

Journey of Bleached Bones in a field

Basho

Kashima Journal

Basho

Knapsack Notebook

Basho

Sarashine Journal

Basho

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Kukai

The Difference Between Extoteric and Estoteric Buddhaism

Kukai

Attaining Enlightenment in this Very Existence

Kukai

The Meanings of Sound, word and Reality

Kukai

Major Works

Kamo No Chomei

Hojoki or the record of the ten foot square hut

Kenko

Complete works

Clement

First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Clement

Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Barnabas

The Epistle of Barnabas

Apostles

Didache

Hermas

The Shepherd of Hermas

Polycarp

The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

Polycarp

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

Ignatius Of Antioch

To the Ephesians

Ignatius Of Antioch

To the Magnesians

Ignatius Of Antioch

To the Trallians

Ignatius Of Antioch

To the Romans

Ignatius Of Antioch

To the Philadelphians

Ignatius Of Antioch

To the Smyrnaeans

Ignatius Of Antioch

To Polycarp

Mathetes

The Epistle of Mathetes (Believer/Disciple) to Diognetus

Tertullian

The Apparel of Women

Tertullian

To the Martyrs

Tertullian

Spectacles

Tertullian

Prayer

Tertullian

Patience

Cyprian

To Demetrian

Cyprian

To Donatus

Cyprian

The Dress of Virgins

Cyprian

That Idols Are Not Gods

Cyprian

Jealousy and Envy

Cyprian

The Lapsed

Cyprian

The Lord's Prayer

Cyprian

Exhortation to Martyrdom, to Fortunatus

Cyprian

Mortality

Cyprian

The Good of Patience

Cyprian

The Unity of the Catholic Church

Cyprian

Works and Almsgiving

Athanasius

On the Incarnation

 



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