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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