St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum ↗
The books people recommended
2023-02-02 · 228 points · 151 comments · 57 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
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- 5Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
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- 3Principia Mathematica
- 3On the Origin of Species
- 3Discourse on Method
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- 2The Confessions
- 2The Metaphysics
- 2The Summa Theologica
- 2Physics
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- 1The Art of War
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- 1Bhagavad Gita
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- 1Critique of Pure Reason
- 1The Nicomachean Ethics
- 1How to Prove It
- 1Book of Proof
- 1The Communist Manifesto
- 1The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
1 here · 11 all-time · #599 overall
- 1The Histories
- 1The Aeneid
- 1History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1Phenomenology of Spirit
- 1The Divine Comedy
- 1The City of God
- 1Being and Time
- 1The Varieties of Religious Experience
- 1Mathematical Proofs
- 1Leviathan
- 1The Analects
- 1The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 1The Canterbury Tales
- 1On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Alan Turing
1 here · 5 all-time · #1509 overall
- 1Dao De Jing
- 1The Second Sex
- 1A Mathematician's Lament
- 1Democracy in America
- 1Syntopicon
- 1The Interpretation of Cultures
- 1The Federalist Papers
- 1The Social Contract
- 1How to Speak How to listen
- 1On The Nature of Things