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There is a whole bunch I have owned and browsed the best bits.

The document seems to contain a list of to-read books and already-read-but-mid-or-bad books, do you happen to have a list of books you have read and highly recommend?

@TheAllMemeingEye Those are under the tag [read]. The mid section is generally pretty useful, just not essential.

Own and have read in full:

1984 by George Orwell

Seen movie/TV adaptation but don't own and haven't read book:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Dick

Own and have read bits of:

Holy Bible (including Genesis, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Maccabees)

Own but haven't read at all yet:

Catch-22 by Heller

Dune by Frank Herbert

Heard of but don't own and haven't read:

Iliad translated by Caroline Alexander

Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius translated by Gregory Hays or Robin Hard

Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede

Travels of Marco Polo

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Wealth of Nations by Smith

US presidential inaugural addresses

Vindication of Rights of Woman

Democracy in America by Tocqueville

Moby Dick

The Great Gatsby

Zamatin’s We

Homage to Catalonia

Quotations from Chairman Mao

The Children of Men by P.D. James

Heard of author but not book:

Letters of St. Patrick

First and Second Discourses by Rousseau translated by Masters

Theory of Moral Sentiments by Smith

World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Malthus

Economic Consequences of the Peace by Keynes

FDR’s fireside chats

Works of Kim Jong Il/Kim Il Sung

Foucault

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Decision Points by George W. Bush

Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs transcripts

Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders

So Help Me God by Mike Pence

The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania

Never heard of at all:

De rerum natura by Lucretius

Vegetius’ on Military Matters

Claudian translated by Maurice Platnauer or Neil Bernstein

Socrates/Sozomen/Theodoret

Confessions by Augustine, translated by J.G. Pilkington or E. B. Pusey or H. Chadwick

Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Tale of Genji

Summa Theologica

General History of China by Du Halde

Common Sense by Paine

The Federalist Papers

John Taylor of Caroline

Journal of Macartney’s mission to China

Clausewitz

Autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1845)

The Age of Fable: Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Bullfinch

The Myth of Hiawatha by Henry Schoolcraft

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

A South-side View of Slavery by Nehemiah Adams

Japan and Her People by Andrew Steinmetz

Flatland

Herbert Spencer

William Graham Sumner

Martyrdom of Man

Where Black Rules White by Hesketh Prichard

Pictures of the Socialistic Future by Eugen Richter

Looking Backward By Edward Bellamy

Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant

Thirty years in Moukden by Dugald Christie

Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann

Drift and Mastery by Walter Lippmann

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Schmitt

Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane

Man's Search for Meaning

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The Road to Serfdom by Hayek

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Schumpeter

Junger

Conscience of a Conservative ghostwritten by Bozell

The Gutenberg Galaxy by McLuhan

The Country, the Revolution, and I by Park Chung Hee

Technological Society by Ellul

100 Years of Solitude

A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard

History of Christianity [not sure which -Ehrman, Johnson or Heather]

Origin of Consciousness by Jaynes

Catechism of the Catholic Church

For Good and Evil by Charles Adams

Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine

Postwar by Tony Judt

The Midas Paradox by Scott Sumner

The Box by Mark Levinson

Latin: Story of a World Language by Leonhardt

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Third Reich Trilogy

The Revolution: a Manifesto by Ron Paul

Moon Shot by Alan Shepard

The Libyan Revolution by ISW

Oxford History of the Book

Dehaene

Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy

Worlds of Arthur by Halsall

Mussolini’s Italy by Bosworth

How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel

The Wars for Asia by Payne

Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson

Balkan Battlegrounds

Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 by Peter Baxter

The Middle Ages by Johannes Fried

The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

Overkill by Paul A. Offit

Persians by Llewellyn Jones

The Allure of Battle by Cathal Nolan

The New Roman Empire by Kaldellis

Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal

The Invention of Science by David Wootton

How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor by Colin Tucker

Seemingly just a broad genre rather than a specific book or author:

[China history]

[colonial US history]

[Buddhism book]

[Linguistics book]

[borders book]

[early modern English history or history of British constitution]

[decolonization book]

[agriculture book]

[computer book]

[Internet age book]

[Hellenistic monarchies book]

[COVID book]

The doc isn’t paginated on mobile.

@GleamingRhino The section ends with "possibly useful".

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