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The Harvard Classics (1910) Etext: Bartleby Selections from the Five-Foot Shelf of Books For Boys and Girls from Twelve to Eighteen Years of Age
Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926), ed.
New York, NY: P. F. Collier & Son Company

Good Reading (23rd edition 1990) Note:full title 'Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers' Reference: Four reading lists 101 Significant Books
Edited by Arthur Waldhorn, Olga S. Weber, Arthur Zeiger. New York, NY: R. R. Bowker
Good Reading (22nd edition) 100 Significant Books
first list 1934

Outline of Great Books full title 'Outline of Great Books: Comprising Two Hundred and Fifty of the World's Most Famous Works of History, Philosophy, Science, Religion, Poetry, Biography, Travel and Criticism Outlined in Their Authors' Own Words' (1937) Reference: Table of Contents ...inspiring if sadly dated... --Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading (1982) Acknowledgments
Sir J. A. Hammerton (John Alexander Hammerton 1871-1949), ed.
New York, NY: Wise & Co.

Mortimer J. ADLER (1902-2001)
see reading list
Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1988) Epilogue: Great Books, Past and Present
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 0025005510
A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom (1986) Appendix III: Some Books That May Be Helpful to Autodidacts
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 0025003402
Great Treasury of Western Thought (1977) full title 'Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western History' Reference: Contents
Mortimer J. ADLER and Charles VAN DOREN, eds.
New York, NY: R. R. Bowker Company, 0835208338
Mortimer J. ADLER and Charles VAN DOREN
How to Read a Book: The classic guide to intelligent reading (1972) Reference: Appendix A: A recommended reading list
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, SBN 67121280X (cloth), 671212095 (paper)
Mortimer J. ADLER, et al.
The Great Ideas Program (10 vol., 1959-1963) Reference: Table of Contents
Chicago, IL: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Mortimer J. ADLER
How to Read a Book: The art of getting a liberal education (1940) Appendix: A List of the Great Books
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster

Clifton FADIMAN (1904-1999) and John S. MAJOR
The New Lifetime Reading Plan (4th edition 1997) Reference: Table of Contents
New York, NY: HarperCollins, 0062702084
Clifton FADIMAN
The Lifetime Reading Plan (3rd edition 1988) Reference: Table of Contents
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 006055066X (cloth), 0060961740 (paper)
The Lifetime Reading Plan (New Revised [2nd] Edition 1978)
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 0690014996
The Lifetime Reading Plan (1st edtition 1960)
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company

A Guide to Oriental Classics (3rd edition 1989)
Wm. Theodore de Bary and Ainslee Embree, Eds.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Ed., 0231066740
A Guide to Oriental Classics (2nd edition 1975) Reference: Table of Contents
Wm. Theodore de Bary and Ainslee Embree, Eds.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press
A Guide to Oriental Classics (1st edition 1964)
Wm. Theodore de Bary and Ainslee Embree, Eds.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press

Robert B. DOWNS (1903-1991)
Famous Books, Ancient and Medieval (1964)
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble
Famous Books Since 1492 or Molders of the Modern Mind full title 'Molders of the Modern Mind: 111 Books that Shaped Western Civilization' (1961)
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble
Famous Books: Great Writings in the History of Civilization, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co. 1975, 0822602970

Kenneth REXROTH (1905-1982)
Classics Revisited (1968) Etext: Selections Reference: Table of Contents
Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books
New York, NY: New Directions 1986; 0811209873 (cloth), 0811209881 (paper)
More Classics Revisited (1989) Etext: Selections Reference: Table of Contents
Bradford Morrow, ed., New York, NY: New Directions 1989; 0811210820 (cloth), 0811210839 (paper)

Gerald HOLTON and Katherine SOPKA
Great Books of Science in the Twentieth Century: Physics (1979)
The Great Ideas Today 1979, Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1979; 085229364X

Frederic RAPHAEL (b. 1931) and Kenneth McLEISH
The List of Books (1981) Editor's Choice
New York, NY: Harmony Books; 0517540177 (cloth), 0517541521 (paper)

Philip WARD (b. 1938)
A Lifetimes Reading (1983) full title 'A Lifetimes Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books' Reference: Table of Contents
New York, NY: Stein and Day; 0812829387

Charles VAN DOREN (b. 1926)
see reading list
The Joy of Reading (2008) full title 'The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works'
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008
The Joy of Reading (1985) full title 'The Joy of Reading: 210 Favorite Books, Plays, Poems, Essays, Etc.; What's In Them, Why Read Them'
New York, NY: Harmony Books; 0517555808

Harold BLOOM (b. 1930)
The Western Canon (1994) full title 'The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages' Reference: Appendices
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company; 0151957479

Doug ESTELL, Michele L. SATCHWELL, and Patricia S. WRIGHT
Reading Lists for College-bound Students (1993) The 100 Most-Often-Recommended Works
New York, NY: Prentice Hall; 0671847120

Martin SEYMOUR-SMITH (1928-1998)
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written Reference: Table of Contents
Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press ; 0806520000



Revised June 8, 2008.

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