My recommendations for those who want to read the Western Canon. (Part 2) These are the essentials. Most are available free online (see links below left) or via Amazon. There are many more than are on this list, but this is the core (see also Part 1)
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Boethius Consolation of Philosophy
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Anonymous The Thousand an One Nights
St Thomas Aquinas On Kingship, Summa Theologiae
St. Anselm Proslogion, Reply to Gaunilo
Petrarch Canzoniere
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince, Discourses
Michel De Montaigne The Essays
Miguel De Cervantes Don Quixote
Bacon The Great Instauration, Novum Organum
William Shakespeare Complete Works
John Donne Complete Works
Galileo Galilei Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Thomas Hobbes Leviathon
Rene Descartes Discourse on Method, Meditations, Rules for the Direction of
the Mind
John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Essays Civil Government
Blaise Pascal Pensees
John Milton Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,
Areopagitica
Moliere The Plays
Corneille El Cid
Johnathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress
Spinoza Theologico-Political Treatise
Voltaire Candide
Daniel DeFoe Robinson Crusoe
David Hume An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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