René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind Discourse on the Method Geometry Meditations on First Philosophy.William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals On the Circulation of the Blood On the Generation of Animals.Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy Concerning the Harmonies of the World.Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences.Francis Bacon: Essays Advancement of Learning Novum Organum, The New Atlantis.Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion The Faerie Queene.William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies.John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion.Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel.Martin Luther: Table Talk Three Treatises.Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly.Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy.Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales.Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy The New Life On Monarchy.Augustine: On the Teacher Confessions City of God On Christian Doctrine Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic.Tacitus: Histories Annals Agricola Germania.Epicurus: Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoecus.Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War.'With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.' (Amazon Books)Īppendix A of the book in the 1972 edition provided the following recommended reading list: The 1972 revision, in addition to the first edition, treats genres (poetry, history, science, fiction, et cetera), inspectional and syntopical reading.' (Wikipedia) He co-authored a heavily revised edition in 1972 with the editor Charles Van Doren, which gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition.

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