User:HokieRNB/Books

This is a list of 30 books I wish I could say that I have read:
 * 1) Homer's The Iliad & The Odyssey
 * 2) Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
 * 3) Plato's Republic
 * 4) Euclid's Elements
 * 5) Lucretius' On the Nature of Things
 * 6) Plutarch's Parallel Lives
 * 7) St. Augustine's City of God
 * 8) St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
 * 9) Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy
 * 10) Geoffrey Chaucer's  The Canterbury Tales
 * 11) Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
 * 12) Desiderius Erasmus' The Praise of Folly
 * 13) Thomas More's Utopia
 * 14) John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
 * 15) Galileo Galilei's Starry Messenger
 * 16) Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
 * 17) René Descartes' Discourse on Method
 * 18) Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
 * 19) Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
 * 20) Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
 * 21) Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison's The Federalist Papers
 * 22) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
 * 23) Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
 * 24) Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species
 * 25) Henry David Thoreau's Walden
 * 26) Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
 * 27) Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
 * 28) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
 * 29) George Santayana's The Life of Reason
 * 30) Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past