GreatBooks Worldview Academy Lists

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The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast
by C. S. Lewis
19,867 members
165 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Perelandra
by C. S. Lewis
10,223 members
118 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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3
The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
7,901 members
192 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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4
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
20,775 members
317 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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5
Othello
by William Shakespeare
19,464 members
151 reviews
4
2 Members
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6
Murder in the Cathedral
by T. S. Eliot
3,523 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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7
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
5,669 members
88 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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8
Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
2,829 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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9
The Republic of Plato
by Plato
25,583 members
163 reviews
3.9
Member
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10
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,891 members
303 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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11
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
by Friedrich Nietzsche
2,650 members
9 reviews
4.1
Member
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12
A Kierkegaard Anthology
by Søren Kierkegaard
1,190 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
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13
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
11,089 members
133 reviews
4
Member
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14
Letters on England
by Voltaire
1,190 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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16
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,714 members
131 reviews
4
Member
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17
The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis
11,873 members
91 reviews
4.1
Member
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18
Political Writings
by John Locke
301 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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19
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,657 members
229 reviews
4.1
Member
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20
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,443 members
133 reviews
3.8
Member
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21
On the Incarnation: The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei
by Athanasius
3,434 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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22
Philosophy: Basic Readings
by Nigel Warburton
129 members
3.8
Member
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23
The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10,308 members
50 reviews
½ 4.3
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24
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (Penguin Classics)
by Mason I. Lowance
81 members
5
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25
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
9,234 members
107 reviews
3.8
Member
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26
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles
by John Smith
39 members
2 reviews
3
Member
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27
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
by Joseph Smith
8,175 members
100 reviews
3.2
Member
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28
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [poem]
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2,753 members
42 reviews
4.1
Member
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29
Piers Plowman
by William Langland
1,937 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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30
The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
1,920 members
6 reviews
4
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31
Existentialism and Human Emotions
by Jean-Paul Sartre
668 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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32
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
676 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
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33
Shelley's Poetry and Prose [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
521 members
4
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34
The Complete Poetry of John Donne
by John Donne
258 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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35
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
by J. R. R. Tolkien
97 members
4.1
Member
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36
Journey of the Magi
by T. S. Eliot
19 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
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37
The Ninety-Five Theses and other Treatises
by Martin Luther
15 members
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38
The Complete Scopes Trial Transcript
by Fred Foote
2 members
3
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39
The Rule of St. Benedict
by Saint Benedict
4,402 members
45 reviews
3.8
Member
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40
The Iliad
by Homer
47,582 members
446 reviews
4
41
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,252 members
362 reviews
3.8
42
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,788 members
229 reviews
3.9
43
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,109 members
281 reviews
3.9
44
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
19,434 members
368 reviews
4.2
45
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
17,339 members
97 reviews
3.9
46
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
16,593 members
133 reviews
4.1
47
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
16,462 members
189 reviews
4.2
48
Utopia
by Thomas Morus
13,686 members
135 reviews
½ 3.5
49
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
11,981 members
146 reviews
½ 3.5
50
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton
11,697 members
77 reviews
4.1
51
The Bhagavad Gita
by Vyasa
10,626 members
101 reviews
4
52
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
10,468 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
53
Knowing God
by J. I. Packer
9,878 members
54 reviews
½ 4.4
54
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
9,827 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
55
Institutes of the Christian Religion
by John Calvin
8,434 members
34 reviews
½ 4.5
56
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
8,074 members
58 reviews
3.9
57
Orthodoxy
by G. K. Chesterton
7,656 members
56 reviews
4.2
58
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,599 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
60
City of God
by Saint Augustine
7,122 members
39 reviews
3.9
61
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
6,461 members
92 reviews
4.1
62
The Song of Roland
by Anonymous
6,243 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
63
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
6,048 members
71 reviews
4
64
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Parts I-II
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
6,013 members
48 reviews
4.2
65
Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
5,809 members
48 reviews
3.9
66
On the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5,145 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
67
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
5,049 members
44 reviews
4
68
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4,837 members
66 reviews
3.8
69
Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes
4,355 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5
71
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
by John Foxe
4,069 members
28 reviews
3.8
72
The Everlasting Man
by G. K. Chesterton
3,462 members
25 reviews
4.2
73
Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
3,008 members
60 reviews
½ 3.4
74
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Other Writings
by Benjamin Franklin
2,916 members
10 reviews
3.9
75
The God Who Is There
by Francis A. Schaeffer
2,555 members
16 reviews
4.1
76
How Now Shall We Live?
by Charles W. Colson
2,470 members
9 reviews
4.1
77
The Greek Way
by Edith Hamilton
2,388 members
22 reviews
3.8
78
A History of the American People
by Paul Johnson
2,344 members
16 reviews
3.9
79
Loving God
by Charles Colson
2,091 members
5 reviews
4
80
Saint Thomas Aquinas
by G. K. Chesterton
2,090 members
16 reviews
4
81
The Basic Works of Aristotle
by Aristotle
2,006 members
9 reviews
4.2
82
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
by Henry David Thoreau
1,976 members
16 reviews
3.9
83
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
by C. S. Lewis
1,873 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
84
Darwin on Trial
by Phillip E. Johnson
1,869 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
85
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
by Mark A. Noll
1,852 members
4 reviews
4
86
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
by Clement of Rome
1,814 members
9 reviews
4
87
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
by Jonathan Edwards
1,641 members
9 reviews
4.2
88
Escape from Reason (IVP Classics)
by Francis A. Schaeffer
1,635 members
10 reviews
3.9
89
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
by Jonathan Swift
1,485 members
20 reviews
4
90
Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647
by William Bradford
1,396 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
91
The Reformation
by Owen Chadwick
1,387 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
92
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
1,257 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
93
The Roman Way
by Edith Hamilton
1,137 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
94
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
by Abraham Cohen
1,039 members
10 reviews
4.1
95
A Preface to Paradise Lost
by C. S. Lewis
1,007 members
6 reviews
4.1
96
Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings [edited by Ralph McInerny]
by Thomas Aquinas
971 members
3 reviews
3.9
97
Understanding the Times
by David Noebel
957 members
2 reviews
4.1
98
What the Buddha Taught
by Walpola Rahula
919 members
11 reviews
4.1
99
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
by William Safire
858 members
4 reviews
4
100
The Magna Charta
by James Daugherty
835 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6