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After seeing that anon post his Barnes and nobles collections and another saying they could have just bought the Harvard classic collection. I tried to create a list of books (around 100) that having been read and understood would make an educated human.

I currently have 94 books (or works as some works are in multiple books), I have tried to keep it to books/ideas that are profound and noteworthy. Let me know if I have been memed or if I am missing anything good.

(800 BC) Iliad - Homer
(800 BC) Odyssey - Homer
(600 BC) Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
(470 BC) The Analects - Confucius
(458 BC) The Oresteia - Aeschylus
(450 BC) The Art of War - Sun Tzu
(440 BC) The Histories - Herodotus
(431 BC) Medea and Other Playss - Euripides
(429 BC) The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' - Sophocles
(405 BC) Frogs and Other Plays - Aristophanes
(400 BC) PLato five dialogues (or complete works)
(400 BC) Hippocratic Writings - Hippocrates

(200 BC) The Bhagavad Gita

(20 BC) The aenid - Virgil
(43 BC) Selected works Cicero
(43 BC) On living and dying well - Cicero

(96 AD) The Annals The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero - Tacitus
(96 AD) Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans - Plutarch
(108 AD) Discourses and selected writing Epictetus
(112 AD) Letters - Pliny the younger
(160 AD) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

(1260) Selected Philosophical Writings - Thomas Aquinas

(1320) The divine comedy - dante
(1370) Chronicles - Jean Froissart
(1390) Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
(1470) Confessions - St augustine
(1470) City of god - St augustine

(1513) The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
(1588) The Complete Plays - Christopher Marlowe

(1603) Shakespeare complete works
(1605) Don Quixote - Cervantes
(1611) King James Bible
(1627) Francis Bacon The Major Works
(1627) Selected Poems - John Donne
(1641) Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings - Descartes
(1643) Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
(1644) The Essential Prose of John Milton
(1644) The Complete English Poems - John Milton
(1650) Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
(1678) The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

(1710) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
(1713) Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues - George Berkeley
(1748) An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
(1755) Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men - Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1757) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful - Edmund Burke
(1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
(1781) A critque of pure reason - Immanuel Kant
(1785) Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals - Immanuel Kant
(1786) Poems and songs - Robert Burns
(1789) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
(1791) Autobiography - Benjamin Franklin

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(1807) Phenomenology of Spirit - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(1808) Selected Works - Goethe
(1820) The Major Works - Lord Byron
(1827) The bethrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
(1837) Selected Writings (The French Revolution) - Thomas Carlyle
(1839) The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
(1840) A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
(1842) Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
(1844) The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1846) Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
(1850) Selected poems - Alfrd Lord Tennyson
(1851) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
(1859) The origin of species - Charles Darwin
(1859) On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays - John Stuart Mill
(1860) Collected poems - T. S. Eliot
(1862) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
(1866) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1867) Das Capital series - Karl Marx
(1867) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
(1884) Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1886) Beyond good and evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

(1914) The Trial - Franz Kafka
(1915) The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
(1922) In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
(1922) The Cantos - Ezra Pound
(1922) Ulysses - James Joyce
(1929) A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
(1927) Being and time - Martin Heidegger
(1927) Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
(1939) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(1940) The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
(1944) Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
(1946) Existentialism and Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
(1950) Essays of George Orwell
(1950) Collected poems - Robert Frost
(1952) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
(1961) Man and his symbols - Carl Jung
(1961) Catch-22 - joseph Heller
(1966) The Order of Things - Michel Foucault
(1966) Foundation trilogy - Isaac Asimov
(1967) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(1985) Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Corcmac McCarthy
(1999) Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan Peterson

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I want to keep it to 100 works, so recommend me stuff to ad or remove thanks.