GreatBooks Worldview Academy Lists

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The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast
by C. S. Lewis
17,487 members
153 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Perelandra
by C. S. Lewis
8,840 members
106 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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3
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton
7,064 members
169 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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4
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
18,759 members
289 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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5
Othello
by William Shakespeare
16,986 members
131 reviews
4
2 Members
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6
Murder in the Cathedral
by T. S. Eliot
3,109 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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7
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
5,077 members
72 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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8
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
12,489 members
110 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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9
The Republic
by Plato
21,993 members
142 reviews
3.9
Member
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
23,705 members
253 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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11
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
by Friedrich Nietzsche
2,390 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
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12
A Kierkegaard Anthology
by Søren Kierkegaard
1,082 members
3 reviews
4.2
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13
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
9,295 members
119 reviews
4
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14
Letters on England
by Voltaire
1,075 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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16
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
13,955 members
113 reviews
4
Member
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17
The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas : von Kempen
10,225 members
82 reviews
4.1
Member
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18
Political Writings
by John Locke
275 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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19
The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
23,990 members
213 reviews
4.1
Member
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20
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
9,913 members
120 reviews
3.8
Member
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21
On the Incarnation: The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei
by Athanasius
2,802 members
18 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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22
Philosophy: Basic Readings
by Nigel Warburton
119 members
3.8
Member
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23
The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
8,675 members
44 reviews
½ 4.3
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24
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (Penguin Classics)
by Mason I. Lowance
74 members
5
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25
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
7,892 members
104 reviews
3.8
Member
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26
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
by John Smith
37 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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27
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
by Joseph Smith
7,287 members
90 reviews
3.2
Member
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28
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2,395 members
34 reviews
4.1
Member
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29
Piers Plowman
by William Langland
1,753 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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30
The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
1,744 members
6 reviews
4
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31
Existentialism and Human Emotions
by Jean-Paul Sartre
634 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
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32
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
529 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
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33
Shelley's Poetry and Prose [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
474 members
4
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34
The Complete Poetry of John Donne
by John Donne
236 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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35
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
by J. R. R. Tolkien
85 members
4.1
Member
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36
Journey of the Magi
by T. S. Eliot
16 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
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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
3,867 members
38 reviews
3.9
Member
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40
The Iliad
by Homer
40,115 members
386 reviews
4
41
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
25,466 members
334 reviews
3.8
42
The Aeneid
by Virgil
22,987 members
198 reviews
3.9
43
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
18,595 members
218 reviews
4.2
44
The Plague
by Albert Camus
18,544 members
249 reviews
4
45
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
15,801 members
314 reviews
4.2
46
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
14,895 members
92 reviews
3.9
47
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
14,418 members
120 reviews
4.1
48
Utopia
by Thomas More
11,892 members
118 reviews
½ 3.5
49
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
10,589 members
133 reviews
½ 3.5
50
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton
10,021 members
67 reviews
4.1
51
The Bhagavad Gita
by Vyasa
9,402 members
94 reviews
4
52
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
8,993 members
131 reviews
½ 4.3
53
Knowing God
by J. I. Packer
8,603 members
48 reviews
½ 4.4
54
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
8,270 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
55
Institutes of the Christian Religion
by John Calvin
7,391 members
30 reviews
½ 4.5
56
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
7,120 members
51 reviews
3.9
57
Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton
6,657 members
44 reviews
4.2
58
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
6,619 members
72 reviews
½ 3.7
59
How the Irish Saved Civilization
by Thomas Cahill
6,385 members
95 reviews
½ 3.7
60
City of God
by Saint Augustine
6,228 members
33 reviews
4
61
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
5,790 members
34 reviews
4.2
62
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
5,465 members
76 reviews
4.1
63
On the Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5,426 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
64
The Song of Roland
by Turoldus
5,419 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
5,187 members
59 reviews
4
67
Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
4,896 members
34 reviews
3.9
68
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
by John Foxe
4,557 members
31 reviews
3.9
69
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
4,286 members
38 reviews
3.9
70
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4,078 members
54 reviews
3.8
71
Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes
3,911 members
27 reviews
½ 3.4
72
The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell
3,910 members
42 reviews
4.2
73
The Everlasting Man
by G.K. Chesterton
2,909 members
16 reviews
4.2
74
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville
2,628 members
53 reviews
½ 3.3
75
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
2,525 members
22 reviews
4
76
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Other Writings
by Benjamin Franklin
2,450 members
11 reviews
3.9
77
The God Who Is There
by Francis A. Schaeffer
2,270 members
16 reviews
4
78
How Now Shall We Live?
by Charles W. Colson
2,206 members
7 reviews
4.1
79
The Greek Way
by Edith Hamilton
2,138 members
20 reviews
3.8
80
A History of the American People
by Paul Johnson
2,087 members
17 reviews
3.9
81
Loving God
by Charles Colson
1,869 members
4 reviews
4
82
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
by G.K. Chesterton
1,819 members
15 reviews
4
83
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
by Henry David Thoreau
1,779 members
13 reviews
3.9
84
The Basic Works of Aristotle
by Aristotle
1,755 members
8 reviews
4.2
85
Darwin on Trial
by Phillip E. Johnson
1,695 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
86
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
by C. S. Lewis
1,606 members
18 reviews
½ 4.3
87
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
by Mark A. Noll
1,587 members
2 reviews
4
88
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
by Clement of Rome
1,510 members
8 reviews
3.9
89
Escape From Reason: A Penetrating Analysis Of Trends In Modern Thought
by Francis A. Schaeffer
1,427 members
9 reviews
3.9
90
An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr David Brainerd
by David Brainerd
1,414 members
6 reviews
4.2
91
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
by Jonathan Swift
1,350 members
18 reviews
4
92
Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647
by William Bradford
1,305 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
93
The Reformation
by Owen Chadwick
1,261 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Roman Way
by Edith Hamilton
1,017 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
95
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
by Abraham Cohen
915 members
9 reviews
4.1
96
Understanding the Times
by David Noebel
853 members
2 reviews
4
97
A Preface to Paradise Lost
by C. S. Lewis
849 members
6 reviews
4.1
98
Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings [edited by Ralph McInerny]
by Thomas Aquinas
825 members
3 reviews
3.9
99
What the Buddha Taught
by Walpola Rahula
814 members
10 reviews
4.1
100
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
by William Safire
757 members
4 reviews
4.1