List Challenges
Travel Movies Books Food Other
Sign In
Trending
New
Popular
type to search
Sign In
 Make a List Browse Lists Search Lists Leaders Help / Contact Newsletter

A Compact Well Read Book List

These days it's quite impossible to be truly well-read but if we look at some core books we can at least make a list that if followed will permit a person to be said to be well read particularly since reading seems to be less and less of something that people do. To be well-read commonly seems to mean to have been exposed to a wide variety of ideas and books dealing with varying topics or subjects. This list should permit the common person who follows it to be more well-read than is now common at the very least and at worst at least exposes the common reader to a wider array of literature and ideas than they might have otherwise been exposed to previously. A person would likely need to read many hundreds of texts to be truly well read and that's just not doable for a lot of folks hence this compact version is 60 volumes which though still somewhat long is short enough to be tackled by an average person.
513 users · 1,380 views
 
avg. score: 9 of 60 (16%)
required scores: 1, 3, 6, 9, 14 
type to search

How many have you read or heard of?

Page 1 of 2
1
King James Bible
King James Bible
2
The Koran
The Koran
3
Essential Dialogues of Plato (Plato)
Essential Dialogues of Plato (Plato)
4
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Plato)
5
Ethics
Ethics
6
Politics (Aristotle)
Politics (Aristotle)
7
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita
8
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
9
The Prince
The Prince
10
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
11
Count of Monte Cristo
Count of Monte Cristo
12
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
13
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
14
The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
16
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
17
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
18
The Souls of Black Folk (W. E. B. Du Bois)
The Souls of Black Folk (W. E. B. Du Bois)
19
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
20
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarc)
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarc)
21
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong)
22
Shahnameh (Abolqasem Ferdowsi)
Shahnameh (Abolqasem Ferdowsi)
23
Confucianism - The Analects of Confucius
Confucianism - The Analects of Confucius
24
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
25
Meditations
Meditations
26
Discourses (Epictetus)
Discourses (Epictetus)
27
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
28
The Ramayana (Valmiki)
The Ramayana (Valmiki)
29
Lucretius--On the Nature of Things
Lucretius--On the Nature of Things
30
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
31
The Bronte Sisters: The Complete Novels (Bronte)
The Bronte Sisters: The Complete Novels (Bronte)
32
Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tzu)
Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tzu)
33
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
34
Nihon Ryoiki/Record of Miraculous Events in Japan (Kyokai)
Nihon Ryoiki/Record of Miraculous Events in Japan (Kyokai)
35
The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters (Ō No Yasumaro)
The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters (Ō No Yasumaro)
36
The Tale of the Heike
The Tale of the Heike
37
Toilers of the Sea (Victor Hugo)
Toilers of the Sea (Victor Hugo)
38
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
39
Christmas Carol, the Chimes, & the Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens)
Christmas Carol, the Chimes, & the Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens)
40
The Book of Mencius
The Book of Mencius
Page 1 of 2
Click books you've read
Trending Book Lists
Newsletter · Help/Contact · Privacy · Copyright Claim   © 2024 App Spring, Inc. · This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.
Seen It - Movies & TV 
Android & iOS
Seen It is a new app from the creators of List Challenges. You can view movies and shows in one place and filter by streaming provider, genre, release year, runtime, and rating (Rotten Tomatoes, Imdb, and/or Metacritic). Also, you can track what you've seen, want to see, like, or dislike, as well as track individual seasons or episodes of shows. In addition, you can see the most watched/liked stuff amongst your friends. Learn more at SEENIT.FUN