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A Lifetime Reading Plan

This outstanding list of classic works is derived from "The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded." Also, I have posted (at the link) a companion challenge based on the "Going Further" section of this book; it features recommended works for 100 additional 20th-century authors.
On this list Plato's works are in the reading order recommended in the source book, as an aid for those who, like me, are unsure of an appropriate pattern.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
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The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects (Confucius)
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Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
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Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
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Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
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Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone (Sophocles)
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Alcestis (Euripides)
Alcestis (Euripides)
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Electra (Euripides)
Electra (Euripides)
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Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Euripides)
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Hippolytus (Euripides)
Hippolytus (Euripides)
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The Trojan Women (Euripides)
The Trojan Women (Euripides)
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Bacchae (Euripides)
Bacchae (Euripides)
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The Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories (Herodotus)
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The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
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The Art of War (Sun-Tzu)
The Art of War (Sun-Tzu)
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Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
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Clouds (Aristophanes)
Clouds (Aristophanes)
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Birds (Aristophanes)
Birds (Aristophanes)
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The Apology of Socrates (Plato)
The Apology of Socrates (Plato)
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Crito (Plato)
Crito (Plato)
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Meno (Plato)
Meno (Plato)
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Symposium (Plato)
Symposium (Plato)
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Phaedo (Plato)
Phaedo (Plato)
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Republic (Plato)
Republic (Plato)
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The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
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Politics (Aristotle)
Politics (Aristotle)
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Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics (Aristotle)
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Mengzi (Mencius)
Mengzi (Mencius)
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The Ramayana (Valmiki)
The Ramayana (Valmiki)
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The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
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The Bhagavad Gita (Anonymous)
The Bhagavad Gita (Anonymous)
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Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian)
Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian)
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The Nature of Things (Lucretius)
The Nature of Things (Lucretius)
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The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
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Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
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The Confessions (St. Augustine)
The Confessions (St. Augustine)
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The Recognition of Sakuntala (Kālidāsa)
The Recognition of Sakuntala (Kālidāsa)
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The Cloud Messenger (Kālidāsa)
The Cloud Messenger (Kālidāsa)
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