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Classics, Perhaps? - 2021 Update

A year or so ago, I made up a list of all the works on my TBR that could potentially qualify as classics (aka, they were works I had not read that were at least 50 years old). Here's an update on the current situation, minus the ones I've gotten through (to greater or lesser success), plus the ones I've taken an interest in since then. Which ones will prove to be vital to humanity, and which ones could afford to die a quiet death? We'll just have to see.
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Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna (Betty De Shong Meador)
Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
1
Betty De Shong Meador
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables
2
Aesop
The Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories
3
Herodotus
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata
4
Aristophanes
Great Dialogues of Plato (Plato)
Great Dialogues of Plato
5
Plato
The Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium
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Plato
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women (Various)
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
7
Various
On the Nature of the Universe (Lucretius)
On the Nature of the Universe
8
Lucretius
Letters From a Stoic (Seneca)
Letters From a Stoic
9
Seneca
The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius)
The Twelve Caesars
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Suetonius
Ibn Fadlan & the Land of Darkness (Ibn Fadlan)
Ibn Fadlan & the Land of Darkness
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Ibn Fadlan
The Gossamer Years (Michitsuna No Haha)
The Gossamer Years
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Michitsuna No Haha
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Lady Sarashina)
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan
13
Lady Sarashina
The Alexiad (Anna Comnena)
The Alexiad
14
Anna Comnena
Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan (Ibn Tufayl)
Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan
15
Ibn Tufayl
The Sagas of Icelanders (Various)
The Sagas of Icelanders
16
Various
Rending the Veil (Rumi)
Rending the Veil
17
Rumi
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
18
Giovanni Boccaccio
Outlaws of the Marsh (Shi Nai'an)
Outlaws of the Marsh
19
Shi Nai'an
The Spirit of Noh: A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden (Zeami)
The Spirit of Noh: A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden
20
Zeami
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
The Book of Margery Kempe
21
Margery Kempe
Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur
22
Thomas Malory
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
23
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Zahirud-Din Muhammad Babur)
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
24
Zahirud-Din Muhammad Babur
The Prince (Nicolo Machiavelli)
The Prince
25
Nicolo Machiavelli
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
26
Francois Rabelais
The Book of My Life (Girolamo Cordano)
The Book of My Life
27
Girolamo Cordano
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Jean De Léry)
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
28
Jean De Léry
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
29
Edmund Spenser
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
Richard III
30
William Shakespeare
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
31
The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering (Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng)
The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering
32
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Henry V (William Shakespeare)
Henry V
33
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Mariam (Elizabeth Cary)
The Tragedy of Mariam
34
Elizabeth Cary
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
35
Robert Burton
Igualtat Entre Els Homes I Les Dones / Greuge De Les Dones (Marie De Gournay)
Igualtat Entre Els Homes I Les Dones / Greuge De Les Dones
36
Marie De Gournay
The Complete Works (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works
37
William Shakespeare
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Catalina De Erauso)
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
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Catalina De Erauso
Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall (Sir Thomas Browne)
Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
39
Sir Thomas Browne
Ethics (Spinoza)
Ethics
40
Spinoza
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