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Joseph Brodsky's List of 83 Books You Should Read to Have an Intelligent Conversation

The list actually adds up to 99 books! These books originate from a list that Brodsky gave to his class.
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The Bhagavad Gita (Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa)
The Bhagavad Gita
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Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Mahabharata (Anonymous; Trans. John D. Smith)
Mahabharata
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Anonymous; Trans. John D. Smith
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Anonymous
Old Testament
Old Testament
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
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Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
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Homer
Herodotus -- The Histories (Herodotus)
Herodotus -- The Histories
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Herodotus
Sophocles
Sophocles
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus
9
Hippolytus
Hippolytus
10
Electra (Euripides)
Electra
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Euripides
Phoenician Women (Euripides)
Phoenician Women
12
Euripides
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
13
Dialogues of Plato
Dialogues of Plato
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Aristotle--Poetics
Aristotle--Poetics
15
Aristotle--Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle--Nicomachean Ethics
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De Anima (Aristotle)
De Anima
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Aristotle
Poems From the Greek Anthology (Robert Fitzgerald)
Poems From the Greek Anthology
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Robert Fitzgerald
Lucretius--On the Nature of Things
Lucretius--On the Nature of Things
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Parallel Lives (Plutarch)
Parallel Lives
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Plutarch
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
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Virgil
Virgil--Georgics and Eclogues
Virgil--Georgics and Eclogues
22
Tacitus Annals
Tacitus Annals
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Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
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Ovid
Ovid--Heroides
Ovid--Heroides
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Ovid--The Art of Love
Ovid--The Art of Love
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New Testament and Psalms
New Testament and Psalms
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Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius
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Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
The Poems of Catullus (Catullus)
The Poems of Catullus
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Catullus
Horace--Epistles, Odes, and Satires
Horace--Epistles, Odes, and Satires
31
Discourses (Epictetus)
Discourses
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Epictetus
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
33
Aristophanes
Historical Miscellany (Aelian)
Historical Miscellany
34
Aelian
On the Nature of Animals (Aelianus)
On the Nature of Animals
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Aelianus
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica
36
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers ((Michael) Psellus)
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
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(Michael) Psellus
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-3 (Edward Gibbon)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-3
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Edward Gibbon
Plotinus' Enneads
Plotinus' Enneads
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Eusebius
Eusebius
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