Below is a list of the books I will make the time to read one of these days. (Books listed in green are books I have already read.)
The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
The Bible
The Pentateuch
The Books of the Prophets
The Books of the Kings
The Books of Wisdom
The Apocrypha
The Gospels
The Acts
The Epistles
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
Capital by Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Confessions by St. Augustine
Cosmopolis by Stephen Toulmin
Consciousness and Society by H. Stuart Hughes
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
The History by Herodotus
History of the Peloponesian War by Thucydides
History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison by Henry Adams
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
The Iliad by Homer
The Inferno by Dante
Judgment under Uncertainty edited by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Odyssey by Homer
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Presidential Government by James MacGregor Burns
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene Genovese
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Working by Studs Terkel
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