When Penguin released their Great Ideas Series, I have to admit that I bought the books for their covers. I did always mean to read them too, however, and so in 2008 (and 2009) I'm going to read two 'great ideas' a month for 20 months. I'll be picking them at random and will blog a review of each as I go along. Click on a link below to see which ones I've reviewed so far...
- Series 1 (Red)
- Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
- St Augustine - Confessions of a Sinner
- Thomas a Kempis - The Inner Life
- Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
- Michel de Montaigne - On Friendship
- Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
- Edward Gibbon - The Christians and the Fall of Rome
- Thomas Paine - Common Sense
- Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- William Hazlitt - On the Pleasure of Hating
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
- Arthur Schopenhauer - On the Suffering of the World
- John Ruskin - On Art and Life
- Charles Darwin - On Natural Selection
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Why I Am So Wise
- Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
- Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents
- George Orwell - Why I Write
Series 2 (Blue) - Confucius - The First Ten Books
- Sun-tzu - The Art of War
- Plato - The Symposium
- Lucretius - Sensation and Sex
- Cicero - An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
- The Revelation of St. John the Divine and The Book of Job
- Marco Polo - Travels in the land of Kubilai Khan
- Christine de Pizan - The City of Ladies
- Baldesar Castiglione - How to Achieve True Greatness
- Francis Bacon - Of Empire
- Thomas Hobbes - Of Man
- Sir Thomas Browne - Urne-Burial
- Voltaire - Miracles and Idolatry
- David Hume - On Suicide
- Carl Clausewitz - On the Nature of War
- Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
- Henry David Thoreau - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
- Thorstein Veblen - Conspicuous Consumption
- Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
- Hannah Arendt - Eichmann and the Holocaust
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