GMG's 100 Most Important Books Ever Written!

[Todd]

The Genius of Mozart by Rob Newman

A masterpiece of musicology that everyone with even a passing interest in classical music should read. 

[karlhenning]

A masterpiece of musicology that everyone with even a passing interest in classical music should read.

There's an insightful appendix on 9/11 to boot. (Comma omitted deliberately.)

[Todd]

Has everyone who's going to play picked three books?

(If you, in your ultimate and beneficent wisdom, decide to allow prior posters to submit any additional works, may I humbly suggest the following:

Das Kapital – Karl Marx
A Monetary History of the United States – Milton Friedman
Second Treatise on Civil Government – John Locke
Summa Theologica – St Thomas Aquinas
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay)

[mc ukrneal]

The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay)

I was thinking of that one - so let's make that my third...

[MN Dave]

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
The C Programming Language, Kerninghan and Ritchie (1978)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky 'Crime and Punishment'
Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden
The Rights of Man:  Thomas Paine
Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason"
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent
Viktor Shklovsky's Energy of Delusion
Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
Niccolo Machiavelli - Il Principe
The Communist Manifesto; Marx/Engels
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
The GULAG Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
Dostoevsky The Idiot
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Principia - Isaac Newton
Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo (Galileo Galilei)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Andreas Vesalius)
PG Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning
Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective
Zola, Germinal
Shakespeare's Collected works
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
"The Master and Margarita", Mikhael Bulgakov
John Ruskin: Modern Painters
The Rupert Bear Annual
Aristotle, Opera Omnia
Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Albert Einstein, Collected Works
Boswell Life of Johnson
Euripides The Bacchae
Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit
Thomas Mann Magic Mountain
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
John James Audubon: Birds of America
Divine Comedy - Dante
collected Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Franz Kafka The Trial
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Suetonius: The 12 Caesars
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Nabokov's Pale Fire
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Clock without Hands.  Carson McCullers.
William Blake Jerusalem (original illuminated version, not just the text)
Samuel Beckett: Collected Works
Sigmund Freud: Collected Works
Cervantes - Don Quijote
Goethe - Faust
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl
Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Koran
Mahābhārata
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
THE DICTIONARY
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
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[MN Dave]

Dave, You are not going to tell us that you neglected to rtetain the poster's names along with their selections!

I have had my three, to remind you.........

Peyton Place
The Bunty Annual 1972
The Genius of Mozart by Rob Newman

Mike

Righto. 

[MN Dave]

(If you, in your ultimate and beneficent wisdom, decide to allow prior posters to submit any additional works, may I humbly suggest the following:

Das Kapital – Karl Marx
A Monetary History of the United States – Milton Friedman
Second Treatise on Civil Government – John Locke
Summa Theologica – St Thomas Aquinas
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay)

Thanks. Please remind me if it comes to that.

[Elgarian]

I have had my three, to remind you.........

Peyton Place
The Bunty Annual 1972
The Genius of Mozart by Rob Newman

Spot on. 1972 was a great year for Bunty.

I like the pinpoint precision that's creeping into this thread.

[vandermolen]

Apart from my choice of 'Crime and Punishment' by Doestoevsky I would have chosen the Tao Te Ching, but I'm pleased to see that already selected. Had I the option to choose another two they would be St Exupery's 'The Little Prince' and 'Great Expectations' by Dickens.

[MN Dave]

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
The C Programming Language, Kerninghan and Ritchie (1978)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky 'Crime and Punishment'
Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden
The Rights of Man:  Thomas Paine
Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason"
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent
Viktor Shklovsky's Energy of Delusion
Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
Niccolo Machiavelli - Il Principe
The Communist Manifesto; Marx/Engels
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
The GULAG Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
Dostoevsky The Idiot
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Principia - Isaac Newton
Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo (Galileo Galilei)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Andreas Vesalius)
PG Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning
Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective
Zola, Germinal
Shakespeare's Collected works
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
"The Master and Margarita", Mikhael Bulgakov
John Ruskin: Modern Painters
The Rupert Bear Annual
Aristotle, Opera Omnia
Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Albert Einstein, Collected Works
Boswell Life of Johnson
Euripides The Bacchae
Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit
Thomas Mann Magic Mountain
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
John James Audubon: Birds of America
Divine Comedy - Dante
collected Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Franz Kafka The Trial
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Suetonius: The 12 Caesars
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Nabokov's Pale Fire
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Clock without Hands.  Carson McCullers.
William Blake Jerusalem (original illuminated version, not just the text)
Samuel Beckett: Collected Works
Sigmund Freud: Collected Works
Cervantes - Don Quijote
Goethe - Faust
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl
Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Koran
Mahābhārata
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
THE DICTIONARY
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
St Exupery's 'The Little Prince'
'Great Expectations' by Dickens
(83)

[Keemun]

My second and third selections:

Constitution of the United States
Thomas à Kempis - The Imitation of Christ

[Brahmsian]

A Night to Remember - Walter Lord

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

[CD]

Elias Canetti - Auto-da-Fé
Marcel Proust - À la recherche de temps perdu

[knight66]

Does the Constitution of the United States constitute a book? A short story perhaps and if we want it, we would have to have Magna Carta.

Mike

[jowcol]

Apart from my choice of 'Crime and Punishment' by Doestoevsky I would have chosen the Tao Te Ching, but I'm pleased to see that already selected. Had I the option to choose another two they would be St Exupery's 'The Little Prince' and 'Great Expectations' by Dickens.

If Dickens wasn't on there yet, he needs to be.  Great Expectations is very good, but I'd give the nod to Bleak House being Dicken's best...

[mc ukrneal]

If Dickens wasn't on there yet, he needs to be.  Great Expectations is very good, but I'd give the nod to Bleak House being Dicken's best...

This was my problem with Dickens. I would choose either Tale of Two Cities or David Copperfield. But then I remembered Great Expectations too and that was that.  I just couldn't pick ONE.

[sTisTi]

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

[MN Dave]

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
The C Programming Language, Kerninghan and Ritchie (1978)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - War and Peace
Dostoevsky 'Crime and Punishment'
Simon Vestdijk, De kellner en de levenden
The Rights of Man:  Thomas Paine
Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason"
James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock - The Calculus of Consent
Viktor Shklovsky's Energy of Delusion
Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
Niccolo Machiavelli - Il Principe
The Communist Manifesto; Marx/Engels
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
The GULAG Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
Dostoevsky The Idiot
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Principia - Isaac Newton
Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo (Galileo Galilei)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Andreas Vesalius)
PG Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning
Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective
Zola, Germinal
Shakespeare's Collected works
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
"The Master and Margarita", Mikhael Bulgakov
John Ruskin: Modern Painters
The Rupert Bear Annual
Aristotle, Opera Omnia
Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Albert Einstein, Collected Works
Boswell Life of Johnson
Euripides The Bacchae
Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit
Thomas Mann Magic Mountain
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
John James Audubon: Birds of America
Divine Comedy - Dante
collected Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Franz Kafka The Trial
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Suetonius: The 12 Caesars
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Nabokov's Pale Fire
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Clock without Hands.  Carson McCullers.
William Blake Jerusalem (original illuminated version, not just the text)
Samuel Beckett: Collected Works
Sigmund Freud: Collected Works
Cervantes - Don Quijote
Goethe - Faust
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl
Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Koran
Mahābhārata
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
THE DICTIONARY
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
St Exupery's 'The Little Prince'
'Great Expectations' by Dickens
Constitution of the United States
Thomas à Kempis - The Imitation of Christ
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Elias Canetti - Auto-da-Fé
Marcel Proust - À la recherche de temps perdu
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
(90)

[MN Dave]

I'm not sure of some of the posts above were merely discussion or part of your pick-three.

[karlhenning]

Does the Constitution of the United States constitute a book?

No!

Of course, I'm not the threadmaster, so . .  .