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Self Education Through Books

A list of various books from ancient times to more recent times comprising volumes ranging from poetic epics, novels, biographies/autobiographies, philosophy, law, some mathematics, government, essays from a few places, and other topics. A person cannot get a full education for any one thing via books, but this list of books should provide a good enough place to start for those desiring to give themselves a self-education of sorts. Though no list is ever perfect or all-encompassing. May it prove useful to others is my sincerest hope.
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Homer -- The Iliad
Homer -- The Iliad
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Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
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Homer
Herodotus -- The Histories (Histories)
Herodotus -- The Histories
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Histories
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Anabasis (Xenophon)
Anabasis
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Xenophon
Apology (Plato)
Apology
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Plato
Crito
Crito
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Phaedo
Phaedo
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The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
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Plato
PLATO Complete Works by Plato
PLATO Complete Works by Plato
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Politics (Aristotle)
Politics
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Aristotle
Metaphysics (Aristotle)
Metaphysics
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Aristotle
Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics)
Aristotle
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The Nicomachean Ethics
Rhetoric
Rhetoric
14
Poetics
Poetics
15
Aristotle Complete Works
Aristotle Complete Works
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles (Sophocles)
The Complete Plays of Sophocles
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Sophocles
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
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Aristophanes
The Complete Aeschylus (Aeschylus)
The Complete Aeschylus
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Aeschylus
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
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Virgil
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarc)
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
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Plutarc
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses
22
Annals
Annals
23
The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius)
The Twelve Caesars
24
Suetonius
Work and Days, Theogony, and the Shield of Heracles (Hesiod)
Work and Days, Theogony, and the Shield of Heracles
25
Hesiod
Catiline's War, the Jugurthine War, Histories (Sallust)
Catiline's War, the Jugurthine War, Histories
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Sallust
The Histories (Polybius)
The Histories
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Polybius
The Conquest of Gaul (Gaius Julius Caesar)
The Conquest of Gaul
28
Gaius Julius Caesar
The Landmark Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar)
The Landmark Julius Caesar
29
Gaius Julius Caesar
Cicero's Letters to Atticus
Cicero's Letters to Atticus
30
Cicero--On the Gods
Cicero--On the Gods
31
On Old Age, on Friendship & on Divination (Cicero)
On Old Age, on Friendship & on Divination
32
Cicero
Horace--Epistles, Odes, and Satires
Horace--Epistles, Odes, and Satires
33
Plotinus' Enneads
Plotinus' Enneads
34
The Education of Cyrus (Xenophon)
The Education of Cyrus
35
Xenophon
The Anabasis of Alexander (Arrian)
The Anabasis of Alexander
36
Arrian
The Secret History (Procopius)
The Secret History
37
Procopius
The Letters of Pliny the Younger (Pliny the Younger)
The Letters of Pliny the Younger
38
Pliny the Younger
Natural History by Pliny the Elder
Natural History by Pliny the Elder
39
Almagest (Ptolemy)
Almagest
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Ptolemy
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