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Ten Year Reading Plan (Joy of Reading)

The book The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works by Charles van Doren contains at the end a 10-year reading plan, which the author recommends. It has 10 books per year, focusing mostly on classics. The reason why there are more than 100 books here has to do with the decision of the author to sometimes have larger books considered as two books (for instance, War and Peace), as well as the fact that when the books are usually thought of as separate, I added them here as distinct entries (for instance, the Divine Commedy has 3 items here, one for each part).
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
1
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
2
Homer
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Agamemnon
3
Aeschylus
The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus)
The Libation Bearers
4
Aeschylus
The Eumenides (Aeschylus)
The Eumenides
5
Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
6
Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus
7
Sophocles
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
8
Sophocles
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
9
William Shakespeare
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
10
Eugene O'Neill
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
11
Samuel Beckett
Alcestis (Euripides)
Alcestis
12
Euripides
Hippolytus (Euripides)
Hippolytus
13
Euripides
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
14
Euripides
Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Euripides)
Iphigenia Among the Taurians
15
Euripides
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata
16
Aristophanes
Clouds (Aristophanes)
Clouds
17
Aristophanes
Birds (Aristophanes)
Birds
18
Aristophanes
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare)
Much Ado About Nothing
19
William Shakespeare
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It
20
William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare)
The Winter's Tale
21
William Shakespeare
The Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories
22
Herodotus
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
History of the Peloponnesian War
23
Thucydides
The Annals (Tacitus)
The Annals
24
Tacitus
The Histories (Tacitus)
The Histories
25
Tacitus
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Plato)
The Trial and Death of Socrates
26
Plato
The Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium
27
Plato
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
28
Plato
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics
29
Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
The Nicomachean Ethics
30
Aristotle
Euclid's Elements (Euclid)
Euclid's Elements
31
Euclid
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
32
Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
33
Kurt Vonnegut
On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
34
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
35
Virgil
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
36
Ovid
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarc)
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
37
Plutarc
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
38
Marcus Aurelius
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice
39
William Shakespeare
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
40
William Shakespeare
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