(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this)
Early Works:
Apology
Crito
Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma)
Ion
Laches (courage)
Protagoras (the teachability of virtue)
Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy)
Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox)
Middle Works
Parmenides - Forms
Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife)
Phaedrus (love and rethoric)
Republic (politics, the state and the soul)
Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love')
Theaetetus (knowledge)
Later Works
Critias (Atlantis=
Sophist (more on Forms)
Timaeus (the purpose of the universe)
On Aristotle
David M.Balme - Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies
Cristopher Shields - Aristotle
David Furley - From Aristotle to Augustine
By Aristotle
(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best)
The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics)
Rethoric
Metaphysics
Poetics
Politics
Cynicism
Farrand Sayre - Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism
R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
Epicureanism
James Warren - The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism
Eugene O'connor - The essential Epicurus
Lucretius - The nature of things
Stoicism
(Isabella specified Penguin Classics)
Seneca - Letters from a stoic
Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Skepticism
Norman Maccoll - The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus
Sextus Empiricus - Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Richard T. Wallis - Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
John Gregory - The neoplatonists
Plotinus - The enneads
Travel Literature
General
From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt
The Journals of Captain James Cook
South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh
Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinsk
The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
Europe
Guide to Greece by Pausanias
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
Letters From England by Voltaire
Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Letters from Russia by Adolphe De Custine
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Silent Traveler in London by Chiang Lee
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
Asia
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi
Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina by Richard Burton
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
A Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles
The Americas
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America by Alexander von Humboldt
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
I See by My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
Africa
Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
Source of the Nile by Richard Burton
The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
Anthologies
A Book of Traveller's Tales by Eric Newby
Colonial American Travel Narratives
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
Classics
Theater/Drama part 1
Theater/Drama part 2
Novellas
100 Novellas
Short Story Collections
Flash Fiction and Short Short Stories
Female writers
Humor
Essential Doorstoppers (Unfinished)
Dystopia & Utopia (Unfinished)
Essential Poetry Guide
A collection of 'must read' lists.
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Guide to Journey to the West translations
Guide to Romance of the Three Kingdoms translations
100 Works of Japanese Literature
Russian lit
Maksim Gorky - Mother
Sci Fi 1
Sci Fi 3
NPR's Top 100 Sci-fi and Fantasy
Christian and Medieval
Modern
Modern Part 2
Scientific Revolution
German Idealism
Existentialism
Analytic Part 1
Analytic Part 2
Postmodernism
Feminism/Queer Theory
