Classics

Canonical literature from before 1900: Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy.

Recommended

19 books someone recommended or argued with.

The Iliad
Homer
👍 2 Endorsements
Cited on EconTalk
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler, Founders, Lex Fridman Podcast
Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk, Lex Fridman Podcast
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Democracy
Henry Adams
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Paradise Lost
John Milton
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Radetzky March
Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
Red and the Black
Red and the Black
Horace Barnet Samuel
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on EconTalk
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Rape of Lucrece
The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
👍 1 Endorsement
Cited on Conversations with Tyler

Also mentioned

Named in passing or by their own author.

Republic
Plato
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Ulysses
James Joyce
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Marcel Proust
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Beowulf
Anonymous
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Cited on Lex Fridman Podcast
Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
🎙️ 1 Author Plug
Cited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Passing references only
Cited on The Tim Ferriss Show
If--
Rudyard Kipling
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
In Praise of Folly
In Praise of Folly
Desiderius Erasmus
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
Invictus
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
Letters for Literary Ladies
Maria Edgeworth
🎙️ 1 Author Plug
Cited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Passing references only
Cited on Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Passing references only
Cited on Conversations with Tyler
The Aeneid
Virgil
Passing references only
Cited on Founders
The Brothers Karamazov
Fiódor Dostoievski
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Passing references only
Cited on EconTalk
The Odyssey
Homer
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Cited on EconTalk