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Last updated: May 2026- Finished Meditations — Added rich notes + favorite Stoic quotes. Multiple re-reads over the years.
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- Reading goal — Continuing through the Harvard Classics shelf and Great Books set. 2 books completed so far this year.
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| Author | Title | Year | Pages | Audio | Collection | Notes | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities 📖 | 1859 | 340 | 13h 40m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina 📖 | 1877 | 864 | 26h 30m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | — |
| Anonymous | Beowulf 📖 | 1000 | 120 | 3h 45m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Voltaire | Candide 📖 | 1759 | 130 | 4h 05m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment 📖 | 1866 | 545 | 15h 45m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | — |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote 📖 | 1605 | 1072 | 24h 10m | Harvard Classics Vol. 14 | Notes → | — |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust, Part I 📖 | 1808 | 200 | 6h 15m | Harvard Classics Vol. 19 | Notes → | — |
| Søren Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling 📖 | 1843 | 160 | 5h 10m | Other | Notes → | — |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet 📖 | 1600 | 152 | 4h 05m | Harvard Classics Vol. 46 | Notes → | — |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass 📖 | 1855 | 450 | 8h 20m | Harvard Classics Vol. 42 | Notes → | — |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth 📖 | 1606 | 90 | 2h 40m | Harvard Classics Vol. 46 | Notes → | — |
| Marcus Aurelius | Meditations ✅ | 180 | 192 | 5h 10m | Harvard Classics Vol. 2 | Notes → | ▶️ |
| Herman Melville | Moby-Dick 📖 | 1851 | 635 | 21h 30m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics 📖 | -350 | 200 | 6h 20m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | — |
| Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species 📖 | 1859 | 502 | 12h 55m | Harvard Classics Vol. 11 | Notes → | — |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost 📖 | 1667 | 350 | 9h 10m | Harvard Classics Vol. 4 | Notes → | — |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice 📖 | 1813 | 432 | 11h 35m | Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction | Notes → | 🎧 |
| Marcel Proust | Swann's Way 📖 | 1913 | 450 | 14h 30m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Virgil | The Aeneid 📖 | -19 | 400 | 10h 30m | Harvard Classics Vol. 13 | Notes → | — |
| Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 📖 | 1791 | 300 | 6h 20m | Harvard Classics Vol. 1 | Notes → | — |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov 📖 | 1880 | 840 | 24h 00m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | — |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy 📖 | 1321 | 432 | 14h 50m | Harvard Classics Vol. 20 | Notes → | — |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay | The Federalist Papers (Selections) 📖 | 1788 | 250 | 7h 50m | Harvard Classics Vol. 43 | Notes → | — |
| Homer | The Iliad 📖 | -750 | 450 | 11h 20m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | — |
| Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain 📖 | 1924 | 700 | 22h 00m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita 📖 | 1967 | 402 | 14h 00m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Homer | The Odyssey 📖 | -800 | 350 | 11h 15m | Harvard Classics Vol. 22 | Notes → | — |
| John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress 📖 | 1678 | 320 | 7h 25m | Harvard Classics Vol. 15 | Notes → | — |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince 📖 | 1513 | 140 | 3h 45m | Harvard Classics Vol. 36 | Notes → | — |
| Plato | The Republic ✅ | -380 | 300 | 8h 30m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | ▶️ ✍️ |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises 📖 | 1926 | 250 | 6h 50m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations 📖 | 1776 | 800 | 22h 40m | Harvard Classics Vol. 10 | Notes → | — |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird 📖 | 1960 | 376 | 12h 15m | Other | Notes → | — |
| Thomas More | Utopia 📖 | 1516 | 128 | 3h 50m | Harvard Classics Vol. 36 | Notes → | — |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace 📖 | 1869 | 1225 | 36h 00m | Great Books of the Western World | Notes → | — |
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