Greater Books

The 47 lists:

*Lubbock*
John Lubbock, The Choice of Books (1896)

*Baldwin*
James Baldwin, The Book Lover: The Guide to the Best Reading (1910)

*Eliot*
Charles W. Eliot, Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Book Shelf (1910; 1917)

*Powys*
John Cowper Powys, One Hundred Best Books (1922)

*Durant*
Will Durant, One Hundred Best Books for an Education (1929)

*Invitation*
Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren, Invitation to Learning (1941; 1944)

*Classics*
Alan Willard Brown and Members of the Faculty of Columbia College, Classics of the Western World (1943)

*Hundred*
The Jasper Lee Company, Have You Read 100 Great Books? (1946)

*France*
Raymond Queneau, Pour une Bibliotheque Ideal (1956)

*Downs*
Robert B. Downs, Famous Books Ancient and Medieval (1964) and Molders of the Modern Mind: 111 Books That Shaped Western Civilization (1961)

*Rexroth*
Kenneth Rexroth, 'Classics Revisited' (1965-1969)

*Zulli*
Floyd Zulli, The World's Great Classics: An Invitation to Great Reading (1969)

*Read*
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book (1972)

*List*
Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish, eds., The List of Books: A Library of Over 3,000 Works (1981)

*Ward*
Philip Ward, A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books (1982)

*Oriental*
Wm. Theodore de Bary, Ainslie Embree, and Amy Vladeck Heinrich, A Guide to Oriental Classics (1989)

*Magill*
Frank Magill, Masterpieces of World Literature (1989)

*Adler*
Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Hutchins, The Great Books of the Western World (1990)

*Good*
Arthur Waldorn, Olga S. Weber, and Arthur Zeiger, Good Reading (1990)

*Learning*
The Learning Channel, Great Books (1993-2002)

*Bloom*
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994)

*Fadiman*
Clifton Fadiman and John S Major, The New Lifetime Reading Plan (1997)

*Foundation*
The Great Books Foundation, 'A Reading List' (1998)

*Kanigel*
Robert Kanigel, Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books (1998)

*SeymourSmith*
Martin Seymour-Smith, The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought From Ancient Times to Today (1998)

*Trinity*
Louise Cowan and Os Guinness, eds., Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read (1998)

*Utne*
Utne Reader, 'The Loose Canon: 150 Great Works to Set Your Imagination on Fire' (1998)

*Campbell*
W. John Campbell, The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics (2000)

*Norway*
The Norwegian Book Club, Verdensbiblioteket (2002)

*Dirda*
Michael Dirda, Classics for Pleasure (2007)

*Great*
Kevin Hill, The Great Books List (2007)

*Guardian*
The Guardian, 'Books You Can't Live Without: The Top 100' (2007)

*O'Hear*
Anthony O'Hear, Great Books: From the Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature (2007)

*Zane*
J. Peder Zane, The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (2007)

*GlobeMail*
The Globe and Mail, '50 Greatest Books of All Time' (2008)

*Smart*
Jane Mallison, Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days (2008)

*Taylor*
Andrew Taylor, Books That Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History (2008)

*Telegraph*
The Daily Telegraph/ Sunday Telegraph, '110 Best Books: The Perfect Library' (2008)

*Van Doren*
Charles Van Doren, The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works (2008)

*Harvard*
The Harvard Book Store, 'Top 100 Books' (2010)

*Reynolds*
John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization (2011)

*World*
anonymous, World Canonical Texts (2011)

*Deposit*
The Book Depository, 'Best Books Ever' (2012)

*Newman*
Sandra Newman, The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, From Homer to Faulkner (2012)

*Graphic*
Russ Kick, The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals (2012-2013)

*Recommended*
The Editors of Salem Press, Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed (2015)

*Educated*
Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (2016)