Poets of the English Language, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearso
n.
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert
O'Clair.
History, Biography, Autobiography
Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris; The Federa
list Papers, edited by Clinton Rossiter.
Jean Jacques Rousseau. Confessions.
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Henry Adams. The Education of Henry Adams.
Fernand Braudel. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of
Philip II; Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century.
Annex
William H. McNeill. The Rise of the West;
Will and Ariel Durant. The Story of Civilization.
Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of the American People;
Page Smith. A People's History of the United States.
Alfred North Whitehead. Science and the Modern World.
Alfred North Whitehead. An Introduction to Mathematics.
E. H. Gombrich. The Story of Art.
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book
Source: Fadiman, Clifton. The Lifetime Reading Plan. 3rd ed. New York: Harper &
Row, 1988. 1960, 1978, 1988 by Clifton Fadiman.