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The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius The Greek Achievement by Charles Freeman The History of Rome, Books 1-5 by Livy John Adams by David McCullough No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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19860 Classics and the Western Canon — 4950 members — last activity Mar 09, 2026 04:56AM
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more

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