Here’s a list of books which readers/followers of openculture.com suggested every intelligent person should read. How many of these have you read?

1. Foucault’s Pendulum,
2. Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
3. Short History of Nearly Everything
4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment 
5. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
6. Voltaire’s Candide 
7. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 
8. George Orwell’s 1984
9. Dante’s Divine Comedy 
10. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
11. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War 
12. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince
13. Plato’s Republic
14. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
15. Hermann Hesse’s Siddartha
16. Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
17. Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
18. William Godwin’s Political Enquiry

Source: http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/the-books-you-think-every-intelligent-person-should-read-crime-and-punishment-moby-dick-beyond-many-free-online.html

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