boring books
A blog where we talk about really boring books.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
c. 2100–1200 BC
La Rochefoucauld, Maximes
1665
New? Read My Introduction
2023
Wallace Shawn, The Fever, Night Thoughts
1990
Marx, Capital
1867
Homer, The Iliad
8th century BC
Metamorphosis, Ovid
8 AD
Euripides, Women of Troy
415 BC
Plato, The Republic
375 BC
Augustine, Confessions
397 AD
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
1781
Aristotle, Politics
4th century BC
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
1929
Lincoln, Political Writings and Speeches
1860s
Machiavelli, The Prince
1513
Fleming, Moonraker
1955
Homer, The Odyssey
8th century BC
Chomsky, On Palestine
2015
Virgil, Aeneid
19 BC
Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
1891
Rousseau, The Social Contract
1762
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
100 BC
George Eliot, Middlemarch
1871
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
1961
Sontag, Against Interpretation
1966
Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary
2003
Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
1997
Marx, The Communist Manifesto
1848
Tenet, At the Center of the Storm
2007
Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
1970
Tolstoy, War & Peace
1869
Montaigne, Essays
1580
Luther, Ninety-five Theses
1517
John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1974
Thorsson, The Saga of Grettir the Strong
1400
Dante, The Divine Comedy
1320
Boccaccio, The Decameron
1353
The Declaration, Constitution and Articles of Confederation
1776
Milton, Paradise Lost
1667
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
1776
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
1597
Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
1620
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
1739
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
429 BC
Euripides, The Bacchae
407 BC
César Aira, On Contemporary Art
2010
Alexievich, Secondhand Time
2013
Levine, The Cluetrain Manifesto
2000
Calvino, Invisible Cities
1972
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
1969
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967
Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
1964
Plath, The Bell Jar
1963
Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
1963
Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
1963
Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
1958
Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
1955
Fleming, Casino Royale
1953
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
1952
Ellison, Invisible Man
1952
Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
1951
Beauvoir, The Second Sex
1949
Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
1949
Steinbeck, A Russian Journal
1948
Steinbeck, Cannery Row
1945
Borges, Ficciones
1944
Rand, The Fountainhead
1943
Camus, The Stranger
1942
Woolf, Three Guineas
1938
Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction & Other Essays
1935
Barnes
, Nightwood
1936
Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
1930
Woolf, A Room of One's Own
1929
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
1926
T.S Eliot, The Waste Land
1922
Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
1920
Wharton, The Age of Innocence
1920
Kafka, The Metamorphosis
1915
Lenin, State and Revolution
1917
T.S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1915
Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
1904
Rosa Luxemburg, Social Reform or Revolution
1899
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
1890
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
1887
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
1878
Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
1874
Nietzsche, Anti-Education
1869
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
1813
Austen, Emma
1815
Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
1798
Paine, The Rights of Man
1791
Paine, Common Sense
1776
Voltaire, Candide
1759
Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
1755
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
1748
Bernoulli, Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk
1738
Locke, Two Treatises of Government
1689
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
1681
Hobbes, Leviathan
1651
Descartes, Discourse on Method
1637