As selected by us, I give you the list of the 50 books we will read on our journey together:
I Homer: The Iliad 760 B.C.
II Plato: The Republic 380 B.C.
III Aristotle: Metaphysics 350 B.C.
IV Cicero: Works 50 B.C.
V Virgil: The Aeneid 19 B.C.
VI Ovid: Metamorphoses 8 A.D.
VII Epictetus: Enchiridion 125 A.D.
VIII Ptolemy: Almagest 150 A.D.
IX Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 167 A.D.
X St Augustine: Confessions 400 A.D.
XI Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy 1320
XII Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 1400
XIII Leonardo DaVinci: Notebooks 1500
XIV Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince 1513
XV Thomas More: Utopia 1516
XVI Nicolaus Copernicus: On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres 1543
XVII Francis Bacon Advancement of Learning 1605
XVIII William Shakespeare Macbeth 1606
XIX Galileo Galilei Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences 1638
XX Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651
XXI Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy 1641
XXII John Milton Paradise Lost 1667
XXIII John Locke Two Treatises of Government 1690
XXIV Isaac Newton The Principia 1687
XXV Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719
The Great Books 