As my family and friends know, I am a bibliophile in the extreme. Our house is so cluttered with books that it would give Martha Stewart or Marie Kondo a nervous breakdown. And I have more or less been that way since I was a young child.
I have started a project to check off the major books in the Western Canon in my possession and then purchase what I don’t have. (Thankfully, I have a lot of them, so this is not as expensive as it sounds.) I would like for our daughter to enter her teenage years with a solid home education in the humanities, as I share Harold Bloom’s concern that such a thing does not exist at universities anymore. Hopefully, that will change.
At any rate, I have been working from several lists that I thought I might share:
Harold Bloom’s list of books in the Western Canon
Mortimer Adler’s reading list (from How to Read a Book)
Oxford University Press World’s Classics
While I am at it, here are some podcasts on history, philosophy, and whatnot that you all might enjoy:
50 Things that Made the Modern Economy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
