The best of the best in what I have in audiobooks
A little bit of all of my best of the best is to be in the mix, a few days ago I said these would only constitute 20% of the whole reading but it might be more like 50% with this expanded list.
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
3. The Iliad -- #'s 1-3 are read by Charlton Griffin -- there's more Homer recordings I can only enjoy when i've listened to this at least twice.
4. The Complete Essays of Montaigne -- read by Christopher Lane
5. The Story of Civilization -- in 11 volumes by Will and later on Ariel Durant
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton read by Peter Wickham
7. The Complete Novels : Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion -- Jane Austen read by Alison Larkin a sweet perky voice and the chapters are pretty quick and breezy.
8. Charles Dickens -- all of his novels in those 2 giant volumes and anything missing that can be listened to for free
9. from Audiobooks.com -- Les Miserables and 10. Kristin Lavransdatter
11. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust read by Neville Jason in 7 volumes
12. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson read by a full cast in 3 volumes
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy read by Miranda Pleasence
14. Edith Grossman's translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote read by George Guidall
15. Plato's Socratic dialogues
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16. The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner read by Ayrton Parham ... I will only dive into Schopenhauer after I listen to this at least twice!!
17. all 6 of the Cioran volumes read by Rick Adamson
18. all of the Nietzsche read by various
19. Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas by Clarice Lispector read by Roxanne Hernandez
20. The Bodhicaryavatara by Santideva read by William Hope the start of many a Buddhist audiobook
21. The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living of Eknath Easwaran read by Paul Bazely
22. Aquinas' Summa in 5 volumes read by Martyn Swain who also does Heidegger's Being and Time, each time I complete Aquinas I need to either do Heidegger or Spengler, or Casanova, or I might wanna zip through Calvin's Insitutes, Watson's A Body of Divinity or Edwards' Religious Affections but only in-between listens of Aquinas.
23. Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet read by Adam Sims
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
3. The Iliad -- #'s 1-3 are read by Charlton Griffin -- there's more Homer recordings I can only enjoy when i've listened to this at least twice.
4. The Complete Essays of Montaigne -- read by Christopher Lane
5. The Story of Civilization -- in 11 volumes by Will and later on Ariel Durant
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton read by Peter Wickham
7. The Complete Novels : Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion -- Jane Austen read by Alison Larkin a sweet perky voice and the chapters are pretty quick and breezy.
8. Charles Dickens -- all of his novels in those 2 giant volumes and anything missing that can be listened to for free
9. from Audiobooks.com -- Les Miserables and 10. Kristin Lavransdatter
11. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust read by Neville Jason in 7 volumes
12. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson read by a full cast in 3 volumes
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy read by Miranda Pleasence
14. Edith Grossman's translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote read by George Guidall
15. Plato's Socratic dialogues
[media=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLExl8zbtjizT0aDO_13lJLiHg7TOuEJTL]
16. The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner read by Ayrton Parham ... I will only dive into Schopenhauer after I listen to this at least twice!!
17. all 6 of the Cioran volumes read by Rick Adamson
18. all of the Nietzsche read by various
19. Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas by Clarice Lispector read by Roxanne Hernandez
20. The Bodhicaryavatara by Santideva read by William Hope the start of many a Buddhist audiobook
21. The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living of Eknath Easwaran read by Paul Bazely
22. Aquinas' Summa in 5 volumes read by Martyn Swain who also does Heidegger's Being and Time, each time I complete Aquinas I need to either do Heidegger or Spengler, or Casanova, or I might wanna zip through Calvin's Insitutes, Watson's A Body of Divinity or Edwards' Religious Affections but only in-between listens of Aquinas.
23. Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet read by Adam Sims
46-50, M