"In 1891, a fan wrote Tolstoy asking him to make a list of 100 books that were most important to him. Ever fond of making lists, Tolstoy rose to the challenge.
Tolstoy rated the magnitude of influence these books had on him, using a scale of "enormous," "very great" and "great." He also thought it important to point out that different books were vital to him at different stages in his life and so he divided his list accordingly. Tolstoy came up with a list of around 50 books, but then gave up on the project."
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Books from Childhood
- The Bible Story of Joseph - Genesis 37-50 (ENORMOUS)
- Tales from The Thousand and One Nights (GREAT)
- Tale of Kamar al-Zaman
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- The Little Black Hen by Antony Pogorelsky (V. great)
- Napoleon by Alexander Pushkin - poem (Great)
- Traditional Russian oral epic poem - Bylina (ENORMOUS)
- Dobrynya Nikitich (Fictional character)
- Ilya Muromets
- Alesha Popovich
Ages 14 to 20
- Matthew 5-7 - The Sermon on the Mount (ENORMOUS)
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne (V. great)
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (ENORMOUS)
- Emile, Or Treatise on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (ENORMOUS)
- Julia : Or, the New Eloisa by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (V. great)
- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1832) (V. great)
- The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller (V. great)
- The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (Great)
- How the Two Ivans Quarrelled by Nikolai Gogol (Great)
- Nevsky Prospekt by Nikolai Gogol (Great)
- Viy by Nikolai Gogol (ENORMOUS)
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (V. great)
- A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev (V. great)
- Polinka Saks ; And, The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich by Alexander Druzhinin (V. great)
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (ENORMOUS)
- A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (V. great)
- History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (Great)
Ages 20 to 35
- Hermann and Dorotheaby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (V. great)
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dameby Victor Hugo (V. great)
- Fyodor Tyutchev poems (Great)
- Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov poems (Great)
- The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer (in Russian) (Great)
- Symposium and Phaedo by Plato (Great)
Ages 35 to 50
- The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer (in Greek) (V. great)
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (ENORMOUS)
- Anabasis by Xenophon (V. great)
- Novels by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood) (Great)
- George Eliot's novels (Great)
- Anthony Trollope's novels (Great)
Ages 50 to 65
- Progress and Povertyby Henry George (V. great)
- Confucius and Mencius (V. great)
- Tao Te Ching (ENORMOUS)
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal (ENORMOUS)
- Epictetus (ENORMOUS)
- The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (Great)
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