The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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The Complete Greek Tragedies by David Grene
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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Robert Zimmer
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
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One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark
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A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Art Of The Long View: Planning For The Future In An Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz
The Way Life Works by Mahlon B. Hoagland
The Map Book by Peter Barber
Conceptual Physics by Paul G. Hewitt
The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide by Michael Allaby
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gra
Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance, 4th by Appalachian Mountain Club Books
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher W. Alexander
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
The Past from Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites by Charlotte Trumpler
Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe by Philip Morrison
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work by William Daniel Hillis
Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Dune by Frank Herbert
Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Excession by Iain M. Banks
Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future by Fred Pearce
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic, Vol. II by Andrew R. George
Beowulf by Unknown
The complete Oxford Shakespeare by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor
The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook by Robert S. Porter
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Books Selected for the Manual for Civilization (source)
Other Manual for Civilization list - Kevin Kelly & Neal Stephenson
- A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
- Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Conceptual Physics by Paul G. Hewitt
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Excession by Iain M. Banks
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
- Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
- Grand Design: The Earth from Above by Georg Gerster
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand
- Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson
- Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985 by Freeman J. Dyson
- Lao Tzu’s Te-Tao Ching by Lao Tzu and translated
- Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
- Medieval Civilisation by Jacques Le Goff
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch
- One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark
- Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
- The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey
- The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History by Norman F. Cantor
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
- The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet’s Surprising Future by Fred Pearce
- The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volumes 1-4 edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore
- The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance by Carl Demrow and David Salisbury
- The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies by
- The Discoverers: Volumes I and II Deluxe Illustrated Set by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
- The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide by Michael Allaby and Dr. Robert Coenraads
- The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George
- The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
- The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
- The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- The History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
- The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman
- The Iliad by Homer
- The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Zimmer
- The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler
- The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler
- The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan
- The Map Book by Peter Barber
- The Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day by UNESCO
- The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook by Robert Porter
- The Nature of Things by Lucretius
- The Odyssey by Homer translated
- The Past From Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites by Charlotte Trümpler
- The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. Mcneill
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
- The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
- The Way Life Works: The Science Lover’s Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along by Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson
- The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
- Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
- Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Venice, A Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
- Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris