The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Histories: The Landmark Herodotus by Herodotus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
The Complete Greek Tragedies by David Grene
The Future Of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Venice: A Maritime Republic by Frederic C. Lane

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​
  1. A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
  2. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
  3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  4. Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
  5. Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
  6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  8. Conceptual Physics by Paul G. Hewitt
  9. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  10. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
  11. Dune by Frank Herbert
  12. Excession by Iain M. Banks
  13. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
  14. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
  15. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
  16. Grand Design: The Earth from Above by Georg Gerster
  17. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  18. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand
  19. Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson
  20. Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985 by Freeman J. Dyson
  21. Lao Tzu’s Te-Tao Ching by Lao Tzu and translated
  22. Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
  23. Medieval Civilisation by Jacques Le Goff
  24. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  25. Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch
  26. One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark
  27. Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison
  28. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
  29. State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
  30. The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz
  31. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
  32. The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey
  33. The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History by Norman F. Cantor
  34. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
  35. The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet’s Surprising Future by Fred Pearce
  36. The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volumes 1-4 edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore
  37. The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance by Carl Demrow and David Salisbury
  38. The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies by
  39. The Discoverers: Volumes I and II Deluxe Illustrated Set by Daniel J. Boorstin
  40. The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
  41. The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide by Michael Allaby and Dr. Robert Coenraads
  42. The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George
  43. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
  44. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
  45. The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
  46. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde
  47. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  48. The History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
  49. The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman
  50. The Iliad by Homer
  51. The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Zimmer
  52. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler
  53. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler
  54. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan
  55. The Map Book by Peter Barber
  56. The Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day by UNESCO
  57. The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook by Robert Porter
  58. The Nature of Things by Lucretius
  59. The Odyssey by Homer translated
  60. The Past From Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites by Charlotte Trümpler
  61. The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis
  62. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  63. The Prince by Machiavelli
  64. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. Mcneill
  65. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
  66. The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
  67. 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
  68. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
  69. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
  70. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  71. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
  72. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
  73. Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
  74. Venice, A Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane
  75. What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
  76. Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris
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