Rekomendasi Buku Untuk Dibaca Seumur Hidup

Catatan ini diambil dan diterjemahkan dari buku“A Passion for Books”, ditulis Harold Rabinowitz dan Rob Kaplan, diterbitkan Times Books, Random House 1999.Catatan ini ingin berbagi tentang bagaimana dua pecinta buku memilih hanya buku-buku terbaik yang mereka izinkan untuk memasuki ruang pikiran dan mempengaruhi cara mereka melihat hidup ini.

Saya sudah membaca beberapa buku yang direkomendasikan dalam daftar ini. Beberapa di antaranya sudah diterjemahkan ke Indonesia. Tapi jauh lebih menarik bila kita dapat memahami dalam bahasa aslinya.

THE NEW LIFETIME READING PLAN

RENCANA BARU MEMBACA SEUMUR HIDUP

Oleh Clifton Fadiman dan John S. Major

Rencana Membaca Seumur Hidup-nya Clifton Fadiman pertama kali diterbitkan tahun 1960, kemudian ada edisi revisi 1978 dan 1986. Buku ini adalah merupakan satu permata berharga sepanjang karir Fadiman yang penuh semangat mendorong membaca dan menikmati buku. “Rencana Baru Membaca Seumur Hidup” yang ditulis bersama John S. Major diterbitkan oleh Harper Collins 1997. Tulisan ini hanya mengutip daftar yang mereka buat dalam buku itu. Yang amat menarik dari keseluruhan daftar ini adalah keyakinan, yang didukung oleh kepercayaan diri Fadiman yang selama berpuluh tahun berkarir di bidang literatur, bahwa bahkan di zaman di mana buku-buku diterbitkan dalam jumlah seperti rintik hujan seperti saat ini, hanya sedikit yang akan bertahan dan pantas mendapat perhatian khusus. Daftar yang dibuat kedua penulis mencerahkan, tetapi [bila dapat membaca buku yang mereka tulis selengkapnya] komentar yang mereka berikan untuk tiap buku bahkan sudah menyenangkan bagi siapa saja pencinta buku.

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2. Anonymous, ca. 200 B.C.E. (Scribe Sin-Leqi-Unninni, ca. 700 B.C.E.), The Epic of Gilgamesh
   
3. Homer, ca. 800 B.C.E., The Iliad
   
4. Homer, ca. 800 B.C.E., The Odyssey
   
5. Confucius, 551-479 B.C.E., The Analects
   
6. Aeschylus, 525-456/5 B.C.E., The Oresteia
   
7. Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.E., Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
   
8. Euripides, 484-406 B.C.E., Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; The Trojan Women; Electra; The Bacchae
   
9. Herodotus, ca. 484-425 B.C.E., The Histories
   
10. Thucydides, ca. 470/460-ca. 400 B.C.E., The History of the Peloponnesian War
    
11. Sun-tzu, ca. 450-380 B.C.E., The Art of War
    
12. Aristophanes, 448-388 B.C.E., Lysistrata; The Clouds; The Birds
    
13. Plato, 428-348 B.C.E., Selected Works
    
14. Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.E., Ethics; Politics; Poetics
    
15. Mencius, ca. 400-320 B.C.E., The Book of Mencius
    
16. Attributed to Valmiki, ca. 300 B.C.E., The Ramayana
    
17. Attributed to Vyasa, ca. 200 B.C.E., The Mahabharata
    
18. Anonymous, ca. 200 B.C.E., The Bhagavad Gita
    
19. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 B.C.E., Records of the Grand Historian
    
20. Lucretius, ca. 100-ca. 50 B.C.E., Of the Nature of Things
    
21. Virgil, 70-19 B.C.E., The Aeneid
    
22. Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Meditations
    
23. Saint Augustine, 354-430, The Confessions
    
24. Kalidasa, ca. 400, The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala
    
25. Revealed to Muhammad, completed 650, The Koran
    
26. Hui-neng, 638-713, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
    
27. Firdausi, ca. 940-1020, Shah Nameh
    
28. Sei Shonagon, ca. 965-1035, The Pillow-Book
    
29. Lady Murasaki, ca. 976-1015, The Tale of Genji
    
30. Omar Khayyam, 1048-?, The Rubaiyat
    
31. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy
    
32. Luo Kuan-chung, ca. 1330-1400, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
    
33. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400, The Canterbury Tales
    
34. Anonymous, ca. 1500, The Thousand and One Nights
    
35. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, The Prince
    
36. Francois Rabelais, 1483-1553, Gargantua and Pantagruel
    
37. Attributed to Wu Ch' eng-en, 1500-1582, Journey to the West
    
38. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592, Selected Essays
    
39. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote
    
40. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works
    
41. John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works
    
42. Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden vase ( Chin P'ing Mei)
    
43. Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
    
44. Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Leviathan
    
45. Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method
    
46. John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost; "Lycidas"; "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; Sonnets; Areopagitica
    
47. Moliere, 1622-1673, Selected Plays
    
48. Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensees)
    
49. John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrim's Progress
    
50. John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government
    
51. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    
52. Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe
    
53. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Gulliver's Travels
    
54. Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works
    
55. David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    
56. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones
    
57. Ts'ao Hsiieh-ch'in, 1715-1763, The Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone)
    
58. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions
    
59. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy
    
60. James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson
    
61. Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris
    
62. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787, edited by Clinton Rossiter
    
63. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust
    
64. William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works
    
65. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude; Selected Shorter Poems; Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
    
66. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "Christabel"; "Kubla Khan"; Biographia Literaria; Writings on Shakespeare
    
67. Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice; Emma
    
68. Stendhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black
    
69. Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pere Goriot; Eugenie Grandet; Cousin Bette
    
70. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works
    
71. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter; Selected Tales
    
72. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America
    
73. John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty; The Subjection of Women
    
74. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle; The Origin of Species
    
75. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls
    
76. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works
    
77. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair
    
78. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend,. The Old Curiosity Shop; Little Dorrit
    
79. Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, The Warden; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Eustace Diamonds; The Way We Live Now; Autobiography
    
80. Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855, Jane Eyre
    
81. Emily Bronte, 1818-1848, Wuthering Heights
    
82. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, Walden; "Civil Disobedience”
    
83. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883, Fathers and Sons
    
84. Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895, The Communist Manifesto
    
85. Herman Melville, 1819-1891, Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener
    
86. George Eliot, 1819-1880, The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch
    
87. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Selected Poems; Democratic Vistas; Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass; A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads
    
88. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, Madame Bovary
    
89. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov
    
90. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1906, War and Peace
    
91. Henrick Ibsen, 1828-1906, Selected Plays
    
92. Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, Collected Poems
    
93. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,. Through the Looking Glass
    
94. Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Huckleberry Finn
    
95. Henry Adams, 1838-1918, The Education of Henry Adams
    
96. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    
97. William James, 1842-1910, The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism; four essays from The Meaning of Truth; The Varieties of Religious Experience
    
98. Henry James, 1843-1916, The Ambassadors
    
99. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900, Thus Spake Zarathustra; The Genealogy of Morals; Beyond Good and Evil- other works
    
100. Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Selected Works, including The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality; Civilization and Its Discontents
     
101. George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1939, Selected Plays and Prefaces
     
102. Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Nostromo
     
103. Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard,. Selected Short Stories
     
104. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth
     
105. William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Collected Poems; Collected Plays; Autobiography
     
106. Natsume Soseki, 1867-1916, Kokoro
     
107. Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, Remembrance of Things Past
     
108. Robert Frost, 1874-1963, Collected Poems
     
109. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, The Magic Mountain
     
110. E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, A Passage to India
     
111. Lu Hsiin, 1881-1936, Collected Short Stories
     
112. James Joyce, 1882-1941, Ulysses
     
113. Virginia Woolf: 1882-1941, Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; The ¬ves
     
114. Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, The Trial. The Castle; Selected Short Stories
     
115. D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, Sons and Lovers; Women in Love
     
116. Tanizaki Junichiro, 1886-1965, The Makioka Sisters
     
117. Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953, Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night
     
118. T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, Collected Poems; Collected Plays
     
119. Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, Brave New World
     
120. William Faulkner, 1897-1962, The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying
     
121. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, Short Stories
     
122. Kawabata Yasunari, 1899-1972, Beauty and Sadness
     
123. Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Labyrinths; Dreamtigers
     
124. Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory
     
125. George Orwell, 1903-1950, Animal Farm; 1984; Burmese Days
     
126. R. K. Narayan, 1906-, The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets
     
127. Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape
     
128. W H. Auden, 1907-1973, Collected Poems
     
129. Albert Camus, 1913-1960, The Plague; The Stranger
     
130. Saul Bellow, 1915- , The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; Humboldt's Gift
     
131. Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918- , The First Circle; Cancer Ward
     
132. Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
     
133. Mishima Yukio, 1925-1970, Confessions of a Mask; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
     
134. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928- , One Hundred Years of Solitude
     
135. Chinua Achebe, 1930-, Things Fall Apart