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Rekomendasi Buku Untuk Dibaca Seumur Hidup

25 Maret 2015   22:44 Diperbarui: 17 Juni 2015   09:01 244 0
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. Homer, ca. 800 B.C.E., The Iliad
  3. Homer, ca. 800 B.C.E., The Odyssey
  4. Confucius, 551-479 B.C.E., The Analects
  5. Aeschylus, 525-456/5 B.C.E., The Oresteia
  6. Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.E., Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
  7. Euripides, 484-406 B.C.E., Alcestis; Medea; Hippolytus; The Trojan Women; Electra; The Bacchae
  8. Herodotus, ca. 484-425 B.C.E., The Histories
  9. Thucydides, ca. 470/460-ca. 400 B.C.E., The History of the Peloponnesian War
  10. Sun-tzu, ca. 450-380 B.C.E., The Art of War
  11. Aristophanes, 448-388 B.C.E., Lysistrata; The Clouds; The Birds
  12. Plato, 428-348 B.C.E., Selected Works
  13. Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.E., Ethics; Politics; Poetics
  14. Mencius, ca. 400-320 B.C.E., The Book of Mencius
  15. Attributed to Valmiki, ca. 300 B.C.E., The Ramayana
  16. Attributed to Vyasa, ca. 200 B.C.E., The Mahabharata
  17. Anonymous, ca. 200 B.C.E., The Bhagavad Gita
  18. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 B.C.E., Records of the Grand Historian
  19. Lucretius, ca. 100-ca. 50 B.C.E., Of the Nature of Things
  20. Virgil, 70-19 B.C.E., The Aeneid
  21. Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Meditations
  22. Saint Augustine, 354-430, The Confessions
  23. Kalidasa, ca. 400, The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala
  24. Revealed to Muhammad, completed 650, The Koran
  25. Hui-neng, 638-713, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
  26. Firdausi, ca. 940-1020, Shah Nameh
  27. Sei Shonagon, ca. 965-1035, The Pillow-Book
  28. Lady Murasaki, ca. 976-1015, The Tale of Genji
  29. Omar Khayyam, 1048-?, The Rubaiyat
  30. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy
  31. Luo Kuan-chung, ca. 1330-1400, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  32. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400, The Canterbury Tales
  33. Anonymous, ca. 1500, The Thousand and One Nights
  34. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, The Prince
  35. Francois Rabelais, 1483-1553, Gargantua and Pantagruel
  36. Attributed to Wu Ch' eng-en, 1500-1582, Journey to the West
  37. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592, Selected Essays
  38. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote
  39. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works
  40. John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works
  41. Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden vase ( Chin P'ing Mei)
  42. Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
  43. Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Leviathan
  44. Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method
  45. John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost; "Lycidas"; "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; Sonnets; Areopagitica
  46. Moliere, 1622-1673, Selected Plays
  47. Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensees)
  48. John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrim's Progress
  49. John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government
  50. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  51. Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe
  52. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Gulliver's Travels
  53. Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works
  54. David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  55. Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones
  56. Ts'ao Hsiieh-ch'in, 1715-1763, The Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone)
  57. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions
  58. Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy
  59. James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson
  60. Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris
  61. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787, edited by Clinton Rossiter
  62. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust
  63. William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works
  64. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude; Selected Shorter Poems; Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
  65. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "Christabel"; "Kubla Khan"; Biographia Literaria; Writings on Shakespeare
  66. Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice; Emma
  67. Stendhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black
  68. Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pere Goriot; Eugenie Grandet; Cousin Bette
  69. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works
  70. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter; Selected Tales
  71. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America
  72. John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty; The Subjection of Women
  73. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle; The Origin of Species
  74. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls
  75. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works
  76. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair
  77. Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend,. The Old Curiosity Shop; Little Dorrit
  78. Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, The Warden; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Eustace Diamonds; The Way We Live Now; Autobiography
  79. Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855, Jane Eyre
  80. Emily Bronte, 1818-1848, Wuthering Heights
  81. Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, Walden; "Civil Disobedience”
  82. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883, Fathers and Sons
  83. Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895, The Communist Manifesto
  84. Herman Melville, 1819-1891, Moby Dick; Bartleby the Scrivener
  85. George Eliot, 1819-1880, The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch
  86. Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Selected Poems; Democratic Vistas; Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass; A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads
  87. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, Madame Bovary
  88. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov
  89. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1906, War and Peace
  90. Henrick Ibsen, 1828-1906, Selected Plays
  91. Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, Collected Poems
  92. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,. Through the Looking Glass
  93. Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Huckleberry Finn
  94. Henry Adams, 1838-1918, The Education of Henry Adams
  95. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928, The Mayor of Casterbridge
  96. William James, 1842-1910, The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism; four essays from The Meaning of Truth; The Varieties of Religious Experience
  97. Henry James, 1843-1916, The Ambassadors
  98. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900, Thus Spake Zarathustra; The Genealogy of Morals; Beyond Good and Evil- other works
  99. Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Selected Works, including The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality; Civilization and Its Discontents
  100. George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1939, Selected Plays and Prefaces
  101. Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Nostromo
  102. Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard,. Selected Short Stories
  103. Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth
  104. William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Collected Poems; Collected Plays; Autobiography
  105. Natsume Soseki, 1867-1916, Kokoro
  106. Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, Remembrance of Things Past
  107. Robert Frost, 1874-1963, Collected Poems
  108. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, The Magic Mountain
  109. E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, A Passage to India
  110. Lu Hsiin, 1881-1936, Collected Short Stories
  111. James Joyce, 1882-1941, Ulysses
  112. Virginia Woolf: 1882-1941, Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; The ¬ves
  113. Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, The Trial. The Castle; Selected Short Stories
  114. D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, Sons and Lovers; Women in Love
  115. Tanizaki Junichiro, 1886-1965, The Makioka Sisters
  116. Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953, Mourning Becomes Electra; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night
  117. T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, Collected Poems; Collected Plays
  118. Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, Brave New World
  119. William Faulkner, 1897-1962, The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying
  120. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, Short Stories
  121. Kawabata Yasunari, 1899-1972, Beauty and Sadness
  122. Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Labyrinths; Dreamtigers
  123. Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory
  124. George Orwell, 1903-1950, Animal Farm; 1984; Burmese Days
  125. R. K. Narayan, 1906-, The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets
  126. Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape
  127. W H. Auden, 1907-1973, Collected Poems
  128. Albert Camus, 1913-1960, The Plague; The Stranger
  129. Saul Bellow, 1915- , The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; Humboldt's Gift
  130. Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918- , The First Circle; Cancer Ward
  131. Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  132. Mishima Yukio, 1925-1970, Confessions of a Mask; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
  133. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928- , One Hundred Years of Solitude
  134. Chinua Achebe, 1930-, Things Fall Apart
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