A 40-Year Reading Project

The Great Books by 200 Authors

From Enheduana in 2250 BC to Solzhenitsyn in the 20th century, Books of Titans is a 40-year chronological walk through the writers who built the canon.

Authors

200

Years Spanned

4,258

Reading Horizon

40 Years

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The Birth of Love
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Philebus by Plato
The Immortal Books

The Immortal Authors

This curated list encompasses 200 authors whose works engage in conversation across time and cultures. I’ll be reading these books in chronological order over a period of 40 years to trace the evolution of ideas and philosophies through history.

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Hi – I’m Erik Rostad. I started Books of Titans in 2017 as an experiment to discover how to read more books and remember what I read.

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