The 50 Greatest Books Ever Written

This list isn’t about the most famous or the most exciting books. It’s a list of books that truly enlightened and inspired readers. These books are some of the greatest works that humanity ever produced, real masterpieces in other words. From stories to science to philosophy I tried to make this list as diverse as possible. – Analects by Confucius – Avesta – Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson by GI Gurdjieff – Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau – Common Sense by Thomas Paine – Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle – Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener – Dhammapada – Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei – Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes – Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot – First Folio by William Shakespeare – Elements by Euclid – Guide For The Perplexed by Maimonides – Harmony Of The World by Johannes Kepler – History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon – History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides – I Ching – Iliad and Odyssey by Homer – Interpretation Of Dreams by Sigmund Freud – Kabbalah – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes – Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius – Mind And Society by Vilfredo Pareto – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell – Novum Organum by Francis Bacon – Old Testament and New Testament – On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Van Jones at All Saints Church, Pasadena — sponsored by KPFK

818 – 985 – 2711 www.kpfk.org Van Jones, past advisor to President Obama for The Green Economy, speaks at the All Saints Church, Thursday, 26 April, 6pm, 132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena. He will sign books for readers. Proceeds of book sales go to KPFK. Go to www.ianmasters.com for the complete publication interview with Van Jones: ianmasters.com For more information and a map to the event: www.nationinstitute.org

Van Jones Rebuild The Dream 6pm All Saints Church Pasadena

818 – 985 – 2711 www.kpfk.org Van Jones, past advisor to President Obama for The Green Economy, speaks at the All Saints Church, Thursday, 26 April, 6pm, 132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena. He will sign books for readers. Proceeds of book sales go to KPFK. Go to www.ianmasters.com for the complete publication interview with Van Jones: Still images by James Noack for “Enterprise Zone” Project