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12 books to read next

• The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche 3.8 h
• On the Sublime Longinus 3.0 h
• The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter Plato 14.9 h
• Cyropaedia Xenophon 6.0 h
• The Art of Poetry Horace, Floriano Martins 1.7 h
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom Baltasar Gracián, Aurora Egido, Benito Pelegrín 3.8 h
• Three Genres Stephen Minot 7.7 h
• A Greek-English Lexicon Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow 32.6 h
• The Symposium Plato 2.4 h
• Words from the Myths Isaac Asimov 3.7 h
• Plutarch's Moralia Plutarch 5.3 h
• Either/or Søren Kierkegaard 4.5 h

How long each takes

The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche 3.8 h On the Sublime Longinus 3.0 h The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter Plato 14.9 h Cyropaedia Xenophon 6.0 h The Art of Poetry Horace, Floriano Martins 1.7 h The Art of Worldly Wisdom Baltasar Gracián, Aurora Egido, Benito Pelegrín 3.8 h Three Genres Stephen Minot 7.7 h A Greek-English Lexicon Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow 32.6 h The Symposium Plato 2.4 h Words from the Myths Isaac Asimov 3.7 h Plutarch's Moralia Plutarch 5.3 h Either/or Søren Kierkegaard 4.5 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.