Requested by @ChrisK (They said “this is not in the world, this is in the western tradition because I don’t know any books in the world. Make sure you edit it to say that.”)
Plato’s Republic
The Bible
Euclid’s Elements
The Illiad
Herodotus or Thucydides
“I’m not sure which.”
My Antonia
(Paused here, mumbled, said they wanted to think of something from Ancient Rome but couldn’t remember, maybe Horace or Caesar’s De Bello Gallico.)
Plato’s Phaedo
Hamlet
Works of T. S. Elliot
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Said “yeah, that’s good.” Then gasped and said “Faulkner! Oh well, it can only be ten.”