[WillAdams]

Just finished reading the wonderful new translation of The Count of Monte Cristo by Robin Buss which Penguin translated.

Once again, I was taken by Abbé Faria’s 150 books --- I've been looking, but can't find that anyone has put together such a list.

The authors which were cited in the text and my best guess on the work are:

- Thucydides --- The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon --- The Education of Cyrus?
- Plutarch --- Plutarch's Lives?
- Livy --- The History of Rome?
- Tacitus --- The Histories
- Strada --- ?
- Jornades --- ? No translation readily available?
- Dante --- The Divine Comedy
- Montaigne --- The Complete Essays
- Shakespeare --- would there have been an all-in-one printing extant then?
- Spinoza --- On the Improvement of the Understanding
- Machiavelli --- The Prince
- Bossuet --- The Continuity of Religion by Bishop Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

Two authors which seem likely to be added would be:

- Rousseau
- Descartes

Other suggestions?

- Homer
- Plato
- Herodotus
- Virgil
- Erasmus
- St. Augustine
- Aristotle
- Heraclitus