This is the aforementioned Founding Father's Library (taken from the Online Library of Liberty website). I thought that it would be productive to post the full reading list included on the website, in a way to keep track of our progress of reading the lot. I have included the book title, author, and its publication date as good as I could determine. I have then organized the book list chronologically according to those publication dates. I will highlight the book(s) I am currently reading from the list. Each time I finish a book, I will strikethrough the title of the book on my list here and repost the updated list.
Founding Father's Library
(in chronological order by date of publication)
Ancient
De Legibus
-- Cicero (106-43 BC)
De Officiis -- Cicero (106-43 BC)
De Oratione -- Cicero (106-43 BC)
De Republica -- Cicero (106-43 BC)
History of Rome -- Titus Livius (Livy) (59BC - AD17)
Roman Lives -- Plutarch (c. 46-125)
History of Germany -- Tacitus (c. 56-120)
The Histories -- Tacitus (c. 56-120)
1500s
1531 -- Discourses on the First Ten Books of
Livy (1531) -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
1532 -- The Prince (1532) -- Niccolo
Machiavelli (1469-1527)
1600s
1605 -- The Advancement of Learning (1605) --Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
1620 -- Novum organum (1620) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
1623 -- De argumentis scientarum (1623) -- Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
1625 -- Essays (1625) -- Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
1625 -- On the Law of War and Peace (1625)
-- Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
1627 -- The New Atlantis (1627) -- Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
1644 -- Institutes of the Laws of England (1628-1644) -- Sir
Edward Coke (1552-1634)
**1651 -- Leviathan (1651)
-- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)**
1656 -- Oceana (1656) -- James
Harrington (1611-1677)
1660 -- The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a
Free Commonwealth (1660) -- John Milton (1608-1674)
1661 --Elementa Jurisprudentiae universalis (1661) -- Samuel,
Baron von Pufendorf (1632-1694)
1672 -- De jure naturae et gentium (1672) -- Samuel,
Baron von Pufendorf (1632-1694)
1680 -- The Antient Right of the Commons of England Asserted (1680) -- William Petyt (1636-1707)
1689 -- The Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689) -- John Locke (1632-1704)
1690s -- A Letter on Toleration An Essay concerning Human
Understanding(1690s) -- John Locke (1632-1704)
1690 --An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) -- John Locke (1632-1704)
1691 --Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering
of Interest and Raising the Value of Money (1691) -- John Locke (1632-1704)
1696 -- On the Reasonableness of Christianity (1696)
-- John Locke (1632-1704)
1698 -- Discourses Concerning Government (1698)
-- Algernon Sidney
(1622-1683)
1698 -- A Short History of Standing Armies iin England (1698) -- John Trenchard and Moyle
1700s
1709 -- Vox populi, vox dei: Judgement of
Kingdooms and Nations Concerning the Rights, Privileges, and Properties of the
People (1709) -- John Somers (1651-1716)
1724 -- Cato's Letters (1724) -- John
Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (?-1750)
1728 -- The Dunciad (1728)
-- Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)
1731 -- Of False Taste (1731) -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
1731 -- History of England (1726-31) -- Paul de Rapiin-Thoyras (1661-1725)
1732 -- Of the Uses of Riches (1732)
-- Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)
1733 -- The Freeholder's Political Catechism (1733) -- Henry St. John, Viscount
Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
1733 -- Letters on the English Nation (1733) -- Francois Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
1734 -- Persian Letters (1734)
-- Montesquieu
(1689-1755)
1734 -- Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the
Roman Empire (1734) -- Montesquieu (1689-1755)
1734 -- An Essay on Man (1733-34)
-- Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)
1735 -- A Dissertation Upon Parties (1735) -- Henry St.
John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
1740 -- A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) -- David Hume (1711-1776)
1740 -- Observations on the Romans (1740) -- Abbe Gabriel Mably (1709-1785)
1743 -- Remarks on the history of England (1743) -- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
1748 -- The Spirit of the Laws (1748) -- Montesquieu (1689-1755)
1749 -- The Idea of a Patriot King (1749) -- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
1749 -- A Letter on the Spirit of Patriotism (1749) -- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
1751 -- An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1751)
-- David Hume (1711-1776)
1751 -- Treatise: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
-- David Hume (1711-1776)
1751 -- Works (1751)
-- Francois Arouet de
Voltaire (1694-1778)
1752 -- Political Discourses (1752) -- David Hume (1711-1776)
1752 -- Letters on the Study and Use of History (1752) -- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
1754 -- Discourse on the Origin of the Inequality of Men (1754) -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778)
1755 -- The Natural History of Religion (1755) -- David Hume (1711-1776)
1756 -- General History and State of Europe (1756) -- Francois
Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
1759 -- History of Scotland (1759) -- William
Robertson (1721-1793)
1760 -- The Law of Nations (1759-1760) -- Emerich
de Vattel (1714-1767)
1762 -- History of England(1754-1762) -- David Hume (1711-1776)
1762 -- The Social Contract (1762)
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778)
1762 -- Emile (1762)
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
1764 -- An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1764) -- Cesare
Beccaria (1738-1794)
1769 -- Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69)
-- Sir William Blackstone
(1723-1780)
1769 -- History of the Reign of the Emperor
Charles V (1769) -- William Robertson (1721-1793)
1770 -- Philosophical & Political History
of ... the East & West Indies (1770)
-- Abbe Guillaume Raynal (1713-1796)
1771 -- The Consitution of England (1771) -- Jean
Louis Delolme (1740-1805)
1776 -- Observations on the Nature of Civil
Liberty (1776) -- Richard Price (1723-1791)
Post-American
Revolution
1777 -- History of America (1777) -- William
Robertson (1721-1793)
1779 -- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) -- David Hume (1711-1776)
1784 -- Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution (1784) -- Richard Price (1723-1791)
1784 -- Observations on the Government and Laws of the U.S. (1784) -- Abbe Gabriel Mably
(1709-1785)
1790--Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) -- Edmund Burke
1800s
1835--Demoncracy in America, Vol.1 (1835) -- Alexis de
Tocqueville
1840--Demoncracy in America, Vol.2 (1840) -- Alexis de
Tocqueville
Other Authors Named, But Without
Specific Works Mentioned
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Coxe
(Sir Edward Coke?)
Plato
(c. 427-347 BC)
John Robinson (1575-1625),
reverend of the Pilgrims
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