Jon Huer's own
"Greatest" List:
This is the list of my favorites in art, philosophy, and social commentary. The criteria? They edify.
The greatest single book: THE BIBLE by God.
The greatest philosophy book: THE REPUBLIC by Plato.
The greatest novel of all time: THE RED AND THE BLACK by Stendahl.
The greatest American novel: MOBY DICK by Herman Melville.
The greatest short novels: THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER by Alexander Pushkin.
THE APPLE TREE by John Galsworthy.
ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton.
The greatest Protestant poem:
The greatest Catholic poem: DIVINE COMEDY by Dante.
The greatest cautionary tale: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift.
The greatest utopian book: LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy.
The greatest revolutionary statement: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO by Karl Marx.
The greatest composition of all time: "MISSA SOLEMNIS" by Beethoven.
The greatest symphony: THE "EROICA," in E Flat by Beethoven.
The greatest quartet: THE "LATE QUARTETS" by Beethoven.
The greatest spiritual companion: THE IMITATION OF CHRIST by A Kempis.
The greatest autobiographies: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.
STORY OF A SOUL by St. Therese.
CONFESSIONS by
The greatest biography:
JOHN BROWN. by W.E.B. Dubois.
The greatest books on war:
World War I: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque.
World War II: TO HELL AND BACK by Audie Murphy.
Korean War: PORK CHOP HILL by S. L. A. Marshall.
The five greatest film of all time: "SHANE,"
"ON THE BEACH," "BEN-HUR," "PATHS OF GLORY,"
"ROMAN HOLIDAY".
The greatest life-saving quote of all time: "WE'VE MET THE ENEMY, AND HE IS US!" by Pogo.
History's greatest martyrs (who chose death, listed chronologically):
Religious Martyrs: STS. THOMAS MORE and JOAN OF ARC
Humanist Principle: JOHN BROWN, Abolitionist, and CHARLES GORDON, of Khartoum
The greatest American philosophy: WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau
The greatest American social criticism:
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by Thorstein Veblen.
WHITE COLLAR by C. Wright Mills.
THE POST-HUMAN SOCIETY by Jon Huer.
(Temporary end of the list.)