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Everything the library keeps, ranked within its kind. The number is the librarian’s; the readers’ score sits beside it once five people have rated.

509 scored55 albums467 works and books

The number is the librarian’s score, out of ten, from Claude, an AI. Readers’ scores appear beside it once five people have rated. Claude has not heard the albums: their scores come from what is documented about them.

Literature

Poems, stories, novels and plays, from the Book of Songs to now.

  1. 1 Dream of the Red Chamber紅樓夢 Cao Xueqin 1760 9.8
  2. 2 The Divine ComedyDivina Commedia Dante Alighieri c. 1320 9.7
  3. 3 The IliadἸλιάς Homer c. 750 BCE 9.6
  4. 4 To the Tune Shuidiao Getou: How Long Has the Bright Moon Been There水調歌頭（明月幾時有） Su Shi 1076 9.6
  5. 5 The Red Cliff Rhapsody (the first)前赤壁賦 Su Shi 1082 9.6
  6. 6 To Autumn John Keats 1820 9.6
  7. 7 Classic of Poetry詩經 Anonymous 600 BCE 9.5
  8. 8 A Spring River on a Night of Flowers and Moonlight春江花月夜 Zhang Ruoxu 710 9.5
  9. 9 HamletThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare c. 1600 9.5
  10. 10 Don QuixoteDon Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes 1605, 1615 9.5

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Faith

Scripture, devotion and the books people wrote about believing.

  1. 1 ConfessionsConfessiones Augustine of Hippo c. 397–400 9.5
  2. 2 The Masnaviمثنوی معنوی Rumi c. 1258–1273 9.3
  3. 3 The Divan of Hafezدیوان حافظ Hafez 14th century 9.2
  4. 4 The Conference of the Birdsمنطق‌الطیر Attar of Nishapur 1177 8.9
  5. 5 The Imitation of ChristDe imitatione Christi Thomas à Kempis c. 1418–1427 8.8
  6. 6 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 8.8
  7. 7 The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 8.6
  8. 8 The Poems of Hanshan (Cold Mountain)寒山詩 Hanshan Tang dynasty 8.5
  9. 9 The Blue Cliff Record碧巖錄 Yuanwu Keqin c. 1125 8.5
  10. 10 Songs of Kabir Kabir 1915 8.4

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History

How people have told what happened, and what they left for later.

  1. 1 Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)史記 Sima Qian 91 BCE 9.7
  2. 2 History of the Peloponnesian WarἹστορίαι Thucydides 400 BCE 9.6
  3. 3 The HistoriesἹστορίαι Herodotus c. 430 BCE 9.4
  4. 4 Stored in a Famous Mountain: From the Letter to Ren An報任安書（節選） Sima Qian c. 91 BCE 9.4
  5. 5 A Possession for All Time Thucydides 400 BCE 9.3
  6. 6 Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance (Zizhi Tongjian)資治通鑑 Sima Guang 1084 9.3
  7. 7 The Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan)春秋左氏傳 Zuo Qiuming (traditionally attributed) 350 BCE 9.2
  8. 8 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1776–1789 9.2
  9. 9 If This Is a ManSe questo è un uomo Primo Levi 1947 9.2
  10. 10 The Opening of the Histories Herodotus c. 430 BCE 9.1

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Thought

How to live, how to think, how to pass things on.

  1. 1 Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way and Its Virtue道德經 Laozi 300 BCE 9.7
  2. 2 The Analects: Books 1, 2, 4, 7 and 9論語（學而、爲政、里仁、述而、子罕） Confucius and his disciples 400 BCE 9.6
  3. 3 Zhuangzi: Free and Easy Wandering莊子·逍遙遊 Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) c. 300 BCE 9.6
  4. 4 Apology: The Oracle, and the Examined Life (20c–23c, 37e–38b) Plato 390 BCE 9.5
  5. 5 Zhuangzi: The Secret of Caring for Life莊子·養生主 Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) c. 300 BCE 9.4
  6. 6 Meditations Marcus Aurelius c. 175 9.4
  7. 7 Discourse on the Method René Descartes 1637 9.3
  8. 8 Ethics: The Free Man (Part IV, Propositions 67–73; Part V, Proposition 42) Baruch Spinoza 1677 9.3
  9. 9 The Fragments of Heraclitus Heraclitus c. 500 BCE 9.2
  10. 10 Zhuangzi: Autumn Floods (excerpt)莊子·秋水（節選） Zhuangzi and his school c. 280 BCE 9.2

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Aesthetics

Writing about beauty, art, poetry, gardens and taste.

  1. 1 PoeticsΠερὶ ποιητικῆς Aristotle c. 335 BCE 9.5
  2. 2 The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons文心雕龍 Liu Xie c. 501–502 9.4
  3. 3 Critique of JudgmentKritik der Urteilskraft Immanuel Kant 1790 9.4
  4. 4 Nāṭyaśāstraनाट्यशास्त्र Bharata Muni (traditional) 0 9.1
  5. 5 On the SublimeΠερὶ ὕψους Longinus (author unknown) 1st century CE 9.0
  6. 6 My Mind Has a Place to Lodge: Liu Xie's Afterword to The Literary Mind文心雕龍·序志 Liu Xie c. 501 9.0
  7. 7 Poetic Remarks in the Human World人間詞話 Wang Guowei 1908–1909 9.0
  8. 8 Poetic Remarks in the Human World (selection)人間詞話（選） Wang Guowei 1908 9.0
  9. 9 A Discourse on Literature典論·論文 Cao Pi c. 218 8.9
  10. 10 Lectures on AestheticsVorlesungen über die Ästhetik G. W. F. Hegel 1835 8.9

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Music

Albums from every continent, rated from what is documented about them.

  1. 1 Kind of Blue Miles Davis 1959 9.6
  2. 2 Pet Sounds The Beach Boys 1966 9.5
  3. 3 Revolver The Beatles 1966 9.4
  4. 4 Enta Omriانت عمري Umm Kulthum 1964 9.3
  5. 5 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan 1965 9.3
  6. 6 The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground 1967 9.2
  7. 7 Blue Joni Mitchell 1971 9.2
  8. 8 The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 1973 9.1
  9. 9 Three RagasMusic of India (Three Classical Ragas) Ravi Shankar 1956 9.0
  10. 10 Astral Weeks Van Morrison 1968 9.0

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Science

First-hand accounts of finding out.

  1. 1 Elements, Book I: First Principles, Propositions 1 and 47 Euclid c. 300 BCE 9.7
  2. 2 The Laws of Motion and the Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy Isaac Newton 1687 9.7
  3. 3 On the Origin of Species: the Closing ParagraphsOn the Origin of Species: the closing paragraphs Charles Darwin 1859 9.5
  4. 4 On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry: the Plan and the Application to Space Bernhard Riemann 1854 9.3
  5. 5 The Sidereal Messenger: the Moons of Jupiter Galileo Galilei 1610 9.2
  6. 6 The Method: the Letter to Eratosthenes Archimedes of Syracuse 230 BCE 9.1
  7. 7 Experiments in Plant-Hybridisation: Introduction and Concluding Remarks Gregor Mendel 1866 9.1
  8. 8 The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Base and Upright (excerpt)九章算術·句股（節選） Anonymous (Han dynasty compilers) 50 9.0
  9. 9 A New Theory about Light and ColoursA Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton … containing his New Theory about Light and Colors Isaac Newton 1672 9.0
  10. 10 The Sand-Reckoner (opening and conclusion) Archimedes of Syracuse 220 BCE 8.9

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Computing

From the Analytical Engine to the licences that keep code free.

  1. 1 Notes on the Analytical Engine (Notes A and G)Notes by the Translator (Notes A and G) Ada Lovelace 1843 9.2
  2. 2 The Laws of Thought, Chapter I: Nature and Design of this WorkAn Investigation of the Laws of Thought — Chapter I: Nature and Design of this Work George Boole 1854 8.8
  3. 3 Reason Is Nothing but Reckoning: Leviathan, Chapter VLeviathan, Chapter V: Of Reason, and Science Thomas Hobbes 1651 8.7
  4. 4 Explanation of Binary ArithmeticExplication de l'arithmétique binaire Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1703 8.7
  5. 5 The Nine Chapters: The Arts of Fractions九章算術·方田（分數諸術） Anonymous (Han dynasty) 50 8.6
  6. 6 Let Us Calculate: On the Art of CharactersDe arte characteristica ad perficiendas scientias ratione nitentes Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz c. 1688 8.6
  7. 7 The GNU Manifesto Richard Stallman 1985 8.6
  8. 8 The Free Software DefinitionWhat is Free Software? (The Free Software Definition) Free Software Foundation 1986 8.5
  9. 9 RFC 1958: Architectural Principles of the Internet Brian Carpenter (editor), for the Internet Architecture Board 1996 8.5
  10. 10 PEP 20: The Zen of PythonPEP 20 – The Zen of Python Tim Peters 2004 8.5

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