A live tracker for my 367-book journey through Western thought. The deep dive on the why, the structure, and the full list lives in The Western Canon: A Reading Program in 367 Books — start there if you want the methodology.
This page is the running scoreboard.
Where I am right now
| Period | I. Antiquity (≈800 BCE – 5th c. CE) |
| Currently reading | Histoire du monde grec antique — François Lefèvre |
| Last finished | — |
| Next up | Naissance de la Grèce — Le Guen, D’Ercole & Zurbach |
Overall progress
| Period | Total | Owned | Read | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. Antiquity (≈800 BCE – 5th c. CE) | 68 | 13 | 0 | 0% |
| II. Middle Ages (5th – 15th c.) | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| III. Renaissance (15th – 16th c.) | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| IV. 17th Century (Classical Age) | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| V. 18th Century (Enlightenment) | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| VI. 19th Century | 56 | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| VII. Contemporary (20th – early 21st c.) | 120 | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| VIII. General histories of France | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Total | 367 | 48 | 0 | 0% |
How this tracker grows
- Updated whenever I finish a book.
- When a book has a dedicated review post on this blog, the title here becomes a link to it.
- Until then, books are listed by title only.
- Each period gets its own progress section once I’m actively reading in it.
Period I — Antiquity (in detail)
Period I has 68 books across History (20), Philosophy (23), and Literature (25). Currently working through the History track first (modern syntheses before primary sources).
I’ll publish per-book reviews here as the program advances.
For the full list and rationale, see The Western Canon: A Reading Program in 367 Books.