A Multicultural Reading List
(According to the Wall Street Journal)

1. from the Upanishads "Bhagavad-Gita"

2. Confucius’ Analects

3. The Koran

4. Lady Shikibu Murasaki’s Tale of Genji

5. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

6. Naguib Mahfouz’s The Thief and the Dogs

7. Octavio Paz’ The Labyrinth of Solitude

8. Lao-tse’s Tao Te Ching

9. Sun Tzu’s Art of War

10. Ramayana

11. Ibu Khaldun’s Muqadimmah

12. Lo Kuan Chung’s Three Kingdoms

13. Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat

14. Mario Vargas Liosa’s Against Wind And Tide

15. V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

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Compiled by Dinesh D’Souza, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Liberal Education.