Reading Backward List of Authors

On this blog is the list of Authors recommended in the Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge book by Richard W. Paul for use in reading backward.  Purpose of that reading is to rethink the present and conteract the influence of social conditioning and the mass media. I hope to read at least one of these books from each time period this year.  First one for me is On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - Over 100 years ago (1800s).

1.  Over 2000 years ago:Writings of Plato, Aristotle,Aeschylus, and Aristophanes
2.  Over 800 years ago (1200s):
Thomas Aquinas and Dante
3.  Over 700 years ago (1300s):Boccaccio and Chaucer
4.  Over 500 years ago (1400s):Eramus and Francis Bacon
5.  Over 400 years ago (1500s):Machiavelli, Cellini, Cervantes, and Montaigne
6.  Over 300 years ago (1600s):
John Milton, Pascal, John Dryden, John Locke, and Joseph Addison
7.  Over 200 years ago (1700s):
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, Goethe, Rousseay, and William Blake
8.  Over 100 years ago (1800's):
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, John Henry Newman, Leo Tolstoy, The Brontes, Frank Norris, Emile Durkheim, Edmond Rostand, and Oscar Wilde.
9.  The last 100 years (1900's):
Ambrose Bierce, Gustavus Myers, H.L. Mencken, William Graham Sumner, W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Conrad, Max Weber, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Sinclair Lewis, Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vinginia Woolf, William Appleman Williams, Arnold Toynbee, C. Wright Mills, Albert Camus, Willa Cather, Bertrand Russell, Karl Mannheim, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Simone De Beauvoir, Winston Churchill, William J. Lederer, Vance Packard, Eric Hoffer, Erving Goffman, Philip Agee, John Steinbeck, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Faulkner, Talcott Parsons, Jean Piaget, Lester Thurow, Robert Reich, Robert Heilbroner, Noam Chomsky, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Nader, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Popper, Robert Merton, Peter Berger, Milton Friedman, and J. Bronowski.