The captain of the USS Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, loves to read books. These are the books Captain Picard has read, quoted from, and referenced during his time as ship’s captain onboard the USS Enterprise on Star Trek: The Next Generation. How many books have you read on Captain Picard’s reading list?

1.

The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

2.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

3.

Sonnets by William Shakespeare

4.

Henry V by William Shakespeare

5.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

6.

Ulysses by James Joyce

7.

Ethics, Sophistry and the Alternate Universe by Ving Kuda

8.

Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville

9.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

10.

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

11.

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

12.

Epic of Gilgamesh

13.

The unknown book in “Cause and Effect” (episode)

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