Seems to me like a "Year of Living Biblically" kind of endeavor -- doing something for the sake of being able to say you did it.
If you actually succeed in doing it, it shows an admirable degree of personal discipline. But what if, instead, you were pick the 10 or 15% of the works that really speak to you and build a list of 3 or 4 top notch secondary research books around each primary source book? I think you would come away with a much deeper understanding and would find it much more satisfying. Brilliant people have thought about and extended these ideas for centuries and if you just read the original documents you miss out on all that. I can tell you that I graduated with a degree in electrical engineering without ever having read anything by James Clerk Maxwell. Similarly I doubt you will get much -- apart from observing the spirit of discovery -- from reading Harvey's (yes you spelled his name wrong) Exercises on the Generation of Animals.
Valid point. I'm sure there are people who would approach this that way. At the same time, I feel if you are interested enough to go through the whole thing and still brag about it that way, than you read them wrong :)
At the point I am at life I don't yet know what I'm deeply interested in, so this is a way for me to get general education, get some exposure to variety of texts that have been written across time and see if anything spark joy. I'm not planning to pain through the books. If I'm not enjoying something I can freely skip. If something sparked interest, I'll be sure to reevaluate the list.
Some of my motivation for posting is sour grapes, I'm sure -- I read so very slowly. But it sounds like you're going in with the right attitude. Enjoy the journey!
If you actually succeed in doing it, it shows an admirable degree of personal discipline. But what if, instead, you were pick the 10 or 15% of the works that really speak to you and build a list of 3 or 4 top notch secondary research books around each primary source book? I think you would come away with a much deeper understanding and would find it much more satisfying. Brilliant people have thought about and extended these ideas for centuries and if you just read the original documents you miss out on all that. I can tell you that I graduated with a degree in electrical engineering without ever having read anything by James Clerk Maxwell. Similarly I doubt you will get much -- apart from observing the spirit of discovery -- from reading Harvey's (yes you spelled his name wrong) Exercises on the Generation of Animals.