| GREAT BOOKS:
1.Homer (9th Century B.C.?)
Iliad
Odyssey
2.The Old Testament
3.Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.)
Tragedies
4.Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.)
Tragedies
5.Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.)
History
6.Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)
Tragedies
(esp. Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae)
7.Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
History of the Peloponnesian War
8.Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.)
Medical Writings
9.Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.)
Comedies
(esp. The Clouds, The Birds, The Frogs)
10.Plato (c.427-347 B.C.)
Dialogues
(esp. The Republic, Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, Apology, Phaedrus,
Protagoras, Gorgias, Sophist, Theaetetus)
11.Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Works
(esp. Organon, Physics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, The Nicomachean
Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics)
12.Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.)
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus
13.Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.)
Elements
14.Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.)
Works
(esp. On the Equilibrium of Planes, On Floating Bodies, The
Sand-Reckoner)
15.Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.)
Conic Sections
16.Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Works
(esp. Orations, On Friendship, On Old Age)
17.Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.)
On the Nature of Things
18.Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Works
19.Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Works
(esp. Odes and Epodes, The Art of Poetry)
20.Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17)
History of Rome
21.Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17)
Works
(esp. Metamorphoses)
22.Plutarch (c.45-120)
Parallel Lives
Moralia
23.Tacitus (c.55-117)
Histories
Annals
Agricola
Germania
24.Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. 100 A.D.)
Introduction to Arithmetic
25.Epictetus (c.60-120)
Discourses
Encheiridion (Handbook)
26.Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151)
Almagest
27.Lucian (c.120-c.190)
Works
(esp. The True Way to Write History, The True History, The Sale of
Creeds)
28.Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations
29.Galen (c. 130-200)
On the Natural Faculties
30.The New Testament
31.Plotinus (205-270)
The Enneads
32.St. Augustine (354-430)
Works
(esp. On the Teacher, Confessions, City of God, On Christian
Doctrine)
33.The Song of Roland (12th century?)
34.The Nibelungenlied (13th century?)
(Völsunga Saga is the Scandinavian version of the same legend) 35.The Saga of Burnt Njal
36.St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
Summa Theologica
37.Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Works
(esp. The New Life, On Monarchy, The Divine Comedy)
38.Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
Works
(esp. Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales)
39.Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Notebooks
40.Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The Prince
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41.Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469-1536)
The Praise of Folly
42.Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43.Sir Thomas More (c.1478-1535)
Utopia
44.Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Table Talk
Three Treatises
45.François Rabelais (c.1495-1553)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
46.John Calvin (1509-1564)
Institutes of the Christian Religion
47.Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays
48.William Gilbert (1540-1603)
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49.Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don Quixote
50.Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
Prothalamion
The Faërie Queene
51.Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essays
Advancement of Learning
Novum Organum
New Atlantis
52.William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Works
53.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
The Starry Messenger
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54.Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55.William Harvey (1578-1657)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the Blood
On the Generation of Animals
56.Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
The Leviathan
57.Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Geometry
Meditations on First Philosophy
58.John Milton (1608-1674)
Works
(esp. the minor poems, Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Samson
Agonistes)
59.Molière (1622-1673)
Comedies
(esp. The Miser, The School for Wives, The Misanthrope, The Doctor
in
Spite of Himself)
60.Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises
61.Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Treatise on Light
62.Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Ethics
63.John Locke (1632-1704)
Letter Concerning Toleration
"Of Civil Government" (second treatise in Two Treatises on
Government)
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Thoughts Concerning Education
64.Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Tragedies
(esp. Andromache, Phaedra)
65.Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics
66.Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
Discourse on Metaphysics
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology
67.Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe
68.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Tale of a Tub
Journal to Stella
Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
69.William Congreve (1670-1729)
The Way of the World
70.George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Principles of Human Knowledge
71.Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Essay on Criticism
Rape of the Lock
Essay on Man
72.Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Persian Letters
Spirit of Laws
73.Voltaire (1694-1778)
Letters on the English
Candide
Philosophical Dictionary
74.Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones
75.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Dictionary
Rasselas
The Lives of the Poets (esp. the essays on Milton and Pope)
76.David Hume (1711-1776)
Treatise on Human Nature
Essays Moral and Political
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
77.Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)
On the Origin of Inequality
On the Political Economy
Emile
The Social Contract
78.Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Tristram Shandy
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
79.Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
80.Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Critique of Pure Reason
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
The Science of Right
Critique of Judgment
Perpetual Peace
81.Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Autobiography
82.James Boswell (1740-1795)
Journal (esp. London Journal)
Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
83.Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Elements of Chemistry
84.John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Alexander
Hamilton
(1757-1804)
Federalist Papers
(together with the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of
the
United States, and the Declaration of Independence)
85.Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Theory of Fictions
86.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Faust
Poetry and Truth
87.Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Analytical Theory of Heat
88.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy of Right
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89.William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poems
(esp. Lyrical Ballads, Lucy poems, sonnets; The Prelude)
90.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Poems
(esp. "Kubla Khan," Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Biographia Literaria
91.Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
92.Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
On War
93.Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
On Love
94.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan
95.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Studies in Pessimism
96.Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Chemical History of a Candle
Experimental Researches in Electricity
97.Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Principles of Geology
98.Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
The Positive Philosophy
99.Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Père Goriot
Eugénie Grandet
100.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Representative Men
Essays
Journal
101.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter
102.Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Democracy in America
103.John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
A System of Logic
On Liberty
Representative Government
Utilitarianism
The Subjection of Women
Autobiography
104.Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
The Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
Autobiography
105.Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Works
(esp. Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Hard Times)
106.Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
107.Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Civil Disobedience
Walden
108.Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Capital
(together with the Communist Manifesto)
109.George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede
Middlemarch
110.Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick
Billy Budd
111.Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
112.Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Madame Bovary
Three Stories
113.Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Plays
(esp. Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, The Wild Duck)
114.Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
What is Art?
Twenty-Three Tales
115.Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Mysterious Stranger
116.William James (1842-1910)
The Principles of Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Pragamatism
Essays in Radical Empiricism
117.Henry James (1843-1916)
The American
The Ambassadors
118.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
The Genealogy of Morals
The Will to Power
119.Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Science and Hypothesis
Science and Method
120.Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
121.George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Plays (and Prefaces)
(esp. Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra,
Pygmalion,
Saint Joan)
122.Max Planck (1858-1947)
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
Where Is Science Going?
Scientific Autobiography
123.Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Time and Free Will
Matter and Memory
Creative Evolution
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
124.John Dewey (1859-1952)
How We Think
Democracy and Education
Experience and Nature
Logic, the Theory of Inquiry
125.Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
An Introduction to Mathematics
Science and the Modern World
The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Adventures of Ideas
126.George Santayana (1863-1952)
The Life of Reason
Skepticism and Animal Faith
Persons and Places
127.Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924)
The State and Revolution
128.Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Remembrance of Things Past
129.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The Problems of Philosophy
The Analysis of Mind
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
130.Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
The Magic Mountain
Joseph and His Brothers
131.Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The Meaning of Relativity
On the Method of Theoretical Physics
The Evolution of Physics (with L. Infeld)
132.James Joyce (1882-1941)
"The Dead" in Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
133.Jacques Maritain (1882- )
Art and Scholasticism
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
True Humanism
134.Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Trial
The Castle
135.Arnold Toynbee (1889- )
A Study of History
Civilization on Trial
136.Jean Paul Sartre (1905- )
Nausea
No Exit
Being and Nothingness
137.Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
The First Circle
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