Great Books

1. Homer Iliad; Odyssey

2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus Tragedies
4. Sophocles Tragedies
5. Herodotus Histories
6. Euripides Tragedies
7. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes Comedies
10. Plato Dialogues
11. Aristotle Works
12. Epicurus "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoecus"
13. Euclid Elements
14. Archimedes Works
15. Apollonius Conics
16. Cicero Works (esp. Orations; On Friendship; On Old Age; Republic; Laws; Tusculan Disputations;
Offices)
17. Lucretius On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil Works (esp. Aeneid)
19. Horace Works (esp. Odes and Epodes; The Art of Poetry)
20. Livy History of Rome
21. Ovid Works (esp. Metamorphoses)
22. Quintilian Institutes of Oratory
23. Plutarch Parallel Lives; Moralia
24. Tacitus Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania; Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory)
25. Nicomachus of Gerasa Introduction to Arithmetic
26. Epictetus Discourses; Enchiridion
27. Ptolemy Almagest
28. Lucian Works (esp. The Way to Write History; The True History; The Sale of Creeds; Alexander the
Oracle Monger; Charon; The Sale of Lives; The Fisherman; Dialogue of the Gods; Dialogues of the
Sea-Gods; Dialogues of the Dead)
29. Marcus Aurelius Meditations
30. Galen On the Natural Faculties
31. The New Testament
32. Plotinus The Enneads
33. St. Augustine "On the Teacher"; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
34. The Volsungs Saga or Nibelungenlied
35. The Song of Roland
36. The Saga of Burnt Njl
37. Maimonides The Guide for the Perplexed
38. St. Thomas Aquinas Of Being and Essence; Summa Contra Gentiles; Of the Governance of Rulers;
Summa Theologica
39. Dante Alighieri The New Life (La Vita Nuova); "On Monarchy"; Divine Comedy
40. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
41. Thomas a Kempis The Imitation of Christ
42. Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks
43. Niccol Machiavelli The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
44. Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly; Colloquies
45. Nicolaus Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
46. Thomas More Utopia
47. Martin Luther Table Talk; Three Treatises
48. Franois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
49. John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion
50. Michel de Montaigne Essays
51. William Gilbert On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies
52. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
53. Edmund Spenser Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
54. Francis Bacon Essays; The Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis
55. William Shakespeare Poetry and Plays
56. Galileo Galilei Starry Messenger; Two New Sciences
57. Johannes Kepler The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Harmonices Mundi
58. William Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood;
Generation of Animals
59. Grotius The Law of War and Peace
60. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan; Elements of Philsophy
61. Ren Descartes Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations
on First Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy; The Passions of the Soul
62. Corneille Tragedies (esp. The Cid, Cinna)
63. John Milton Works (esp. the minor poems; Areopagitica; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes)
64. Molire Comedies (esp. The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of
Himself; Tartuffe; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman; The Imaginary Invalid; The Affected Ladies)
65. Blaise Pascal The Provincial Letters; Penses; Scientific Treatises
66. Boyle The Sceptical Chemist
67. Christiaan Huygens Treatise on Light
68. Benedict de Spinoza Political Treatises; Ethics
69. John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding; Some Thoughts Concerning Education
70. Jean Baptiste Racine Tragedies (esp. Andromache; Phaedra; Athalie (Athaliah))
71. Isaac Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Opticks
72. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays on Human Understanding;
Monadology
73. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
74. Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub; A Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A
Modest Proposal
75. William Congreve The Way of the World
76. George Berkeley A New Theory of Vision; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
77. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man
78. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu Persian Letters; The Spirit of the Laws
79. Voltaire Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
80. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
81. Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; Lives of the Poets
82. David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning
Human Understanding; History of England
83. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on Inequality; On Political Economy; Emile; The Social Contract;
Confessions
84. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
85. Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
86. William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England
87. Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason; Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Critique of
Practical Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; The Science of Right; Critique of
Judgment; Perpetual Peace
88. Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
89. James Boswell Journal; The Life of Samuel Johnson
90. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Trait lmentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
91. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison Federalist Papers (together with the Articles of
Confederation; United States Constitution and United States Declaration of Independence)
92. Jeremy Bentham Comment on the Commentaries; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and
Legislation; Theory of Fictions
93. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust; Poetry and Truth
94. Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population
95. John Dalton A New System of Chemical Philosophy
96. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Analytical Theory of Heat
97. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit; Science of Logic; Elements of the
Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
98. William Wordsworth Poems (esp. Lyrical Ballads; Lucy poems; sonnets; The Prelude)
99. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems (esp. Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ); Biographia
Literaria
100. David Ricardo On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
101. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice; Emma
102. Carl von Clausewitz On War
103. Stendhal The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
104. Franois Guizot History of Civilization in France
105. Lord Byron Don Juan
106. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism
107. Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
108. Nikolai Lobachevsky Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
109. Charles Lyell Principles of Geology
110. Auguste Comte The Positive Philosophy
111. Honor de Balzac Works (esp. Le Pre Goriot; Le Cousin Pons; Eugnie Grandet; Cousin
Bette; Csar Birotteau)
112. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men; Essays; Journal
113. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
114. Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
115. John Stuart Mill A System of Logic; Principles of Political Economy; On Liberty;
Considerations on Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women;
Autobiography
116. Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
117. William Makepeace Thackeray Works (esp. Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond; The
Virginians; Pendennis)
118. Charles Dickens Works (esp. Pickwick Papers; Our Mutual Friend; David Copperfield;
Dombey and Son; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Hard Times)
119. Claude Bernard Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
120. George Boole The Laws of Thought
121. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience; Walden
122. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Das Kapital (Capital); The Communist Manifesto
123. George Eliot Adam Bede; Middlemarch
124. Herman Melville Typee; Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
125. Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
126. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary; Three Stories
127. Henry Thomas Buckle A History of Civilization in England
128. Francis Galton Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development
129. Bernhard Riemann The Hypotheses of Geometry
130. Henrik Ibsen Plays (esp. Peer Gynt; Brand; Hedda Gabler; Emperor and Galilean; A Doll's
House; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder)
131. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace; Anna Karenina; "What Is Art?"; Twenty-Three Tales
132. Richard Dedekind Theory of Numbers
133. Wilhelm Wundt Physiological Psychology; Outline of Psychology
134. Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court; The Mysterious Stranger
135. Henry Adams History of the United States; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres; The Education of
Henry Adams; Degradation of Democratic Dogma
136. Charles Peirce Chance, Love, and Logic; Collected Papers
137. William Sumner Folkways
138. Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law; Collected Legal Papers
139. William James Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism;
A Pluralistic Universe; Essays in Radical Empiricism
140. Henry James The American; The Ambassadors
141. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the
Genealogy of Morality; The Will to Power; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist
142. Georg Cantor Transfinite Numbers
143. Jules Henri Poincar Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method; The Foundations of
Science
144. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays to the Theory of Sex; Introduction
to Psychoanalysis; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; The
Ego and the Id; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
145. George Bernard Shaw Plays and Prefaces
146. Max Planck Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?;
Scientific Autobiography
147. Henri Bergson Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources
of Morality and Religion
148. John Dewey How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for
Certainty; Logic The Theory of Inquiry
149. Alfred North Whitehead A Treatise on Universal Algebra; An Introduction to Mathematics;
Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality; The Aims of Education and Other Essays;
Adventures of Ideas
150. George Santayana The Life of Reason; Scepticism and Animal Faith; The Realms of Being
(which discusses the Realms of Essence, Matter and Truth); Persons and Places
151. Vladimir Lenin Imperialism; The State and Revolution
152. Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past
153. Bertrand Russell Principles of Mathematics; The Problems of Philosophy; Principia
Mathematica; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope
and Limits
154. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
155. Albert Einstein The Theory of Relativity; Sidelights on Relativity; The Meaning of Relativity;
On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
156. James Joyce "The Dead" in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
157. Jacques Maritain Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; Freedom and the Modern
World; A Preface to Metaphysics; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
158. Franz Kafka The Trial; The Castle
159. Arnold J. Toynbee A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
160. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
161. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle; Cancer Ward