Great Books: Index by Period and Culture:

Non-Western Literature
Periods and Nationalities
3000-1500 BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Manu
1500-1000 BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Rig Veda
Vedas
Upanishads
Chinese
I Ching
Shijing
1000-500 BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Charvaka
Tripitaka
Chinese
Lao-tzu (Laozi)
Texts of Taoism
Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
5th C BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Mahaparinibbana Sutta
Chinese
Mozi (Mo Tzu)
Sun-tzu (Sunzi)
4th C BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Mahasatipatthana Sutta
Vedanta Sutra
Dhammapada
Valmiki
Chinese
Mencius (Mengzi)
Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)
3rd C BCE
Indian Subcontinent
The Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa

Chinese
Xunzi (Hsun Tzu)
Chu Ci
Han Fei Zi (Han Fei Tzu)
2nd C BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Kanada
Milindapaha,
Chinese
Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien)
1st C BCE
Indian Subcontinent
Eight Anthologies
Ten Long Poems
1st C CE
Indian Subcontinent
Diamond Sutra
Heart Sutra
Prajnaparamita
Ashvaghosha
Kuruntokai
Chinese
Wang Chong (Wang Ch'ung)
2nd C
Indian Subcontinent
Buddhist Scriptures
Ilango Adigal
Sukhavativyuha Sutra
Vimalakirti Sutra
Nagarjuna
3rd C
Indian Subcontinent
Lotus Sutra
4th C
Indian Subcontinent
Patajali
Zend-Avesta
Isvarakrsna
Vatsyayana
Kautilya
Native American
Maya
5th C

Indian Subcontinent
Kalidasa
Shudraka
Lankavatara Sutra
Panchatantra
Srimaladevisim-hanada Sutra
Awakening of Faith in Mahayana
Chinese
Tao Qian (T'ao Ch'ien; also known as Tao Yuanming)
Xie Lingyun
6th C
Middle East
Seven Odes
Indian Subcontinent
Bodhidharma (Daruma)
Yogachara writings
Chinese
Ch'an and Zen Teaching
7th C
Middle East
Qur'an
Indian Subcontinent
Bhartrhari
Shantideva
Chinese
Tang Poetry
Huineng
Japanese
Manyoshu
8th C
Chinese
Wang Wei
Li Bai (Li Po)
Du Fu (Tu Fu)
Japanese
Kokinshu
Other Asian, Pacific
Padma Sambhava
9th C
Middle East
Jahiz, alHadith
Chinese

Bai Juyi (Po Ch-i)

Li He (Li Ho)
Linji Yixuan
Japanese
Kukai
[Japanese] Poetry, Fiction, and Diaries
10th C
Middle East
Mutanabbi, alFirdausi, Abolqasim Mansur bin Hasan
Japanese
Michitsuna no Haha
Sei Shonagon
Murasaki Shikibu
11th C
Middle East
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Ibn Hazm, 'Ali Ahmad
Nizam al-Mulk, Hasan ibn Tusi
Omar Khayyam
Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim alBen Ezra, Moses ben Jacob
Ghazzali, Abu Hamid Muhammad alIndian Subcontinent
Somadeva Bhatta
Bilhana
Chinese
Hekigan Roku
Su Dongpo (Su Tung-p'o; also known as Su Shih)
Japanese
Sarashina, Lady
Other Asian, Pacific
Milarepa
12th C
Middle East
Ha-Levi, Judah
Sirat 'Antar
Kabbalah
Abu Bakr Muhammad bin 'Abdulmalik ibn Tufail
Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
Maimonides
'Attar, Farid al-Din
Indian Subcontinent
Jayadeva
Chinese
Li Yu

Zhu Xi
Japanese
[Japanese] Literature
Kamo Chomei
Native American
Aztecs
Inca and others
13th C
Middle East
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din
Sa'di, Musharrif ad-Din bin Muslih
Zohar
Chinese
Wang Shifu
Japanese
Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period
Heike Monogatari
Okagami
Dogen
Nakanoin Masatada no musume
14th C
Middle East
Yunus Emre
Ibn Batuta, Muhammad bin 'Abdullah
Hafiz, Mohammed Shamsuddin
Ibn Khaldun, 'Abd Ar-Rahman bin Muhammad
Indian Subcontinent
Vidyapati Thakur
Chinese
Shi Naian
Luo Guanzhong (Luo Kuan-chung)
Japanese
Kenko Yoshida
No (Noh) Theatre
15th C
Middle East
Book of Dede Korkut
Jami, Nur ad-Din 'Abd Ar-Rahman
Indian Subcontinent
Chandidas
Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
Devotional Poetry of North India
Kabir
Japanese
Zeami

16th C
Middle East
Fuzuli, Mehmet bin Sleyman
The Thousand and One Nights
Indian Subcontinent
The Ghazal
Chinese
Wang Yangming
Wu Cheng'en (Wu Chengen)
Japanese
Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu
Native American
Popol Vuh
17th C
Middle East
Evliya Celebi
Indian Subcontinent
Khushhal, Khan Khatak
Chinese
Jinpingmei (Chin P'ing Mei
Pu Songling (P'u Sung-Ling)
Hong Sheng (Hung Sheng)
Japanese
Miyamoto Musashi
Saikaku Ihara
Basho, Matsuo
18th C
Chinese
Wu Qingzi (Wu Ch'ing-tzu)
Cao Xueqin (Ts'ao Hseh-ch'in)
Yuan Mei
Japanese
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Hakuin
Takeda Izumo
Ueda Akinari
19th C
Indian Subcontinent
Ghalib
Japanese
Natsume Soseki
Literature of the Meiji Period

Other Asian, Pacific

Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani
A Legendary Tradition of Kamapua'a: The Hawaiian Pig-God
20th C
Middle East
Sa'di, Musharrif ad-Din bin Muslih
Bialik, Chaim Nachman
Gibran, Khalil
Bayatli, Yahya Kemal
Agnon, S. Y.
Husayn, Taha
Scholem, Gershom
Fathy, Hassan
Hikmet, Nazim
Hedayat, Sadeq
Mahfuz, Najib (Mahfouz, Naguib)
Talmon, J. T.
Carmi, T.
Shahar, David
Batatu, Hanna
Salih, Tayeb
Adunis
Kaniuk, Yoram
Pagis, Dan
Zach, Nathan
Sa'adawi, Nawal el
Appelfeld, Aharon
Amichai, Yehuda
Shabtai, Yaakov
Said, Edward
Yehoshua, A. B.
Ravikovitch, Dalia
Oz, Amos
Darwish, Mahmud
Pamuk, Orhan
Grossman, David
Indian Subcontinent
Tagore, Rabindranath
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Premchand
Banerji, Bibhutibhusan
Nisargadatta, Maharaj
Nirala, Suryakant Tripathi
Faiz, Faiz Ahmad
Anantha Murthy, U. R.
Chinese
Liu E
Lu Xun (Lu Hsn)
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
Lin Yutang
Lao She
Gao Xingjian
Mo Yan
Japanese
Tokutomi Kenjiro

Suzuki, D. T.
Shimazaki Toson
Nagai Kafu
Tanizaki Junichiro
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Miyazawa, Kenji
Kawabata Yasunari
Enchi Fumiko
Various authors
Itoh, Teiji
Abe Kobo
Mishima Yukio
Oe, Kenzaburo
Murakami, Haruki
Yoshimoto, Banana
Other Asian, Pacific
Ho Chi Minh
Vo Nguyen Giap
Anwar, Chairil
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Sogyal Rinpoche
African
Senghor, Lopold S.
Lumumba, Patrice
Native American
Black Elk
Lame Deer (John Fire)
Anthologies and Auxiliary Reading
Anthologies, 20th Century
Middle East
Modern Arab Poets, 1950-1975
Other Asian, Pacific
Contemporary Indonesian Poetry
Anthologies
Middle East
Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abassid Poets
Indian Subcontinent
An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815
Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations
Indian Devotional Poetry
Indo-Islamic Poetry
Poems from the Sanskrit
Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
Sources of Indian Tradition
Tamil Poetry
Chinese
Anthology of Chinese Literature
Chinese Drama

Chinese Lyric Poetry

Sources of Chinese Tradition
Texts of Chinese Buddhism
Japanese
Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century
Classic Japanese Poetry
Japanese Landscape Painting
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales
Texts of Japanese Buddhism
Other Asian, Pacific
Anthology of Korean Poetry, From the Earliest Era to the Present
A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry
African
Poems of Black Africa
Native American
Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas
Anthologies, Oral Tradition
Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, E
urope and Oceania
Auxiliary Reading, Non-Western
Angulo, Jaime de. Indian Tales
Barthlemy St.-Hilaire, Jules. The Buddha and His Religion
Bowra, Sir Cecil Maurice. Primitive Song
Brown, Dee Alexander. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of th
e American West
Byron, Robert. The Road to Oxiana
David-Neel, Alexandra. My Journey to Lhasa
Debo, Angie. Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place
Deloria, Vine, Jr.. Custer Died for Your Sins
Dumont, Ren. Stranglehold on Africa
Handy, E. S. Craighill and Elizabeth Green Handy. Native Planters in Old Haw
aii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment
Hanley, Gerald. Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki
Hinton, William. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
La Barre, Weston. The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion
Matthiessen, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Morse, Edward S.. Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilization in China
Scully, Vincent. Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance
Smith, Margaret. Rabia the Mystic & Her Fellow Saints in Islam
Spence, Jonathan. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Spence, Jonathan. The Death of Woman Wang
Spence, Jonathan. The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Trench, Richard. Forbidden Sands: A Search in the Sahara
Villas Boas, Orlando and Claudio. Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths
Webb, George. A Pima Remembers
Auxiliary Reading, Oral Tradition

Boas, Franz. Chinook Texts

Lord, Albert Bates. The Singer of Tales