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Homer: Iliad, Odyssey

1. The Old Testament

2. Aeschylus: Tragedies

3. Sophocles: Tragedies

4. Herodotus: Histories

5. Euripides: Tragedies

6. Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War

7. Hippocrates: Medical Writings

8. Aristophanes: Comedies

9. Plato: Dialogues

10. Aristotle: Works

11. Epicurus: Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus

12. Euclid: Elements

13. Archimedes: Works

14. Apollonius of Perga: Conic Sections

15. Cicero: Works

16. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

17. Virgil: Works

18. Horace: Works

19. Livy: History of Rome

20. Ovid: Works

21. Plutarch: Parallel Lives; Moralia

22. Tacitus: Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania

23. Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic

24. Epictetus: Discourses; Encheiridion

25. Ptolemy: Almagest

26. Lucian: Works

27. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

28. Galen: On the Natural Faculties

29. The New Testament

30. Plotinus: The Enneads

31. St. Augustine: On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine

32. The Song of Roland

33. The Nibelungenlied

34. The Saga of Burnt Njál

35. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica

36. Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy

37. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales

38. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks

39. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy

40. Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly

41. Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

42. Thomas More: Utopia

43. Martin Luther: Table Talk; Three Treatises

44. Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel

45. John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

46. Michel de Montaigne: Essays

47. William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

48. Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

49. Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene

50. Francis Bacon: Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, The New Atlantis

51. William Shakespeare: Poetry and Plays

52. Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

53. Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World

54. William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals

55. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

56. René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy

57. John Milton: Works

58. Molière: Comedies

59. Blaise Pascal: The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises

60. Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light

61. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics

62. John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education

63. Jean Baptiste Racine: Tragedies

64. Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics

65. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology

66. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

67. Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver’s Travels; A Modest Proposal

68. William Congreve: The Way of the World

69. George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge

70. Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man

71. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws

72. Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary

73. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

74. Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets

75. David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

76. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract

77. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

78. Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations

79. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace

80. Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography

81. James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.

82. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)

83. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers

84. Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions

85. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth

86. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat

87. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History

88. William Wordsworth: Poems

89. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria

90. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma

91. Carl von Clausewitz: On War

92. Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love

93. Lord Byron: Don Juan

94. Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism

95. Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity

96. Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology

97. Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy

98. Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet

99. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal

100. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

101. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

102. John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography

103. Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography

104. Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times

105. Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

106. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden

107. Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto

108. George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch

109. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd

110. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov

111. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories

112. Henrik Ibsen: Plays

113. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales

114. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger

115. William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism

116. Henry James: The American; ‘The Ambassadors

117. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power

118. Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method

119. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

120. George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces

121. Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography

122. Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

123. John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry

124. Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas

125. George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places

126. Lenin: The State and Revolution

127. Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past

128. Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits

129. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers

130. Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics

131. James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses

132. Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism

133. Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle

134. Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial

135. Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness

136. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward