The Master Works of Western Civilization
A hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many othersContents
- Improvements in the test stage
- Prufrock: an e-mail discussion on reading and writing
- Introduction to this Web Page
- The Master Works of Western Civilization
- A Recommended Reading List from Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's How to Read a Book
- The Library of America
- 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, by Anthony Burgess
- Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
- Recommended Reading in Great Literature, Lake Forest Library
- Classics Revisited and More Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth
- The UWM Bookstore's Select 100 as of April, 1989
- Great links to and from this page
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Introduction
Several publishers, writers, and thinkers have drawn lists of the quintessential works of Western Civilization. This page presents several such lists along with links to the texts available on the Web.The table below contains three of the lists. Other lists are collected below the table. Maybe someday I'll collate all these lists into a single table -- but you know how Web page work goes -- maybe I won't.
Dr. Mortimer Adler, who edited The Great Books of the Western World at the University of Chicago, believed that by reading his selections you would obtain a thorough liberal arts education.
For more information about books available on the Web and by FTP and gopher, see Carnegie-Mellon's On-Line Books, the service I used to generate many of the links on this page. collections of electronic texts. Project Gutenberg has blazed the path for making classic literature available electronically and they are responsible for many texts referenced here.
The Master Works of Western Civilization
| Author | The Great Books of the Western World | The Easton Press | Dr. Eliot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient | |||
| God, Moses, Jesus, Paul et alia | The Bible | ||
| Homer (c. 850 B.C.E. ?) | The Iliad and The Odyssey | The Iliad and The Odyssey | |
| Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) | Analects | ||
| Aeschylus (c. 525- c. 456 B.C.E.) | Plays | Plays | |
| Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 B.C.E.) | plays, including: | Oedipus Rex | |
| Herodotus (c. 485-425 B.C.E.) | The History | ||
| Euripides (480 or 484-406 B.C.E.) | plays, including: | plays (see list at left) | |
| Thucydides (c. 460-c. 400 B.C.E.) | The History of the Peloponesian War | ||
| Hippocrates (c. 460?-377 or 359 B.C.E.) | works, including Aphorisms | ||
| Aristophanes (c. 448- c. 388 B.C.E.) | plays, including | The Birds and The Frogs | |
| Plato (c. 427-c. 347 B.C.E.) | works, including: | The Republic and Symposium | Apology, Crito, and Phaedo |
| Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) | works, including: | Politics | |
| Euclid (taught c. 300 B.C.E.) | The Elements | ||
| Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.E.) | works | ||
| Apollonius of Perga (fl 250-220 B.C.E.) | On Conic Sections | ||
| Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.) | Letters | ||
| Nicomachus of Gerasa | Introduction to Arithmetic | ||
| Lucretius (c. 99-55 B.C.E.) | On the Nature of Things | ||
| Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.) | The Ecologues, The Georgics, and The Aeneid | The Aeneid | The Aeneid |
| Livy (59 B.C.E.-17 C.E.) | History of Early Rome | ||
| First through Fifth Centuries | |||
| Epictetus (c. 50-?) | The Discourses | Golden Sayings | |
| Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120) | The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans | The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans | |
| P. Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-120) | The Annals and The Histories | ||
| Pliny, the Younger (62-c. 114) | Letters | ||
| Ptolemy (c. 90-168) | The Almagest | ||
| Marcus Aurelius (121-180) | The Meditations | Meditations | |
| Galen (c. 130-201) | On the Natural Faculties | ||
| Plotinus (205-270) | The Six Enneads | ||
| Saint Augustine (354-430) | Confessions, The City of God, and On Christian Doctrine | Confessions | Confessions |
| Sixth through Tenth Centuries | |||
| Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries | |||
| Omar Khayyam (c. 1050-c. 1123) | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | ||
| Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) | Summa Theologica | ||
| Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | The Divine Comedy | The Divine Comedy | The Divine Comedy |
| Boccaccio (1313-1375) | The Decameron | ||
| Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1345-1400) | The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida | The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales |
| Thomas à Kempis (1379-1471) | The Imitation of Christ | ||
| Fifteenth Century | |||
| Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) | The Prince | The Prince | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | ||
| Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553?) | Gargantua and Pantagruel | ||
| Sixteenth Century | |||
| Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) | Essays | ||
| William Gilbert (1540-1603) | On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies | ||
| Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) | The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha | The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha | |
| Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) | Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, and New Atlantis | Essays | New Atlantis and Essays |
| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | Works | Works | |
| Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) | Doctor Faustus | ||
| Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences | ||
| Thomas Middleton (c. 1570-1627) | The Changeling (see: The Plays of Thomas Middleton) | ||
| Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) | Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and The Harmonies of the World | ||
| Ben Jonson (1572-1637) | Volpone | ||
| John Donne (1572?-1631) | Poems, including Devotions | ||
| William Harvey (1578-1657) | On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Circulation of the Blood, and On the Generation of Animals | ||
| John Webster (c. 1580-c. 1625) | The Duchess of Malfi | ||
| Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) & John Fletcher (1579-1625) | The Maid's Tragedy | ||
| Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) | Leviathan | ||
| Izaak Walton (1593-1683) | The Compleat Angler, The Life of John Donne, and The Life of George Herbert | ||
| Rene Descartes (1596-1650) | Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Objections Against the Meditations and Replies, and The Geometry | ||
| Seventeenth Century | |||
| Thomas Browne (1605-1682) | Religio Medici | ||
| John Milton (1608-1674) | minor poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Areopagitica | Paradise Lost | Areopagitica and Tractate on Education |
| Moliere (1622-1673) | Plays | ||
| Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) | works, including: Pensees and Provincial Letters | ||
| John Bunyan (1628-1688) | Pilgrim's Progress | Pilgrim's Progress | |
| Christiaan Huygens (1629-1693) | Treatise on Light | ||
| John Dryden (1631-1700) | All for Love | ||
| John Locke (1632-1704) | essays, including | ||
| Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) | Ethics | ||
| Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and Optics | ||
| William Penn (1644-1718) | Fruits of Solitude | ||
| Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) | Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe | ||
| Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver's Travels | |
| George Berkeley (1685-1753) | The Principles of Human Knowledge A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | ||
| Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | The Spirit of Laws | ||
| Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) | Candide | ||
| Eighteenth Century | |||
| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | |
| Henry Fielding (1707-1754) | The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | |
| David Hume (1711-1776) | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | ||
| Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) | A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, and The Social Contract | Confessions | |
| Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. | |
| Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) | Tristam Shandy | ||
| John Woolmann (1720-1772) | Journal of John Woolman | ||
| Adam Smith(1723-1790) | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | |
| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | The Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, and other works | ||
| Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) | She Stoops to Conquer | ||
| Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | Rights of Man | ||
| Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | ||
| James Boswell (1740-1795) | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | ||
| Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) | Elements of Chemistry | ||
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) | Faust | Faust | Faust |
| Alexander Hamilton(1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), and John Jay (1745-1829) | The Federalist | The Federalist | |
| Robert Burns (1759-1796) | Tam O'Shanter | ||
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) | The Philosophy of Right and The Philosophy of History [Also: Phenomenology of Mind] | ||
| Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) | Ivanhoe and Talisman | ||
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1772-1837) | Analytical Theory of Heat | ||
| Jane Austen (1775-1817) | Pride and Prejudice | ||
| American State Papers | The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and The Constitution | ||
| Washington Irving (1783-1859) | Alhambra | ||
| Stendhal (1783-1842) | Red and the Black | ||
| The Brothers Grimm (Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, 1785-1863, and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, 1786-1859) | Grimm's Fairy Tales | ||
| James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | The Last of the Mohicans | ||
| Michael Faraday (1791-1867) | Experimental Researches in Electricity | ||
| Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) | The Cenci | ||
| John Keats (1795-1821) | Poetical Works | ||
| Nineteenth Century | |||
| Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) | The Three Musketeers [Available on the Web is The Man in the Iron Mask.] | ||
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | Essays | Essays and English Traits | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | The Scarlet Letter | ||
| John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) | |||
| Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) | Becket | ||
| Charles Darwin (1809-1882) | The Origin of Species [Also available on the Web is The Voyage of the Beagle.] | The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man | The Origin of Species |
| Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | Tales of Mystery and Imagination [See Selected Works of Poe.] | ||
| Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) | Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin | ||
| William M. Thackeray (1811-1863) | Vanity Fair | ||
| Charles Dickens (1812-1870) | David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Short Stories, and A Tale of Two Cities [Also available by Dickens on the Web are: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth.] | ||
| Robert Browning (1812-1889) | poems, several of which are in Dramatic Lyrics [Also see: Introduction to Robert Browning.] | A Blot in the 'Scutcheon | |
| Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) | Jane Eyre | ||
| Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | Walden | ||
| Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) | Fathers and Sons | ||
| Emily Bronte (1818-1848) | Wuthering Heights | ||
| Karl Marx (1818-1883) | Capital | ||
| Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) | Manifesto of the Communist Party | ||
| Walt Whitman (1819-1891) | Leaves of Grass | ||
| George Eliot (1819-1880) | The Mill on the Floss [Also available on the Web are Middlemarch: a study of provincial life and Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.] | ||
| Herman Melville (1819-1891) | Moby Dick; or, the Whale | Moby Dick; or, the Whale | |
| Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) | Flowers of Evil | ||
| Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) | Madame Bovary | ||
| Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) | The Brothers Karamzov | The Brothers Karamzov and Crime and Punishment | |
| Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) | War and Peace | Anna Karenina and War and Peace | |
| Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) | plays, including Peer Gynt and The Wild Duck | ||
| Jules Verne (1828-1905) | Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea | ||
| Sir Richard Burton (1829-1890) | Tales from the Arabian Nights | Tales from the Arabian Nights | |
| Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Also available on the Web are: | ||
| Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | Little Women | ||
| Mark Twain (1835-1910) | Huckleberry Finn | ||
| Samuel Butler (1835-1902) | The Way of All Flesh | ||
| Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | Jude the Obscure and Return of the Native | ||
| William James (1842-1910) | The Principles of Psychology | ||
| Henry James (1843-1916) | Portrait of a Lady | ||
| Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island | ||
| Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) | Tales | ||
| Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | Short Stories [Also available on the Web are The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Poems.] | ||
| Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis, Selected Papers on Hysteria, The Sexual Enlightenment of Children, The Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic Therapy, and other essays | ||
| George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) | plays | ||
| Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim [Also available on the Web are: The Secret Agent, The Secret Sharer, and The Shadow Line.] | ||
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | ||
| Anton Chekkov (1860-1904) | plays | ||
| Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | The Jungle Book | ||
| William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | poems | ||
| Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | The Red Badge of Courage | ||
| Jack London (1876-1916) | Sea Wolf | ||
| James Joyce (1882-1941) | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | ||
| Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) | Brave New World | ||
| Twentieth Century | |||
| John Steinbeck (1902-1968) | Of Mice and Men |
Other Reading Lists
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A Recommended Reading List
from Appendix A of How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren The Liberal Studies Great Books Program at Malaspina University-College bases its program on the list of Drs. Adler and Van Doren.- Homer (9th Century B.C.?)
Iliad
Odyssey - The Old Testament
- Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.)
Tragedies - Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.)
Tragedies - Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.)
History - Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)
Tragedies - Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
History of the Peloponnesian War - Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.)
Medical Writings - Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.)
Comedies - Plato (c.427-347 B.C.)
Dialogues - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Works - Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.)
``Letter to Herodotus'' ``Letter to Menoecus'' - Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.)
Elements - Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.)
Works - Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.)
Conic Sections - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Works - Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.)
On the Nature of Things - Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Works - Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Works - Livy (59 B.C.--A.D. 17)
History of Rome - Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)
Works - Plutarch (c.45-120)
Parallel Lives
Moralia - Tacitus (c.55-117)
Histories
Annals
Agricola
Germania - Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. 100 A.D.)
Introduction to Arithmetic - Epictetus (c.60-120)
Discourses
Encheiridion - Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151)
Almagest - Lucian (c.120-c.190)
Works - Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations - Galen (C. 130-200)
On the Natural Faculties - The New Testament
- Plotinus (205-270)
The Enneads - St. Augustine (354-430)
On the Teacher
Confessions
City of God
On Christian Doctrine - The Song of Roland
(12th century?) - The Nibelungenlied
(13th century?)
(Volsunga Saga
as Scandinavian version) - The Saga of Burnt Njal
- St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
Summa Theologica - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The New Life
On Monarchy
The Divine Comedy - Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
Troilus and Criseyde
The Canterbury Tales - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Notebooks - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The Prince
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy - Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469-1536)
The Praise of Folly - Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres - Sir Thomas More (c.1478-1535)
Utopia - Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Table Talk
Three Treatises - Francois Rabelais (c.1495-1553)
Gargantua and Pantagruel - John Calvin (1509-1564)
Institutes of the Christian Religion - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays - William Gilbert (1540-1603)
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don Quixote - Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
Prothalamion
The Faerie Queene - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essays
Advancement of Learning
Novum Organum
New Atlantis - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Poetry and Plays - Galieo Galilei (1564-1642)
The Starry Messenger
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences - Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Concerning the Harmonies of the World - 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 - Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
The Leviathan - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Geometry
Meditations on First Philosophy - John Milton (1608-1674)
Works - Moliere (1622-1673)
Comedies - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises - Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Treatise on Light - Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Ethics - John Locke (1632-1704)
Letter Concerning Toleration
``Of Civil Government''
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Thoughts Concerning Education - Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Tragedies - Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
Discourse on Metaphysics
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe - Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
A Tale of a Tub
Journal to Stella
Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal - William Congreve (1670-1729)
The Way of the World - George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Principles of Human Knowledge - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Essay on Criticism
Rape of the Lock
Essay on Man - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Persian Letters
Spirit of Laws - Voltaire (1694-1778)
Letters on the English
Candide
Philosophical Dictionary - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Dictionary
Rasselas
The Lives of the Poets - David Hume (1711-1776)
Treatise on Human Nature
Essays Moral and Political
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)
On the Origin of Inequality
On the Political Economy
Emile
The Social Contract - Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Tristram Shandy
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy - Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Wealth of Nations - 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 - Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Autobiography - James Boswell (1740-1795)
Journal Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Elements of Chemistry - John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Federalist Papers
(together with Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States, and Declaration of Independence) - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Theory of Fictions - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Faust
Poetry and Truth - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Analytical Theory of Heat - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy of Right
Lectures on the Philosophy of History - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Poems Biographia Literaria - Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Emma - Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
On War - Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
On Love - George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Studies in Pessimism - Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Chemical History of a Candle
Experimental Researches in Electricity - Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Principles of Geology - Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
The Positive Philosophy - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
Pere Goriot
Eugenie Grandet - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Representative Men
Essays
Journal - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Democracy in America - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
A System of Logic
On Liberty
Representative Government
Utilitarianism
The Subjection of Women
Autobiography - Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
The Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
Autobiography - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Works - Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Civil Disobedience
Walden - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Capital
(together with Communist Manifesto) - George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede
Middlemarch - Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick
Billy Budd - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Madame Bovary
Three Stories - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Plays - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
What is Art?
Twenty-Three Tales - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Mysterious Stranger - William James (1842-1910)
The Principles of Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Pragamatism
Essays in Radical Empiricism - Henry James (1843-1916)
The American
The Ambassadors - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
The Geneology of Morals
The Will to Power - Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
Science and Hypothesis
Science and Method - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Plays and Prefaces - Max Planck (1858-1947)
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
Where Is Science Going?
Scientific Autobiography - Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Time and Free Will
Matter and Memory
Creative Evolution
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion - John Dewey (1859-1952)
How We Think
Democracy and Education
Experience and Nature
Logic, the Theory of Inquiry - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
An Introduction to Mathematics
Science and the Modern World
The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Adventures of Ideas - George Santayana (1863-1952)
The Life of Reason
Skepticism and Animal Faith
Persons and Places - Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924)
The State and Revolution - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Remembrance of Things Past - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The Problems of Philosophy
The Analsysis of Mind
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits - Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
The Magic Mountain
Joseph and His Brothers - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The Meaning of Relativity
On the Method of Theoretical Physics
The Evolution of Physics (with L. Infeld) - James Joyce (1882-1941)
``The Dead'' in Dubliners
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses - Jaques Maritain (1882- )
Art and Scholasticism
The Degrees of Knowledge
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
True Humanism - Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Trial
The Castle - Arnold Toynbee (1889- )
A Study of History
Civilization on Trial - Jean Paul Sartre (1905- )
Nausea
No Exit
Being and Nothingness - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
The First Circle
The Cancer Ward
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The Library of America
- Herman Melville, Typee, Omoo, Mardi
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tales and Sketches
- Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Three Novels
- Mark Twain, Mississippi Writings
- Jack London, Novels and Stories
- Jack London, Novels and Social Writings
- William Dean Howells, Novels 1875-1886
- Herman Melville, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby Dick
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novels
- Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, vol. I
- Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, vol. II
- Henry James, Novels 1871-1880
- Henry Adams, Novels, Mont Sant Michel, The Education
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Lectures
- Washington Irving, History, Tales, and Sketches
- Thomas Jefferson, Writings
- Stephen Crane, Prose and Poetry
- Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry and Tales
- Edgar Allan Poe, Essays and Reviews
- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It
- Henry James, Essays, American & English Writers
- Henry James, European Writers & The Prefaces
- Herman Melville, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales, & Billy Budd
- William Faulkner, Novels 1930-1935
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales vol. I
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales vol. II
- Henry David Thoreau, A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
- Henry James, Novels 1881-1886
- Edith Wharton, Novels
- Henry Adams, History of the United States during the Administration of Jefferson
- Henry Adams, History of the United States during the Administration of Madison
- Frank Norris, Novels and Essays
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Writings
- Willa Cather, Early Novels and Stories
- Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men
- Benjamin Franklin, Writings
- William James, Writings 1902-1910
- Flannery O'Connor, Collected Works
- Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1913-1920
- Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1920-1931
- Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays 1932-1943
- Henry James, Novels 1886-1890
- William Dean Howells, Novels 1886-1888
- Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832-1858
- Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1859-1865
- Edith Wharton, Novellas and Other Writing
- William Faulkner, Novels 1936-1940
- Willa Cather, Later Novels
- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs
Return to top99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, by Anthony Burgess
- Party Going, Henry Green
- After Many a Summer, Aldous Huxley
- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
1940
- The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- Strangers and Brothers (to 1970), C.P. Snow
1941
- The Aerodrome, Rex Warner
1944
- The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary
- The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham
1945
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
1946
- Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
1947
- The Victim, Saul Bellow
- Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
1948
- The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
- Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley
- The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
- No Highway, Nevil Shute
1949
- The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Body, William Sansom
1950
- Scenes from Provincial Life, William Cooper
- The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg
1951
- A Dance to the Music of Time (to 1975), Anthony Powell
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (to 1969), Henry Williamson
- The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
1952
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy
- Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
- Sword of Honour (to 1961), Evelyn Waugh
1953
- The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
1954
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
1957
- Room at the Top, John Braine
- The Alexandria Quartet (to 1960), Lawrence Durrell
- The London Novels (to 1960), Colin MacInnes
- The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
1958
- The Bell, Iris Murdoch
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
- The Once and Future King, T.H. White
1959
- The Mansion, William Faulkner
- Goldfinger, Ian Fleming
1960
- Facial Justice, L.P. Hartley
- The Balkans Trilogy (to 1965), Olivia Manning
1961
- The Mighty and Their Fall, Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes
- Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
- The Old Men at the Zoo, Angus Wilson
1962
- Another Country, James Baldwin
- An Error of Judgment, Pamela Hansford Johnson
- Island, Aldous Huxley
- The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
1963
- The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
1964
- The Spire, William Golding
- Heartland, Wilson Harris
- A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
- The Defence, Vladimir Nabokov
- Late Call, Angus Wilson
1965
- The Lockwood Concern, John O'Hara
- The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark
1966
- A Man of the People, Chinua Achebe
- The Anti-Death League, Kingsley Amis
- Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
- The Late Bourgeois World, Nadine Gordimer
- The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy
1967
- The Vendor of Sweets, R.K. Narayan
1968
- The Image Men, J.B. Priestley
- Cocksure, Mordecai Richler
- Pavane, Keith Roberts
1969
- The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
- Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
1970
- Bomber, Len Deighton
1973
- Sweet Dreams, Michael Frayn
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
1975
- Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
- The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury
1976
- The Doctor's Wife, Brian Moore
- Falstaff, Robert Nye
1977
- How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong
- Farewell Companions, James Plunkett
- Staying On, Paul Scott
1978
- The Coup, John Updike
1979
- The Unlimited Dream Company, J.G. Ballard
- Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud
- A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
- Sophie's Choice, William Stryon
1980
- Life in the West, Brian Aldiss
- Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
- How Far Can You Go?, David Lodge
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1981
- Lanark, Alasdair Gray
- Darconville's Cat, Alexander Theroux
- The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
- Creation, Gore Vidal
1982
- The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
1983
- Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer
1939
Return to topThe Lifetime Reading Plan, by Clifton Fadiman (3rd edition)
The Beginning
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Herodotus, The Histories
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Plato, Selected Works
- Aristotle, Ethics, Politics
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
- Euripides, Alcestis, Medea, Hipploytus, Trojan Women, Electra, Bacchae
- Lucretius, Of the Nature of Things
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
The Middle Ages
- Saint Augustine, Confessions
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Plays
- William Shakespeare, Complete Works
- Moliere, Selected Plays
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
- Henrik Ibsen, Selected Plays
- George Bernard Shaw, Selcted Plays and Prefaces
- Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard
- Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape
- Contemporary Drama, edited by E. Bradlee Watson and Benfield Pressey
Narratives
- John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Jonathon Swift, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Meditations upon a Broomstick, Resolutions when I Come to be Old
- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma
- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit
- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
- Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves
- D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Collected Essays
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
- Franz Kafka, The Trial, The Castle, Selected Short Stories
- Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Voltaire, Candide and Selected Works
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
- Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
- Andre Malraux, Man's Fate
- Albert Camus, The Plague, The Stranger
- Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories and Other Works
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Selcted Tales
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener
- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Henry James, The Ambassadors
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
- Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories
- Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift
- Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, Don Quixote
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Dreamtigers
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Dead Souls
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
- Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Pale Fire, Speak, Memory
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle, Cancer Ward
Philosophy, Psychology, Politics, Essays
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra,
Selected Other Works
- Sigmund Freud, Selected Works
- Niccolo Macchiavelli, The Prince
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Selected Essays
- Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Works
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Civil Disobedience
- William James, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism and Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience
- John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct
- George Santayana, Skepticism and Animal Faith, Selected Other Works
Poetry
- John Donne, Selected Works
- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica
- William Blake, Selected Works
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 1800
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare
- William Butler Yeats, Collected Poems, Collected Plays, The Autobiography
- T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems and Collected Plays
- Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855), A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
- Robert Frost, Collected Poems
- Poets of the English Language, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson
- The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair
History, Biography, Autobiography
- Basic Documents in American History, edited by Richard B. Morris The Federalist Papers, edited by Clinton Rossiter
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
- James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
- Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century
Annex
- William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization
- Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People Page Smith, A People's History of the United States
- Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics
- E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
- Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book
Return to topRecommended Reading in Great Literature, Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois
Ancient World
- The Bible
- Aristophanes, The Birds
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Homer, Odyssey, Iliad
- Horace, Odes, etc.
- Pindar, Olympians, etc.
- Plato, Republic
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
- Theocritus, Idylls
- Virgil, Aeneid, etc.
For background & lighter reading
- E. Hamilton, Mythology, etc.
- M. Renault, The King Must Die, etc.
- J. William, Augustus
Middle Ages
- Bede, History of the English Church and People
- Beowulf
- A.C. Cawley, Everyman & Miracle Plays
- G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales
- Dante, Divine Comedy
- W. Langland, Piers the Ploughman
- T. Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
For background & lighter reading
- Ackerman, Backgrounds to Medieval Literature
- J. Gardner, Grendel
- M. Stewart, The Crystal Cave, etc.
- T.H. White Once and Future King
Renaissance & 17th Century
- M. Cervantes, Don Quixote
- J. Donne, Collected Poems
- J. Dryden, MacFlecknoe, etc.
- B. Jonson, Epigrams, Plays
- C. Marlowe, Poems, Doctor Faustus
- J. Milton, Paradise Lost, L'Allegro
- W. Shakespeare, Sonnets, Plays
- E. Spenser, Shephearde's Calender
18th Century
- H. Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- T. Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard
- S. Johnson, Life of Milton, etc.
- A. Pope, Rape of the Lock, etc.
- J. Swift, Gulliver's Travels
19th Century
- M. Arnold, Dover Beach
- R. Browning, Collected Works
- S.T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner
- E. Dickinson, Collected Works
- J. Keats, Collected Works
- E.A. Poe, The Raven
- P.B. Shelley, Collected Works
- A. Tennyson, Idylls of the King, etc.
- W. Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- W. Wordsworth, Collected Works
Prose
- J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- C. Bronte, Jane Eyre
- E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
- L. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- W. Cather, My Antonia, etc.
- J. Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
- C. Dickens, Great Expectations, etc.
- F. Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment, etc.
- G. Eliot, Adam Bede
- R.W. Emerson, American Scholar, etc.
- G. Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- T. Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, etc.
- N. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, etc.
- W. Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- H. Melville, Billy Budd, Moby Dick, etc.
- W. Scott, Ivanhoe, etc.
- W.M. Thackery, Vanity Fair
- H.D. Thoreau, Walden
- L. Tolstoy, War and Peace
- M. Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It
Poetry
Late 19th & 20th Century
- S. Becket, Waiting for Godot
- B. Brecht, Mother Courage
- A. Chekhov, Cherry Orchard
- L. Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
- H. Ibsen, A Doll's House, etc.
- A. Miller, Death of a Salesman
- E. O'Neill, Ah Wilderness, etc.
- Pirandello, Six Characters in Search...
- G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, etc.
- A. Strindberg, Miss Julie, etc.
- J. Synge, Playboy of the Western World
- O. Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest
- T. Wilder, Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth
- T. Williams, Streetcar Named Desire
Poetry
- W.H. Auden, Collected Works
- e.e. cummings, Collected Works
- T.S. Eliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- R. Frost, Collected Works
- G.M. Hopkins, Collected Works
- A.E. Housman, Collected Works
- T. Roethke, Collected Works
- W.B. Yeats, Collected Works
Essays, Short Stories, Expository Works
- J. Didion, Collected Works
- A. Dillard, Collected Works
- L. Eiseley, Immense Journey, etc.
- J. McPhee, Collected Works
- F. O'Connor, Collected Works
- Saki (Munro), Collected Short Stories
- L. Thomas, Collected Works
- J. Thurber, Carnival, etc.
- E.B. White, Essays
Prose
- S. Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
- J. Conrad, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
- W. Faulkner, Sound and the Fury
- F.S. Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- J. Galsworthy, Forsyte Saga
- E. Hemingway, The Sun also Rises
- A. Huxley, Brave New World
- H. James, The Ambassadors, etc.
- J. Joyce, Portrait of the Artist..., etc.
- D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
- S. Lewis, Main Street
- J. Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
- V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- R. Wright, Native Son
Drama
Contemporary
- K. Amis, Lucky Jim
- J. Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain
- S. Beckett, Murphy
- J. Barth, The End of the Road
- R. Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
- A. Burgess, Enderby, A Clockwork Orange
- A. Camus, Outsider, Plague
- R. Ellison, Invisible Man
- F.M. Ford, The Good Soldier
- J. Gardner, October Light
- W. Golding, Lord of the Flies
- J. Heller, Catch-22
- J. Herriot, All Creatures Great & Small
- J. Knowles, A Separate Peace
- H. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- N. Mailer, Armies of the Night
- T. Morrison, Song of Solomon
- G. Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984
- A. Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
- J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
- J. Watson, The Double Helix
Prose
Return to topClassics Revisited and More Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Beowulf
- Njal's Saga
- Job
- The Mahabharata
- The Kalevala
- Sappho, Poems
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Sophocles, The Theban Plays
- Euripides
- Herodotus, History
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
- Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates
- Plato, The Republic
- The Greek Anthology
- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
- Livy, Early Rome
- Julius Caesar, The War in Gaul
- Petronius, The Satyricon
- Tacitus, Histories
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Apuleius, The Golden Ass
- Medieval Latin Lyrics
- Tu Fu, Poems
- Classic Japanese Poetry
- Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Rabelais, The Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo
- Thomas More, Utopia
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
- Montaigne, Essays
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Shakespeare, Macbeth
- Shakespeare, The Tempest
- Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- Ben Jonson, Volpone
- Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
- John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Tsao Hsueh Chin, The Dream of the Red Chamber
- Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life
- Henry Fielding Tom Jones
- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
- Restif de la Bretonne, Monsieur Nicolas
- Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
- Baudelaire, Poems
- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Gustave Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
- Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Rimbaud, Poems
- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal
- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Chekhov, Plays
From More Classics Revisited
- The Song of Songs
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
- Euripides, Hippolytus
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius
- The Bhagavad-Gita
- Ssu-Ma Chien, Records of the Grand Historian of China
- Catullus
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- The Early Irish Epic
- Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book
- Abelard and Heloise
- Heike Monogatari
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballad
- Racine, Phedre
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Jonathon Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Acquaintances
- Gilbert White, A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
- Robert Burns
- William Blake
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Honore de Balzac
- The Journal of John Woolman
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- Francis Parkman, France and England in North America
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Frederick Douglass
- Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
- Arthur Conan Doyle, ``Sherlock Holmes''
- Alexander Berkman
- Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You
- H.G. Wells
- William Butler Yeats, Plays
- Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
- Franz Kafka, The Trial
- Herbert Read, The Green Child
- William Carlos Williams, Poems
From Classics Revisited
Return to topThe UWM Bookstore's Select 100 as of April, 1989
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
- Animal Farm, Orwell
- Art of War, Sun Tsu
- As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
- Atlas Shrugged, Rand
- The Bible
- Brave New World, Huxley
- Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
- Candide, Voltaire
- Canticle for Liebowitz, Miller
- Catch-22, Heller
- Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
- City in History, Mumford
- Clockwork Orange, Burgess
- Color Purple, Walker
- Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
- Complete Works, Shakespeare
- Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
- Confessions, St. Augustine
- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
- Crucible, Miller
- Cry, the Bleoved Country, Paton
- Dancing Wu-Li Masters, Zukav
- Divine Comedy, Dante
- Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak
- Don Quixote, Cervantes
- Double Helix, Watscon
- Dune Trilogy, Herbert
- Elements of Style, Strunk & White
- Entropy, Rifkin
- Ethan Frome, Wharton
- Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
- Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
- Faust, Goethe
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson
- Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, Jay
- Flatland, Abbott
- Forbidden Colors, Mishima
- Foundation Trilogy, Asimov
- Fountainhead, Rand
- Free to Choose, Friedman
- Godel, Escher, Bach, Hofstadter
- Gone with the Wind, Mitchell
- Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
- Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
- Great Expectations, Dickens
- Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
- Gulliver's Travels, Swift
- Handmaid's Tale, Atwood
- Hiroshima, Hersey
- How Democracies Perish, Revel
- Iliad, Homer
- Invisible Man, Ellison
- Jane Eyre, Bronte
- Leaves of Grass, Whitman
- Little Prince, St. Exupery
- Lord of the Flies, Golding
- Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
- Madame Bovary, Flaubert
- Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl
- Mere Christianity, Lewis
- Moby Dick, Melville
- Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey
- My Antonia, Cather
- 1984, Orwell
- Odyssey, Homer
- Of Human Bondage, Maugham
- Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
- Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
- On the Road, Kerouac
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
- Origin of Species, Darwin
- Paradise Lost, Milton
- Plague, Camus
- Pride and Prejudice, Austen
- Prince, Machiavelli
- Qu'ran
- Republic, Plato
- Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer
- Road Less Travelled, Peck
- Room of One's Own, Woolf
- Sand County Almanac, Leopold
- Second Sex, de Beauvoir
- Seven Story Mountain, Merton
- Siddhartha, Hesse
- Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
- Small Is Beautiful, Schumacher
- Steppenwolf, Hesse
- Stranger, Camus
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
- Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn
- Tao of Physics, Capra
- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
- Third Wave, Toffler
- Ulysses, Joyce
- Unsettling of America, Berry
- Utopia, More
- Walden, Thoreau
- War and Peace, Tolstoy
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig
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