Key
6 = 1960 edition
7 = 1972 edition
C = Open Court Library
E = Everyman's Library
L = Loeb Classical Library
O = Oxford Translations
M = Modern Library
S = Modern Student's Library
W = World's Classics (Oxford)
1. Homer (c. 850 B.C.)
67.ELM..W Iliad
67.ELM..W Odyssey
2.
The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.)
67.EL...W Tragedies (esp. House of Atreus, Prometheus Bound)
4. Sophocles (c. 497-406 B.C.)
67.EL...W Tragedies (esp. Oedipus the King, Antigone, Electra)
5. Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.)
67.EL.... History (of the Persian Wars) (c.444-425 B.C.)
6. Euripides (c. 485-406 B.C.)
67.EL.... Tragedies (esp. Medea, Electra, Hippolytus, Bacchae)
7. Thucydides (c. 470-400 B.C.)
67.ELM... History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 404-401 B.C.)
8. Hippocrates (c. 460-357? B.C.)
67..L.... Collection of Medical Writings (c. 320-300 B.C.)
9. Aristophanes (c. 444-380 B.C.)
67.EL...W Comedies (esp. Lysistrata, Clouds, Birds, Frogs)
10. Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.)
67.ELM.SW Dialogues (c. 427-347 B.C.)
(esp. Republic, Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, Apology, Lysis, Phaedrus,
Protagoras, Gorgias, Cratylus, Sophist, Philebus, Thaetetus,
Parmenides)
11. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
67.EL.OS. Works (c. 355-323 B.C.)
(esp. Organon, Physics, Metaphysics, De Anima, Ethics, Politics,
Rhetoric, Poetics)
12. Epicurus
.7....... Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid (c. 323-283 B.C.)
67.E..... Elements of Geometry
14. Archimedes
.7....... Works
15 Apollonius of Perga
.7....... Conic Sections
16. Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
67..L.... Orations (c. 66-57 B.C.)
67..L.... Republic (54 B.C.)
67..L.... Laws (52 B.C.)
67..L.... Tusculan Disputations (45 B.C.)
67.EL.... Offices (44 B.C.)
17. Lucretius (c. 95-52 B.C.)
67.EL.O.. On the Nature of Things (c. 55 B.C.)
18. Virgil (80-19 B.C.)
67.ELMO.W Aenid (c. 27-20 B.C.)
19. Horace (65-8 B.C.)
67.ELMO.. Odes and Epodes (22-13 B.C.)
67.ELM... The Art of Poetry (13 B.C.)
20. Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17)
67.EL.... History of Rome (c. 27-25 B.C.)
21. Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17)
67.EL.... Metamorphosis (c. 9-17)
22. Quintilian (c. 40-118)
6...L.... Institutes of Oratory (94-95)
23. Plutarch (c. 45-120)
67.ELM... Parallel Lives
.7....... Moralia
24. Tacitus (c. 55-117)
6..EL.O.. Dialog on Oratory (c. 84-85)
.7....... Histories
.7....... Annals
67.EL.O.. Agricola Germania (98)
25. Nicomachus of Gerasa
67....... Introduction to Arithmetic (c. 100)
26. Epictetus (c. 60-120)
67.EL.O.. Discourses
.7....... Encheiridion
27. Ptolemy
.7....... Almagest
28. Lucian (c. 120-190)
67..L.O.. Works (c. 145-175)
(esp. The Way to Write History, The True History,
Alexander the Oracle Monger, Charon, The Sale of Lives,
The Fisherman, Dialogues of the Gods, Dialogs of the Sea-Gods,
Dialogues of the Dead)
29. Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
67.EL.O.W Meditations
30. Galen (131-c. 210)
67..L.... On the Natural Faculties
31. The New Testament
32. Plotinus
.7....... The Enneads
33. St. Augustine (453-430)
67....... Of the Teacher (c. 389)
67..L.... Confessions (397)
67.E..... City of God (c. 413-426)
.7....... On Christian Doctrine
34.
67.E..... Vosunga Saga (or Nibelungenlied)
35.
67....... The Song of Roland
36.
67.E..... The Saga of Burnt Njál (Icelandic Saga)
37. Maimonides (c. 1135-1204)
6........ Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
38. St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
6........ Of Being and Essence (1256)
6........ Summa Contra Gentiles (1258-60)
6........ Of the Governance of Rulers (1265-67)
67....... Summa Theologica (1267-73)
39. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
67.E.M... The Divine Comedy (c. 1300)
7........ The New Life
7........ On Monarchy
40. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
7........ Troilus and Criseyde
67.E.M..W The Canterbury Tales (c. 1398)
41. Thomas A Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
6..E....W Of the Imitation of Christ
Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Thomas More: Utopia
Martin Luther: Table Talk; Three Treatises
François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Michel de Montaigne: Essays
William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
Francis Bacon: Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
William Shakespeare: Poetry and Plays
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
John Milton: Works
Molière: Comedies
Blaise Pascal: The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light
Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics
John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education
Jean Baptiste Racine: Tragedies
Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
William Congreve: The Way of the World
George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
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
Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers
Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
William Wordsworth: Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Carl von Clausewitz: On War
Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
Lord Byron: Don Juan
Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism
Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology
Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy
Honoré de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden
Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto
George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories
Henrik Ibsen: Plays
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
Henry James: The American; 'The Ambassadors
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
Jules Henri Poincaré: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces
Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography
Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry
Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places
Lenin: The State and Revolution
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
James Joyce: 'The Dead' in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle
Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward