(1–10)

• Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)
• The Suppliant Maidens
• The Persians
• Seven Against Thebes
• Prometheus Bound
• The Oresteia
• Agamemnon
• Choephoroe
• The Eumenides
• Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)
• The Oedipus Cycle

(10–20)

• Oedipus the King
• Oedipus at Colonus
• Antigone
• Ajax
• Electra
• The Trachiniae
• Philoctetes
• Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)
• Rhesus
• Medea
• Hippolytus

(20–30)

• Alcestis
• Heracleidae
• The Suppliants
• Trojan Women
• Ion
• Helen
• Andromache
• Electra
• Bacchantes
• Hecuba

(30–40)

• Heracles Mad
• Phoenician Women
• Orestes
• Iphigeneia in Tauris
• Iphigeneia at Aulis
• Cyclops
• Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)
• The Acharnians
• The Knights
• The Clouds
• The Wasps

(40–50)

• Peace
• The Birds
• The Frogs
• Lysistrata
• Thesmophoriazusae
• Ecclesiazousae
• Plutus
• Herodotus
• The History (translated by George Rawlinson)
• Thucydides
• History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)

(50–60)

• Plato
• The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)
• Charmides
• Lysis
• Laches
• Protagoras
• Euthydemus
• Cratylus
• Phaedrus
• Ion
• Symposium
• Meno

(60–70)

• Euthyphro
• Apology
• Crito
• Phaedo
• Gorgias
• The Republic
• Timaeus
• Critias
• Parmenides
• Theaetetus

(70–80)

• Sophist
• Statesman
• Philebus
• Laws
• The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)
• Aristotle
• Categories
• On Interpretation
• Prior Analytics
• Posterior Analytics
• Topics

(80–90)

• Sophistical Refutations
• Physics
• On the Heavens
• On Generation and Corruption
• Meteorology
• Metaphysics
• On the Soul
• Minor biological works
• History of Animals

(90–100)

• Parts of Animals
• On the Motion of Animals
• On the Gait of Animals
• On the Generation of Animals
• Nicomachean Ethics
• Politics
• The Athenian Constitution
• Rhetoric
• Poetics
• Hippocrates
• Works
• Galen

(100–110)

• On the Natural Faculties
• Euclid
• The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements
• Archimedes
• On the Sphere and Cylinder
• Measurement of a Circle
• On Conoids and Spheroids
• On Spirals
• On the Equilibrium of Planes
• The Sand Reckoner
• The Quadrature of the Parabola

(120–130)

• On Floating Bodies
• Book of Lemmas
• The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
• Apollonius of Perga
• On Conic Sections
• Nicomachus of Gerasa
• Introduction to Arithmetic
• Lucretius
• On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)
• Epictetus
• The Discourses (translated by George Long)

(130–140)

• Marcus Aurelius
• The Meditations (translated by George Long)
• Virgil
• Eclogues
• Georgics
• Aeneid
• Plutarch
• P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)
• The Annals
• The Histories
• Ptolemy
• Almagest, (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)

(140–150)

• Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
• Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)
• The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
• Plotinus
• The Six Enneads
• Augustine of Hippo
• The Confessions
• The City of God
• On Christian Doctrine
• Thomas Aquinas
• Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
• Thomas Aquinas
• Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
• Dante Alighieri
• The Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Troilus and Criseyde

(150–155)

• The Canterbury Tales
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Prince
• Thomas Hobbes
• Leviathan
• François Rabelais
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
• Essays

(155–165)

• William Shakespeare
• The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
• The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
• The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
• The Tragedy of Richard the Third
• The Comedy of Errors
• Titus Andronicus
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Romeo and Juliet

(165–175)

• The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Life and Death of King John
• The Merchant of Venice
• The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
• The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Life of King Henry the Fifth
• Julius Caesar
• As You Like It

(175–185)

• William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Troilus and Cressida
• All’s Well That Ends Well
• Measure for Measure
• Othello, the Moor of Venice
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Antony and Cleopatra

(185–195)

• Coriolanus
• Timon of Athens
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Cymbeline
• The Winter’s Tale
• The Tempest
• The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
• Sonnets
• William Gilbert
• On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
• Galileo Galilei
• Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences

(195–200)

• William Harvey
• On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
• On the Circulation of Blood
• On the Generation of Animals
• Miguel de Cervantes
• The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
• Sir Francis Bacon
• The Advancement of Learning

(200–210)

• Novum Organum
• New Atlantis
• René Descartes
• Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• Discourse on the Method
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
• The Geometry
• Benedict de Spinoza
• Ethics
• John Milton
• English Minor Poems
• Paradise Lost

(210–220)

• Samson Agonistes
• Areopagitica
• Blaise Pascal
• The Provincial Letters
• Pensées
• Scientific and mathematical essays
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• Optics
• Christian Huygens
• Treatise on Light
• John Locke
• A Letter Concerning Toleration
• Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

(220–230)

• George Berkeley
• The Principles of Human Knowledge
• David Hume
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Jonathan Swift
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Laurence Sterne
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• Henry Fielding
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
• The Spirit of the Laws
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
• A Discourse on Political Economy
• The Social Contract
• Adam Smith
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
• Edward Gibbon
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)

(230–240)

• Edward Gibbon
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)
• Immanuel Kant
• Critique of Pure Reason
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Critique of Practical Reason
• Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals
• Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience
• General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
• The Science of Right
• The Critique of Judgement
• American State Papers

(240–250)

• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation
• The Constitution of the United States of America
• Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
• The Federalist
• John Stuart Mill
• On Liberty
• Considerations on Representative Government
• Utilitarianism
• James Boswell
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
• Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
• Elements of Chemistry
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
• Analytical Theory of Heat

(250–260)

• Michael Faraday
• Experimental Researches in Electricity
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• The Philosophy of Right
• The Philosophy of History
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Faust
• Herman Melville
• Moby Dick; or, The Whale
• Charles Darwin
• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
• The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
• Karl Marx
• Capital
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Manifesto of the Communist Party
• Count Leo Tolstoy
• War and Peace

(260–270)

• Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov
• William James
• The Principles of Psychology
• Sigmund Freud
• The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
• Selected Papers on Hysteria
• The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
• The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
• Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis
• The Interpretation of Dreams
• On Narcissism
• Instincts and Their Vicissitudes

(280–290)

• Repression
• The Unconscious
• A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle
• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
• The Ego and the Id
• Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
• Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
• Civilization and Its Discontents
• New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

(290–300)

• The Praise of Folly
• Molière
• The School for Wives
• The Critique of the School for Wives
• Tartuffe
• Don Juan
• The Miser
• The Would-Be Gentleman
• The Imaginary Invalid
• Jean Racine
• Bérénice
• Phèdre
• Voltaire
• Candide

(300–310)

• Denis Diderot
• Rameau’s Nephew
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Fear and Trembling
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• Democracy in America
• Honoré de Balzac
• Cousin Bette
• Jane Austen
• Emma
• George Eliot
• Middlemarch
• Charles Dickens
• Little Dorrit
• Mark Twain
• Huckleberry Finn
• Henrik Ibsen
• A Doll’s House

(310–320)

• The Wild Duck
• Hedda Gabler
• The Master Builder
• William James
• Pragmatism
• Henri Bergson
• “An Introduction to Metaphysics”
• John Dewey
• Experience and Education
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Science and the Modern World
• Bertrand Russell
• The Problems of Philosophy
• Martin Heidegger
• What Is Metaphysics?
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Philosophical Investigations

(320–330)

• Karl Barth
• The Word of God and the Word of Man
• Henri Poincaré
• Science and Hypothesis
• Max Planck
• Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
• Alfred North Whitehead
• An Introduction to Mathematics
• Albert Einstein
• Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
• Arthur Eddington
• The Expanding Universe
• Niels Bohr
• Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
• Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology
• G. H. Hardy
• A Mathematician’s Apology
• Werner Heisenberg
• Physics and Philosophy

(330–340)

• Erwin Schrödinger
• What Is Life?
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Genetics and the Origin of Species
• C. H. Waddington
• The Nature of Life
• Thorstein Veblen
• The Theory of the Leisure Class
• R. H. Tawney
• The Acquisitive Society
• John Maynard Keynes
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
• Sir James George Frazer
• The Golden Bough (selections)
• Max Weber
• Essays in Sociology (selections)
• Johan Huizinga
• The Autumn of the Middle Ages
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Structural Anthropology (selections)

(340–350)

• Henry James
• The Beast in the Jungle
• George Bernard Shaw
• Saint Joan
• Joseph Conrad
• Heart of Darkness
• Anton Chekhov
• Uncle Vanya
• Luigi Pirandello
• Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Marcel Proust
• Remembrance of Things Past: “Swann in Love”
• Willa Cather
• A Lost Lady
• Thomas Mann
• Death in Venice
• James Joyce
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Virginia Woolf
• To the Lighthouse

(350–360)

• Franz Kafka
• The Metamorphosis
• D. H. Lawrence
• The Prussian Officer
• T. S. Eliot
• The Waste Land
• Eugene O’Neill
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Gatsby
• William Faulkner
• A Rose for Emily
• Bertolt Brecht
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• Ernest Hemingway
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• George Orwell
• Animal Farm
• Samuel Beckett
• Waiting for Godot