- Anonymous (c2000 B.C.) The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Homer (c800 B.C.) The Iliad
- Homer (c800 B.C.) The Odyssey
- Confucius (551-479 B.C.) The Analects
- Aeschylus (525-456/5 B.C.) The Oresteia
- Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
- Euripides (484-406 B.C.) Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae
- Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) The Histories
- Thucydides (c470-400 B.C. The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Sun-tzu (c450-380 B.C.) The Art of War
- Aristophanes (448-388 B.C.) Lysistra, The Clouds, The Birds
- Plato (428-348 B.C.) Selected Works
- Aristotle (384-322) Ethics, Politics, Poetics
- Mencius (400-320) The Book of Mencius
- Valmiki (Attrib.to, c300 B.C.) The Ramayana
- Vyasa (Attrib. to, C200 B.C.) The Mahabharata
- Anonymous (c200 B.C.) The Bhagavad Gita
- Ssu-ma Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.) Records of the Grand Historian
- Lucretius (c100-50 B.C.) Of the Nature of Things
- Virgil (70-19 B.C.) The Aeneid
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Meditations
- Saint Augustine (354-430) The Confessions
- Kalidasa (c400) The Cloud Messenger, Sakuntala
- Revealed to Mohammed (completed 650) The Koran
- Hui-neng (638-713) The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- Firdausi (c940-1020) Shah Nameh
- Sei Shonagon (c965-1035) The Pillow-Book
- Lady Murasaki (c976-1015) The Tale of Genji
- Omar Khayyam (1048-?) The Rubaiyat
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) The Divine Comedy
- Luo Kuan-chung (c1330-1400) The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) The Canterbury Tales
- Anonymous (c1500) The Thousand and One Nights
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) The Prince
- Francois Rabelais (1483-1553) Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Wu Ch’eng-en (Attributed to 1500-1582) Journey to the West
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592 Selected Essays
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Don Quixote
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Complete Works
- John Donne (1573-1631) Selected Works
- Anonymous (Published 1618) The Plum in the Golden Vase (Ching P’ing Mei)
- Galileo Galilei (1574-1642) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Leviathan
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Discourse on Method
- John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, Sonnets, Aeropagitica
- Moliere (1622-1673) Selected Plays
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Thoughts (Pensees)
- John Bunyan (1628-1688) Pilgrim’s Progress
- John Locke (1632-1704) Second Treatise of Government
- Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Robinson Crusoe
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Gulliver’s Travels
- Voltaire (1694-1778) Candide, and Other Works.
- David Hume (1711-1776) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Tom Jones
- Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in (1715-1763) The Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Confessions
- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Tristam Shandy
- James Boswell (1740-1795) The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Thomas Jefferson and others Basic Documents in American History. Edited by Clinton Rossiter)
- Hamilton, Madison, Jay The Federalist Papers. 1787 (Edited by Clinton Rossiter)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust
- William Blake (1757-1827) Selected Works
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to The Lyrical Ballads
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Ancient mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare
- Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice, Emma
- Stendhal (1783-1842) The Red and the Black
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Bette
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Selected Works
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Democracy in America
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) Dead Souls
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Short Stories and Other Works
- William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863) Vanity Fair
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit.
- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) The Warden, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds, The Way We Live Now, Autobiography.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden, Civil Disobedience
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) Fathers and Sons
- Karl Marx (1818-1883) & Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) The Communist Manifesto
- Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener
- George Eliot (1819-1880) The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855), A Backward Glance O’er Travelled Roads
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Madame Bovary
- Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) War and Peace
- Henrick Ibsen (1828-1906) Selected Plays
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Collected Poems
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) Huckleberry Finn
- Henry Adams (1838-1918) The Education of Henry Adams
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Mayor of Casterbridge
- William James (1842-1910) The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Henry James (1843-1916) The Ambassadors
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and other works.
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Selected Works Including The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Civilization and Its Discontents
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Selected Plays and Prefaces
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Nostromo
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Selected Short Stories.
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Collected Poems, Collected Plays, Autobiography
- Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) Kokoro
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Remembrance of Things Past
- Robert Frost (1874-1963) Collected Poems
- Thomas Mann (1875-1955) The Magic Mountain
- E. M. Forster (1879-1970) A Passage to India
- Lu Hsun (1881-1936) Collected Short Stories
- James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) The Trial, The Castle, Selected Short Stories
- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers, Women in Love
- Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965) The Makioka Sisters
- Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Collected Poems, Collected Plays
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Brave New World
- William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Short Stories
- Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) Beauty and Sadness
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Labyrinths, Dreamtigers
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory
- George Orwell (1903-1950) Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burmese Days
- R. K. Narayan (1906-) The English Teacher, The Vendor of Sweets
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape
- W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Collected Poems
- Albert Camus (1913-1960) The Plague, The Stranger
- Saul Bellow (1915-) The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Hunboldt’s Gift
- Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-) The First Circle, Cancer Ward
- Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Chinua Achebe (1930-) Things Fall Apart
Skip to content
