My List

(Last edited 10-21-2004)

Note: When I note 'Works', this refers to the complete known output of that author

1. The Illiad - Homer (9th century BC)
2. The Odyssey - Homer
3. The Holy Bible
4. Tragedies - Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
5. Tragedies - Sophocles (495-406 BC)
6. The Histories - Herodotus (484-425 BC)
7. Tragedies - Euripidies (485-406 BC)
8. History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides (460-400 BC)
9. Hippocatic Writings - Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
10. Comedies - Aristophenes (448-380 BC)
11. The Republic - Plato (427-347 BC)
12. Dialogues - Plato
13. Works - Aristotle (384-322 BC)
14. Elements - Euclid (365-300 BC)
15. Works - Archimedes (287-212 BC)
16. Treatise on Conic Sections - Apollonius (240 BC)
17. Works - Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC)
18. On the Nature of Things - Lucretius (95-55 BC)
19. The Aenid - Virgil (70-19 BC)
20. The Ecologues -Virgil
21. The Georgics - Virgil
22. Works - Horace (65-8 BC)
23. History of Rome - Livy (59 BC-17 AD)
24. Metamorpheses - Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)
25. Lives - Plutarch (45-125)
26. Moralia - Plutarch
27. The Histories - Tacitus (55-117)
28. The Annals of Imperial Rome - Tacitus
29. Germania - Tacitus
30. Introduction to Arithmetic - Nichomachus (~100)
31. Discourses - Epictetus (60-120)
32. Enchiridion - Epictetus
33. Works - Lucian (117-180)
34. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
35. On the Natural Faculties - Galen (129-216)
36. The Enneads - Plotinus (205-270)
37. The Confessions - Saint Augustine (354-430)
38. City of God - Saint Augustine
39. On Christian Doctrine - Saint Augustine
40. Beowulf - Anonymous (~700-750)
41. The Song of Roland - Anonymous (~1185-1187)
42. The Nibelungenlied - Anonymous - (~1200)
43. The Saga of Burnt Njal - Anonymous (~13th Century)
44. Summa Theologica - Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
45. Of God and His Creatures - Saint Thomas Aquinas
46. The Divine Comedy - Dante Aligheri (1265-1321)
47. Monarchy - Dante Aligheri
48. The New Life - Dante Aligheri
49. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
50. Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer
51. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
52. Discourses on Livy - Niccolo Machiavelli
53. Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight - Anonymous
54. Le Morte d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory (1446-1471)
55. In Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
56. On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres - Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
57. Utopia - Sir Thomas More (1477-1535)
58. The History of King Richard the Third - Sir Thomas More
59. On the Freedom of a Christian - Martin Luther (1483-1546)
60. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais (1494-1553)
61. Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin (1509-1564)
62. Essays - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
63. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
64. The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
65. Poetry - Edmund Spenser
66. Works - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
67. Works - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
68. The Starry Messenger - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
69. Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences - Galileo Galilei
70. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy - Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
71. Concerning the Harmonies of the World - Johannes Kepler
72. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals - William Harvey (1578-1657)
73. On the Circulation of the Blood - William Harvey
74. On the Generation of Animals - William Harvey
75. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
76. Rules for the Direction of the Mind - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
77. Geometry - Rene Descartes
78. Poetry - John Milton (1608-1674)
79. Don Juan - Moliere (1623-1688)
80. The Provincial Letters - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
81. Pensees - Blaise Pascal
82. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (1628-1688)
83. Treatise on Light - Christaan Huygens (1629-1695)
84. Ethics - Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
85. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke (1632-1704)
86. Of Civil Government - John Locke
87. Works - Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
88. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosphy - Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
89. Opticks - Isaac Newton
90. New Essays on Human Understanding - Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
91. Discourse on Metaphysics - Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz
92. Monadology - Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz
93. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
94. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
95. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
96. The Way of the World - William Congreve (1670-1729)
97. Treatise Concerning the Pinciples of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley (1685-1753)
98. Essay on Man - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
99. Persian Letters - Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
100. Letters Concerning the English Nation - Voltaire (1694-1778)
101. Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire
102. Candide - Voltaire
103. Autobiography - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
104. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
105. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
106. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
107. Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume (1711-1776)
108. An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
109. On Education - John Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778)
110. Social Contract - John Jacques Rousseau
111. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
112. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
113. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (1723-1790)
114. The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith
115. Critque of Practical Reason - Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
116. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
117. Autobiography - Edward Gibbon
118. Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell (1740-1795)
119. Elements of Chemistry - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
120. Common Sense - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
121. Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
122. The Federalist Papers - John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton
123. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
124. Faust - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
125. Poems - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
126. A Vindication on the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
127. An Analytical Theory of Heat - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
128. Philosophy of Right - George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
129. Works - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
130. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
131. Poetry - Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1772-1834)
132. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1775-1817)
133. Emma - Jane Austen
134. On War - Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
135. The Red and the Black - Stendhal (1783-1842)
136. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
137. Works - Washington Irving (1783-1859)
138. Don Juan - Lord Byron (1788-1824)
139. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
140. The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper
141. The Pathfinder - James Fenimore Cooper
142. The Chemical History of a Candle - Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
143. Principles of Geology - Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
144. The Positive Philosophy - Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
145. Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
146. Cousin Pons - Honore de Balzac
147. Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
148. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
149. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
150. Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
151. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
152. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
153. Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
154. A System of Logic - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
155. Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
156. Works - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
157. Works - Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
158. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
159. Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine - Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
160. Works - Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
161. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
162. Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
163. Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
164. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
165. Das Kapital - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
166. Silas Marner - George Eliot (1819-1880)
167. Adam Bede - George Eliot
168. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1819-1891)
169. Billy Budd - Herman Melville
170. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
171. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Doesteovsky (1821-1881)
172. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Doesteovsky
173. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
174. Plays - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
175. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
176. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
177. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
178. Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
179. Works - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
180. The Education of Henry Adams - (1838-1918)
181. Short Stories - Bret Harte (1839-1902)
     
182. Works - Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
183. The Principles of Psychology - William James (1842-1910)
184. Pragmatism - William James
185. The Ambassadors - Henry James (1843-1916)
186. Works - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
187. Science and Hypothesis - Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
188. Plays - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
189. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
190. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
191. Where is Science Going? - Max Planck (1858-1947)
192. Time and Free Will - Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
193. How We Think - John Dewey (1859-1952)
194. Short Stories - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
195. Works - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
196. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
197. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
198. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
199. Works - George Santayana (1863-1952)
200. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane (1971-1900)
201. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
202. The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
203. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (1875-1962)
204. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
205. A Passage to India - E.M. Foster (1879-1970)
206. Ulysses - James Joyce (1882-1941)
207. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
208. Works - Franz Kafka (1883-1924)