Kevin Hill, The Great Books List [2007]
247 entries: 207 monographical, 40 otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically except for nos. 177-208, arranged chronologically in a separate section, The Great Books of Science
This list is one of four "born-digital" lists documented at Greater Books (alongside the Harvard Book Store's 'Top 100 Books', World Canonical Texts, and the Book Depository's 'Best Books Ever'). Unfortunately, it shows the perils of online, digital publishing in that a misguided re-design of the site has resulted in the Great Books of Science section, originally presented as a separate list and included here beginning at no. 177, disappearing, and the full list hidden amid a list of sub-sections of that list and blog posts about individual entries on that list. As of August 2020, the site appears to be gone entirely. Internet Archive captures are available.
- Sha Naqba Imuru
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B CSumerian; Akkadian
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- The Book of the Dead
The Book of Coming Forth by Day
varying versions; written ca. Sixteenth-First centuries B CEgyptian
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Hesiod
Theogonía
ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B CGreek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Rigveda
Sanskrit
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Seventh-Fourth centuries B CSanskrit
- Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second CenturyChinese
- Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjǐng
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B CChinese
'Hymn to Aphrodite'
lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
- Aeschylus
Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
Sophocles
- Antigone
ca. 441 B CGreek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B CGreek
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
Euripides
- Mēdeia
Medea
431 B CGreek
- Ēlektra
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B CGreek
Aristophanes
- Ornithes
The Birds
414 B CGreek
- Lysistrate
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
Plato
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)
Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
The Art of War
written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B CChinese
- Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
Mèng Zǐ
Fourth Century B CChinese
"Teachings"
ca. Sixth-Fifth centuries B C; Sanskrit translationsnorth Indian language
- Zhuāngzī (Zhuāng Zhōu) (Chuang-tzu)
Zhuāngzī
Nánhuá Zhēnjīng
ca. Third Century B CChinese
- Valmiki
Ramayana
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B CSanskrit
- Vyasa
Mahabharata
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
- Caius Julius Caesar
Commentarii de Bello Gallico
ca. 40 B CLatin
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Decorum
written 45 B CLatin
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B CLatin
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8Latin
- Petronius
Satyricon
late First CenturyLatin
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
De Brevitate Vitae
First CenturyLatin
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- The Gospel According to Luke
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- The Gospel According to John
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- First Epistle to the Corinthians
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Second Epistle to the Corinthians
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Epistle to the Philippians
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Epistle to the Colossians
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- First Epistle to the Thessalonians
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Second Epistle to Timothy
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
'Alexander' and 'Marcus Cato'; First CenturyGreek
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
De Vita Caesarum
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
written 121Latin
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
- Apuleius
Metamorphoseon
Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
Second CenturyLatin
- Augustine of Hippo
De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
City of God
426Latin
- Kalidasa
Meghaduta
The Cloud Messenger
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
- O no Yasumaro
Kojiki
early Eighth CenturyJapanese
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- Quran
Koran
Seventh CenturyArabic
- Huìnéng
Liùzǔ Tánjīng
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
ca. Eighth-Thirteenth centuriesChinese
- Sei Shonagon
Makura no Soshi
The Pillow Book
written 1002Japanese
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh CenturyJapanese
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuriesArabic
- Ferdowsi
Shahnameh
The Book of Kings
written ca. 977-1010Persian
- Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889Persian
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- Beowulf
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuriesEnglish
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- Mabinogion
ca. Eleventh-Thirteenth centuriesWelsh
- Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda
written ca. 1220Norse
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- Nibelungenlied
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto
ca. 1351-53Italian
- Ibn Khaldun
Muqaddimah
Fourteenth Century; originally written as the preface to Kitab al-IbarArabic
- Luó Guànzhōng
Sān Guó Yǎn Yì
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
1522; written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
- Shī Nài'ān
Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn
The Water Margin
written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478English
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- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27Latin
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
Utopia
1516Latin
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564French
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
- Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
1590English
- Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)
Xi Yóu Jì
Journey to the West; Monkey
late Sixteenth CenturyChinese
- Francis Bacon
Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
William Shakespeare
- Richard III
ca. 1592-7English
- Hamlet
1602English
- The Tempest
1611English
- John Donne
Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death
1633English
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637French
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
1651English
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
Molière
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
1664French
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux
The Misanthrope
1666French
- Jean Racine
Andromaque
1667French
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
1678English
- Basho Matsuo
Oku no Hosomichi
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
late Seventeenth CenturyJapanese
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
Second Treatise [second part of Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government]
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
- Samuel Pepys
Diary
written 1660-69; published in part, 1825; expanded and revised 1875-79; further revised versions, 1893-99 and 1926; final work, in nine volumes, 1970-83
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
originally anonymously published 1719English
- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1710; revised 1734English
- Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717English
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759French
- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748English
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
- Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791Chinese
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
The Social Contract
1762French
- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
- Immanuel Kant
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786German
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
- Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790English
- Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792English
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1792English
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832German
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Die Phänomenologie des Geistes
Phenomenology of Spirit
1807German
Poems
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Poems
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
Poems
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
Poems
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
Poems
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
originally anonymously published 1818English
- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
The Red and the Black
1830French
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
- Alexander Pushkin
Evgénij Onegin
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837Russian
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
stories previously published; originally published in two volumes, 1850English
- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši
Dead Souls
1842Russian
- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Frygt og Baeven
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843Danish
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems
1847English
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal
The Flowers of Evil
1857French
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
1859English
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- Ivan Turgenev
Otcy i Deti
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
- Arthur Rimbaud
Une Saison en Enfer
A Season in Hell
1873French
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-77 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877Russian
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-85German
- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
- Émile Zola
Germinal
originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil BlasFrench
- Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler
1890Norwegian
- Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
1890English
- Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
- Anton Chekhov
Dâdâ Vanâ
Uncle Vanya
1897Russian
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
- William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
1902; edited lecturesEnglish
- Max Weber
Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1905German
Du Côté de Chez Swann
Swann's Way
1913; first of seven volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu; complete work originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
- D H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
1913English
- Natsume Soseki
Kokoro
originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi ShinbunJapanese
- William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
originally entitled The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, published 1917; includes the play, At the Hawk's Well; retitled and expanded 1919 to include Nine Poems [1918] and additional poems; At the Hawk's Well later included in Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English
- Siegfried Sassoon
War Poems
English
'The Waste Land'
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
- James Joyce
Ulysses
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
- Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg
The Magic Mountain
1924German
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
1925English
- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess
The Trial
1925German
- Martin Heidegger
Sein und Zeit
1927German
- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
- Bertolt Brecht
Die Dreigroschenoper
The Threepenny Opera
1928German
- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
1929English
- Mohandas K Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments With the Truth
originally published serially 1925-9 in NavijanGujarati
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
1932English
- Kawabata Yasunari
Yukiguni
Snow Country
published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948Japanese
- R K Narayan
The English Teacher
1945English
- Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
1940English
- Arthur Koestler
Sonnenfinsternis
Darkness at Noon
1941German
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956English
- Tanizaki Junichiro
Sasameyuki
The Makioka Sisters
published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948Japanese
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger
The Stranger
1942French
- Jean-Paul Sartre
L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique
Being and Nothingness
1943French
- Karl Popper
The Open Society and Its Enemies
1945English
- Simone Beauvoir
Le Deuxième Sexe
The Second Sex
published in part serially in Les Temps Modernes; in its entirety in two volumes, 1949French
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
1952English
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949English
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1952English
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot
Waiting for Godot
1953French
- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
1955English
- Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems
1956English
- Jack Kerouac
On the Road
1957; alternate version, 2007English
- Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1958English
- Pablo Neruda
Cien Sonetos de Amor
1959Spanish
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967Spanish
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
1957English
Labyrinths
English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El AlephSpanish
- Michel Foucault
Les Mots et les Choses: Une Archéologie des Sciences Humaines
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
1966French
- Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969English
- V S Naipul
A Bend in the River
1979English
- Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
1981English
- Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
1985English
- Toni Morrison
Beloved
1987English
- Aristotle
Physics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Euclid
Elements
written ca. 300 B CGreek
- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Almagest
Second CenturyGreek
- Roger Bacon
Opus Majus
1267Latin
- Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543Latin
- Andreas Vesalius
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
1543Latin
- Johannes Kepler
Astronomia Nova
1609Latin
- Francis Bacon
Novum Organum Scientiarium
1620English
- William Harvey
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628Latin
- Galileo
Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1632Italian
- Robert Hooke
Micrographica: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
1665English
- Isaac Newton
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
- Giambattista Vico
Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni
The New Science
1725; revised 1730 and 1744Italian
- Carlos Linneaus
Systema Naturae
1735; revised through twelfth edition, 1766-68Latin
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes
1789French
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859English
- Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
- Albert Einstein
Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922German
- Max Planck
Acht Vorlesungen Über Theoretische Physik, Gehalten an der Columbia University in the City of New York im Frühjahr 1909, von Dr. Max Planck
Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909
1910; edited 1909 lecturesGerman
- Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1961English
- Carl Jung; Joseph L Henderson; Marie-Louise von Franz; Aniela Jaffé; Jolande Jacobi
Man and His Symbols
1964English
- Thomas S Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1962; expanded 1970English
- Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
originally published Jun. 1962 in the New YorkerEnglish
- George Gamov
Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
1966English
- James D Watson
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A
1968English
- Carl Sagan
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
1973English
- Robert Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
1976English
- Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1979English
- Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man
1981English
- Richard Feynman
Q E D: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
1985; edited 1983 lecturesEnglish
- Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
1985English
- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
1988; expanded 1996; abridged and edited version co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow entitled A Briefer History of Time published 2005English
- Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
1997English