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Kevin Hill, The Great Books List [2007]

247 entries: 207 monographical, 40 otherwise

Unranked—arranged 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.

  1. Sha Naqba Imuru

  2. The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
    Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B C—Sumerian; Akkadian


    --
  3. The Book of the Dead

  4. The Book of Coming Forth by Day
    varying versions; written ca. Sixteenth-First centuries B C—Egyptian


    Homer
  5. Iliad

  6. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  7. Odýsseia

  8. The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek


  9. Hesiod
    Theogonía
    ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B C—Greek

    --
    • The Book of Genesis

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Book of Exodus

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Book of Isaiah

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Book of Job

  10. part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
  11. Rigveda
    Sanskrit

    --
    • Upanishads

  12. Seventh-Fourth centuries B C—Sanskrit

  13. Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)

  14. Analects
    Lún Yǔ
    written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second Century—Chinese


  15. Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
    Dàodéjǐng
    Tao te Ching
    ca. Sixth Century B C—Chinese


    • Sappho

  16. 'Hymn to Aphrodite'
    lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

  17. Aeschylus

  18. Oresteia
    The House of Atreus
    458 B C—Greek


    Sophocles
  19. Antigone

  20. ca. 441 B C—Greek

  21. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

  22. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek


  23. Oidipous Tyrannos

  24. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
    ca. 429 B C—Greek


  25. Herodotus

  26. Historiē
    History
    Fifth Century B C—Greek


    Euripides
  27. Mēdeia

  28. Medea
    431 B C—Greek


  29. Ēlektra

  30. Electra
    written ca. 413 B C—Greek


  31. Thucydides

  32. History of the Peloponnesian War
    early Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Aristophanes
  33. Ornithes

  34. The Birds
    414 B C—Greek


  35. Lysistrate

  36. Lysistrata
    411 B C—Greek


    Plato
  37. Apologia Socratis

  38. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek


  39. Politeia

  40. The Republic
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek


  41. Aristotle

  42. Ethika Nikomacheia
    Nicomachean Ethics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek


  43. Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)

  44. Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
    The Art of War
    written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B C—Chinese


  45. Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
    Mèng Zǐ
    Fourth Century B C—Chinese

    • Buddha

  46. "Teachings"
    ca. Sixth-Fifth centuries B C; Sanskrit translations—north Indian language

  47. Zhuāngzī (Zhuāng Zhōu) (Chuang-tzu)

  48. Zhuāngzī
    Nánhuá Zhēnjīng
    ca. Third Century B C—Chinese


  49. Valmiki

  50. Ramayana
    ca. Fifth-Second centuries B C—Sanskrit

  51. Vyasa
    Mahabharata
    includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit

    • Bhagavad Gita

  52. part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit

  53. Titus Lucretius Carus

  54. De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B C—Latin


  55. Caius Julius Caesar

  56. Commentarii de Bello Gallico
    ca. 40 B C—Latin

  57. Marcus Tullius Cicero

  58. De Natura Decorum
    written 45 B C—Latin

  59. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

  60. Aeneid
    First Century B C—Latin

  61. Ovid

  62. Metamorphoseon
    Metamorphoses
    8—Latin


  63. Petronius

  64. Satyricon
    late First Century—Latin

  65. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    De Brevitate Vitae
    First Century—Latin

    --
    • The Gospel According to Luke

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Gospel According to John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Acts of the Apostles

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Romans

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle to the Corinthians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle to the Corinthians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Galatians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Ephesians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Philippians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Colossians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle to the Thessalonians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle to Timothy

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle to Timothy

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to Titus

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to Philemon

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle of John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle of John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Third Epistle of John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    • Plutarch

  66. Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]
    Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    'Alexander' and 'Marcus Cato'; First Century—Greek


  67. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  68. De Vita Caesarum
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
    written 121—Latin


  69. Marcus Aurelius

  70. Ta Eis Heauton
    Meditations
    written 161-80—Greek


  71. Apuleius

  72. Metamorphoseon
    Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
    Second Century—Latin


  73. Augustine of Hippo

  74. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
    City of God
    426—Latin


  75. Kalidasa

  76. Meghaduta
    The Cloud Messenger
    ca. Fifth Century—Sanskrit


  77. O no Yasumaro

  78. Kojiki
    early Eighth Century—Japanese

    --
  79. Quran

  80. Koran
    Seventh Century—Arabic


  81. Huìnéng

  82. Liùzǔ Tánjīng
    The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
    ca. Eighth-Thirteenth centuries—Chinese


  83. Sei Shonagon

  84. Makura no Soshi
    The Pillow Book
    written 1002—Japanese


  85. Murasaki Shikibu

  86. Genji Monogatari
    The Tale of Genji
    ca. early Eleventh Century—Japanese


    --
  87. Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah

  88. The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
    Ninth-Fifteenth centuries—Arabic


  89. Ferdowsi

  90. Shahnameh
    The Book of Kings
    written ca. 977-1010—Persian


  91. Omar Khayyam

  92. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889—Persian

    --
  93. Beowulf

  94. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

    --
  95. Mabinogion

  96. ca. Eleventh-Thirteenth centuries—Welsh

  97. Snorri Sturluson

  98. The Prose Edda
    written ca. 1220—Norse

    --
  99. Nibelungenlied

  100. ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German

  101. Thomas Aquinas

  102. Summa Theologiae
    Summa Theologica
    written 1265-74—Latin


  103. Dante

  104. La Divina Commedia
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian


  105. Giovanni Boccaccio

  106. Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto
    ca. 1351-53—Italian

  107. Ibn Khaldun

  108. Muqaddimah
    Fourteenth Century; originally written as the preface to Kitab al-Ibar—Arabic

  109. Luó Guànzhōng

  110. Sān Guó Yǎn Yì
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms
    1522; written Fourteenth Century—Chinese


  111. Shī Nài'ān

  112. Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn
    The Water Margin
    written Fourteenth Century—Chinese


  113. Geoffrey Chaucer

  114. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

    --
  115. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  116. probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English


  117. Thomas Malory

  118. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

  119. Thomas á Kempis

  120. De Imitatione Christi
    The Imitation of Christ
    written ca. 1418-27—Latin


  121. Niccolò Machiavelli

  122. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian


  123. Thomas More

  124. Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
    Utopia
    1516—Latin


  125. François Rabelais

  126. 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, 1564—French

  127. Michel de Montaigne

  128. Les Essais
    Essays
    originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French


  129. Christopher Marlowe

  130. Tamburlaine the Great
    1590—English

  131. Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)

  132. Xi Yóu Jì
    Journey to the West; Monkey
    late Sixteenth Century—Chinese


  133. Francis Bacon

  134. Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
    1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625—English

  135. Miguel de Cervantes

  136. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish


    William Shakespeare
  137. Richard III

  138. ca. 1592-7—English

  139. Hamlet

  140. 1602—English

  141. The Tempest

  142. 1611—English

  143. John Donne

  144. Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death
    1633—English

  145. René Descartes

  146. Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
    Discourse on the Method
    1637—French


  147. Pedro Calderón de la Barca

  148. La Vida es Sueño
    Life Is a Dream
    1635—Spanish


  149. Thomas Hobbes

  150. Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
    1651—English

  151. John Milton

  152. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

    Molière
  153. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

  154. 1664—French

  155. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

  156. The Misanthrope
    1666—French


  157. Jean Racine

  158. Andromaque
    1667—French

  159. John Bunyan

  160. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
    1678—English

  161. Basho Matsuo

  162. Oku no Hosomichi
    The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    late Seventeenth Century—Japanese


  163. Blaise Pascal
    Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French


    • John Locke

  164. 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 1689—English

  165. Samuel Pepys

  166. 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

  167. Daniel Defoe

  168. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
    originally anonymously published 1719—English

  169. George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)

  170. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    1710; revised 1734—English

  171. Alexander Pope

  172. The Rape of the Lock
    originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

  173. Jonathan Swift

  174. 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 1735—English


  175. Voltaire

  176. Candide, ou L'Optimisme
    1759—French

  177. David Hume

  178. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    1748—English

  179. Henry Fielding

  180. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    1749—English

  181. Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)

  182. Hóng Lóu Mèng
    The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
    1791—Chinese


  183. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  184. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
    The Social Contract
    1762—French


  185. Adam Smith

  186. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
    1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English

  187. 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 1786—German


    • Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison

  188. The Federalist Papers
    originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser—English

  189. Edmund Burke

  190. Reflections on the Revolution in France
    1790—English

  191. Thomas Paine

  192. The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
    originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792—English

  193. Mary Wollstonecraft

  194. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    1792—English

  195. James Boswell

  196. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    1791—English

  197. William Blake

  198. 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, 1794—English

  199. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  200. 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, 1832—German

  201. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    Die Phänomenologie des Geistes
    Phenomenology of Spirit
    1807—German


    • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Poems
    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • Lord Byron

    Poems
    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • William Wordsworth

    Poems
    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Poems
    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • John Keats

  202. Poems
    early Nineteenth Century—English

  203. Mary Shelley

  204. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  205. Stendhal

  206. Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
    The Red and the Black
    1830—French


  207. Alexis de Tocqueville

  208. De la Démocratie en Amérique
    Democracy in America
    originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French


  209. Alexander Pushkin

  210. Evgénij Onegin
    Eugene Onegin
    published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837—Russian


  211. Jane Austen
    Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

  212. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
    stories previously published; originally published in two volumes, 1850—English

  213. Nikolai Gogol

  214. Mërtvyâ Duši
    Dead Souls
    1842—Russian


  215. Sǿren Kierkegaard

  216. Frygt og Baeven
    Fear and Trembling
    originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish


  217. Ralph Waldo Emerson

  218. Poems
    1847—English

  219. Charlotte Brontë

  220. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  221. William Makepeace Thackeray

  222. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
    originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

  223. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

  224. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
    The Communist Manifesto
    1848—German


  225. Herman Melville

  226. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
    1851—English

  227. Walt Whitman

  228. Leaves of Grass
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English

  229. Henry David Thoreau

  230. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

  231. Charles Baudelaire

  232. Les Fleurs du Mal
    The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French


  233. Gustave Flaubert

  234. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  235. John Stuart Mill

  236. On Liberty
    1859—English

  237. Charles Dickens

  238. Great Expectations
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  239. Ivan Turgenev

  240. Otcy i Deti
    Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
    originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  241. Fyodor Dostoevsky

  242. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian


  243. George Eliot

  244. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
    originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

  245. Arthur Rimbaud

  246. Une Saison en Enfer
    A Season in Hell
    1873—French


  247. Leo Tolstoy

  248. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-77 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  249. Friedrich Nietzsche

  250. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
    Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-85—German


  251. Mark Twain

  252. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

  253. Émile Zola

  254. Germinal
    originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil Blas—French

  255. Henrik Ibsen

  256. Hedda Gabler
    1890—Norwegian

  257. Emily Dickinson

  258. The Poems of Emily Dickinson
    1890—English

  259. Thomas Hardy

  260. Jude the Obscure
    originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

  261. Anton Chekhov

  262. Dâdâ Vanâ
    Uncle Vanya
    1897—Russian


  263. Joseph Conrad

  264. Heart of Darkness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

  265. William James

  266. 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 lectures—English

  267. Max Weber
    Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
    1905—German


    • Marcel Proust

  268. 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, 1913-27—French


  269. D H Lawrence

  270. Sons and Lovers
    1913—English

  271. Natsume Soseki

  272. Kokoro
    originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi Shinbun—Japanese

  273. William Butler Yeats

  274. 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

  275. Siegfried Sassoon
    War Poems
    English

    • T S Eliot

  276. 'The Waste Land'
    originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

  277. James Joyce

  278. Ulysses
    published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

  279. Thomas Mann

  280. Der Zauberberg
    The Magic Mountain
    1924—German


  281. F Scott Fitzgerald

  282. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  283. Franz Kafka

  284. Der Prozess
    The Trial
    1925—German


  285. Martin Heidegger

  286. Sein und Zeit
    1927—German

  287. Virginia Woolf

  288. Mrs. Dalloway
    published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English

  289. Bertolt Brecht

  290. Die Dreigroschenoper
    The Threepenny Opera
    1928—German


  291. William Faulkner

  292. The Sound and the Fury
    1929—English

  293. Mohandas K Gandhi

  294. The Story of My Experiments With the Truth
    originally published serially 1925-9 in Navijan—Gujarati

  295. Aldous Huxley

  296. Brave New World
    1932—English

  297. Kawabata Yasunari

  298. Yukiguni
    Snow Country
    published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948—Japanese


  299. R K Narayan

  300. The English Teacher
    1945—English

  301. Graham Greene

  302. The Power and the Glory
    1940—English

  303. Arthur Koestler

  304. Sonnenfinsternis
    Darkness at Noon
    1941—German


  305. Eugene O'Neill

  306. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    1956—English

  307. Tanizaki Junichiro

  308. Sasameyuki
    The Makioka Sisters
    published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948—Japanese


  309. Albert Camus

  310. L'Étranger
    The Stranger
    1942—French


  311. Jean-Paul Sartre

  312. L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique
    Being and Nothingness
    1943—French


  313. Karl Popper

  314. The Open Society and Its Enemies
    1945—English

  315. Simone Beauvoir

  316. Le Deuxième Sexe
    The Second Sex
    published in part serially in Les Temps Modernes; in its entirety in two volumes, 1949—French


  317. Ernest Hemingway

  318. The Old Man and the Sea
    1952—English

  319. George Orwell

  320. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

  321. Ralph Ellison

  322. Invisible Man
    1952—English

  323. Samuel Beckett

  324. En Attendant Godot
    Waiting for Godot
    1953—French


  325. Vladimir Nabokov

  326. Lolita
    1955—English

  327. Allen Ginsberg

  328. Howl and Other Poems
    1956—English

  329. Jack Kerouac

  330. On the Road
    1957; alternate version, 2007—English

  331. Chinua Achebe

  332. Things Fall Apart
    1958—English

  333. Pablo Neruda

  334. Cien Sonetos de Amor
    1959—Spanish

  335. Gabriel García Márquez

  336. Cien Anõs de Soledad
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1967—Spanish


  337. Ayn Rand
    Atlas Shrugged
    1957—English

    • Jorge Luis Borges

  338. Labyrinths
    English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El Aleph—Spanish

  339. Michel Foucault

  340. Les Mots et les Choses: Une Archéologie des Sciences Humaines
    The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
    1966—French


  341. Maya Angelou

  342. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    1969—English

  343. V S Naipul

  344. A Bend in the River
    1979—English

  345. Salman Rushdie

  346. Midnight's Children
    1981—English

  347. Margaret Atwood

  348. The Handmaid's Tale
    1985—English

  349. Toni Morrison

  350. Beloved
    1987—English

  351. Aristotle

  352. Physics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  353. Euclid

  354. Elements
    written ca. 300 B C—Greek

  355. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

  356. Almagest
    Second Century—Greek

  357. Roger Bacon

  358. Opus Majus
    1267—Latin

  359. Nicolas Copernicus

  360. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543—Latin


  361. Andreas Vesalius

  362. De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
    1543—Latin

  363. Johannes Kepler

  364. Astronomia Nova
    1609—Latin

  365. Francis Bacon

  366. Novum Organum Scientiarium
    1620—English

  367. William Harvey

  368. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    1628—Latin


  369. Galileo

  370. Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
    1632—Italian


  371. Robert Hooke

  372. Micrographica: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
    1665—English

  373. Isaac Newton

  374. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
    The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    1687; revised 1713 and 1726—Latin


  375. Giambattista Vico

  376. Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni
    The New Science
    1725; revised 1730 and 1744—Italian


  377. Carlos Linneaus

  378. Systema Naturae
    1735; revised through twelfth edition, 1766-68—Latin

  379. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

  380. Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes
    1789—French

  381. Charles Darwin

  382. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

  383. Sigmund Freud

  384. Die Traumdeutung
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German


  385. Albert Einstein

  386. Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich
    Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
    1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922—German


  387. Max Planck

  388. 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 lectures—German


  389. Jane Jacobs
    The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    1961—English

    • Carl Jung; Joseph L Henderson; Marie-Louise von Franz; Aniela Jaffé; Jolande Jacobi

  390. Man and His Symbols
    1964—English

  391. Thomas S Kuhn

  392. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    1962; expanded 1970—English

  393. Rachel Carson

  394. Silent Spring
    originally published Jun. 1962 in the New Yorker—English

  395. George Gamov

  396. Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
    1966—English

  397. James D Watson

  398. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A
    1968—English

  399. Carl Sagan

  400. The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
    1973—English

  401. Robert Dawkins

  402. The Selfish Gene
    1976—English

  403. Douglas Hofstadter

  404. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    1979—English

  405. Stephen Jay Gould

  406. The Mismeasure of Man
    1981—English

  407. Richard Feynman

  408. Q E D: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    1985; edited 1983 lectures—English

  409. Oliver Sacks

  410. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    1985—English

  411. Stephen Hawking

  412. 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 2005—English

  413. Jared Diamond

  414. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    1997—English