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_11
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B.CSumerian; Akkadian
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- The Book of the Dead_3
The Book of Coming Forth by Day
varying versions; written ca. Sixteenth-First centuries B.CEgyptian
*Downs* *Bloom* *Great*
Homer
- Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Hesiod
Theogonía_3
ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B CGreek
*Bloom* *Great* *Newman*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Classics* *Learning* *Foundation* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Learning* *Foundation* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Classics* *Utne* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great*
--
- Rigveda_3
Sanskrit
*Oriental* *Great* *World*
--
Seventh-Fourth centuries B CSanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects_12
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second CenturyChinese
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Graphic*
- Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjǐng_11
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B CChinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Dirda* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
'Hymn to Aphrodite'_3
lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Magill* *Recommended* *Great*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
Sophocles
- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Herodotus
Historiē_25
History
Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *World* *Educated*
Euripides
- Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Ēlektra _7
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*
Aristophanes
- Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.CGreek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Lysistrate_13
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
Plato
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia_16
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds*
- Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)
Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ_4
The Art of War
written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B CChinese
*Learning* *Fadiman* *Great* *Deposit*
- Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
Mèng Zǐ_5
Fourth Century B CChinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*
"Teachings"_1
ca. Sixth-Fifth centuries B C; Sanskrit translationsnorth Indian language
*Great*
- Zhuāngzī (Zhuāng Zhōu) (Chuang-tzu)
Zhuāngzī_5
Nánhuá Zhēnjīng
ca. Third Century B CChinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Utne* *Great* *World*
- Valmiki
Ramayana_10
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B CSanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *World*
- Vyasa
Mahabharata_13
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Oriental* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Graphic*
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great* *Zane*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.CLatin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Caius Julius Caesar
Commentarii de Bello Gallico_4
ca. 40 B CLatin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Great*
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Decorum_2
written 45 B CLatin
*Bloom* *Great*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon_14
Metamorphoses
8; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Charles Martin's English translationLatin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Dirda* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Petronius
Satyricon_7
late First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
De Brevitate Vitae_2
First CenturyLatin
*Classics* *Great*
--
- The Gospel According to Luke_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
--
- The Gospel According to John_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- First Epistle to the Corinthians_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
--
- Second Epistle to the Corinthians_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
--
- Epistle to the Galatians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- Epistle to the Ephesians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- Epistle to the Philippians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- Epistle to the Colossians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- First Epistle to the Thessalonians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- Second Epistle to the Thessalonians_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- First Epistle to Timothy_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
- Second Epistle to Timothy_2
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Durant* *Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Great*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Great*
Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]_1
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
'Alexander' and 'Marcus Cato'; First CenturyGreek
*Great*
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
De Vita Caesarum_5
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
written 121Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
- Apuleius
Metamorphoseon_6
Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
Second CenturyLatin
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Utne* *Great* *Newman*
- Augustine of Hippo
De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos_9
City of God
426Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Kalidasa
Meghaduta_4
The Cloud Messenger
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
*Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*
- O no Yasumaro
Kojiki_1
early Eighth CenturyJapanese
*Great*
--
- Quran_11
Koran
Seventh CenturyArabic
*Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World*
- Huìnéng
Liùzǔ Tánjīng_3
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
ca. Eighth-Thirteenth centuriesChinese
*Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great*
- Sei Shonagon
Makura no Soshi_4
The Pillow Book
written 1002Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great*
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari_12
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Royall Tyler's English translationJapanese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Graphic*
--
- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's versionArabic
*Lubock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *France* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Taylor*
- Ferdowsi
Shahnameh_7
The Book of Kings
written ca. 977-1010Persian
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *World*
- Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam_8
ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889Persian
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Oriental* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
--
- Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English versionEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- Mabinogion_2
ca. Eleventh-Thirteenth centuriesWelsh
*Ward* *Great*
- Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda_2
written ca. 1220Norse
*Bloom* *Great*
--
- Nibelungenlied_8
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great*
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds* *World*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto_12
ca. 1351-53Italian
*Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- Ibn Khaldun
Muqaddimah_3
Fourteenth Century; originally written as the preface to Kitab al-IbarArabic
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great*
- Luó Guànzhōng
Sān Guó Yǎn Yì_2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
1522; written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
*Fadiman* *Great*
- Shī Nài'ān
Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn_5
The Water Margin
written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
--
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_7
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
*Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur_13
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi_4
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Trinity* *Great*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516Latin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Educated*
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
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; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great_7
1590English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Ward* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)
Xi Yóu Jì_6
Journey to the West; Monkey
late Sixteenth CenturyChinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Great* *Graphic*
- Francis Bacon
Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_12
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
William Shakespeare
- Richard III_11
ca. 1592-7English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Hamlet_27
1602English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- The Tempest_20
1611English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- John Donne
Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death_2
1633English
*Ward* *Great*
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *World*
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño_8
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great*
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
- John Milton
Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
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Molière
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
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- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666French
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- Jean Racine
Andromaque_6
1667French
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- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678English
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- Basho Matsuo
Oku no Hosomichi_5
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
late Seventeenth CenturyJapanese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
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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]_8
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
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- Samuel Pepys
Diary_4
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
*Hundred* *Ward* *Great* *Newman*
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
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- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_7
1710; revised 1734English
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- Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock_7
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717English
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- 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_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
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- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
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- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748English
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- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
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- Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng_7
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791Chinese
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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique_17
The Social Contract
1762French
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- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
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- Immanuel Kant
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten_4
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786German
*Eliot* *Read* *Adler* *Great*
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers_11
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
*Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great*
- Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France_9
1790English
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- Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution_7
originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Good* *Recommended* *Great* *Telegraph*
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_8
1792English
*Durant* *Downs* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791English
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- William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul_11
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust_27
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
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- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Die Phänomenologie des Geistes_4
Phenomenology of Spirit
1807German
*Classics* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
Poems_6
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Newman*
Poems_5
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Durant* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
Poems_8
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
*Baldwin* *Read* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_5
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
*Read* *Van Doren* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
Poems_7
early Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Hundred* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Educated*
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus_12
originally anonymously published 1818English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830French
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- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Alexander Pushkin
Evgénij Onegin_7
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Newman*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque_1
stories previously published; originally published in two volumes, 1850English
*Great*
- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši_11
Dead Souls
1842Russian
*Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Frygt og Baeven_4
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843Danish
*Adler* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great*
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems_1
1847English
*Great*
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
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- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
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- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
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- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
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- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854English
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- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal_8
The Flowers of Evil
1857French
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- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
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- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty_16
1859English
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- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations_15
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
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- Ivan Turgenev
Otcy i Deti_11
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
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- Arthur Rimbaud
Une Saison en Enfer_6
A Season in Hell
1873French
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- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-77 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-85German
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- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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- Émile Zola
Germinal_10
originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil BlasFrench
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- Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler_10
1890Norwegian
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- Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson_3
1890English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Great*
- Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure_8
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Newman*
- Anton Chekhov
Dâdâ Vanâ_10
Uncle Vanya
1897Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
*Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- 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_6
1902; edited lecturesEnglish
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great*
- Max Weber
Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus_3
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1905German
*Foundation* *Great* *Educated*
Du Côté de Chez Swann_3
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
*Invitation* *Adler* *Great*
- D H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers_9
1913English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman*
- Natsume Soseki
Kokoro_4
originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi ShinbunJapanese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great*
- William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole_2
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
*Recommended* *Great*
- Siegfried Sassoon
War Poems_1
English
*Great*
'The Waste Land'_11
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
- James Joyce
Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
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- Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translationGerman
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
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- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925German
*France* *Read* *List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
- Martin Heidegger
Sein und Zeit_1
1927German
*Great*
- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Educated*
- Bertolt Brecht
Die Dreigroschenoper_3
The Threepenny Opera
1928German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Great*
- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929English
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Mohandas K Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments With the Truth_4
originally published serially 1925-9 in NavijanGujarati
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great* *Educated*
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World_9
1932English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Graphic*
- Kawabata Yasunari
Yukiguni_4
Snow Country
published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edward G Seidensticker's English translationJapanese
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Great* *Smart*
- R K Narayan
The English Teacher_2
1945English
*Fadiman* *Great*
- Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory_3
1940English
*Bloom* *Great* *Zane*
- Arthur Koestler
Sonnenfinsternis_1
Darkness at Noon
1941German
*Great*
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night_8
1956English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Tanizaki Junichiro
Sasameyuki_4
The Makioka Sisters
published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane*
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Jean-Paul Sartre
L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique_5
Being and Nothingness
1943French
*Read* *Ward* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Karl Popper
The Open Society and Its Enemies_1
1945English
*Great*
- Simone Beauvoir
Le Deuxième Sexe_7
The Second Sex
published in part serially in Les Temps Modernes; in its entirety in two volumes, 1949French
*Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Great* *Taylor*
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea_8
1952English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman*
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita_11
1955English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems_1
1956English
*Great*
- Jack Kerouac
On the Road_5
1957; alternate version, 2007English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Great* *Graphic*
- Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart_9
1958English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor*
- Pablo Neruda
Cien Sonetos de Amor_1
1959Spanish
*Great*
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged_1
1957English
*Great*
Labyrinths_6
English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El AlephSpanish
*Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane*
- Michel Foucault
Les Mots et les Choses: Une Archéologie des Sciences Humaines_1
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
1966French
*Great*
- Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_4
1969English
*Campbell* *Great* *Deposit* *Educated*
- V S Naipul
A Bend in the River_2
1979English
*Bloom* *Great*
- Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children_7
1981English
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale_5
1985English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Toni Morrison
Beloved_9
1987English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Telegraph* *Zane* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Aristotle
Physics_5
Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Educated*
- Euclid
Elements_6
written ca. 300 B CGreek
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Almagest_4
Second CenturyGreek
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Great*
- Roger Bacon
Opus Majus_2
1267Latin
*Downs* *Great*
- Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium_6
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- Andreas Vesalius
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem_2
1543Latin
*Downs* *Great*
- Johannes Kepler
Astronomia Nova_2
1609Latin
*Downs* *Great*
- Francis Bacon
Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- William Harvey
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus_6
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628Latin
*Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor*
- Galileo
Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo_8
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1632Italian
*Downs* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *GlobeMail* *Educated*
- Robert Hooke
Micrographica: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon_3
1665English
*Downs* *Great* *Educated*
- Isaac Newton
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica_9
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds*
- Giambattista Vico
Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni_6
The New Science
1725; revised 1730 and 1744Italian
*Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great*
- Carlos Linneaus
Systema Naturae_2
1735; revised through twelfth edition, 1766-68Latin
*Downs* *Great*
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes_4
1789French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great*
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic*
- Albert Einstein
Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich_5
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922German
*Downs* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor* *Educated*
- 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_1
Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909
1910; edited 1909 lecturesGerman
*Great*
- Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities_2
1961English
*Utne* *Great*
- Carl Jung; Joseph L Henderson; Marie-Louise von Franz; Aniela Jaffé; Jolande Jacobi
Man and His Symbols_2
1964English
*Great* *Deposit*
- Thomas S Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_5
1962; expanded 1970English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Great*
- Rachel Carson
Silent Spring_8
originally published Jun. 1962 in the New YorkerEnglish
*Downs* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Deposit* *Educated*
- George Gamov
Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory_1
1966English
*Great*
- James D Watson
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A_3
1968English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Educated*
- Carl Sagan
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective_1
1973English
*Great*
- Robert Dawkins
The Selfish Gene_2
1976English
*Great* *Educated*
- Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_1
1979English
*Great*
- Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man_2
1981English
*Great* *Educated*
- Richard Feynman
Q E D: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter_1
1985; edited 1983 lecturesEnglish
*Great*
- Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales_1
1985English
*Great*
- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes_2
1988; expanded 1996; abridged and edited version co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow entitled A Briefer History of Time published 2005English
*Great* *Educated*
- Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies_1
1997English
*Great*