Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book [1972]
340 entries: 290 monographical, 50 otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically
Mortimer Adler's revised second edition of How to Read a Book [1972], co-written with Van Doren, came after the first version of his famous series, The Great Books of the Western World [1952]; the list at the end of this book overlaps to some extent with those "great books," as well as the Gateway to the Great Books [1963] ten-volume series of shorter pieces and excerpts. Neither the first version of The Great Books nor the Gateway will be used for this project; instead, the final, 1990 version of The Great Books isespecially as it includes many authors or works that had only been in the Gateway. One could ask, though, why How to Read a Book is included. Indeed, there is also a good deal of overlap between the 1972 How to Read a Book and the 1990 Great Books series. However, the former's list is longer (after all, the Great Books books actually provided texts, not just lists, so had to be more discerning to make the set of a manageable size) and deserves its status as relatively-distinct project, especially as the original How to Read a Book was published in 1940 while the Gateway series was constructed specifically to accompany (that is, not overlap with) the original Great Books.
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
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- The Bible
Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
Aeschylus
Fifth Century B CGreek
Sophocles
Fifth Century B CGreek
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
Euripides
late Fifth Century B CGreek
- Mēdeia
Medea
431 B CGreek
- Hippolytos
428 B CGreek
- Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B CGreek
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B CGreek
- Hippocrates
Hippocratic Corpus
late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B CGreek
Aristophanes
late Fifth Century B CGreek
- Nephelai
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
- Ornithes
The Birds
414 B CGreek
- Bátrachoi
The Frogs
405 B CGreek
Plato
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Symposium
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Meno
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedrus
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Protagoras
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Gorgias
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Sophist
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Theaetetus
early Fourth Century B CGreek
Aristotle
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Organon
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Physics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Metaphysics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Perì Psūchês (De Anima) (On the Soul)
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Ethika Nikomacheia
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Politik
Politics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Rhetoric
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Peri Poiêtikês
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
Epicurus
part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third CenturyGreek
part of Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers; Third CenturyGreek
- Euclid
Elements
written ca. 300 B CGreek
Archimedes
Third Century B CGreek
- On the Equilibrium of Planes
Third Century B CGreek
- On Floating Bodies
Third Century B CGreek
- The Sand Reckoner
Third Century B CGreek
- Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections
Greek
Marcus Tullius Cicero
First Century B CLatin
First Century B CLatin
- Laelius de Amicitia
written 44 B CLatin
- Cato Major de Senectute
written 44 B CLatin
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Selected works
First Century B CLatin
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
First Century B CLatin
- Carmina
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B CLatin
- Epodon
Epodes
30 B CLatin
- Ars Poetica
ca. 10-8 B CLatin
- Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri
History of Rome
First Century B CLatin
Ovid
late First Century B C-early First CenturyLatin
- Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8Latin
Plutarch
- Bìoi Paràllēloi
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First CenturyGreek
- Moralia
First CenturyGreek
Cornelius Tacitus
- Historiae
written ca. 100-10Latin
- Annales
written First CenturyLatin
- De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae
Agricola
written ca. 98Latin
- De Origine et Situ Germanorum
Germania
written ca. 98Latin
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic
late First-early Second centuriesGreek
Epictetus
- Diatribai
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
- Enchiridion of Epictetus
compiled by Arrian; Second CenturyGreek
- Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
Almagest
Second CenturyGreek
Lucian
Second CenturyGreek
- Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit
How to Write History
Second CenturyGreek
- Verae Historiae
True History
Second CenturyGreek
- Vitarum Auctio
The Sale of Creeds; Philosophers for Sale
Second CenturyGreek
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
- Galen
De Naturalibus Facultatibus
On the Natural Faculties
First CenturyLatin
- Plotinus
Enneads
Third CenturyGreek
Augustine of Hippo
late Fourth-early Fifth centuriesLatin
- De Magistro
Concerning the Teacher
389Latin
- Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
- De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
City of God
426Latin
- De Doctrina Christiana
On Christian Doctrine
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426Latin
--
- La Chanson de Roland
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
--
- Nibelungenlied
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
--
- Njáls Saga
ca. Thirteenth CenturyNorse
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74Latin
Dante
late Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuriesItalian; Latin
- La Vita Nuova
1295Italian
- De Monarchia
written ca. 1308-18Latin
- La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
Geoffrey Chaucer
late Fourteenth CenturyEnglish
- Troilus and Criseyde
written ca. 1380sEnglish
- Canterbury Tales
1478English
Notebooks
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuriesItalian
Niccolò Machiavelli
- Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio
1531Italian
- Desiderius Erasmus
Stultitiae Laus
In Praise of Folly
1511; later revisedLatin
- Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543Latin
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
Utopia
1516Latin
Martin Luther
- An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation
Address to the Christian Nobility
1520German
- De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium
Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
1520; German version published the same yearLatin
- Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen
The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
1520German
- Tischreden
Table Talk
1566German
- 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
- John Calvin
Christianae Religionis Institutio
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541Latin
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
- William Gilbert
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure
On the Magnet
1600Latin
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha>
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
Edmund Spenser
- Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset
1596English
- The Faerie Queene
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596English
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
- Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human
1605English
- Novum Organum Scientiarium
1620English
- Nova Atlantis
1624English
Selected works
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
Galileo
- Sidereus Nuncius
Starry Messenger
1610Latin
- Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è due Nuove Scienze
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638Italian
Johannes Kepler
- Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621Latin
- Harmonices Mundi
The Harmony of the World
1619Latin
William Harvey
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628Latin
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis
1649Latin
- Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium
1651Latin
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
1651English
René Descartes
- Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Dutch translation, 1684; Latin original, 1701Latin
- Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637French
- La Géométrie
1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct workFrench
- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Meéeditations Metaphysiques, 1647Latin
John Milton
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
Lubbock uses the term, "Shorter poems"; Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England
1644English
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671English
Molière
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge
The Miser
1668French
- L'École des Femmes
The School for Wives
1662French
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux
The Misanthrope
1666French
- Le Médecin Malgre Lui
1666French
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
1664French
Blaise Pascal
- Lettres Provinciales
1656-57French
- Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
- Christian Huygens
Traité de la Lumière
1690French
- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
Ethics
1677Latin
John Locke
- Epistola de Tolerantia
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same yearLatin
- 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
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1689English
- Some Thoughts Concerning Education
1693English
Jean Racine
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
- Andromaque
1667—French
- Phèdre
1677French
Isaac Newton
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726Latin
- Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
1704; Latin version, 1706English
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- Discours de Métaphysique
1686French
- Nouveaux Essais sur l'Entendement Humain
1765French
- La Monadologie
1714French
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
originally anonymously published 1719English
Jonathan Swift
- A Tale of a Tub
1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710English
- Journal to Stella
1766English
- 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
- A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
originally anonymously published 1729English
- William Congreve
The Way of the World
1700English
- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1710; revised 1734English
Alexander Pope
- Essay on Criticism
1711English
- The Rape of the Lock
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717English
- Essay on Man
1734English
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Lettres Persanes
1721French
- De l'Esprit des Lois
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748French
Voltaire
- Lettres Philosophiques
Letters Concerning the English Nation
English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778English
- Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759French
- Dictionnaire Philosophique
1764French
Henry Fielding
- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
1742English
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
Samuel Johnson
- The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated
1749—English
- A Dictionary of the English Language
1755English
- The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759English
- Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
The Lives of the Poets
published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, 1781, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets; published separately in six volumes, entitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781English
David Hume
- A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
originally published in three volumes: first-second, 1739; third, 1740English
- Essays, Moral and Political
originally published in two volumes, 1741 and 1742English
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748English
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
1755; part of the fifth volume of Diderot's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des MétiersFrench
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation
1762French
- Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
The Social Contract
1762French
Laurence Sterne
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
1768English
Adam Smith
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1759English
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
Immanuel Kant
- Kritik der Reinen Vernunft
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787German
- 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
- Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft
Critique of Practical Reason
1788German
- Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre
The Doctrine of Right; The Science of Right
first volume of Die Metaphysik der Sitten (The Metaphysics of Morals), 1797German
- Kritik der Urteilskraft
Critique of Judgment
1790German
- Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf
Perpetual Peace
1795; expanded 1796German
Edward Gibbon
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788English
- Memoirs of My Life and Writings
originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896English
James Boswell
written 1762-95English
- London Journal
written 1762-63English
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes
1789French
- 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
- John Dickinson et al.
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
1777English
- James Madison
Constitution for the United States of America
1787Emglish
- Thomas Jefferson
Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
The Declaration of Independence
1776English
Jeremy Bentham
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1789English
- Bentham's Theory of Fictions
1932; introductory essay and selection of Bentham's writings by C K OgdenEnglish
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
- Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit
From My Life: Poetry and Truth
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833German
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur
1822French
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Die Phänomenologie des Geistes
Phenomenology of Spirit
1807German
- Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820German
- Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lecturesGerman
William Wordsworth
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
five poems, four of which ('Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known', 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways', 'Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal') were originally published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, the other ('I Travelled Among Unknown Men') originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
- The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805English
- William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
1798; expanded 1800 and 1802English
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
- 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'
originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816English
- 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817English
- Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
originally published in two volumes, 1817English
Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
- Emma
originally anonymously published 1815English
- Carl von Clausewitz
Vom Kriege
On War
1832German
Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
The Red and the Black
1830French
- Le Chartreuse de Parme
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
- De l'Amour
1822French
- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Don Juan
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824English
Studies in Pessimism
selections from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851German
Michael Faraday
- The Chemical History of a Candle
edited 1848 lectures; originally published 1861 in the Chemical News; book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum' the same year) also published 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editionsEnglish
- Experimental Researches in Electricity
originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844English
- Charles Lyell
Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation
originally published in three volumes: 1830, 1832, and 1833English
The Positive Philosophy of August Comte
1853; abridged version of Cours de Philosophie Positive
Honoré de Balzac
- Le Père Goriot
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
- Eugénie Grandet
1833French
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Representative Men: Seven Lectures
1850English
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- Journals
1960-82English
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1850English
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
John Stuart Mill
- A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
1843English
- On Liberty
1859English
- Considerations on Representative Government
1861English
- Utilitarianism
originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's MagazineEnglish
- The Subjection of Women
1869English
- Autobiography
1873English
Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859English
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
1871English
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
originally published as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887; revised 1958English
Charles Dickens
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
- Hard Times - For These Times
originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household WordsEnglish
Claude Bernard
- Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale
1865French
Henry David Thoreau
originally published 1849 in Aesthetic PapersEnglish
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
- Karl Marx
Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894German
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
George Eliot
- Adam Bede
1859English
- Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
Herman Melville
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- Billy Budd, Foretopman
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924English
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Idiot
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
- Trois Contes
1877French
Henrik Ibsen
Fadiman recommends several overlapping collections; late Nineteenth CenturyNorwegian
- Hedda Gabler
1890Norwegian
Et Dukkehjem
- A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
- Vildanden
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
Leo Tolstoy
- Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
- Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877Russian
- Chto Takoye Iskusstvo?
What Is Art?
1897Russian
1906; sections Tales for Children, 1872 (three stories); Popular Stories (four stories); A Fairy Tale: The Story of Iván the Fool, 1885; Stories Written to Pictures, 1885 (three stories); Folk-Tales Retold, all 1886 except last, 1891 (seven stories); Adaptations From the French (two stories); Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews, 1903 (three stories)Russian
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
1916; revised 1969English
William James
- The Principles of Psychology
1890English
- 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
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
1907English
- Essays in Radical Empiricism
1912; essays originally published 1904-5English
Henry James
- The American
originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907English
- The Ambassadors
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-5German
- Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
- Zur Genealogue der Moral
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887German
- Der Wille zur Mach
The Will to Power
1901; revised 1906German
Henri Poincaré
- La Science et l'Hypothèse
1902French
- La Science et Méthode
1908French
Sigmund Freud
- Die Traumdeutung
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
- Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
1917German
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930German
- Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933German
George Bernard Shaw
- "Selected plays and prefaces"
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
- Man and Superman
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915English
- Major Barbara
1905English
- Caesar and Cleopatra
1901English
- Pygmalion
1913English
- Saint Joan
1923English
Max Planck
- Die Entstehung und Bisherige Entwicklung der Quantentheorie
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory: Being the Nobel Prize Address Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, 2 June, 1920
1922German
- Wege zur Physikalischen Erkenntnis: Reden und Vortrage
Where Is Science Going?
English translation, 1932; German original, 1933German
- Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1948German
Henri Bergson
- Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
1889French
- Matière et Mémoire
Matter and Memory
1896French
- L'Evolution Créatrice
Creative Evolution
1907French
- Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
1932French
John Dewey
- How We Think
1910; revised and retitled How We Think, A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process, 1933English
- Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
1916English
- Experience and Nature
1925English
- Logic, the Theory of Inquiry
1938English
Alfred North Whitehead
- Introduction to Mathematics
1911English
- Science and the Modern World
1925English
- The Aims of Education and Other Essays
1929; essays published 1912-27English
- Adventures of Ideas
1933English
George Santayana
- The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
originally published in five volumes, 1905-06English
- Scepticism and Animal Faith
1923English
- Persons and Places
1944English
- Vladimir Lenin
Gosudarstvo i Revolûciâ
The State and Revolution
1917Russian
- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy
1912English
- The Analysis of Mind
1921English
- An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth
1940English
- Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
1948English
Thomas Mann
- Der Zauberberg
The Magic Mountain
1924German
- Joseph und Seine Brüder
Joseph and His Brothers
1943German
Albert Einstein
- The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University
1921; expanded, 1945English
- On the Method of Theoretical Physics
1933; edited Jun. 1933 lectureEnglish
Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
- The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
1938English
James Joyce
part of Dubliners, 1914English
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
- Ulysses
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
Jacques Maritain
- Art et Scolastique
1920English
- Distinguer pour Unir ou Les Degrés du Savoir
1932French
- Humanisme Intégral: Problemes Temporels et Spirituals d'une Nouvelle Chrétienté
1936French
- Les Droits de l'Homme et la Loi Naturelle
1942French
Franz Kafka
- Der Prozess
The Trial
1925German
- Das Schloss
The Castle
1926German
Arnold Toynbee
- A Study of History
originally published in twelve volumes, 1934-61English
- Civilization on Trial
1948English
Jean-Paul Sartre
- La Nausée
Nausea
1938French
- Huis Clos
No Exit
1944French
- L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique
Being and Nothingness
1943French
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Rakovyj Korpus
Cancer Ward
1967Russian
- V Kruge Pervom
In the First Circle
1968; expanded 1978Russian