Great books of the Western world

v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas

4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes

5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides

9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen

10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus

11. The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six Enneads / Plotinus

15. The almagest / Ptolemy. On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus. Epitome of Copernican astronomy, IV-V ; The harmonies of the world, V / Johannes Kepler

19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer

21. The prince / Nicolò Machiavelli. Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbes

23. Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

26. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert. Concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei. On the motion of the heart and blood in animals ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals / William Harvey

28. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / René Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza

31. The school for wives ; The critique of the School for wives ; Tartuffe ; Don Juan ; The miser ; The world-be gentleman ; The would-be invalid / Molière. Berenice ; Phaedra / Jean Racine

32. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics / Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens

33. A letter concerning toleration ; Concerning civil government, second essay ; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke. The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume

34. Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. Candide / Voltaire. Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot

35. The spirit of laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. On the origin of inequality ; On political economy ; The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau

40. American state papers. The federalist / by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill

42. Elements of chemistry / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday

43. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Fear and trembling / Søren Kierkegaard. Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche

45. Faust. Parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac

46. Emma / Jane Austen. Middlemarch / George Eliot

48. Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A doll's house ; The wild duck ; Hedda Gabler ; The master builder / Henrik Ibsen

55. William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth

56. Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C.H. Waddington

57. Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes

58. Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss

59. Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce

60. Virginia Woolf, Franz Kakfa, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett

1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas

v. 3. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer / translated by Richmond Lattimore

v. 4. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes

v. 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides

v. 6. The dialogues of Plato / translated by Benjamin Jowett. The seventh letter / translated by J. Harward

v. 7-8. The works of Aristotle

v. 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen

v. 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus

v. 11. The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six enneads / Plotinus

v. 12. The ecologues. The georgics. The aeneid / Virgil

v. 13. The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch

v. 14. The annals and the histories / Tacitus

v. 15. The almagest / Ptolemy. On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus. Epitome of Copernican astronomy : IV-V. The harmonies of the world : V / Johannes Kepler

v. 16. The confessions. The city of God. On Christian doctrine / Saint Augustine

v. 17-18. The summa theologica / Saint Thomas Aquinas

v. 19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde. The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer

v. 20. Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin ; translated by Henry Beveridge

v. 21. The prince / Nicolo Machiavelli. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

v. 22. Gargantua and Pantagruel / Francois Rabelais

v. 23. Praise of folly / Desiderius. The essays / Montaigne

v.

v. 1. The syntopicon, I

v. 2. The syntopicon, II

v. 3. Homer ; The Iliad ; The Odyssey

v. 4. Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes

v. 5. Herodotus; Thucydides

v. 6. Plato

v. 7. Aristotle, I

v. 8. Aristotle, II

v. 9. Hippocrates; Galen

v. 10. Euclid; Archimedes; Nicomachus

v. 11. Lucretius; Epictetus; Marcus Aurelius; Plotinus

v. 12. Virgil

v. 13. Plutarch

v. 14. Tacitus

v. 15. Ptolemy; Copernicus; Kepler

v. 16. Augustine

v. 17. Aquinas, I

v. 18. Aquinas, II

v. 19. Dante; Chaucer

v. 20. Calvin

v. 21. Machiavelli; Hobbes

v. 22. Rabelais

v. 23. Erasmus; Montaigne

v. 24. Shakespeare, I

v. 25. Shakespeare, II

v. 26. Gilbert; Galileo; Harvey

v. 27. Cervantes

v. 28. Bacon; Descartes; Spinoza

v. 29. Milton

v. 30. Pascal

v. 31. Moliere; Racine

v. 32. Newton; Huygens

v. 33. Locke; Berkeley; Hume

v. 34. Swift; Voltaire; Diderot

v. 35. Montesquieu; Rousseau

v. 36. Adam Smith

v. 37. Gibbon, I

v. 38. Gibbon, II

v. 39. Kant

v. 40. American state papers; The Federalist; J.S. Mill

v. 41. Boswell

v. 42. Lavoisier; Faraday

v. 43. Hegel; Kierkegaard; Nietzsche

v. 44. Tocqueville

v. 45. Goethe; Balzac

v. 46. Jane Austen; George Eliot

v. 47. Dickens

v. 48. Melville; Twain

v. 49. Darwin

v. 50. Marx

v. 51. Tolstoy

v. 52. Dostoevsky; Ibsen

v. 53. William James

v. 54. Freud

v. 55. 20th century philosophy and religion

v. 56. 20th century natural science

v. 57. 20th century social science, I

v. 58. 20th century social science, II

v. 59. 20th century imaginative literature, I

v. 60. 20th century imaginative literature, II.