User:Girolamo Savonarola/books

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This is my reference list of books I think would be good reads. Books read are in bold. If any of the books has a translation or edition that you prefer, please feel free to recommend it.

The list proceeds in rough chronological order, with exceptions for companion subject books.


Sources[edit]

Introductory[edit]

Companion Books[edit]

Classical World[edit]

  • Henri Frankfort, Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh (tr. Gardner and Maier, Jackson, or Ferry)
    • C.W. Ceran, Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
    • A. Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
    • Jeffrey H. Tigay, The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic
    • Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
  • Ray Huang, China: A Macro History
  • A. Zee, Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
  • E.N. Anderson, The Food of China
  • Kit Chow and Ione Kramer, All the Tea in China
  • Michael Grant, The History of Ancient Israel
  • J.B. Bury, History of Greece
  • H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks
  • Edith Hamilton, Mythology
  • Suzanne Said and Monique Trede, A Short History of Greek Literature
  • Homer, Iliad (tr. Fagles, Fitzgerald, or Lattimore)
    • Jasper Griffin, Homer
    • Mark W. Edwards, Homer: Poet of the Iliad
  • Homer, Odyssey (tr. Fagles, Fitzgerald, or Lattimore)
    • M.I. Finley, The World of Odysseus
    • G.S. Kirk, Homer and the Epic
  • Burton Watson, Early Chinese Literature
  • Shi Jing (The Book of Songs) (tr. Waley)
  • Jaeger Werner, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Archaic Greece and Mind of Athens
  • Sappho, Poems and Fragments
  • Aesop, Complete Fables
  • Christmas Humphreys, Buddhism
  • Dhammapada (tr. Mascaro or Easwaran)
  • Twenty Jakata Tales (tr. Khan and Le Mair)
  • Rafe Martin, The Hungry Tigress: Buddhist Myths, Legends, and Jakata Tales
  • Jakata (tr. Rhys Davids)
  • Confucius, Analects (tr. Lau, Brooks, or Waley)
    • Yu-lan Fung, A History of Chinese Philosophy
    • Benjamin Isadore Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China
    • Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular As Sacred
    • David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius
  • Plutarch, Lives of Illustrious Men (Greeks - Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Alcibiades, Demosthenes, Alexander)
  • Aeschylus, Complete Plays (esp. Prometheus Bound, Oresteia [Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides]) (tr. Grene and Lattimore, Lattimore, Grene and Benardete, or Lowell)
    • H.D.F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study
    • Christian Meier, The Political Art of Greek Tragedy
    • Albin Lesky, History of Greek Literature
  • Sophocles, Complete Plays (esp. Oedipus Trilogy [Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone]) (tr. Spender or Fitts and Fitzgerald)
    • Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
  • Euripides, Complete Plays (esp. Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, and Bacchae) (tr. Hadas and McLean or anything more recent)
  • Chu Tzu: Songs of the South (tr. Hawkes)
  • Herodotus, Histories (tr. Grene)
    • J.B. Bury, The Ancient Greek Historians
  • Mo Zi, Mozi (tr. Watson)
  • Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (tr. Strassler, The Landmark Thucydides)
  • Xenophon, Anabasis
  • Sun Tzu, The Art of War (tr. Ames, Sawyer, or Griffith)
    • Ralph D. Sawyer, The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
    • Sun Pin, Art of War (tr. Ames or Sawyer)
  • Aristophanes, Complete Plays (esp. Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds) (tr. Arrowsmith)
    • Douglas M. MacDowell, Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays
  • Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers
  • Plato, Complete Works (esp. Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Euthyphro, Meno, The Republic, Protagoras, Gorgias, Ion, Parmenides, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Laws)
    • A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and His Work
    • I.F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates
  • Burton Watson, The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century
  • Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
  • Aristotle, Politics
  • Aristotle, Poetics
    • Mortimer J. Adler, Aristotle for Everybody
    • Abraham Edel, Aristotle and His Philosophy
  • Mencius, The Book of Mencius (tr. Lau)
  • Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (tr. Feng and English, Mitchell, or Lau)
  • Lao Tzu, Wen-Tzu (tr. Cleary)
  • Theophrastus, Characters
  • Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tzu (tr. Watson or Feng and English)
  • Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way
  • John Blofeld, Taoism
  • Raymond M. Smullyan, The Tao Is Silent
  • Epicurus, Fragments
  • Theocritus, Idylls
  • Han Feizi, Han Feizi (tr. Watson)
  • Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
  • Arthur Waley, Chinese Poems
  • Valmiki, Ramayana (tr. Goldman complete; Buck abridged)
    • A.L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India
  • I Ching, (tr. Blofeld or Wilhelm-Baynes)
  • Vyasa, Mahabharata (tr. Van Buitenen et al complete; Carriere and Brook or Narayan abridged)
  • Anonymous, Bhagavad-Gita (tr. Miller or Van Buitenen)
  • R.W.L. Guisso, Catherine Pagani, and David Miller, First Emperor of China
  • Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien), Records of the Grand Historian (tr. Watson 1993 edition, maybe Nienhauser's)
  • Plutarch, [see above] (Romans - Cato Censor, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Antony)
  • Oxford History of the Classical World
  • Irene M. Franck and David M. Brownstone, The Silk Road: A History
  • Plautus, Complete Plays
  • Terence, Complete Plays
  • Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year
  • Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (tr. Humphries)
  • Catullus, Poems
  • Livy, History
  • Sallust, Jugurthine War
  • Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
  • Cicero, Selected Orations (esp. Against Verres, Against Catiline, For Murena, For Archias, For Caelius, Against Piso, For Milo, For Marcellus, Philippics [selected], On Old Age, On Friendship, On Duties, selected letters)
  • Virgil, Aeneid
  • Horace, Poems (Odes, Epodes, Epistles, and Satires)
  • Ovid, Poems (Art of Love, Amores, Metamorphoses, and Cure for Love)
  • Longinus, On the Sublime
  • Petronius, Satyricon
  • Josephus, The Jewish War
  • Lotus Sutra (tr. Hurwitz or Watson)
  • Tacitus, Histories and Annals
  • Pliny the Younger, Letters
  • Juvenal, Satires
  • Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (note that there is a "sequel" of sorts)
  • Apuleius, The Golden Ass
  • Vimalakirti, Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (tr. Luk or Watson)
  • Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
  • Diamond Sutra (tr. Price and Wong)
  • Nhat Hanh, The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra
  • Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (esp. ch. 1-4, 9-10, 14, 15-24, 26-28, 30-31, 35-36, 44, 71)

Middle Ages[edit]

  • Gibbon, (ch. 37-38, 47-53, 55-59, 64-65, 68-70)
  • Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages
  • Greg Whincup, The Heart of Chinese Poetry
  • George Holmes, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe
  • Sherman Lee, History of Far Eastern Art
  • Sze Mai-Mai, The Way of Chinese Painting: Its Ideas and Technique
  • Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval Village
  • Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City
  • Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval Castle
  • Frances and Joseph Gies, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages
  • Frances and Joseph Gies, Women in the Middle Ages
  • Frances and Joseph Gies, A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
  • David Macaulay, Castle
  • Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
  • Barry W. Holtz, Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
  • Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets
  • Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative
  • Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry
  • Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
  • Plotinus, Enneads
  • Tzu Yeh, Gold Orchid (tr. Mayhew and McNaughton)
  • Tzu Yeh, Lotus Lovers (tr. Hamill)
  • Edward Conze, Buddhist Scriptures
  • Augustine, Confessions
  • Midrash, The Classic Midrash (Reuven Hammer, [Paulist Press])
  • Heart Sutra (tr. Conze, Suzuki, or Hanh)
  • Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
  • Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism
  • Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Introduction to Zen Buddhism
  • Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
  • Alan Watts, The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East
  • Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
  • Kalidasa, The Cloud Messenger
  • Kalidasa, Sakuntala
  • Red Pine, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
  • New Songs from a Jade Terrace (tr. Birrell)
  • The Koran
  • Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
  • Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History
  • Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples
  • Jacob Neusner, Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
  • Adin Steinsaltz, Essential Talmud
  • Pirke Avot (tr. Kravitz and Olitzky)
  • Han Shan, Cold Mountain Poems (tr. Watson or Snyder)
  • Mishnah (tr. Neusner)
  • Hui-neng, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (tr. Price and Wong)
  • Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
  • Wang Wei, Poems
  • Weinberger, Eliot and Octavio Paz, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated
  • Li Po, Poetry
  • Tu Fu, Poems (tr. Cooper or Hinton)
  • Beowulf (tr. Chickering, Liuzza, or Heaney)
  • Bai Juyi/Bo Juyi/Po Chu-i/Pai Chu-i, Poems (tr. Waley or Watson)
  • Rinzai, The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi (tr. Watson)
  • Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
  • Three Hundred Tang Poems
  • Firdausi, Shah Nameh
  • Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book
  • Lady Murasaki, Tale of Genji
  • The Blue Cliff Record (Biyan Lu/Hekiganroku) (tr. Sekida [Two Zen Classics])
  • Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm, The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love
  • Danny Danziger and Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
  • Su Tung-p'o, Poems (tr. Watson)
  • Peter Abelard and Heloise, Letters
  • Li Ching-chao, Poems (tr. Rexroth)
  • Yehuda (Judah) Halevi, Poetry
  • Abraham ben Ezra, Commentaries
  • The Song of Roland
  • Farid al-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds
  • Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat
  • Zhu Xi, Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically (tr. Gardner)
  • Moses Maimonides, Selected Works
  • Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
  • Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Essential Rumi (tr. Coleman Barks)
  • Nibelungenlied
  • Hafez, Selected Works
  • Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
  • Njal's Saga
  • The Gateless Gate (Wumenguan/Mumonkan) (tr. Sekida [Two Zen Classics])
  • Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)
  • Thomas Aquinas, Complete Works, (esp. Summa Theologica)
  • Jonathan Chaves, The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry
  • Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
  • Wang Shifu, Romance of the Western Chamber/The Story of the Western Wing (tr. Hsiung or West and Idema)
  • Dante Alighieri, Complete Works (esp. The Divine Comedy)
  • Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah
  • Gershom Scholem, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism
  • Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
  • Daniel C. Matt, Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
  • Joseph Dan and Ronald C. Kiener, The Early Kabbalah
  • Aryen Kaplan and Samuel Weiser, Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation
  • Zohar (tr. Scholem, Matt [Pritzker], or Berg)
  • Herbert Weiner, Nine and a Half Mystics
  • Neil Asher Silberman, Heavenly Powers
  • Luo Kuan-chung, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (tr. Roberts)
  • Petrarch, Works
  • Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
  • Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
  • Hippolyte Taine, History of English Literature, book 1
  • "Pearl poet", Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • William Langland, Piers Plowman
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
  • Sheikh Nefzaoui, The Perfumed Garden
  • The Thousand and One Nights
  • Henry Adams, Mont St. Michel and Chartres
  • Lawrence Fine, Safed Spirituality
  • David Macaulay, Cathedral
  • Cecil Gray, The History of Music, ch. 1-3, 5
  • Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages

Renaissance, Reformation, and the Baroque[edit]

  • John Julius Norwich, Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
  • John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy
  • Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  • Thomas More, Utopia
  • Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography
  • Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters and Sculptors, (esp. Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michaelangelo)
  • Harald Hoffding, History of Modern Philosophy, (sections on Bruno and Machiavelli)
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
  • Gray, ch. 6, 8
  • Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 13-14
  • Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation
  • Emile Faguet, The Literature of France, (sections on the sixteenth century)
  • Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
  • Wu Cheng-en, Journey to the West (tr. Yu, Waley's abridgement [Monkey], or Kherdian's abridgement [Monkey: A Retelling])
  • Michel de Montaigne, Essays, (esp. Of Coaches, Of the Incommodity of Greatness, Of Vanity, and Of Experience)
  • Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
  • Tang Xianzu, Peony Pavilion (tr. Birch)
  • William Shakespeare, Complete Works, (esp. Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens and The Tempest)
  • Taine, vol. 2 ch. 1-4
  • Gray, ch. 4, 7
  • Williams, vol. 2 ch. 4-8
  • Faure, vol. 3 ch. 4-6
  • Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 15
  • Faguet, (sections on the seventeenth century)
  • Francis Bacon, Essays
  • Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang
  • Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun
  • John Donne, Selected Works
  • Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, Chin P'ing Mei (The Golden Lotus, or The Plum in the Golden Vase) (tr. Roy or Egerton)
  • Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
  • Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
  • Francois La Rochefoucauld, Reflections
  • John Milton, Selected Works (esp. Paradise Lost, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Sonnets, and Areopagitica)
  • Li Yu, The Carnal Prayer Mat (tr. Hanan)
  • Moliere, Plays, (esp. Tartuffe, The Miser, The Misanthrope, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and The Feast of the Statue/Don Juan)
  • Blaise Pascal, Pensees
  • John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
  • Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics
  • Benedictus de Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding
  • John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
  • Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Williams, vol. 2 ch. 9-13
  • Hoffding, (sections on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza and Leibnitz)
  • Faure, vol. 4 ch. 1-4
  • Gray, ch. 9-10

The Eighteenth Century[edit]

  • [Jewish Folktales]
  • [Yiddish Folktales]
  • Ellen Frankel, The Classic Tales
  • Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 16-21
  • Wells, ch. 26-27
  • Faguet, sections on the eighteenth century
  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Portraits of the 18th Century
  • Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  • Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
  • Jonathan D. Spence, Question of Hu
  • Francois Marie de Voltaire, Works (esp. Candide, Zadig, and essays on "Toleration" and "History")
  • David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature (esp. bks 2-3)
  • David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  • Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
  • Cao Xuequin, The Story of the Stone (tr. Hawkes)
  • John-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
  • Morelly, Code de la Nature
  • Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy
  • James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
  • Taine, Origins of Contemporary France (6 vol.), vol. 1-4
  • Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
  • Taine, History of English Literature, vol. 3 ch. 4-7
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
  • Richard Morris, Basic Documents in American History
  • Publius, The Federalist Papers (edited by Clinton Rossiter)
  • Williams, vol. 2 ch. 14-15
  • Hoffding, sections on the eighteenth century
  • Faure, vol. 4 ch. 5-6
  • Gray, ch. 11-12

The Nineteenth Century[edit]

  • Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 22-28
  • Wells, ch. 38-39
  • Taine, Origins of Contemporary France, vol. 5; The Modern Regime, pg 1-90
  • Emil Ludwig, Napoleon
  • George Brandes, Main Currents of 19th Century Literature (6 vol.)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
  • Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe
  • Taine, History of English Literature, books 4-5
  • William Blake, Selected Works
  • William Wordsworth, Selected Works (esp. The Prelude, Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1800 ed.], selected shorter poems)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Works (esp. Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, and Writings on Shakespeare)
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Austen, Emma
  • George Gordon Byron, Poems
  • John Keats, Poems
  • Percy Bysse Shelley, Poems
  • Faguet, sections on the nineteenth century
  • Stendhal, The Red and the Black
  • Arthur Schopenhauer, Works
  • Heinrich Heine, Poems (trans. Louis Untermeyer)
  • Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot
  • Honore de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
  • Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and selected tales
  • Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
  • John Stuart Mill, Selected Works (esp. On Liberty and The Subjection of Women)
  • Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
  • Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
  • Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
  • Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Poems and Stories
  • Alfred Tennyson, Poems
  • Abraham Lincoln, Letters and Speeches
  • William Thackeray, Vanity Fair
  • Charles Dickens, Selected Novels (esp. Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, and Little Dorrit)
  • Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  • Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden
  • Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
  • Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
  • Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
  • Herman Melville, Moby Dick
  • Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
  • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
  • George Eliot, Middlemarch
  • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
  • Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
  • Gustave Flaubert, Salambo
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamozov
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  • Henrik Ibsen, Selected Plays (esp Peer Gynt)
  • Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
  • Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
  • Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
  • Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • William James, Selected Works (esp. Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, and The Varieties of Religious Experience)
  • Henry James, The Ambassadors
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Works (esp. Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil)
  • Williams, books 3-4
  • Hoffding, sections on the nineteenth century
  • William Buckle, Introduction to the History of Civilization in England esp. pt 1 ch. 1-5, 15
  • Faure, vol. 4 ch. 7-8
  • Gray, ch. 13-17
  • Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization (2 vol.)

The Twentieth Century[edit]

  • Sefer Ha-Aggadah (The Book of Legends)
  • Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 29-30
  • Wells, ch. 40-41
  • Anatole France, Penguin Isle
  • Sigmund Freud, Selected Works (esp. The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and Civilization and Its Discontents)
  • George Bernard Shaw, Selected Plays and Prefaces
  • Ronald Takaki, Stranger from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
  • Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
  • Thomas W. Chinn, Bridging the Pacific: San Francisco Chinatown and Its People
  • Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol. 1-3, 6
  • Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
  • Anton Chekhov, Selected Works (esp. Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Selected Short Stories
  • Edith Wharton, Selected Works (esp. The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and The House of Mirth)
  • William Butler Yeats, Selected Works (esp. Collected Poems, Collected Plays, and The Autobiography)
  • Romain Rolland, Jean Cristophe (2 vol.)
  • Natsume Soseki, Kokoro
  • Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
  • Robert Frost, Collected Poems
  • Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
  • Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West
  • Lu Hsun (Lu Xun), Collected Short Stories (esp. "Diary of a Madman" and "True Story of Ah Q"
  • James Joyce, Ulysses
  • Virginia Woolf, Selected Works (esp. Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves)
  • Franz Kafka, Selected Works (esp. The Trial, The Castle, and Selected Short Stories)
  • D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
  • D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
  • Tanizaki Junichiro, The Makioka Sisters
  • Eugene O'Neill, Selected Plays (esp. Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey into Night)
  • T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems and Plays
  • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
  • William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
  • William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
  • Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories
  • Kawabata Yasunari, Beauty and Sadness
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
  • Lao She, Teahouse
  • Lao She, Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) (tr. James)
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Works (esp. Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory)
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Golem
  • George Orwell, Selected Works (esp. Animal Farm, 1984, and Burmese Days)
  • Ba Jin, Cold Nights
  • Ding Ling, I Myself Am a Woman
  • R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher
  • R.K. Narayan, The Vendor of Sweets
  • Samuel Beckett, Selected Works (esp. Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Krapp's Last Tape)
  • W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
  • Albert Camus, The Plague
  • Albert Camus, The Stranger
  • Rius, Mao for Beginners
  • Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China
  • Harrison E. Salisbury, The Long March: The Untold Story
  • Saul Bellow, Selected Works (esp. The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Humboldt's Gift)
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
  • Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Mishima Yukio, Confessions of a Mask
  • Mishima Yukio, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
  • Harrison E. Salisbury, The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng
  • Bette Bao Lord, Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • William Hinton, Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
  • William Hinton, Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village
  • Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
  • Zhang Xian-ling, Half of Man Is Woman
  • Frank Chin, Donald Duk
  • Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior
  • Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
  • Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
  • Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Thousand Pieces of Gold
  • Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
  • Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
  • Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
  • Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
  • Li Ang, The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories
  • Mo Yan, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
  • David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
  • Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
  • Mark Salzman, Iron and Silk
  • Mark Salzman, The Laughing Sutra

Ward[edit]

Year 1[edit]

Complete Works
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
The Garden Party
The Memorandum
Annals
Histories
Selected Poems
The Story of Art
Letters
Historia Calamitatum of Abélard

Year 2[edit]

The Twelve Caesars
Tale of Genji
Tragedies (Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline)
Complete Letters
The Lower Depths and Other Plays
The Portable Coleridge
The Importance of Living
Oresteia

Year 3[edit]

  • Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Buddhist Scriptures
  • Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyvesky (1821-1881)
The Brothers Karamazov
  • Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)
Greguerías: Selección
  • William Trevor (1928- )
The Love Department
The Children of Dynmouth
  • Teresa de Jesús, St. (1515-1582)
The Life of Saint Teresa
  • Apuleius, ca. 125-ca. 180 AD
Metamorphoses
  • Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886
Complete Poems
  • Arrian, ca. 100-180 AD
Anabasis
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes

Year 4[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of French Verse
  • Talmud
  • Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Sentimental Education
  • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poems
The Bell Jar
  • Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
Barber of Seville
Marriage of Figaro
  • Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)
Metamorphoses
  • Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
Selected Fables Set in Verse
  • Plutarch (c. 46-c. 127)
Parallel Lives
  • Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra
Primitive Song
  • Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Pickwick Papers

Year 5[edit]

  • Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Madame Bovary
  • Aristophanes (c. 448-c. 388 BC)
Plays
  • Albert Camus (1913-1960)
The Stranger
The Plague
The Fall
  • Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
The Secret Agent
Under Western Eyes
  • Villon (1431-after 1462)
Poems
  • Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 BC)
Records of the Grand Historian of China
  • Reiner Kunze (b. 1933)
Poems
Stories
The Lovely Years
  • Moliere (1622-1673)
Selected Plays
  • Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
Doctor Zhivago
  • Voltaire (1694-1778)
Candide
Zadig
L'Ingénu
  • Pliny the Younger (c. 62-c. 113 AD)
Letters

Year 6[edit]

  • The Poem Itself
  • Max Frisch (b. 1911)
Andorra
I'm Not Stiller
  • La Chanson de Roland
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (b. 1921)
The Visit
The Physicists
  • Émile Zola (1840-1902)
Thèrése Raquin
L'Assommoir
Germinal
  • Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Complete Stories and Poems
  • Honoré Balzac (1799-1850)
La Comédie Humaine
  • Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)
The Thunderstorm
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
The Father Brown Stories

Year 7[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
  • Nagai Kafu (1879-1959)
Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings
  • Plautus (c. 254-184 BC)
Comedies
  • Juan Ruiz (c. 1283-c. 1350)
The Book of Good Love
  • Cicero (106-43 BC)
Selected Works
  • Charles Singer
A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900
  • Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights
  • Virgil (70-19 BC)
Aeneid
  • Five German Tragedies
  • Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Year 8[edit]

  • Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
Philosophy, Poetry, History: An Anthology
  • Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)
Three Comedies: Mine Hostess, The Boors, and The Fan
  • Modern Arab Poets, 1950-1975
  • Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
The Tartar Steppe
  • Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors
  • Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BC)
Poems
  • Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
The Late Mattia Pascal
Six Characters in Search of an Author
  • Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The New Life
  • Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black

Year 9[edit]

  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Divine Comedy
  • Wu Ch'eng-en (c. 1510-1582)
Journey to the West
  • Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Poems
  • Italo Calvino (b. 1923)
The Non-Existent Knight and the Cloven Viscount
The Baron in the Trees
  • Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Charterhouse of Parma
  • Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Poems
  • Post-War Russian Poetry

Year 10[edit]

  • Medieval Literature in Translation
  • Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
The Adventures of Don Quixote
  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Historical Plays
  • Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Canto General
  • Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
The Buddenbrooks
  • Tirso de Molina (1583-1648)
The Rogue of Seville
  • Songs of the Provencal Troubadors
  • Camilo José Cela (b. 1916)
Journey to the Alcarria
  • P'u Sung-Ling (1640-1715)
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
  • Antonio Machado (1875-1939)
Juan de Mairena: Epigrams, Maxims, Memoranda, and Memoirs of an Apocryphal Professor, with an Appendix of Poems from "The Apocryphal Songbooks"

Year 11[edit]

  • Lope Félix de Vega Carpio
Five Plays
  • Wang Ch'ung (27-c. 97 AD)
Philosophical and Miscellaneous Essays (Lun-Heng)
  • Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross) (1542-1591)
Complete Poetry
  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Comedies
  • Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Herodotus (c. 484-c. 424 BC)
Histories
  • The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse
  • Panchatantra
  • Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Fictions
Labyrinths
The Aleph and Other Stories
  • Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)
Letters from a Stoic

Year 12[edit]

  • Gil Vicente (c. 1465-c. 1536)
Four Plays
  • Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965)
The Makioka Sisters
  • Luís Vaz de Camões
Lusiads
  • Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968)
The Story of a Life
  • José María Eça de Queiróz (1843-1900)
The Sin of Father Amaro
Dragon's Teeth
The Maias
  • Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1898-1961)
A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems
  • Alves Redol (b. 1911)
The Man with Seven Names
  • Classical Literary Criticism (Aristotle's On the Art of Poetry, Horace's On the Art of Poetry, Longinus' On the Sublime)
  • Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Selected Poems
  • François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel

Year 13[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of German Verse
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Faust
  • Harold Pinter (b. 1930)
The Caretaker
The Room
The Dumb Waiter
  • Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (c. 1625-1676)
Simplicius Simplicissimus
  • Wang Wei (c. 699-c. 761)
Poems
  • Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • Lucretius (c. 99-c. 55 BC)
On the Nature of Things
  • Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hernani
  • East German Poetry: An Anthology
  • Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Out of My Life and Thought
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
More From the Primeval Forest

Year 14[edit]

  • Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Anna Karenina
  • Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Poems
  • The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts
  • Friedrich von Schilleer (1759-1805)
Don Carlos
  • Shih Nai-an (1296-1370)
The Water Margin
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)
Selected Works
  • Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Capital
  • Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Autobiography: Poetry and Truth From My Own Life
  • Paul Klee (1879-1940)
The Thinking Eye
The Nature of Nature

Year 15[edit]

  • Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Collected Works
  • Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101)
Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet
  • Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams
  • Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465-1541)
La Celestina
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)
Poems
  • Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick, or the White Whale
  • Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)
Five Plays
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Poems
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Confessions

Year 16[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of Greek Verse
  • Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations
  • Pausanias (c. 120-180)
Description of Greece
  • Homer
Odyssey
  • D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Sons and Lovers
  • Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Politics
  • Plato (c. 429-347 BC)
The Republic
  • Shih Ching (The Book of Songs)
  • Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Selected Poems

Year 17[edit]

  • Xenophon (c. 429-c. 354 BC)
Cyropaedia
  • Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Poems and Songs
  • Euripides (c. 480-406 BC)
Tragedies
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Notebooks
  • Epicurus (341-270 BC)
Writings
  • Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)
Writings
  • Homer
Iliad
  • Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
Major Plays
  • Sophocles (c. 496-406 BC)
Tragedies

Year 18[edit]

  • Somadeva Bhatta (11th C)
Kathasaritsagara
  • Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)
Selected Poems
  • Musharrif ad-Din bin Muslih Sa'di (c. 1208-c. 1292)
Gulistan
  • Mehmet bin Süleyman Fuzuli (c. 1490-c. 1556)
Leyla and Mejnun
  • Evliya Celebi (c. 1611-c. 1684)
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa
  • Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
Mathnawi
It Contains What It Contains
  • Oliver Goldsmith (1729-1774)
Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops to Conquer
The Deserted Village
  • Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951)
The Blind Owl
  • Yahya Kemal Bayatli (1884-1958)
Selected Poems
  • Mohammed Shamsuddin Hafiz (1327-1390)
Divan

Year 19[edit]

  • Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Nausea
  • Al-Qur'an
  • Terence (c. 195-159 BC)
Comedies
  • The Seven Odes
  • Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
  • Procopius (c. 498-c.560)
Works
  • 'Ali Ahmad Ibn Hazm (994-1064)
The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love
  • Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863)
The Roman Sonnets
  • Muhammad bin 'Abdullah Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)
Travels in Asia and Africa

Year 20[edit]

  • Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
Poems
  • A Thousand and One Nights
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)
Life is a Dream
  • Hadith (Traditions of Islam)
  • Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731)
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
  • 'Abd Ar-Rahman bin Muhammad Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
Prolegomena (Muqaddimah)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Abu Muhammad al-Qasim Al-Hariri (1054-1122)
The Assemblies
  • Takeda Izumo (c. 1690-c. 1749)
Chushingara
  • Lucan (39-65 AD)
Pharsalia

Year 21[edit]

  • Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
  • Al-Jahiz (c. 780-c. 868)
The Life and Works of Jahiz
  • Po Chü-i (772-846)
Poems
  • Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1059-1111)
The Deliverer from Error
  • Sinuhe (c. 2000 BC)
The Story of Sinuhe
  • Yevgeni Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937)
We
  • Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
The Education of Henry Adams
  • Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)
Selected Poems
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Jude the Obscure
  • Al-Mutanabbi (915-965)
Poems
  • Henry Elmer Barnes (b. 1889)
A History of Historical Writing

Year 22[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of Russian Verse
  • The Aztecs
  • Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
War and Peace
  • William Blake (1757-1827)
The Complete Writings
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
Plays
  • Patañjali (c. 300 AD)
Yogasutra
  • Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324)
Travels
  • Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891)
Oblomov
  • Kamo no Chomei (1153-1216)
An Account of My Hut

Year 23[edit]

  • Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Nichomachean Ethics
  • Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Crime and Punishment
  • Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Essays of Elia
Last Essays of Elia
  • Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel (1894-c. 1940)
Collected Stories
  • Norbert Lynton
The Story of Modern Art
  • Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
Fathers and Children
  • Ghalib (1797/8-1869)
Ghazals
  • Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Kukai (774-835)
Kukai and His Major Works
  • Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
Eugene Onegin

Year 24[edit]

  • Sources of Chinese Tradition
  • Queste del Saint Graal
  • Anthology of Chinese Literature
  • Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
  • Li Po (701-762)
Poems
  • Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in (c. 1715-c. 1763)
The Dream of the Red Chamber
  • Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Three Tragedies
  • Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC)
Analects
  • Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938)
The Garnet Bracelet
  • Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)
Selected Works

Year 25[edit]

  • Mencius (372-289 BC)
Works
  • Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Selected Poems and the essay "Teoría y juego del duende"
  • The Texts of Taoism
  • John Keats (1795-1821)
Poetical Works
  • Chin P'ing Mei
  • Molière (1622-1673)
Selected Plays
  • Tu Fu (712-770)
Poems
  • Wu Ch'ing-tzu (1701-1754)
The Scholars
  • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Essays and Aphorisms
  • Lu Hsün (1881-1936)
Selected Works

Year 26[edit]

  • Sources of Indian Tradition
  • Cantar de Mio Cid
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • Saint Augustine (354-430)
Confessions
  • Poems from the Sanskrit
  • Premchand (1880-1936)
The Gift of a Cow
World of Premchand: A Selection of Short Stories
  • Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
Poems
Triumphs
Latin Poetry
Prose
Letters from Petrarch
  • Saddharma-Pundarika Sutra (Sutra of the Lotus of the True Law)
  • William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Year 27[edit]

  • Thucydides (c. 471-c. 400 BC)
History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Khushhal, Khan Khatak (1613-1689)
Divan
  • Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
A Passage to India
  • Dhammapada
  • Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology of Plays
  • Abe Kobo (b. 1925)
The Woman in the Dunes
  • Faiz Ahmad Faiz (b. 1911)
Poems
  • Günter Grass (b. 1927)
The Tin Drum
  • Mallanga Vatsyayana (c. 3rd Century AD)
Kama Sutra
  • Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Poems

Year 28[edit]

  • Valmiki (c. 3rd C BC)
Ramayana
  • Upanishads (1,000-500 BC)
  • Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
  • Contemporary Indonesian Poetry
  • Pio Baroja (1872-1956)
The Restlessness of Shanti Andía and Other Writings
  • Chairil Anwar (1922-1949)
Complete Poetry and Prose
  • Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
  • Kautilya (c. late 4th C)
Artha Shastra
  • Lady Sarashina (1008-c. 1065)
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
  • Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
The Book of the Courtier

Year 29[edit]

  • Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
  • Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
Complete Short Stories
  • A Celtic Miscellany
  • James Boswell (1740-1795)
The Life of Samuel Johnson
  • Hung Sheng (1646-1704)
The Palace of Eternal Youth
  • François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
The Maxims
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Complete Works
  • Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)
The Golovlyov Family
  • Kabir (c. 1430-c. 1518)
Kabir
  • Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)
Moral Essays

Year 30[edit]

  • An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815
  • Giusseppe Tomasi, prince of Lampedusa
The Leopard
  • Chandidas (15th C)
Love Songs of Chandidas
  • Lucian (c. 115-c. 180)
Works
  • Milindapantildeha
  • Sandor Petöfi (1823-1849)
Petöfi
  • Bibhutibhusan Banerji (1894-1950)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Road)
  • Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The Advancement of Learning
New Atlantis
Essays
  • Bilhana (c. 1040-1095)
Caurapañcasika (Phantasies of a Love-Thief)
  • Okagami

Year 31[edit]

  • Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)
Colloquies
In Praise of Folly
  • Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
Poems and Fragments
  • Jakob Rosenberg
Rembrandt: Life and Work
  • Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The Provincial Letters
Les Pensées
  • A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry
  • Baruch Spinoza (1634-1677)
Ethics
  • Emil M. Cioran (b. 1911)
A Short History of Decay
The Temptation to Exist
The Fall Into Time
The New Gods
  • Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645)
Sueños (Dreams)
  • Historia de la Vida del Buscón (Life and Adventures of Don Pablos the Sharper)
  • Poetry of the Netherlands in its European Context, 1170-1930
  • Kenko (1283-1350)
Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)

Year 32[edit]

  • Robert, Edler von Musil (1880-1942)
The Man Without Qualities
  • Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Complete Poems, 1909-1962
  • Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Memoirs of a Nun
Dialogues
Rameau's Nephew
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
  • David Farrant Bland
A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book
  • Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
  • The Zend-Avesta
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
Complete Poems
  • Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956)
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
  • Juvenal (c. 60-c. 140 AD)
Satires
  • Mo Tzu (c. 470-c. 391 BC)
Basic Writings

Year 33[edit]

  • Kalevala
  • John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Utilitarianism
On Liberty
Representative Government
Autobiography
  • Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Brand
Peer Gynt
  • Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-1968)
Poetry
  • Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays
  • Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941)
Doctor Glas
Selected Short Stories
  • Propertius (c. 50-c. 16 BC)
Works
  • Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)
Hunger
Mysteries
  • John Donne (1572-1631)
Poems
  • Njal's Saga

Year 34[edit]

  • Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
The Pillars of Society
A Doll's House
  • Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Les Enfants Terribles
  • Eino Leino (1878-1926)
Helkavirsiä (Whitsongs)
  • Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling
  • August Strindberg (1849-1912)
Plays
  • Han Fei Tzu (c. 280-233 BC)
Complete Works
  • Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970)
The Ice Palace
The Boat in the Evening
  • Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Either/Or
Stages on Life's Way
  • Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
Things Fall Apart
  • Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241)
Heimskringla

Year 35[edit]

  • Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century
  • George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
  • Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
  • Ch'an and Zen Teaching
  • St.-John Perse (1887-1975)
Poems
  • Basho (1644-1694)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
The Canterbury Tales
  • Ueda Akinari (1734-1809)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain)
  • Manyoshu
  • Epictetus (c. 55-135)
Discourses

Year 36[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
  • Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  • Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1980)
The Family Moskat
  • Hekigan Roku
  • Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974)
Evening Land
  • Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
The Snow Country
The Thousand Cranes
  • Mabinogion
  • Sei Shonagon (c. 966-after 1008)
The Pillow Book
  • Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations

Year 37[edit]

  • The New Oxford Book of American Verse
  • Antoine-Francois, l'Abbé Prévost (1697-1763)
Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
  • John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Praeterita
  • Horace (65-8 BC)
Odes
  • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Works
  • James Joyce (1882-1941)
Ulysses
  • Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895)
Selected Tales
  • Abolqasim Mansur bin Hasan Firdausi (c. 940-1020)
Shahnameh (Epic of Kings)
  • Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920)
Nazarín
Halma
Misericordia
  • Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Collected Poems

Year 38[edit]

  • Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920)
Fortunata y Jacinta
  • Jayadeva (12th C)
Gitagovinda
  • Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Diary
  • Petronius (d. c. 65 or 66 AD)
Satyricon
  • Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • Pre-Columbian Peru
  • Josef Skvorecky (b. 1924)
The Cowards
The Bass Saxophone
  • Demosthenes (384?-322 BC)
Philippics, Olynthiacs, and Minor Public Orations
  • Marina Ivanova Tsvetayeva (1894-1941)
Selected Poems
  • George Eliot (1819-1880)
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Year 39[edit]

  • The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse
  • Li Yu (1125-1210)
Poems
  • Modern Czech Poetry
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden, or Life in the Woods
  • William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Collected Poems
  • Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923)
The Good Soldier Schweik
  • Portuguese Voyages (1498-1663)
  • Like Water, Like Fire: An Anthology of Byelorussian Poetry from 1828 to the Present
  • Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
The Idiot
  • New Writing in Yugoslavia

Year 40[edit]

  • Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver
  • Polish Post-War Poetry
  • Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)
Kokoro
  • Poems of Black Africa
  • James Cook (1728-1779)
Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery
  • Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (1798-1855)'
Pan Tadeusz
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Plays
  • Sasuntsi Davith (Saga of Sassoun)
  • Slawomir Mrozek (b. 1930)
Tango
The Ugupu Bird
  • Romanian Poems: A Bilingual Anthology

Year 41[edit]

  • Anna Comnena (1083-c. 1153)
Alexiad
  • Moses ben Jacob ben Ezra (c. 1055-c.1138)
Selected Poems
  • Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744)
The New Science of Giambattista Vico
  • Samuel Beckett (b. 1906)
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Waiting for Godot
  • Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) (1870-1917 [sic])
Selected Works
What is to be Done?
  • Shota Rustaveli (fl. 1200)
The Man in the Panther's Skin
  • Miguel de Unamuno (1846-1936)
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
  • Robert Graves (b. 1895)
Collected Poems
  • Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
Effi Briest
  • Modern Hungarian Poetry

Year 42[edit]

  • Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
The House by the Medlar Tree
Little Novels of Sicily
Mastro Don Gesualdo
  • Jacobus de Varagine (c. 1227-1298)
The Golden Legend
  • Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1212-c. 1237) and Jean de Meun (c. 1237-c. 1305)
Le Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)
  • Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
  • Hungarian Short Stories and Folktales of Hungary
  • Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
Instructions for Practical Living, and Other Neo-Confucian Writings
  • Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927)
Rasomon and Other Stories
  • Judah Ha-Levi (c. 1075-after 1140)
Selected Poems
  • James Joyce (1882-1941)
Finnegans Wake
  • Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Orlando Furioso

Year 43[edit]

  • Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre
  • Pindar (c. 518-438 BC)
The Odes, Including Principle Fragments
  • René Descartes (1596-1650)
Discourse on Method
  • Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed: A Tale of XVII Century Milan)
  • Bhartrhari (7th C AD)
Poems
  • Sean O'Casey (1884-1964)
Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars
  • Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
  • T'ao Ch'ien (365-427)
The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969)
A God and His Gifts
  • Gottfried von Strassburg (fl. 1210)
Tristan

Year 44[edit]

  • The Maya
  • Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
The Cantos
  • Mariano Azuela (1873-1952)
The Underdogs
  • Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Configurations
  • Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology
  • Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
The Chief Plays
  • Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
The Lost Steps
  • Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938)
Poetry
  • Hasan ibn Ali Tusi, Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092)
The Book of Government, or Rules for Kings
  • Juan Jose Arreola (b. 1918)
Confabulario and Other Inventions

Year 45[edit]

  • Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
  • João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967)
Sagarana
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
  • Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
The Rights of Man
  • Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas (b. 1914 and 1916)
Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths
  • Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass
  • Gilberto Freyre (b. 1900)
The Masters and the Slaves
The Mansions and the Shanties
Order and Progress
  • Tokutomi Kenjiro (1868-1927)
Footsteps in the Snow
  • Theophrastus (c. 372-c. 287 BC)
Characters
  • Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
The Spirit of the Laws
  • Ovid (14 BC-17 AD)
Ars Amatoria

Year 46[edit]

  • Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories
  • Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Gerusalemme Liberata
  • Herbert Read (1893-1968)
The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies
The Green Child
  • Vidyapati Thakur (1352-1448?)
Love Songs
  • Pierre Carlet de Chamblin de Marivaux (1688-1763)
Up From the Country
  • Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644)
El Diablo Cojuelo
  • Maimonides (1135-1204)
Guide for the Perplexed
  • Hermann Broch (1886-1951)
The Death of Virgil
  • Milarepa (1052-1135)
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
  • Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 220 BC)
Argonautica

Year 47[edit]

  • Anthology of Korean Poetry, From the Earliest Era to the Present
  • Italo Svevo (1861-1928)
Confessions of Zeno
  • Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South
  • St. Thomas More (1477-1535)
Libellus ... de Optimo Reipublicae Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia
  • Farid ad-Din Attar (c. 1136-c. 1230)
Ilahinama (Book of Divine Wisdom)
The Conference of the Birds
  • Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Complete Plays
  • Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
Memoires d'Outre-Tombe
  • Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)
Terra Nostra
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Portable Emerson
  • David Jones (1895-1974)
In Parenthesis
The Anathemata

Year 48[edit]

  • Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
  • Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)
The History of Italy
  • Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Poems
  • Henry James (1843-1916)
The American Novels and Stories
The Portrait of a Lady
  • Li Ho (791-817)
The Poems of Li Ho
  • Amos Tutuola (b. 1920)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
  • Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
Poems
  • Ilango Adigal (2nd C AD)
Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet)
  • Bertrand, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970)
History of Western Philosophy
  • Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943)
The Broken Commandment

Year 49[edit]

  • St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Selected Writings
  • George Borrow (1803-1881)
Lavengro
Romany Rye
  • Kuruntokai (The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology)
  • William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Vanity Fair
  • Sirat 'Antar (Adventures of Antar)
  • Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637)
Plays
  • Salvador Dalí (b. 1904)
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
  • Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Selections
  • Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Sea of Fertility tetralogy (Spring Snow, The Runaway Horses, The Temple of the Dawn, Decay of the Angel)

Year 50[edit]

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  • Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1374)
Decameron
  • Nur ad-Din 'Abd Ar-Rahman Jami (1414-1492)
Baharistan
  • Plotinus (c. 205-c. 262 AD)
Enneads
  • Abu Bakr Muhammad bin 'Abdulmalik Ibn Tufail (c. 1105-1185)
Awakening of the Soul (Hayy ibn Yaqzan)
  • José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
Invertebrate Spain
Revolt of the Masses
  • Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Collected Poems and Plays
  • Yüan Mei (1716-1798)
Poems
  • John Milton (1608-1674)
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing
Poetical Works
  • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Critique of Pure Reason