User:Girolamo Savonarola/books
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]
- Will Durant's One Hundred Best Books for an Education (link)
- Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major's The New Lifetime Reading Plan (link)
- Robert Teeter's book lists (link)
Introductory[edit]
- Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
- [any other layman-type book on the sciences] (please feel free to offer suggestions)
- [unchosen layman-type book on the human body] (please feel free to offer suggestions)
- Patrick Holford, The Optimum Nutrition Bible
- [any other layman-type book on health] (please feel free to offer suggestions)
- William James, Principles of Psychology (link)
- H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World (link)
- William Graham Sumner, Folkways
- James Frazer, The Golden Bough, abridged version (link)
Companion Books[edit]
- J.M. Roberts, History of the World
- Norman Davies, Europe: A History
- Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence
- Will Durant, The Story of Civilization
- John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, China: A New History
- Phillippe Aries and Georges Duby, A History of Private Life
- The Bible (versions still being debated)
- Marilyn Stokstad, Art History
- James E. McClellan and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History
- Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo, Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry
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]
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- Complete Works
- Plato (c. 429-347 BC)
- The Old Testament
- Vaclav Havel (b. 1936)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120 AD)
- Ondra Lysohorsky (b. 1905)
- Selected Poems
- Ernst Hans Gombrich (b. 1909)
- Poem Into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse Translation
- Pierre Abélard (1079-1143) and Héloïse (1101-1164)
- Letters
- Historia Calamitatum of Abélard
Year 2[edit]
- The New Testament
- Suetonius (c. 69-after 121 AD)
- Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978-1030)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Tragedies (Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline)
- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
- Complete Letters
- Maxim Gorki (1868-1936)
- The Lower Depths and Other Plays
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Lin Yutang (b. 1895)
- Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
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