The Great Books
The Greek Tradition
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
Plato The Republic
Plato The Symposium
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle Politics
Aristotle Poetics
Aeschylus The Orestia
Sophocles The Oedipus Cycle
Aristophanes Lysistrata
Sappho Poems & Fragments
Herodotus The Histories
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
Outside the Classical World
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Confucius The Analects
The Old Testament
The New Testament
The Upanishads
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Dhammapada
Sun Tzu The Art of War
The Shijing
The Koran
The Mwindo Epic
The Roman Tradition
Virgil The Aeneid
Catullus The Poems
Horace The Odes
Juvenal The Satires
Ovid The Metamorphoses
Ovid The Art of Love
Lucretius On the Nature of Things
Marcus Aurelius The Meditations
Caesar The Gallic War
Suetonius The Lives of the Caesars
Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome
Petronius The Satyricon
Apuleius The Golden Ass
The Middle Ages and Renaissance
Augustine The Confessions
Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy
Dante The Divine Comedy
Dante La Vita Nuova
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
Boccaccio The Decameron
Machiavelli The Prince
Capellanus The Art of Courtly Love
Thomas More Utopia
St. Benedict The Rule of St. Benedict
Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love
Mandeville The Travels
The Expansion of the Mind
Shakespeare King Lear
Shakespeare Hamlet
Cervantes Don Quixote
Descartes Discourse on Method
Rousseau The Confessions
Rousseau The Social Contract
Voltaire Candide
Milton Paradise Lost
Moliere The Misanthrope
Vico The New Science
Spinoza Ethics
Goethe Faust
Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic
of Morals
Modern Perspectives
Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Heidegger Being and Time
Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
Marx & Engels The Communist Manifesto
Tolstoy War and Peace
Henry James The Ambassadors
Stendhal The Red and the Black
Thoreau Walden
Freud Three Case Histories
Proust Remembrance of Things Past
Joyce Ulysses
Musil The Man Without Qualities
Faulkner Absalom, Absalom!
Mill On Liberty