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From
How to Read a Book (Appendix A)
Antiquity
-
Homer (9th Century B.C.?)
Iliad
Odyssey
-
The Old Testament
The
Old Testament
- Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.)
The
Tragedies: Aeschylus
- Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.)
The
Tragedies:
Sophocles
- Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.)
The
Histories
- Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)
The
Tragedies: Euripedes
- Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
History
of the Peloponnesian War
- Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.)
Medical
Writings
- Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.)
Comedies
- Plato (c.427-347 B.C.)
Dialogues
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Works
- Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.)
Letter to Herodotus
& Letter to Menoecus
- Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.)
The
Elements
- Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.)
Works of Archimedes
- Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.)
Conics:
Books I - III
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Works
- Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.)
On
the Nature of Things
- Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Works
-
Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Works
- Livy (59 B.C.--A.D. 17)
The
Early History of Rome
- Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)
Works
- Plutarch (c.45-120)
Parallel
Lives
Moralia
- Tacitus (c.55-117)
Histories
Annals
Agricola
and Germania
- Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. 100 A.D.)
Introduction
to Arithmetic
- Epictetus (c.60-120)
Discourses
Enchiridion
- Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151)
Almagest
- Lucian (c.120-c.190)
Works
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations
- Galen (C. 130-200)
On
the Natural Faculties
- The New Testament
New
Testament
- Plotinus (205-270)
The
Enneads
Medieval
- St. Augustine (354-430)
On
the Teacher
Confessions
City
of God
On
Christian Doctrine
-
The Song of Roland (c.1150)
Song
of Roland
-
The Nibelungenlied (c.1200)
Nibelungenlied
- The Saga of Burnt Njal
(c.1200)
The
Saga of Burnt Njal
- St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
Summa Theologica
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The
New Life
On
Monarchy
The
Divine Comedy
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
Troilus
and Criseyde
Canterbury
Tales
Renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
The
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The
Prince
Discourses
on Livy
- Desiderius Erasmus (c.1469-1536)
The
Praise of Folly
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
On
the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
- Sir Thomas More (c.1478-1535)
Utopia
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Table
Talk
Three Treatises
- Francois Rabelais (c.1495-1553)
Gargantua
and Pantagruel
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
Institutes
of the Christian Religion
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays
- William Gilbert (1540-1603)
De
Magnete
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don
Quixote
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
Prothalamion
The
Fairie Queene
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essays
Advancement
of Learning
Novum
Organum
New
Atlantis
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Poetry
and Plays
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Starry
Messenger
Dialogues
Concerning Two New Sciences
Dialogue
Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Epitome
of Copernican Astronomy
The
Harmony of the World
Baroque
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
On
the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On
the Circulation of the Blood
On
the Generation of Animals
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Leviathan
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Rules
for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse
on Method
Geometry
Meditations
on First Philosophy
- John Milton (1608-1674)
Works
- Molière (1622-1673)
Comedies
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The
Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific
Treatises
- Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Treatise
on Light
- Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Ethics
- John Locke (1632-1704)
Letter
Concerning Toleration
Of Civil Government
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Thoughts Concerning Education
- Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Tragedies
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Mathematical
Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
Discourse
on Metaphysics
New
Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson
Crusoe
- Jonathon Swift (1667-1745)
A
Tale of a Tub
Journal
to Stella
A
Modest Proposal
Gulliver's
Travels
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
The
Way of the World
- George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Principles
of Human Knowledge
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Essay
on Criticism
Rape
of the Lock
Essay
on Man
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Persian
Letters
The
Spirit of the Laws
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
Letters
on England
Candide
Philosophical Dictionary
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Joseph
Andrews and Shamel
Tom
Jones
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The
Vanity of Human Wishes
Dictionary
Rasselas
The
Lives of the Poets
- David Hume (1711-1776)
Treatise
on Human Nature
Essays
Moral and Political
An
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
On
the Origin of Inequality
On
the Political Economy
Emile
The
Social Contract
- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Tristram
Shandy
A
Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
The
Wealth of Nations
The
Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Critique
of Pure Reason
Fundamental
Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Critique
of Practical Reason
The
Science of Right
Critique
of Judgment
Perpetual
Peace
Classical
-
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Autobiography
- James Boswell (1740-1795)
Life
of Samuel Johnson
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
Elements
of Chemistry
- John Jay (1745-1829),
James Madison (1751-1836), and
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
The
Federalist Papers
Articles
of Confederation
Constitution of the
United States
Declaration of
Independence
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Introduction
to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Theory
of Fictions
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Faust
Poetry
and Truth
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
The
Analytical Theory of Heat
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy of Right
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Poems
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Poems
Biographia Literaria
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
- Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
On War
Romantic
- Stendhal (1783-1842)
The
Red and the Black
The
Charterhouse of Parma
Love
- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Don
Juan
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Studies
In Pessimism
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Chemical
History of a Candle
Experimental
Researches in Electricity
- Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Principles of Geology
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
The
Positive Philosophy
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
Pere
Goriot
Eugenie Grandet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Representative
Men
Essays
Journals
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The
Scarlet Letter
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Democracy
in America
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
A
System of Logic
On
Liberty
Representative
Government
Utilitarianism
The
Subjection of Women
Autobiography
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
The
Origin of Species
The
Descent of Man
Autobiography
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Four
Complete Novels
- Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
Introduction
to the Study of Experimental Medicine
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Civil
Disobedience
Walden
- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Capital
The
Communist Manifesto
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam
Bede
Middlemarch
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby
Dick
Billy
Budd
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Crime
and Punishment
The
Idiot
The
Brothers Karamazov
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Madame
Bovary
Three
Stories
- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Plays
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
War
and Peace
Anna
Karenina
What
is Art?
Twenty-Three
Tales
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The
Mysterious Stranger
- William James (1842-1910)
The
Principles of Psychology
The
Varieties of Religious Experience
Pragamatism
Essays
in Radical Empiricism
- Henry James (1843-1916)
The
American
The
Ambassadors
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thus
Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond
Good and Evil
The
Geneology of Morals
The
Will to Power
- Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
Science
and Hypothesis
Science
and Method
Modern
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The
Interpretation of Dreams
Introductory
Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Civilization
and Its Discontents
New
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Collected
Plays With Their Prefaces
- Max Planck (1858-1947)
Origin
and Development of the Quantum Theory
Where
Is Science Going?
Scientific
Autobiography
- Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Time
and Free Will
Matter
and Memory
Creative
Evolution
The
Two Sources of Morality and Religion
- John Dewey (1859-1952)
How
We Think
Democracy
and Education
Experience
and Nature
Logic,
the Theory of Inquiry
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
An
Introduction to Mathematics
Science
and the Modern World
The
Aims of Education and Other Essays
Adventures
of Ideas
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
The
Life of Reason
Skepticism
and Animal Faith
Persons
and Places
- Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
The
State and Revolution
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Remembrance
of Things Past
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The
Problems of Philosophy
The
Analysis of Mind
An
Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Human
Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits
- Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
The
Magic Mountain
Joseph
and His Brothers
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The
Meaning of Relativity
On
the Method of Theoretical Physics
The
Evolution of Physics
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
Dubliners
A
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Ulysses
- Jacques Maritain (1882- )
Art
and Scholasticism
The
Degrees of Knowledge
The
Rights of Man and Natural Law
True
Humanism
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The
Trial
The
Castle
- Arnold Toynbee (1889- )
A
Study of History
Civilization
on Trial
-
Jean Paul Sartre (1905- )
Nausea
No
Exit
Being
and Nothingness
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
The
First Circle
Cancer Ward
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